Includes: Opera Agricolationum... [272] leaves. aa6, a6, b-i8, k4, l-y8, z4, &6, 9-8, [rum]8, A-K6, L4, M6. Numerous woodcut initials which are tinted by hand. Reggio Emilia, Italy: Dionysius Bertochu, 14 October 1496. [bound with] Estienne, Charles, Jean Liébault & Melchior Sebisch. XII. Bücher von dem Feldbau, und vollkomener bestellung eynes ordentlichen Meyerhofs oder Landguts… [12], 566, [12] pp. )(6, A-BBBB4, CCCC6. With numerous woodcut illustrations, including folding plate of a horse’s anatomy (this with 6" split along fold). Strassburg: Bernhard Jobin, 1586. [bound with] Mayer, Georg. Paralipomena et marginalia hortulanica, Das ist, Gartenkunst zum Feldbuch angehörig, in abmerckung der Erfahrung wahrhafftig, was zum Feldbaw uñ Hausshalten… [4], 22 pp. )(2, A-C4 (C4 a blank). Woodcut illustrations. Strassburg: Bernhard Jobin, 1586. Together, 3 works bound together. (folio) 31x21 cm. (12¼x8¼”), period full pigskin over wooden boards, decoratively tooled in blind with portrait of a nobleman in the center of each cover, protective metal bosses on the covers, metal clasps.

Rare incunabula edition of the agricultural works of the first century Roman tribune turned farmer, our most important source on Roman agriculture, together with portions of the works of Cato the Elder and Varro which he cites. It is bound with a marvelously illustrated edition of the German translation of Charles Estienne’s [i.e. Stephanus’] Praedium Rusticum (first published in 1554), a collection of tracts which he compiled from ancient writers on various branches of agriculture, and also a short horticultural work by Georg Mayer. All of the works are of great significance in the fields of agriculture and husbandry, and all are quite rare. OCLC/WorldCat lists 17 copies of the first work. No copies of the second work are listed in OCLC, but other versions (i.e. 7 books or 15 books] are listed. Only three copies of the final work are listed.