CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS), MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO AND JUNIUS MODERATUS COLUMELLA [Scriptores rei rus...

CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS), MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO AND JUNIUS MODERATUS COLUMELLA [Scriptores rei rusticae] Enarrationes; De re rustica, 238 (of 244) leaves, 44 lines, printed in red and black, woodcut initials and woodcut printer's device, occasional annotations on margins (in Latin, English and Greek), lacking blank a10, and y2-y7, washed, repairs on approximately 12 leaves affecting text, wormholes, marginal damp-staining, modern calf tooled [ISTC is00350000], small folio (290 x 215mm.), Reggio Emilia, Franciscus de Mazalibus, 20 November 1499 Footnotes: A compendium of writings on Roman agricultural life, with sections on crops, vines, olives, bees, cattle-raising, and customs and superstitions thought to aid effective cultivation. Edited by Franciscus Colucia, Georgius Merula and Philippus Beroaldus (1453-1505) this is the last Italian edition of the fifteenth-century (following those of Venice 1472, Reggio Emilia 1482, Bologna 1494 and Reggio Emilia 1496) and exemplifying 'the rivalry between the prototypographers, five Italian incunabula of the Scriptores rei rusticae, by five different printers, in three cities; three editions by three different printers in one of them, Reggio Emilia' (G. Sarton, Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C., Cambridge, MA, 1959, p.388). This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing