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Agricoltura - Gastronomia

Spolverini, Giambattista

Rice cultivation, 1758

Estimate

€ 150 - 250

Sold

€ 194

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Verona, Agostino Carattoni, 1758. In 4°. Engraving frontispiece, 15 engravings and initials, portrait of Elisabetta Farnese, dedicatee of the work, all engraved by Domenico Cunego from drawings by Francesco Lorenzi (1719-83, a pupil of Tiepolo and Piazzetta), rare light foxing, repaired tear on the last leaf, slightly later binding in blue half leather and decorated paper, gold title within a red tag on the spine.

Specialist Notes

Original edition of the oldest work on rice and the finest Italian georgic poem after Alamanni's. A famous didactic poem that discusses at length the quality of the soil, rice planting, irrigation methods, and all stages of processing this grain, from harvest to marketing. One of the finest examples of 18th-century Venetian typography.

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