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VERMIGLI, PIETRO MARTIRE.
Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]men-
taries.
Title within woodcut historiated border; woodcut arms of the dedicatee, Robert
Dudley, first Earl of Leicester, on verso. [6], 288, [8] leaves, including final colophon leaf
with woodcut portrait of the author. Folio, 292x194 mm, early 19th-century calf, badly
worn, covers detached; preliminaries loose, dampstaining in lower outer corner of opening
leaves, scattered minor stains elsewhere. 19th-century Stone Library bookplate of the
Revd. R. L. Hopper.
London: John Day, (28 September 1564)
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH
of a Latin commentary on Judges originally published in 1561
in Zurich. STC 24670.
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VETTORI, PIETRO.
Trattato delle Lodi et della Coltivazione de gl’Ulivi.
[8], 89, [3] pages, including final blank. 4to, 204x141 mm, old
1
⁄
2
vellum; scattered minor
foxing and marginalia.
Florence: i Giunti, 1569
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
of a work on the cultivation of olives. Gamba 1024 note.
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VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS.
Georgicorum libri quatuor. The Georgicks
. . . with an English Translation and Notes by John Martyn, F.R.S., Professor of
Botany at the University of Cambridge.
13 plates, comprising 8 hand-colored
engravings and 5 color-printed botanical mezzotints. xxii, 403, [1], 3, [11] pages. 4to,
280x219 mm, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked, endpapers renewed; mostly moderate
foxing throughout. Armorial bookplate of Edward Howard, ninth Duke of Norfolk
(1732–1777).
London: Richard Riley, 1741
[300/500]
FIRST MARTYN EDITION
of the Georgics, followed by the Bucolics in 1749. “The notes discuss
in considerable detail the proper identification of the plants mentioned by the poet”—Hunt 517.
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