Lot 243
Cato (Marcus Porcius) Libri de re Rustica, 1533.
Hammer Price: £450
Description
Agriculture.- Cato (Marcus Porcius), Marcus Terentius Varro, Junius Moderatus Columella and Rutilius Taurus Palladius. Libri de re Rustica, woodcut printer's device to title, A1 and verso of otherwise blank final f., a few woodcut diagrams, initial spaces with guide-letter, some mostly light browning or foxing, heavier to preliminaries, 18th century red morocco, gilt, spine in compartments and with olive green morocco label, spine creased, rubbed at extremities, marked, [Adams S812; Ahmanson-Murphy 264; Renouard, Alde, 109:9; EDIT 16 CNCE 27203], small 4to, Venice, heirs of Aldus and Andrea Torresani, December, 1533.
⁂ Second Aldine edition. With much on viticulture and the art of wine-making, including the choice of soil and aspect of vineyards, the planting and pruning and cultivation of vines and how to make and care for different sorts of wine
Provenance: N & A Papadopoli (engraved armorial bookplate).
Description
Agriculture.- Cato (Marcus Porcius), Marcus Terentius Varro, Junius Moderatus Columella and Rutilius Taurus Palladius. Libri de re Rustica, woodcut printer's device to title, A1 and verso of otherwise blank final f., a few woodcut diagrams, initial spaces with guide-letter, some mostly light browning or foxing, heavier to preliminaries, 18th century red morocco, gilt, spine in compartments and with olive green morocco label, spine creased, rubbed at extremities, marked, [Adams S812; Ahmanson-Murphy 264; Renouard, Alde, 109:9; EDIT 16 CNCE 27203], small 4to, Venice, heirs of Aldus and Andrea Torresani, December, 1533.
⁂ Second Aldine edition. With much on viticulture and the art of wine-making, including the choice of soil and aspect of vineyards, the planting and pruning and cultivation of vines and how to make and care for different sorts of wine
Provenance: N & A Papadopoli (engraved armorial bookplate).
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