Discurso apologetico, medico astronomico: pruebase la real influencia de los cuerpos celestes en estos sublunares ... con un examen sobre el uso de el chocolate en las enfermedades / [Thomas Cortijo Herraiz].

Cortijo Herraiz, Tomás · 1729 · [Salamanca?] : Eugenio Garcia de Honorato y San Miguèl, 1729. · 7 pictures

A Spanish treatise of 1729 by Tomás Cortijo Herraiz, probably printed in Salamanca, arguing for celestial influence on earthly affairs and examining chocolate in illness, written for a learned reader of the period. The pictures are small printed initials and ornamental letter blocks: a dark decorated D with a pinwheel-like floral centre, a woodcut M with leaves and a crown, and a T framed by stylised floral rosettes beside a page number, with the bold contrast of black ink on pale paper suited to decorative capitals and borders.

Occultism · Astrology · Cacao

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