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First edition of W. Golden Mortimer's classic work, Peru. History of Coca, the most comprehensive book on the plant and its cultivation and use published up to that time.
First edition of W. Golden Mortimer's classic work, Peru. History of Coca, the most comprehensive book on the plant and its cultivation and use published up to that time.
First edition of W. Golden Mortimer's classic work, Peru. History of Coca, the most comprehensive book on the plant and its cultivation and use published up to that time.
First edition of W. Golden Mortimer's classic work, Peru. History of Coca, the most comprehensive book on the plant and its cultivation and use published up to that time.
First edition of W. Golden Mortimer's classic work, Peru. History of Coca, the most comprehensive book on the plant and its cultivation and use published up to that time.
First edition of W. Golden Mortimer's classic work, Peru. History of Coca, the most comprehensive book on the plant and its cultivation and use published up to that time.

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MORTIMER, W.G.

Peru. History of Coca. "The divine plant" of the Incas. With an introductory account of the Incas, and of the Andean Indians of to-day. With one hundred and seventy-eight illustrations.

New York, J.H Vail & Company, 1901.

£350.00
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First edition of the most comprehensive work on coca published up the beginning of the 19th century, including the history of the Inca, their cultivation and use of the plant, and modern botanical and pharmacological information. Attractive and copiously illustrated. The author, W. Golden Mortimer, was a professional magician and the first president of the Society of American Magicians before becoming a physician.

First edition; 4to; frontispiece and illustrations throughout the text, contents faintly toned, a little spotting; original burgundy cloth, titles to spine, design to upper board, and top edge gilt, lightly rubbed at the extremities with a few small nicks and bumps; 576pp.

Stock code 121655

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First edition of W. Golden Mortimer's classic work, Peru. History of Coca, the most comprehensive book on the plant and its cultivation and use published up to that time.

Peru. History of Coca.

£350.00
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