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SANSOVINO, Francesco (“Giovanni Tatti,” 1521-1586). Della Agricoltura di M. Giovanni tatti Lucchese. Libri Cinque. Venice: F. Sansovino, 1561.
Second edition. Giovanni Tatti is generally accepted to be the pseudonym of the publisher, Sansovino. Each book in this work is dedicated to a separate subject: soil and grain, wine and winemaking, gardens and flowers, fruit trees, and insects and pests. Rare.
4to (203 x 143 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut headpieces, 240 woodcuts in text. (A few pale stains.) Contemporary vellum, spine hand-lettered. Provenance: Bernardo Trank(?) (signature on verso of final blank); Lord Battersea (bookplate). Cleveland Collections 88; NLM/Durling 4057.
Second edition. Giovanni Tatti is generally accepted to be the pseudonym of the publisher, Sansovino. Each book in this work is dedicated to a separate subject: soil and grain, wine and winemaking, gardens and flowers, fruit trees, and insects and pests. Rare.
4to (203 x 143 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut headpieces, 240 woodcuts in text. (A few pale stains.) Contemporary vellum, spine hand-lettered. Provenance: Bernardo Trank(?) (signature on verso of final blank); Lord Battersea (bookplate). Cleveland Collections 88; NLM/Durling 4057.