Della agricoltura di M. Africo Clemente padouano accommodata allvso de nostri tempi & al seruitio dogni paese con molte aggiunte di ricordi vtili & curiosi in questultima impressione libri sei: nelli quali si contiene il uero & utilissimo modo di coltiuare le cose di villa: con laggiunta ancora del settimo libro intorno alle pescagioni et la tavola di tutte le cose notabili per ordine dalfabeto.
Hardcover
1608 · Venice
by CLEMENTI, Africo (fl. 1550-1606) BAGLIONI, Tommaso, ed.
Venice: Tomaso Baglioni, 1608. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (142 x 95mm). Pagination: [32], 412, [4] pp. (lacks pp. 127, 337, and final blank). Signatures: *(8), **(8), A–G(8), H(7, lacks H8), I–X(8), Y(7, lacks Y1), Aa–Bb(8), Cc(6).Woodcut printers device of Baglioni depicting the female personified Catholic Church (or Papesse) in city of Rome with motto Verc Hinc Religio (From here the true religion). Text in Italian, italic and roman types. Written in seven books. Decorated chapter-head andinitials throughout, most with period acanthus leaves. Contemporary vellum stamped in gilt on spine with lettering label: AFRICO AGRICOL and added ms. title; (front blank with minor excision, p. 351 torn in text but present, light browning on first few leaves, slightest edgewear but good overall). Front pastedown with ca. 1820 bookplate of Bolognese nobleman: Giuseppe Casalgrandi Muratori Dello Studio del Pubblico perito Giuseppe Casalgrandi Muratori Scan G #32. Signed Stefano Villani on title verso in likely an 18th century hand. Africo Clementi was a Paduan notary. His treatise on agriculture, based on the tradition of the Byzantine work the Geoponica, was first published in Venice in 1572. This is the expanded edition with Baglionis additions. Because of the incompleteness, priced accordingly, and SOLD AS IS. (Inventory #: WB15956)