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MARIANI, Angelo (1838-1914). La Coca et ses applications therapeutiques. Paris: Lecrosnier & Babe, 1888.
8vo. 3 plates (one double-page in color), numerous illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers (some spotting and sunning at extremities, some chipping at ends with minor separation to wrappers); folding chemise and morocco-backed slipcase.
FIRST EDITION in the rare original wrappers. Mariani “was the greatest exponent of coca the world has ever known. He lived amongst the Incan artifacts, cultivated a coca garden in Paris, and ultimately founded a business empire by producing and marketing a tonic wine made from an infusion of coca leaves” (Phantastica 170).