PETRUS DE CRESCENTIIS (1230?-1310?). Ruralia commoda , in Italian. Vicenza: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, 17 February 1490.
PETRUS DE CRESCENTIIS (1230?-1310?). Ruralia commoda , in Italian. Vicenza: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, 17 February 1490. Super-chancery 2° (297 x 208mm). Collation: a-r 8 s 6 A 4 (a1 blank, a2r text, s6v colophon, A1r tabula, A4v blank). 146 leaves. 52 lines and headline, double column, guide-letters. Type: 6:88R. Woodcut of the author writing to the dedicatee, King Charles of Sicily, opening the text coloured by an early hand, major initials in red and blue, other initials and paragraph marks in red. (Lightly washed, fading rubrication, small wormholes.) 18th-century vellum, gilt-lettered spine label, red marbled edges, green silk ribbon marker. Provenance : [Maffeo Pinelli (ascription on fly-leaf; sale 1 February 1790, lot 1102, 6s)] -- George Horace (1882-1960) and Alison Johnstone (d.1977), Trewithen, Cornwall (1933 bookplate), then by descent. SECOND EDITION IN ITALIAN of the first printed book on agriculture. It treats of all aspects of husbandry and estate management, including hunting, fishing, wine-making, the cultivation of cereals, trees and plants, and the medicinal use of plants and the treatment of animal maladies. The first Italian edition was printed at Florence in 1478 and is very rare on the market; this second edition, almost as rare, reprints that text. COMPLETE. Only two copies have been sold at auction in the past 30 years, both imperfect; several institutional copies are also imperfect. HC(+Add) 5838; GW 7827; BMC VII, 1033 (IB. 31725); BSB-Ink. C-700; Klebs 311.2; Sander 2234; Goff C-974.
PETRUS DE CRESCENTIIS (1230?-1310?). Ruralia commoda , in Italian. Vicenza: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, 17 February 1490.
PETRUS DE CRESCENTIIS (1230?-1310?). Ruralia commoda , in Italian. Vicenza: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, 17 February 1490. Super-chancery 2° (297 x 208mm). Collation: a-r 8 s 6 A 4 (a1 blank, a2r text, s6v colophon, A1r tabula, A4v blank). 146 leaves. 52 lines and headline, double column, guide-letters. Type: 6:88R. Woodcut of the author writing to the dedicatee, King Charles of Sicily, opening the text coloured by an early hand, major initials in red and blue, other initials and paragraph marks in red. (Lightly washed, fading rubrication, small wormholes.) 18th-century vellum, gilt-lettered spine label, red marbled edges, green silk ribbon marker. Provenance : [Maffeo Pinelli (ascription on fly-leaf; sale 1 February 1790, lot 1102, 6s)] -- George Horace (1882-1960) and Alison Johnstone (d.1977), Trewithen, Cornwall (1933 bookplate), then by descent. SECOND EDITION IN ITALIAN of the first printed book on agriculture. It treats of all aspects of husbandry and estate management, including hunting, fishing, wine-making, the cultivation of cereals, trees and plants, and the medicinal use of plants and the treatment of animal maladies. The first Italian edition was printed at Florence in 1478 and is very rare on the market; this second edition, almost as rare, reprints that text. COMPLETE. Only two copies have been sold at auction in the past 30 years, both imperfect; several institutional copies are also imperfect. HC(+Add) 5838; GW 7827; BMC VII, 1033 (IB. 31725); BSB-Ink. C-700; Klebs 311.2; Sander 2234; Goff C-974.
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