CORNARIUS, Janus. *Twenty Books of Selected Teachings on Agriculture

CORNARIUS, Janus. *Twenty Books of Selected Teachings on Agriculture by Emperor Constantine*, translated by Janus Cornarius, physician. A 16th-century edition of the Geoponika, an encyclopedia of ancient agricultural science that codifies, in twenty books, the entirety of Greco-Roman and Byzantine agronomic knowledge. No place, no publisher, no date [Basel, Froben, 1538]. In-12, midnight blue half-percale, smooth spine. 389 pp. In Latin. Spine slightly sun-faded; title page and final leaf wi

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