Agriculture.- Gallandius (Petrus, editor.) De Agrorum conditionibus

Agriculture.- Gallandius (Petrus, editor.) De Agrorum conditionibus, & constitutionibus limitum, first edition, 1 small tipped-in woodcut plate misbound at c2, woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text and decorative initials, ink marginalia to first few ff., a few ff. with light water-staining, overall a clean copy, Kimbolton Castle bookplate, upper hinge broken, contemporary limp vellum, later label to spine, soiled and worn, [Adams G.147; Pettegree 70699; Wellcome 2651], 4to, Paris, Adrianus Turnebus, 1554. *** First edition of this collection of classical texts on agricultural and horticultural surveying. There are a great number of woodcuts of trees. The text is based on a manuscript in the library of Saint-Bertin at St. Omer.

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