Published by Florence, heirs of Filippo Giunta,, 1521
Seller: Mayfair Rare Books & Manuscripts Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Softcover. Condition: Good. 4to (208 x 138 mm), contemporary limp vellum with manuscript title on spine, sewing bands (visible as sorting out between flyleaves and pastedowns at the beginning and at the end) done with fragments from a medieval manuscript of 12th century, marginal wormholes to several leaves, mostly in the middle of the volume, generally not affecting the text, altogether a very clean, unsophisticated copy. Bookplate of Thomas Ashby, 19th century Cursive type, ff. (20), 222, 125, (1 with printer's device a the end). Second Giunta edition (after the first of 1515, preceded by Aldus' one of 1514) of this famous anthology of texts devoted to agriculture. Edit16 CNCE 28760; Renouard, Ann. Giunta, xlvi; Schweiger II, 1306; Bandini II, 171; BMC STC Ital. p. 29; Adams S-807; Simon Bibl. Bacchica, II, 171.
Parisiis ( Paris ) , apud Ioannem Parvum sub Flore Lilio , Via ad sanctum Iacobum, in-folio, 326 x 220 mm, (56) nn pp with large printer's mark of Iehan Petit on the title page + 506 pp +(4)nn pp (colophon and 3 bl.) (Complete, collation identical to Adams S810). The colophon reads ; '' Impressum Lutetiae praelo Antonii Augerelli , Impensis autem Ioannis Parvi, & Galeoti à Prato. Mense Februario Anno M.D.XXXIII ''. Bound in old blindtooled calf, skilfully rebacked , upper board with some leather restorations, lower board nearly intact. Margin of first fly leaf with some paper restoration , title page with a few old unobtusive stains . The only mark of provenance is a number in ink on the first paste down ; '' 174 ''. Fine copy of this rare edition, with a crisp , near stainless interior in a finely restored - most probabably - first binding.