CATON - COLLUMELLA - VARRON - PALLADIUS. Marci... Lot 45

CATON - COLLUMELLA - VARRON - PALLADIUS. Marci Catonis, ac M. Teren. Varronis De re rustica libri, Per Petrum Victorium, ad ueterum exemplarium fidem, sue integritati restituti. - L. Iunii moderati Columellae De re rustica libri XII. - Palladii Rutili tauri Æmiliani, viri illustris, De re rustica libri XIIII. - Enarrationes vocum priscarum in libris De re rustica, per Georgium Alexandrinum. Lyon : Sébastien Gryphe, 1541. - 4 parts in 2 volumes in-8, 165 x 96 : (8 ff.), 214 pp. (9 ff.) ; 491 pp. (8 ff.) ; 184 pp. (4 ff.) ; (84 ff.). Dark green morocco, double gilt fillet, gilt crowned numeral at the corners and gilt arms in the center of the boards, spine ribbed with gilt fillets, gilt border inside, gilt edges (19th century binding). Vicaire, 192 - Baudrier, VIII, 145-146, 152. A new and uncommon edition printed by Sébastien Gryphe, bringing together the Latin treatises on agriculture by Cato, Varro, Columella and Palladius. The treatises of Columella and Palladius have a separate title page and a separate pagination. They are followed by a collection including the Enarraciones vocum priscarum in libris De re rustica by Georgio Merula (1424?-1494), the commentaries of book XIII entitled De arboribus by Columella by the humanist Filippo Beroaldo (1453-1505) and Aldus Manutius's notice on the treatise of Palladius and on the duration of days according to the seasons. One finds bound to the continuation: - VETTORI (Piero). Petri Victorii Explicationes suarum in Catonem, Varronem, Colummelam Castigationum. Lyon : Sébastien Gryphe, 1542. - 144 pp. Edition of the commentaries of the humanist Piero Vettori (1499-1585) on the treatises of Cato, Varron, Columella and Palladius. EXEMPLAIRE WITH THE ARMS OF JOAQUÍN GÓMEZ DE LA CORTINA (1808-1868), Spanish jurist and bibliophile. Hinge of the first cover of the first volume fragile. Some traces of wear and tear. Minor foxing. Provenance: Joaquín Gómez de la Cortina, with his arms on the boards. - Henry, with bookplate. - Jacques and Hélène Bon, with ex-libris (sale June 16, 2022, n° 36).