Libri de Re Rustica . nuper . recogniti & typis excusi . Catonis. Varronis. Columellae. Palladii .

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.