Bibliography
Books on Cocoa and Chocolate Arranged in Order of Date of Publication
1600-1700
Rauch, Joan. Franc.
DISPUTATIO MEDICO DIOETETICA DE AËRE ET ESCULENTIS, DE NECNON POTU.
Vienna 1624
[Condemns cocoa as a violent inflamer of the passions.]
COLMENERO, Antonio de Ledesma.
[Treatise on Chocolate in Spanish entitled:]
CURIOSO TRATADO DE LA NATURALEZA Y CALIDAD DEL CHOCOLATE, DIVIDIDO EN QUATRO PUNTOS.
Madrid 1631
Translated into English by Don Diego de Vades-forte 1640
Translated into French by René Moreau 1643
Translated into Latin by J.G. Volckamer 1644
Translated into English by J. Wadsworth 1652
Translated into Italian by A. Vitrioli 1667
Moreau’s translation edited by Sylvestre Dufour 1671 and 1685
and translated into English by J. Chamberlaine 1685
[for titles, etc., see under translators]
DE VADES-FORTE, Don Diego.
[The magnificent pseudonym of J. Wadsworth.] (Translated by.)
A CURIOUS TREATISE OF THE NATURE AND QUALITY OF CHOCOLATE
by Antonio de Ledesma Colmenero.
London 1640
MOREAU, René. (Translated by.)
DU CHOCOLAT DISCOURS CURIEUX
by Antonio de Ledesma Colmenero. pp. 59.
Paris 1643
[VOLCKAMER, J.G. Translated by.]
CHOCOLATA INDA, OPUSCULUM DE QUALITATE ET NATURA CHOCOLATAE
by Antonio de Ledesma Colmenero. pp. 73.
Norimbergae 1644
(In same volume with this is “Opobalsamum Orientalae” and “Pisonis Observationes Medicae.” Total pp. 224.)
WADSWORTH, J. (Translated by.)
CHOCOLATE: OR AN INDIAN DRINKE ETC.
by Antonio Ledesma Colmenero.
London 1652
STUBBE(S), Henry.
THE INDIAN NECTAR OR A DISCOURSE CONCERNING CHOCOLATA.
pp. 184.
London 1662
BRANCATIUS, Franciscus Maria.
DE CHOCALATIS POTU DIATRIBE.
pp. 36.
Rome 1664
COMMENTARIUS DE ABUSU TABACI THEE.
Argentorati (see 1746) 1665
VITRIOLI, A. (Translated by.)
DELLA CIOCCOLATA DISCORSO.
[From Moreau’s translation of Colmenero’s book.]
Rome 1667
SEBASTUS MELISSENUS, F. Nicephorus.
DE CHOCOLATIS POTIONE RESOLUTIO MORALIS.
pp. 36.
Naples 1671
SYLVESTRE DUFOUR, P. [Edited by.]
DE L’USAGE DU CAPHÉ, DU THÉ, ET DU CHOCOLAT.
pp. 188.
Lyon 1671
[The part on chocolate, pp. 59, is a revision of Moreau’s translation of Colmenero’s book, plus B. Marradon’s dialogue on chocolate.]
Translated into English by J. Chamberlaine (which see). 1685
HUGHES, William.
THE AMERICAN PHYSITIAN... WHEREUNTO IS ADDED A DISCOURSE ON THE CACAO-NUT-TREE, AND THE USE OF ITS FRUIT, WITH ALL THE WAYS OF MAKING CHOCOLATE.
London 1672
AUTHOR NOT GIVEN.
DESCRIPTION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE COCOA TREE.
Phil. Trans. Abr. II. pp. 59.
1673
BONTEKOE, Willem.
Sundry short treatises in Dutch on Cocoa and Chocolate.
about 1679
AUTHOR NOT GIVEN.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF COFFEE, TEA, CHOCOLATE, TOBACCO AND ALSO THE WAY OF MAKING MUM.
pp. 39. Printed for Christopher Wilkinson.
London 1682
[Condemns chocolate on account of its containing “such a corrosive salt” as sugar. Mum is a peculiar kind of beer made from wheat malt.]
MUNDY, Henry.
OPERA OMNIA MEDICO-PHYSICA DE AËRE VITALI, ESCULENTIS ET POTULENTIS CUM APPENDICE DE PARERGIS IN VICTU ET CHOCOLATU, THEA, CAFFEA, TOBACCO.
Oxford 1680
Leyden 1685