Falcone Giuseppe - La Dilettevole Villa - 1612

Giuseppe Falcone. La Nuova, Vaga et Dilettevole Villa. In Venice, at Lucio Spineda, 1612. Very rare Venetian edition of the famous treatise on agriculture by the Piacenza-born writer, author of numerous works on wine and cookery. The work offers practical advice on cultivation, grafting, gardens, sowing, the construction of rural houses, breeding, and remedies for animal diseases. A part is also devoted to gastronomy with notes on rice, wine, beans, figs, mushrooms, and caggiagione and on hunting. Beautiful parchment binding of the period. Caligraphic title on the spine. Type-plate/logo engraved on the frontispiece. Foxing on some pages. Dimensions 15 x 10 cm, pages 390. Excellent condition.