ECONOMIA - RISICOLTURA . Consegna dei terreni... Lot n° 40

nob. Giustiniani in the municipalities of Piazzola and Villafranca. [1859]. Report of the state of the Giustinian family's rice field prepared on the occasion of the 20-year management entrustment to Mr. Valentino Meloni. Particularly interesting is the section devoted to the construction of a factory for hydraulically propelled rice pilling accompanied by three watercolor technical plates and a description of the expenditure to be incurred. An interesting document on the modernization of agriculture and rice-growing in mid-19th-century Italy. Folio, (340 x 225mm). Frontispiece, 39 maps containing details of the property and lots of the estate, frontispiece of the types for the construction of the villa da Riso , 3 plates of machinery drawn and watercolor, a map detailing the expenditure, at the end, preceded by an independent frontispiece, the Planimetry of the estate a large watercolor cadastral map (990 x 1370mm) intel and folded several times. Coeval binding with leather spine (slight defects). [ECONOMY - RICE FARMING] . Delivery of the lands and factories comprising the estate of Mr. Girolamo nob. Giustiniani in the municipalities of Piazzola and Villafranca. : , [1859].