Desowitz, Robert S.

TROPICAL DISEASES from 50,000 BC to 2500 AD.

Pp. 256, a few text figures, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; text block browned, tiny ink stamp across bottom edge of a few leaves; HarperCollins Publishers, London, 1997. First U.K. edition. *First published in America as Who gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?'. 'Did Columbus and his crew bring syphilis back from the New World? Did Charles Dawin suffer and eventually die from the bite of an assassin bug while travelling through Argentina?' [wrapper blurb]. Item #183854

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