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Venice: Heirs of Aldus and Andrea Torresani, 1533. Second Aldine Edition. Leather Bound. 8vo. 18th century red morocco, gilt lettering and rules, spine in compartments and with green title label, marbled endpapers. Tall copy. Three woodcut printer's device, 16 woodcut diagrams, initial spaces with guide-letter. Some surface creases to spine leather, scuffed at exremities, light age-toning chiefly to first and last few pages, remarkably clean and bright, binding tight and sound, wide margins preserved. A lovely copy. Second Aldine edition. Classical treatises on viticulture and the art of wine-making, farming, beekeeping, and other agricultural issues. Provenance: N & A Papadopoli (engraved armorial bookplate; second bookplate in Greek; Mediolanum bookseller's label to front endpaper. Ahmanson-Murphy 264; Renouard, Alde, 109:9.

Lugdunum Batavorum [Leiden] & Amstelodami [Amsterdam], Netherlands: Lugd. Batavorum: Jacobum Hackium | Amstelodami: Abrahamum Wolfgang, Ao., MDCLXXX (1680). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. pp. 704. Thick small 8vo., measuring 5" x 8". Plain contemporary black buckram binding bearing gilt rules, and lettering to the spine (the binder has immaculately preserved the generous margins of this volume). Gorgeous engraved frontispeice, title vignette (Hackiums' printer's device), three additional full-page engravings, and accompanied with various additional smaller in-text vignettes, collectively depicting scenes from Virgils' poetry. No detectable flaws to the contemporary binding, neat period ink name to the upper-margin of the frontispiece (unaffecting the engraving), the rare occasional spot (chiefly confined to the upper-margins of some pages), else, contents quite well-perserved with tight, sound binding. Overall, very good+. The text used is attributed to that of N. Heinsius.