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MANETTI (Saverio). Delle specie diverse di frumento...

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MANETTI (Saverio). Delle specie diverse di frumento e di pane siccome della panizzazione. Memoria. Florence, Moücke printing house, 1765. In-4, beige paper boards, title in ink on the spine, untrimmed (Contemporary boards). Title, (3) ff, 237 pp, (1) f. Rare first edition of this memoir in ten articles, on wheat and bread, presented to the Society of Physics and Botany of Florence for the year 1764 by Saverio Manetti (1723-1785), an Italian naturalist from Florence: he gathers in it a large number of recipes concerning bread-making with different flours: manios, yucca, corn... A copy with large margins. One leaf of the first quire detached. Smudging in the upper margin on the whole volume. Soiled boards. B.IN.G., 1221.