1553 Crescenzi Agriculture HERBAL Botany Hunting Italian Wine Ruralia Commoda

1553 Crescenzi Agriculture HERBAL Botany Hunting Italian Wine Ruralia Commoda

An exceedingly rare 16^th-century edition of Petrus Crescentiis’s history of agriculture. Crescentiis (or Crescenzi) was a 13th-century horticulturist known for his famous writings on agriculture. ‘Ruralia Commoda’ was written between 1304-09 and would become the first printed text on agriculture in 1471. It would see nearly 60 editions throughout the next century. (Anderson).

This work was an important aid to gardeners in the 16^th-century century for providing information on care for plants, astronomers and their research on the skies, and even bizarre instances of ‘man-plants’! Crescenzi also discussed husbandry, hunting and trapping, and wine making. Incredibly rare and important – only one copy of this book is found in institutional libraries in the United States!

Item number: #10042

Price: $1950

CRESCENTIIS, Petrus de

Opera di agricoltura: nellaqual si contiene à che modo si debbe coltiuar la terra: seminare, inserire gli alberi, gouernar li giardini e gli horti: la proprieta di tutti e frutti, & herbe: la natura di tutti li animali; & uccelli come amplame︣te nella tauola per ordine posta si potra uedere

In Venetia: Per li heredi di Ioanne Padouano, 1553.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • 335, [8]
• References: USTC 824573; Anderson, Illustrated History of Herbals
• Language: Italian
• Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
• Size: ~6.25in X 4.25in (15.5cm x 11cm)
• Very rare and desirable with auction records and price comparisons as high as $5,500

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