SCRIPTORES REI RUSTICAE - COLUMELLE. De Re... - Lot 15 - Giquello

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SCRIPTORES REI RUSTICAE - COLUMELLE. De Re... - Lot 15 - Giquello
SCRIPTORES REI RUSTICAE - COLUMELLE. De Re rustica Libri XII. Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1548. - CATON and VARRON. De Re rustica Libri. Ibid, 1549. - PALLADIUS. De Re Rustica Libri XIIII. ibid. 1549. - MERULA. Enarrationes vocum priscarum in libris de Re Rustica. Ibid. 1549. - VICTORIUS. Explicationes suarum in Catonem, Varronem, Columellam Castigationes. Ibid. 1542. Together 5 works in a large volume in-8, green chagrin, cold fillet, spine decorated (Binding around 1840). Baudrier, t. VIII, pp. 224, 232, 231, 234, 169. Complete collection of these 5 works on agriculture and rustic life, whose authors are known as Scriptores rei rusticae, here in 16th century Lyon editions. The copy belonged to a physician of the time named Roussetus, with handwritten ex-libris; the first work has numerous marginal annotations in pen, probably in his hand. Perhaps it is François Rousset (1531-1587), a physician who remained famous for having published in 1581 the first treatise on caesarian section (Traité de l'Hysterotomotokie). Bookplate torn from the back cover. The second work is incomplete by 2 leaves.
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