[Sca-cooks] Re: book on cacao

[Huette von Ahrens]

Well, I am not Johnnae, but I am a librarian too.

Here are several titles from Colmenero Ledesma:

Dufour, Philippe Sylvestre,1622-1687.
  [De l'usage du caphâe, du thâe, et du
chocolate. English]
  The manner of making of coffee, tea, and
chocolate. : As it is used in most parts of
Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. With their
vertues. / Newly done out of French and Spanish..
London: : Printed for William Crook at the Green
Dragon without Temple Bar near Devereux Court,
c1685..
  [12], 20, 29-116 p. : ill. ;15 cm. (12mo)
  The tracts on tea and on chocolate have special
title-pages. Those on tea and coffee are tr. by
John Chamberlayne from the French of Philippe
Sylvestre Dufour; that on chocolate from the
Spanish of A. Colmenero de Ledesma. cf. Brit.
mus. Catalogue.

This is available from these universities:

Brown Univ.
Stanford Univ.
Univ. of Chicago
Harvard Univ.
Rutgers Univ.
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Syracuse Univ.
Florida State Univ.
Univ. of Florida
State Univ. of NY, Albany
and the Library of Congress

Colmenero de Ledesma, Antonio.
  [Curioso tratado de la naturaleza y calidad del
chocolate. English]
  Chocolate, or, An Indian drinke [microform] :
by the wise and moderate use whereof, health is
preserved, sicknesse diverted and cured,
especially the plague of the guts, vulgarly
called the new disease ... / written originally
in Spanish, by Antonio Colminero of Ledesma ... ;
and faithfully rendred in the English by Capt.
James Wadsworth.
   London : Printed by J.G. for Iohn Dakins ...,
1652.

This is available from these universities:

Univ. of Chicago
Rutgers Univ.
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Syracuse Univ.
Florida State Univ.
Univ. of Florida
State Univ. of NY, Albany

Colmenero de Ledesma, Antonio.
  A curious treatise of the nature and quality of
chocolate. VVritten inSpanish by Antonio
Colmenero, doctor in physicke and chirurgery. And
put into English by Don Diego de Vades-forte.
[microform] Imprinted at London : By I. Okes,
dwelling in Little St. Bartholomewes, 1640.
  [6], 21, [1] p.

This is available from Rutgers Univ.

Huette

--- Louise Smithson <helewyse at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Cindy wrote:
> Here is a new chore for someone here -- to find
> &
> translate this book:
>
> Colmenero Ledesma, Antonio. Della cioccolata.
> Discorso
> diviso in quattro parti. D'Antonio Colmenero
> Ledesma.
> Medico e chirurgo della citt=E0 d'Ecija
> ell'Andaluzia.
> Tradotto dall lingua spagnuola nell'italiana,
> con aggiunta d'alcune annotationi, da
> Alessandro
> Vitrioli. Rome: Stamparia della R.C.A.
> [Reverenda
> Camera Apostolica], 1667.
> Cindy
>
> But can someone find the original spanish which
> would
> be earlier?
> Colmenero Ledesma, Antonio.  On chocolate.
> Varied
> discussion in four parts.  By Antonio Colmenero
> Ledesma.  Medic and surgeon of the city of
> Ecija in
> Andaluzia.  Translated from the spanish into
> italian
> with the addition of several annotations, by
> Alessandro Vitrioli.  Rome: Printed by the
> R.C.A.
> (Reverenda Camera Apostolica), 1667.
>
> Louise
> I suspect that if there is anyone who can find
> it, it
> would be Johnnae, keeper of the secret
> reference
> librarian tools:-)
>
>
>
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