The Indian nectar, or, A discourse concerning chocolata : wherein the nature of cacao-nut, and the other ingredients of that composition, is examined, and stated according to the judgment and experience of the Indians, and Spanish writers, who lived in the Indies, and others; with sundry additional observations made in England: the ways of compounding and preparing chocolata are enquired into; its effects, as to its alimental and venereal quality, as well as medicinal (especially in hypochondriacal melancholy) are fully debated. Together with a spagyrical analysis of the cacao-nut, performed by that excellent chymist, Monsieur le Febure, chymist to His Majesty. / By Henry Stubbe formerly of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. physician for His Majesty, and the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Windsor in the island of Jamaica in the West-Indies.
The Indian nectar, or, A discourse concerning chocolata : wherein the nature of cacao-nut, and the other ingredients of that composition, is examined, and stated according to the judgment and experience of the Indians, and Spanish writers, who lived in the Indies, and others; with sundry additional observations made in England: the ways of compounding and preparing chocolata are enquired into; its effects, as to its alimental and venereal quality, as well as medicinal (especially in hypochondriacal melancholy) are fully debated. Together with a spagyrical analysis of the cacao-nut, performed by that excellent chymist, Monsieur le Febure, chymist to His Majesty. / By Henry Stubbe formerly of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. physician for His Majesty, and the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Windsor in the island of Jamaica in the West-Indies.
Created/published
London : Printed by J[ames]. C[ottrell]. for Andrew Crook at the sign of the Green Dragon in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1662.
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. University Microfilms International, 1984. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 1537:23).
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1990-1991. Five Years of Acquisitions (catalog p. 51) Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2005. Consuming Splendor. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1999. Fooles and Fricassees (catalog p. 52)
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), S6049 English short title catalogue (ESTC), R32737
226054. Bound in mottled sheep. Manuscript markings and drawings. Contemporary manuscript price (?) on t.p. Provenance: inscription on t.p.: "T. Willughby" (possibly Willoughby family library - Harmsworth copy, according to Folger card catalogue); collated at Quaritch, June 25, 1925; pencilled note on back fly-leaf: "Christie's Sale 15-18 June 1925 / Wollaton Hall Library"; Folger gift of Mrs. John Moors Cabot. Book dealer's description loosely inserted (removed to curatorial file).
