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TELESIO, ANTONIO. De coloribus. Title within woodcut historiated border. [26] leaves. bound after: ESTIENNE, CHARLES. Seminarium, et plantarium fructiferarum praesertim arborum quae post hortos conseri solent . . . Huic accessit alter libellus de conserendis arboribus in seminario [etc.]. 193, [23] pages, including colophon leaf. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 18th-century vellum, missing portion of spine, minor worming in joints, fore edge of covers partly worn through; contents browned or foxed, strip of paper pasted over lower margin on last leaf of Telesio, Estienne title mounted. Paris: Christian Wechel, (27 November 1529); Robert Estienne, (5 May) 1540
Scarce early edition of the first printed work on colors, originally published the year before; bound with an enlarged edition of a 1536 book for children dealing with the nomenclature and cultivation of fruit trees. Schreiber 61.
