CRESCENTIUS, Petrus (ca 1233-ca 1320). De agricultura vulgare . Venice: [Giovanni Rosso and Bernardinus Vercellensis?], 6 September 1511.
CRESCENTIUS, Petrus (ca 1233-ca 1320). De agricultura vulgare . Venice: [Giovanni Rosso and Bernardinus Vercellensis?], 6 September 1511. Fifth edition in Italian of this popular text, printed in nearly 60 editions in various languages between 1471 and 1602. 8vo (210 x 142 mm). Large woodcut of Fatius on verso of title, woodcuts in the text. (Some occasional pale dampstaining, a few marginal repairs, undecipherable inkstamp on first leaf.) 16th-century blind-tooled calf, covers stamped with three concentric panels, the outer panel bearing figures of haloed saints and King David with Harp (signed “H.D.” and dated 1550), the middle panel with conventional figures of “Spes,” “Fides,” “Charitas,” and “Justitia,” the central panel filled with seven rows of triple fleurs-de-lys (rebacked, lacks straps). Essling 844; Mortimer Italian 141; Sander 2237; Simon, Bibliotheca Bacchica 161.
CRESCENTIUS, Petrus (ca 1233-ca 1320). De agricultura vulgare . Venice: [Giovanni Rosso and Bernardinus Vercellensis?], 6 September 1511.
CRESCENTIUS, Petrus (ca 1233-ca 1320). De agricultura vulgare . Venice: [Giovanni Rosso and Bernardinus Vercellensis?], 6 September 1511. Fifth edition in Italian of this popular text, printed in nearly 60 editions in various languages between 1471 and 1602. 8vo (210 x 142 mm). Large woodcut of Fatius on verso of title, woodcuts in the text. (Some occasional pale dampstaining, a few marginal repairs, undecipherable inkstamp on first leaf.) 16th-century blind-tooled calf, covers stamped with three concentric panels, the outer panel bearing figures of haloed saints and King David with Harp (signed “H.D.” and dated 1550), the middle panel with conventional figures of “Spes,” “Fides,” “Charitas,” and “Justitia,” the central panel filled with seven rows of triple fleurs-de-lys (rebacked, lacks straps). Essling 844; Mortimer Italian 141; Sander 2237; Simon, Bibliotheca Bacchica 161.
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