[Scriptores rei rusticae] - M.Catonis, Marci Terentii Varron - Lot 256

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[Scriptores rei rusticae] - M.Catonis, Marci Terentii Varron - Lot 256
[Scriptores rei rusticae] - M.Catonis, Marci Terentii Varronis, L. Junii Moderati Columellae, Palladii Rutili. Libri de Re Rustica. Paris, Galliot Du Pré, 02/1533 (colophon). This work was printed by Antoine Augereau on behalf of Jean Petit and Galliot I du Pré (1501-1561), who shared the publishing. Here with Galliot's fine mark and motto "Vogue la Guallée" (Renouard, 261). In-folio, bound in full calf à la Duseuil with fleur-de-lys spandrels and in the center the mark of the Collège de La Marche in an oval spandrelled with fleurs-de-lys (on the first plate "Collegium", on the second plate "Marchianum"), spine ribbed and decorated with 6 fleurs-de-lys, title page, marbled edges. Headcap with small tear, tailcap shaved, last nerve split, significant loss of leather on the lower part of the first plate, epidermis throughout the binding, corners pierced, accidents at the edges, first leaves unbound and rebacked, marginal wetness on the first 25 leaves, small ink stain on the margins of pp. 209-214, pale wetness from page 261 to end, paper loss in margin of page 483, small worm work in inner margin (pp. 481 to end), fading ink stain in outer margin of last 9 pages. Numerous pagination errors with no gaps, and pagination jump from 289 to 300. Binder's error, f. "qii" is bound after "qvi" and f. "qvii" is bound after "qi", loss of head margin on several leaves with occasional damage to running title. [56 pp.], 506 pp. o.c. (but actually 496 given the jump in ciphering from 289), [1 f., with colophon]. Illustrated with 16 woodcuts in-t. This work brings together the famous ancient texts on agriculture by Cato the Elder, Varron, Columella and Palladius, plus comments and notes by Philippe Beroalde. All aspects of agronomy are examined and explained: the cultivation of fields, vegetables and cereals, farm management and administration, with passages on hunting, bird breeding, wild quadrupeds and fish. Beautiful edition by Antoine Augereau, an important figure in the history of French typography, who engraved the typeface for this work. Born around 1485 in Poitou, Augereau was one of the first type engravers and is considered to be the master of Claude Garamont. His career as a printer was short-lived (1532 to 1534). Suspected of heresy, he was sentenced to death in December 1534, then executed on Place Maubert, ironically just a stone's throw from the Collège de La Marche. The Collège de La Marche was founded in 1362 by Jean de La Marche on the premises of the former Collège de Constantinople (located in today's Impasse Maubert). In 1420, the college was moved to the mountain of Sainte-Geneviève, sheltered from the floods of the Seine. As part of the University of Paris, it took in students on scholarship. The college remained in operation until 1790, when it was reborn in 1796 under the impetus of Abbé Grégoire to welcome children from the French colonies, including the two sons of Toussaint Louverture.
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