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Cape Town 1857
letterpress title to plates
one dated Villa Clara
a geisha holds court with a shamisen on her knee and a table full of food
At the bottom of the page a potential suitor looks on admirably at the Bijin (lady) with her shamisen
Syphilis sive morbus Gallicus - 1536 - Early (3rd) Edition of this seminal work - Fracastoro 12th century and earlier Cape Town 1857Syphilis 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
