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The booklet of CD SPICES (2000), following the pattern of our first CD, is a hardcover booklet containing 60 pages of "pollen-rustic" paper. The iconography in SPICES is based on the research carried out by Valeria Bittar in the Rare Works Sector of the National Library of Rio de Janeiro. Four books of European travelers were filmed micro-filmed that report their passage through Brazil:

- Gândavo, Pêro de Magalhães. History of the Province of S? Cta Cross that we commonly call Brazil, 1576.
- Staden Hans. Warhaftige Beschreibung eyner Landschafft der Wilden nackten gimmingen, menschenfresser leutenen, in der newen Welt America gelegen, 1557.
- Monardes, Nicola. First and second and third parts of the medical history, of the things brought from our West Indies, serving in Medicine, 1580.
- Newe Zeytung von dem Landen das die Spanier mergen haben, 1521, facsimile.
- Copy of Newen Zeytung, 1514.

A fifth book: Waldseemüller, Martin. Cosmographie Intriductio, 1507. was also microfilmed for containing precious engravings of the earliest representations and measurements of the earth.
With this nuclear material of images, we constructed the booklet, also using illustrations from the books:

- Montalboddo, Francanzano da. Paesi novamenti Retrovati et Novo Mondo Albertus Vesputio Florentino, 1507.
- Vespucci, Amerigo. Letter to Soderini, 1505.
The images were selected and worked together with interventions on Marcelo Taube 's oil - stained canvas.