Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 148

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
GALLO, AGOSTINO. Le Vinti Giornate dell'Agricoltura, et de' Piaceri della Villa . . . Di nuovo ristampate, & in molti luoghi ampliate. Hand-colored woodcut arms of the dedicatee, Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Savoy, on title; 12 full-page woodcut illustrations of farm tools and other implements, partly hand-colored. [24], 428, [16] pages. 4to, 210x156 mm, contemporary limp vellum, soiled and worn; conspicuous dampstaining on last several leaves of text, occasional marginal foxing, soiling, and dampstains elsewhere, title and author in ink on top edges. Turin: heirs of Niccolò Bevilacqua, 1580

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Popular treatise on agriculture and country estate management first published in 1550.