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Chocolata Inda. : Opusculum de qualitate & naturâ chocolatæ,

Colmenero de Ledesma, Antonio · 1644 · Norimbergæ, : typis Wolfgangi Enderi · 3 pictures

Chocolata Inda is a Latin treatise on the nature and qualities of chocolate by Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, printed in Nuremberg in 1644 by Wolfgang Endter for a scholarly readership. Its pictures are small engraved decorations: a large ornamental initial, a framed full-length engraving of a dark-skinned figure holding a plant and a vessel among shrubs, and a heraldic coat of arms with the motto Gaudeo, offering a designer period-appropriate ornament, botanical detail and cartouche framing.

Chocolate

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