CATO, MARCUS P. & MARCUS T. VARRO.

De Re Rustica libri, Per Petrum Victorium, ad veterum exemplarium fidem, suæ integritati restituti

Lugduni (Lyon), Seb. Gryphium, 1549.

8vo. Without binding. Printers woodcut-device on titlepage. 226,(12) pp. A faint dampstain to upper right margin of ab. 40 leaves. Otherwise fine and clean, printed on good paper.

Scarce firxst edition of Petrus Victorius's edition of Cato's and Varro's famous De Re Rustica. The works relates primarely to agriculture but gives also glimpses of customs and technological factors known to the ancient. The works also deals with development of vine, olive, fruit-growing and grazing. - Adams C 1125.

Order-nr.: 38990