Scriptores rei rusticae . Edited by Philippus Beroaldus (1453-1505) after Georgius Merula (1430/31-1494) and Franciscus Colucia (fl. 15th century): Marcus Porcius CATO (234-149 B.C.). De re rustica . Marcus Terentius VARRO (116-27 B.C.). De re rustica . - L. Junius Moderatus COLUMELLA (fl. c. 36-ca. 65 A.D.). De re rustica . Commentary by Pomponius Laetus (1428-1497). - Rutilius Taurus PALLADIUS (fl. 4th century). De re rustica . Commentary by Antonius Urceus Codrus (1446-1500). Reggio Emilia: Dionysius Bertochus, 18 September 1496.
Scriptores rei rusticae . Edited by Philippus Beroaldus (1453-1505) after Georgius Merula (1430/31-1494) and Franciscus Colucia (fl. 15th century): Marcus Porcius CATO (234-149 B.C.). De re rustica . Marcus Terentius VARRO (116-27 B.C.). De re rustica . - L. Junius Moderatus COLUMELLA (fl. c. 36-ca. 65 A.D.). De re rustica . Commentary by Pomponius Laetus (1428-1497). - Rutilius Taurus PALLADIUS (fl. 4th century). De re rustica . Commentary by Antonius Urceus Codrus (1446-1500). Reggio Emilia: Dionysius Bertochus, 18 September 1496. Super-chancery 2° (315 x 209mm). Collation: aa 6 a 6; b-i 8; k 4; l-y 8 z 4 & 6 9-\\a 8 A-K 6 L 4 M 6 (aa1r title, aa1v Merula's dedication to Pietrus Priolus, commendatory preface by Beroaldo, aa2r Enarrationes priscarum vocum [glossary of technical l1r Columella, text, C2r blank, C2v Palladius, M5r colophon, M5v quire register, M6r commendatory verse by Angelus Ugerius, printer's device, M6v blank). 272 leaves. 41 lines and headline. Types: 13:110R A; 19?:109R; 14:87R; 110 Gk. 3-, 8- and 9-line woodcut white-vine or black-ground initials, some spaces for initials with printed guide-letters, woodcut device (Husung 128), printed marginalia. Fine 8-line and a few 3-line initials supplied in red or blue. Several lines of bearer type faintly discernible around printer's device. (Occasional light dampstaining, a few unobtrusive small stains at end, traces of mildew on s7-8.) Contemporary limp parchment wrapper, laced onto four pairs of singlethongs (each thong slit but consisting of one piece) passing outside the covers at the hinges, upper cover of the wrapper slightly smaller than the text block due to shrinkage, title lettered along spine in brown ink with large red pressmark, 'h'; endleaves of two bifolia from a ?12-century sacramentary on vellum with German neumes on 4-line staves, edges stained pale yellow; a few deckle edges preserved (2 small holes to upper cover); folding cloth case with ribbon ties. Provenance : Wesel, Brothers of the Common Life at the Convent of St. Martin: 1529 inscription in a neat small gothic hand stating that the book was acquired by brother Joannes Hoijnck from the library of Otho van Meer ( Liber fratrum Vesaliensis domus sancti Martini procuratus per fratrem Joannem Hoijnck ex bibliotheca domini Othonis van Meer. 1529 ) -- [Laurence Witten, cat. 9 no. 90] -- [Lathrop Harper] -- Helmut N. Friedlaender (sale Christie's New York, 23 April 2001, lot 115). Fourth edition of these classical Roman texts on agriculture. Together, they form the principal source of information on Roman agriculture and life, including the cultivation of vines, olives, beekeeping and husbandry. This is the first book printed at Reggio Emilia by the quasi-itinerant Bolognese printer Dionysius Bertochus, who worked in six different Italian cities between 1481 and the end of the century, moving from Vicenza to Treviso to Venice to Bologna, and finally settling in Reggio Emilia and Modena. AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY IN ORIGINAL CONDITION, PRESERVED IN ITS ORIGINAL TEMPORARY WRAPPER. HC 14569; BMC VII, 1090 and XII, 77 (IB. 34061 and 61a); CIBN S-177; IGI 8856; Goff S-349. See illustration opposite
Scriptores rei rusticae . Edited by Philippus Beroaldus (1453-1505) after Georgius Merula (1430/31-1494) and Franciscus Colucia (fl. 15th century): Marcus Porcius CATO (234-149 B.C.). De re rustica . Marcus Terentius VARRO (116-27 B.C.). De re rustica . - L. Junius Moderatus COLUMELLA (fl. c. 36-ca. 65 A.D.). De re rustica . Commentary by Pomponius Laetus (1428-1497). - Rutilius Taurus PALLADIUS (fl. 4th century). De re rustica . Commentary by Antonius Urceus Codrus (1446-1500). Reggio Emilia: Dionysius Bertochus, 18 September 1496.
Scriptores rei rusticae . Edited by Philippus Beroaldus (1453-1505) after Georgius Merula (1430/31-1494) and Franciscus Colucia (fl. 15th century): Marcus Porcius CATO (234-149 B.C.). De re rustica . Marcus Terentius VARRO (116-27 B.C.). De re rustica . - L. Junius Moderatus COLUMELLA (fl. c. 36-ca. 65 A.D.). De re rustica . Commentary by Pomponius Laetus (1428-1497). - Rutilius Taurus PALLADIUS (fl. 4th century). De re rustica . Commentary by Antonius Urceus Codrus (1446-1500). Reggio Emilia: Dionysius Bertochus, 18 September 1496. Super-chancery 2° (315 x 209mm). Collation: aa 6 a 6; b-i 8; k 4; l-y 8 z 4 & 6 9-\\a 8 A-K 6 L 4 M 6 (aa1r title, aa1v Merula's dedication to Pietrus Priolus, commendatory preface by Beroaldo, aa2r Enarrationes priscarum vocum [glossary of technical l1r Columella, text, C2r blank, C2v Palladius, M5r colophon, M5v quire register, M6r commendatory verse by Angelus Ugerius, printer's device, M6v blank). 272 leaves. 41 lines and headline. Types: 13:110R A; 19?:109R; 14:87R; 110 Gk. 3-, 8- and 9-line woodcut white-vine or black-ground initials, some spaces for initials with printed guide-letters, woodcut device (Husung 128), printed marginalia. Fine 8-line and a few 3-line initials supplied in red or blue. Several lines of bearer type faintly discernible around printer's device. (Occasional light dampstaining, a few unobtrusive small stains at end, traces of mildew on s7-8.) Contemporary limp parchment wrapper, laced onto four pairs of singlethongs (each thong slit but consisting of one piece) passing outside the covers at the hinges, upper cover of the wrapper slightly smaller than the text block due to shrinkage, title lettered along spine in brown ink with large red pressmark, 'h'; endleaves of two bifolia from a ?12-century sacramentary on vellum with German neumes on 4-line staves, edges stained pale yellow; a few deckle edges preserved (2 small holes to upper cover); folding cloth case with ribbon ties. Provenance : Wesel, Brothers of the Common Life at the Convent of St. Martin: 1529 inscription in a neat small gothic hand stating that the book was acquired by brother Joannes Hoijnck from the library of Otho van Meer ( Liber fratrum Vesaliensis domus sancti Martini procuratus per fratrem Joannem Hoijnck ex bibliotheca domini Othonis van Meer. 1529 ) -- [Laurence Witten, cat. 9 no. 90] -- [Lathrop Harper] -- Helmut N. Friedlaender (sale Christie's New York, 23 April 2001, lot 115). Fourth edition of these classical Roman texts on agriculture. Together, they form the principal source of information on Roman agriculture and life, including the cultivation of vines, olives, beekeeping and husbandry. This is the first book printed at Reggio Emilia by the quasi-itinerant Bolognese printer Dionysius Bertochus, who worked in six different Italian cities between 1481 and the end of the century, moving from Vicenza to Treviso to Venice to Bologna, and finally settling in Reggio Emilia and Modena. AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY IN ORIGINAL CONDITION, PRESERVED IN ITS ORIGINAL TEMPORARY WRAPPER. HC 14569; BMC VII, 1090 and XII, 77 (IB. 34061 and 61a); CIBN S-177; IGI 8856; Goff S-349. See illustration opposite
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