CRESCENTIIS, Petrus de. Le Bon Mesnager. Au present volume des prouffitz champestres et ruraulx est traicte du labour des champs, vignes, jardins, arbres de tous especes. Paris: Nicolas Cousteau for Galliot Dupré, 15 January 1533. 4° (268 x 187mm). Title in red and black, printed in double column in gothic type, 43 lines and headline, ruled in red, two woodcut illustrations and woodcut coat-of-arms on final leaf, floriated and historiated initials. (Title lightly soiled and lower corner repaired, gatherings EE and DD misbound, a few small repairs in margin, very light browning, occasional light soiling or spotting.) 18th-century calf, gilt edges (front cover detached, quite rubbed).FIRST EDITION UNDER THIS TITLE. Crescentiis, or in Italian Crescenzi, was born in Bologna in 1230 and died in 1320. His Opus ruralium commodorum, the most important agricultural treatise of the Middle Ages, was first printed in Augsburg, 1471; and also in Strassburg the same year. The first woodcut represents the publisher offering his work to Francis I, signed with the Lorraine cross of Geofroy Tory. The second shows a husbandman sowing grain. Book X treats of hawking, hunting and fishing. Bosgoed 3979; Brunet II, 417; Schwerdt I, p. 127; Souhart 121; Thibaud p. 229; Petit 639

CRESCENTIIS, Petrus de. Le Bon Mesnager. Au present volume des prouffitz champestres et ruraulx est traicte du labour des champs, vignes, jardins, arbres de tous especes. Paris: Nicolas Cousteau for Galliot Dupré, 15 January 1533. 4° (268 x 187mm). Title in red and black, printed in double column in gothic type, 43 lines and headline, ruled in red, two woodcut illustrations and woodcut coat-of-arms on final leaf, floriated and historiated initials. (Title lightly soiled and lower corner repaired, gatherings EE and DD misbound, a few small repairs in margin, very light browning, occasional light soiling or spotting.) 18th-century calf, gilt edges (front cover detached, quite rubbed). FIRST EDITION UNDER THIS TITLE. Crescentiis, or in Italian Crescenzi, was born in Bologna in 1230 and died in 1320. His Opus ruralium commodorum, the most important agricultural treatise of the Middle Ages, was first printed in Augsburg, 1471; and also in Strassburg the same year. The first woodcut represents the publisher offering his work to Francis I, signed with the Lorraine cross of Geofroy Tory. The second shows a husbandman sowing grain. Book X treats of hawking, hunting and fishing. Bosgoed 3979; Brunet II, 417; Schwerdt I, p. 127; Souhart 121; Thibaud p. 229; Petit 639

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CRESCENTIIS, Petrus de. Le Bon Mesnager. Au present volume des prouffitz champestres et ruraulx est traicte du labour des champs, vignes, jardins, arbres de tous especes. Paris: Nicolas Cousteau for Galliot Dupré, 15 January 1533. 4° (268 x 187mm). Title in red and black, printed in double column in gothic type, 43 lines and headline, ruled in red, two woodcut illustrations and woodcut coat-of-arms on final leaf, floriated and historiated initials. (Title lightly soiled and lower corner repaired, gatherings EE and DD misbound, a few small repairs in margin, very light browning, occasional light soiling or spotting.) 18th-century calf, gilt edges (front cover detached, quite rubbed).

FIRST EDITION UNDER THIS TITLE. Crescentiis, or in Italian Crescenzi, was born in Bologna in 1230 and died in 1320. His Opus ruralium commodorum, the most important agricultural treatise of the Middle Ages, was first printed in Augsburg, 1471; and also in Strassburg the same year. The first woodcut represents the publisher offering his work to Francis I, signed with the Lorraine cross of Geofroy Tory. The second shows a husbandman sowing grain. Book X treats of hawking, hunting and fishing. Bosgoed 3979; Brunet II, 417; Schwerdt I, p. 127; Souhart 121; Thibaud p. 229; Petit 639

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