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The Indian Nectar, or, A discourse concerning Chocolata : Wherein the Nature of the 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.

Fruit of the cacao tree and a Guatemalan almond tree. Drawing by Thomas Malie, 1730.

Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.): fruiting and flowering branch with separate numbered sections of flowers, fruit and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

"Maravilla cocoa" : sole proprietors, Taylor Brothers, London.

Cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao), Chinese citron or natsumikan (Citrus natsudaidai), jak fruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), muhimbi tree (Cynometra cauliflora) and bilimbi tree (Averrhoa bilimbi), in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1706.

A fruiting cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) Photograph.

Plants, fish and a landscape from the East Indies, including pepper, cocoa, indigo and coffee plants. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1706.

Dell'uso e dell'abuso del caffé : dissertazione storico fisico medica / Giovanni Dalla Bona ; prefazione alla ristampa della seconda edizione di Giovanni Zaffignani.

Epps' reference book of facts and figures : money, weights, measures, interest, geographical, asronomical / James Epps & Co. Ltd.

Advice medical, and economical, relative to the purchase and consumption of tea, coffee, and chocolate; wines, and malt liquors: including tests to detect adulteration. Also remarks on water. With directions to purify it for domestic use / by J. Stevenson.

Les sucres : le café, le thé, le chocolat / A.-L. Girard.

Cocoa : its growth and culture, manufacture, and modes of preparation for the table accompanied by easy methods of analysis, whereby its purity may be ascertained / by Charles Hewett.

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Dell'uso e dell'abuso del caffé : dissertazione storico fisico medica / Giovanni Dalla Bona ; prefazione alla ristampa della seconda edizione di Giovanni Zaffignani.

Epps' reference book of facts and figures : money, weights, measures, interest, geographical, asronomical / James Epps & Co. Ltd.

Advice medical, and economical, relative to the purchase and consumption of tea, coffee, and chocolate; wines, and malt liquors: including tests to detect adulteration. Also remarks on water. With directions to purify it for domestic use / by J. Stevenson.

Les sucres : le café, le thé, le chocolat / A.-L. Girard.

Cocoa : its growth and culture, manufacture, and modes of preparation for the table accompanied by easy methods of analysis, whereby its purity may be ascertained / by Charles Hewett.