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Jan Huygen van Linschoten
one dated Villa Clara
Cape Town 1857
At the bottom of the page a potential suitor looks on admirably at the Bijin (lady) with her shamisen
letterpress title to plates
Syphilis sive morbus Gallicus - 1536 - Early (3rd) Edition of this seminal work - Fracastoro 12th century and earlier Jan Huygen van LinschotenSyphilis sive morbus Gallicus Syphilis or the French disease by the celebrated Vicenzan Physician Hieronymi (Girolamo) Fracastoro 1536. 28 pages (complete) Good condition but significant staining to some pages and repairs to the title page. Later 20th Century binding. Syphilis was likely introduced to Europe from South America following Columbuses return from the New World. The first large outbreak was recorded among French troops after the 1494 Siege
