GALLO, Agostino. Le vinti giornate dell'agricoltura, Venice: Camillo and Rutilio Borgomineri, 1575. 4 (205 x 150mm.), woodcut device on title, 19 full-page woodcut illustrations at end, contemporary limp vellum (soiled).

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GALLO, Agostino. Le vinti giornate dell'agricoltura, Venice: Camillo and Rutilio Borgomineri, 1575. 4 (205 x 150mm.), woodcut device on title, 19 full-page woodcut illustrations at end, contemporary limp vellum (soiled).

The first edition of this popular book appeared at Brescia in 1564. An earlier edition was published by C. and R. Borgomineri in 1572. The woodcuts depict farming utensils. Adams G-157; Mortimer Harvard Italian Sixteenth Century Books 205; Petit 1041. (7)
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Le vinti giornate dell'agricoltura
This lot contains 5 additional books not listed in the catalogue, making a total of 6 volumes in the lot. These comprise: GIANNETTASIUS, N. P., Halievtica, (Naples: 1689); GIANNETTASIUS, N.P., Halievtica, (Naples: 1693); OPPIAN, Della pesca, translated by A. M. Salvini, (Florence: 1728); BARBIERI, G., La Pesca o le stagioni pescatorie, (Padova: 1823); ONGARO, A., L'Alceo favola pescatoria, (Ferrara: 1614)

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