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COLUMELLE
The Twelve Books of Rustic Things, translated from Latin into French.
Paris, Jacques Kerver, 1555.
In-4, ivory vellum (modern binding). Vicar, col. 192-193.
New French edition of De re rustica, the greatest agricultural treatise of antiquity, in the translation of Claude Cotereau, canon of Paris, revised and commented by Jean Thierry de Beauvaisis.
Title placed in a woodcut frame. Mark of Kerver on the back of the last page.
PROVENANCE Copy belonging to Joseph Decaisne (1807-1882), a great French botanist of Belgian origin, with his handwritten ex-libris on the title.
Stamp of the library of the baron Grandjean d'Alteville, administrator of the Eaux et Forêts (1862, n°385).
(The edge of the first notebooks that had to be removed has been dyed).
The Twelve Books of Rustic Things, translated from Latin into French.
Paris, Jacques Kerver, 1555.
In-4, ivory vellum (modern binding). Vicar, col. 192-193.
New French edition of De re rustica, the greatest agricultural treatise of antiquity, in the translation of Claude Cotereau, canon of Paris, revised and commented by Jean Thierry de Beauvaisis.
Title placed in a woodcut frame. Mark of Kerver on the back of the last page.
PROVENANCE Copy belonging to Joseph Decaisne (1807-1882), a great French botanist of Belgian origin, with his handwritten ex-libris on the title.
Stamp of the library of the baron Grandjean d'Alteville, administrator of the Eaux et Forêts (1862, n°385).
(The edge of the first notebooks that had to be removed has been dyed).