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CATON & VARRON
De Re Rustica.
London, W. Heinemann / Cambridge, University Press, 1967. In-16, rel. d'éditeur pleine toile rouge sous jaquette, XXV-542 pp., index. (Loeb Classical Library, 283).
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Libri De Re Rustica a Nicolao Angelio viro consumatissimo nuper maxima diligentia recogniti & typis excusi, cum indice & expositione omnium dictionum. Catonis, Varronis, Columellae, Palladii quae aliqua enucleatione indigebant. Additis nuper commentariis Iunii Pompo. Fortunati in librum De cultu hortorum, cum adnotationibus Philippi Beroaldi.
N.pl.(Florence), n.d. (Colophon at the end: 'Florentiae per heredes Philippi Iuntae, Anno Domini 1521, Die XXVIII. Mensis Septembris'), 1521.
4to in 8s. 2 parts in 1 volume: (XX),218 (recte 222);125 leaves. 19th century half vellum 22 cm. (Ref: Edit 16 28760; Schweiger 2,1305/06; Renouard, 'Annales des Imprimeries des Alde', 'Notice sur la famille des Iunte', p. XLVI; Adams S807; Ebert 20736; Brunet 5,246; Graesse 6/1,331) (Details: 19th century binding, with short title on the back and marbled boards. Good quality white paper. Some text diagrams. Iunta's printer's device on the verso of the last leaf) (Condition: Some wear to the extremities. Small wormhole in the right upper corner of the first leaf. Old ownership entry below the printer's device. Small booklabel on front pastedown. A small pinpoint wormhole in the upper margin of the last 8 leaves, pinpoint wormhole in the inner margins of the gatherings l and m. Some old ink underlinings, 2 old ink annotations. Small rust hole in the upper corner of leaf 175. Some slight foxing and soiling of the paper. Small stain in the upper margins of 2 gatherings. The gatherings collate correctly. The page numbering of the second part has some irregularities, but is alltogether correct) (Note: This Italian edition of the Libri de Re Rustica, first published by Philip Junta in Florence in 1515, gives us the works of four Roman gentlemen-farmers and landowners, Cato, Varro, Columella and Palladius, who wrote about agriculture and were also successful practical farmers. As a cultural movement the Italian Renaissance was the product of the aristocracy and the ruling elite. The greater part of the populace were still rural peasants. Most of them worked on private farms or were tenants who shared the crops with their landowners. The urban elite of this time turned themselves into landed aristocracy, owning large villa-farms. Capital produced by commercial and trading activities was invested in land. 'It was particularly in the Florence area that this bourgeois colonization of the surrounding countryside coincided with the development of a trading economy'. (G. Gobbi Sicap, 'The Florentine Villa: Architecture History Society', Abingdon, New York 2007, p. 11) Land, and a house in the country lent prestige. 'A landlord of this period who had entrusted his property to a share-cropper frequently visited his lands and oversaw every activity that took place, keeping an eye on the stables and cellars and taking charge of the sale of the produce; he thus appeared to participate fully in farming life' (Idem, p. 14) Thus the residential extra-urban villas of the 'signori' became 'of central importance to the development of the newly-dawning Renaissance culture' (Idem, p. 15) The rediscovery of classical authors in the early days of humanism provided important confirmation of these aspirations. 'The 'Rei rusticae scriptores' who now took the stage - including the Romans, Cato, Varro, Columella, the 'rusticus' Palladio, (... ) provided further food for thought, adding value to the literary notion of a house in the country as a refuge, corresponding to the classical 'topos' of the joys of country life, and the practical and educational concept of farming as the purpose and 'magistra of life'. The ideology of the paired words 'utilitas-delectatio', a humanist concept, dates back to classical times and appears in the works of the most authoritative Latin writers, including Cicero, Seneca and Pliny'. (Idem, p. 19) The aim of Cato, Varro and Columella was to bring Roman farming of their time on a higher level. The conjunction of these three didactic texts can be found from the Middle Ages. They were jointly published for the first time in 1472 in Venice, and form the chief texts on agriculture and rural life in antiquity. The oldest of the trio is the Roman politician Marcus Porcius Cato, 234-149 B.C., the source of famous maxims for orators, like 'rem tene, verba sequentur'. In style and in character he was a typical farmer, shrewd, hardworking, frugal, honest, sincere, but limited. His 'De re rustica', also known as 'De agri cultura' is a kind of commonplace book. It gives us a view of the life of an oldfashioned landowner in that age, and offers information on Roman cult and rustic folklore. The second work was written by possibly the greatest scholar Rome produced, Marcus Terentius Varro, 116-27 B.C. Of the mass of works he wrote only one is preserved to us completely, 'De re rustica'. He was a landowner on a large scale, who wrote the book in his eightieth year (annus octogesimus), he tells us in the beginning, 'ut sarcinas colligam ante quam profiscar e vita'. It is a philosophic dialogue in 3 books, in which he gives sound and practical advice for managing a farm (I), a stock-ranch (II), poultry, aviary and herb-garden (III). 'While giving interesting information on the state of agriculture at that time, it is withal a pleasantly discursive book, the work of a garrulously entertaining old scholar' (H.J. Rose, 'A Handbook of Latin Literature', London 1967, p. 222). Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella was a contemporary of Seneca. He wrote his 'De re rustica', consisting of 12 books, ca. 60-65 A.D. He was a practical farmer on a large scale, who was concerned over the decline of the agriculture in his days. 'Book 1 deals with general matters of buildings and labour, 2 with soils and crops, 3-5 with vines, olives and fruittrees, 6-7 with domestic animals, 8 with poultry and fishponds, 9 with game and bees, 10 (in verse) with gardening, 11 with the bailiff's duties and the farmer's calendar, 12 with the bailiff's wife's duties'. (OCD 2nd ed. p. 268) A separate book on arboriculture, part of a larger work, survives too. His style is straitforward and pleasant. The late antique Roman author Palladius (ca. 400), who also seems to have been a landowner, produced a kind of abridgment of Columella. The texts of these four were edited, we are told in the preface, by the Florentine classical scholar Nicolaus Angelius Buccinensis (Niccolò degli Angeli, or Angelio Bucinense, or Bucinensis) who produced many editions for Giunta, e.g. of Plautus, Terentius and Nemensianus. Nicolò degli Angeli was professor of Latin & Greek in Florence. ('vir de utraque lingua benemeritus' (p. AA1 verso)) He was born in Bucine in 1448 and died ca. 1529) (Provenance: The provenance of this book is dealt with in a longer article than usual, because it sheds some light on the English booktrade in the first half of the 20th century, and on the history of a Russian refugee family. The search for information about previous owners often brings the antiquarian bookseller to unexpected places, in this case to a beautiful portrait of a young woman, a masterpiece of the Russian painter Kardovsky. And it sometimes occurs that the offspring of a former owner kindly offers to provide supplementary information. On the front pastedown of this book has been pasted a booklabel in Russian and in English: 'ex libris Boris Alexandrovitch Chroustchoff'. In the 'Guggenheim Museum collection: paintings, 1880-1945' we found at first the following concerning the provenance of a painting of the mother of Boris Alexandrovitich Chroustchoff, Marya Anastasievna Chroustchova, made by the Russian painter Dimitry Kardovsky (1900): 'Biographical information (...) is fragmentary. According to their son, the late Boris Chroustchoff, who was in correspondence with J. J. Sweeney in 1959-60, his parents owned a large estate in southern Russia as well as a house in Munich and one in St. Prex near Geneva. (...) Boris Chroustchoff adds that his father was 'a very great friend of Kandinsky and other members of the Blaue Reiter school (especially Javlensky). Both Kandinsky and Javlensky often used to stay with us in the Ukraine, and were constant visitors when we lived in Munich. Our house was always full of painters, who found a very good subject in my mother. In fact Javlensky painted a very fine portrait of her in a red dress which has now disappeared' (letters of December 27, 1959, and January 10, 1960). (The attribution to Javlensky is incorrect. It was Kardovsky) Marya Anastasievna and Alexander were separated in 1901. She returned to Russia with her daughter, who died soon afterwards, and Marya herself apparently perished during the Revolution. Alexander remained in Western Europe with his son Boris and they moved to England. (...) Boris' 'father Alexander took the portrait with him to England, where it hung in their house in Harrow-on-the-Hill until 1908, when it apparently disappeared (correspondence with the Museum, 1960). Whether it was actually stolen, or whether it was sold remains to be established. Boris Chroustchoff has since died, and further information has not hitherto been discovered'. A few years ago we received supplementary information about the owner of this book and about the painting of Kardovsky, from the daughter of Boris Chroustchoff, Natasha de Chroustchoff, who is living in Great Britain. She wrote us that Boris Chroustchoff (1892-1968), 'was a very interesting but elusive man whose name can be found mentioned en passant in the lives of others with stronger claims to fame'. His father Alexander sent him to an English public school (Harrow) in 1906. He also bought a house in the vicinity of the school where the portrait of Marya Anastasievna Chroustchova hung on the stairs. After Boris left school in 1909 he lost sight of the painting of his mother. After his studies Boris learned the trade from the wellknown London bookseller Irving Davis and the Italian bookseller Guiseppe (Pino) Orioli, who set up a bookshop, 'Davis & Orioli' in Museum Street in 1913. Davis died in 1967. Orioli had learned in his turn the trade from the notorious antiquarian bookseller Voynich (of the famous Voynich Manuscript). 'In the early 1920s Boris with his friend and business partner Lionel Jellinek opened the Salamander Bookshop in Silverstreet (now Barter Street) in Bloomsbury, London', Natasha informs us. The shop was named after the Croustchoff family crest. Young Boris was the bibliographic expert. 'He specialised in medicine, natural history, cookery and Russica with a particular interest in incunabulae'. Natasha writes, 'I believe they did pretty well until the Wall Street crash of 1929'. 'There are stories about the rather eccentric manner in which my father conducted his affairs: snatching a book out of a potential customer's hand because he didn't like the look of him and so on'. Boris compiled for his own bookshop 5 catalogues which were considered exemplary. The painting of his mother popped up in the Guggenheim Museum, that acquired it from the German art dealer Otto Stangl in 1950. In 1999 Nathasha was allowed to see the painting in the Guggenheim Museum, where it was held in depot. In May 2015 Sotheby's in New York auctioned this painting. It was sold, with the incomprehensible wisdom of the Museum, to benefit the Museums' acquisition fund. Its location now cannot be traced. (sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.86.html/2015/impressionist-modern-art-n09354) (See for this portrait also Wikipedia's article on Kardovsky) Under printer's device in old ink: 'A Fabii Astinea'. On the pastedown also the name of the next owner 'V.E. Watts'. One V.E. Watts produced a Penguin translation of Boethius, 'The Consolation of Philosophy') (Collation: AA-8, BB-12; a - z-8, &-8, ?-8, R-8; Aa-8, Bb-6, A-10, B - O-8, P-12; pagination: (20),218; 1-20, 235-238 (4 leaves), 24-34, 249-254 & 215-216 (2 leaves), 43-76, 291-294 (4 leaves), 81-125) (For 4to in 8s, see Gaskell p. 106)) (Photographs on request)
Marcus Terentius VARRON - CATON L'ANCIEN - Lucius Iunius Moderatus COLUMELLE
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(1529)
Libri de re rustica M. Catonis, M. Terentii Varronis, M. Iunii Moderati Columelle, Palladii Rutilii : quorum summam pagina sequens indicabit [avec] Macrobii Aurelii Theodosii Viri consularis, in Somnium Scipionis M. Tulii Ciceronis Libri duo, Et Saturnaliorum Lib. VII. Cum scholiis & indicibus Ascensianis [avec] De die Natali. Censorini opusculum, de die natali, ad Q. Cerellium
Venundantur Iodoco Badio Ascensio [ Josse Bade] | s. l. [Paris] 1529 et 1524 pour les deux textes suivants | 20.50 x 31.50 cm | relié
Première édition parisienne duLibri de re rustica illustrée d'un titre-frontispice représentant une scène d'imprimerie, ainsi que diverses scènes mythologiques en encadrement. Une annotation manuscrite du temps sur la page de titre. Belles lettrines. Cette édition contientle glossaire de Giorgio Merula,les commentaires de Filippo Beroalda l'Ancien sur les treize livres de Columelle, ainsi quela table d'Alde Manuce sur la durée du jour et la taille des ombres portées, suivant les enseignements de Palladius. Troisième édition chez Josse Bade pour Macrobii Aurelii Theodosii Viri consularis, après celles de 1515 et 1519. Elle est suivie sous pagination particulière d'un opuscule de Censorin intitulé De die natali.Pagede titre-frontispice répétée.Lettrines identiques au texte précédent; un large bandeau représentant des astronomes, ainsi que plusieurs autres vignettes et schémas astronomiques in-texte. Une très importante carte de Macrobe représentant les zones climatiques. Reliure en plein vélin rigide crème d'époque. Dos à six nerfs. Titre à la plume contemporain de l'ouvrage dans le premier caisson et étiquette plus tardive dans le second. Restes de fermoirs. Toutes tranches mouchetées rouges.Quelques soulignements et annotations marginalesde l'époque.Quelques pâles mouillures et déchirures marginales sans manque. Une déchirure en coin sans perte de texte au feuillet miiii du second texte. Exemplaire particulièrement frais. Le Libri de re rustica est une réunion de textes didactiques en prose sur l'agriculture et la vie à la campagne, laissés par les quatre grands agronomes antiques Caton l'Ancien, Varron, Columelle et Palladius; y sont abordés la culture des champs et des jardins, l'élevage des abeilles, la pêche, l'économie rurale (recettes de cuisine, de médecine), ainsi que les travaux de plantation. Ces textes sont traditionnellement imprimés dans des éditions collectives et adoptent un ton scientifique et non littéraire comme avait pu le faire Virgile dans ses Géorgiques.Ainsi, dès 1472 et jusque vers le milieu du XVIIIème siècle, ces textesseront régulièrement et collectivement édités sous la coupe des plus grands imprimeurs européens, d'abord en Italie, le berceau de l'humanisme, puis en France eten Allemagne. Dans la deuxième moitié du siècle, on fit plutôt des éditions séparées, il faudra ensuite attendre le regain d'intérêt de la seconde moitié du XVIIIème pour les réalités agricoles et voir ces uvres éditées à nouveau. La seconde partie est constituée du célèbre Commentaire du Songe de Scipion par Macrobe, ainsi que des sept livres de ses Saturnales, banquet philosophique se déroulant à la période éponyme et durant lequel douze devisants dissertent sur l'histoire et la philosophie romaine, puis proposent une explication des textes de Virgile. CesSaturnalessont aussi l'occasion d'un débat sur les aliments et leurs propriétés. De die natali(« Du jour de naissance ») traite de la naissance et de la vie de l'homme, des jours, les mois, des années, des rites religieux, il s'agit d'une importante mine d'information concernant les usages de l'Antiquité:calcul du terme de la naissance, zodiaque,la théorie de Pythagoresur la musique et les planètes, et l'influence sur la durée de gestation. Il y est question de la vie divisée en périodes ou années climatériques, et de sa durée limitée à quatre-vingts ou à cent ans au plus. Censorinus fournit aussi de nombreux repères chronologiques historiques. Très bel ensemble de textes tout à fait symbolique du regain d'intérêt des auteurs de la Renaissance pour les textes antiques classiques ou mineurs, et qui confirme la vision d'une Rome idéale et harmonieuse. - Photographies et détails sur www.Edition-Originale.com -
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Libri De Re Rustica, M. Catonis Lib. I. M. Terentii Varronis Libr. III.
Parisiis, Ex officina Roberti Stephani, 1543. 3 parties en 1 vol. in-8 (160 x 100 mm) de 113-(7) ff. 1 f.bl. (84) ff. 1 f.bl. 70-(2) ff., caractères italiques, vélin dur à rabats, titre manuscrit au dos, tranches jaspées (reliure de l'époque).
« Belle édition peu commune » selon Brunet, sortie des presses de Robert Estienne avec les nouveaux caractères italiques gravés par Claude Garamond. Elle réunit trois parties (sur cinq) imprimées la même année séparément avec leurs propres pagination et page de titre, soit :1. Les livres de Caton l'Ancien et Varron (Libri de re rustica).2. Les commentaires et notes de Georgius Alexandrinus (Enarrationes vocum priscarum).3. Les explications de Petrus Victorius (Explicationes suarum in Catonem, Varronem). Imprimé une première fois en 1472, le Libri de re rustica qui connut plusieurs éditions au XVIe siècle, réunissait les textes les plus fameux de l'Antiquité latine relatifs à l'agriculture et la vie à la campagne.Très bel exemplaire en vélin ivoire d'époque précédé de trois feuillets manuscrits de commentaires latins en tête d'ouvrage d'une écriture à l'encre brune contemporaine de l'imprimé.Brunet, V, 246 ; Renouard, 55-2 ; Adams, S-817.
Ennarrationes Vocum priscarum in libris De Re Rustica, per Georgium Alexandrinum. Philippi Beroaldi in libros XIII. Columellae Annotationes. Aldus de Dierum generibus simul(que) de Umbris, & Horis, quæ apud Palladium.
Lugduni (Lyon), Seb.Gryphium, 1549. 8vo. Without binding. Printers wood-cut device on titlepage. (84) leaves (=168) pp. The last leaves a bit creasy, a few corners a bit browned, but in general clean.
Second edition of Beroaldus commentaries to Lucius Junius Columellas De Re Rustica, a classic of Roman agriculture and gardening. - Adams B 768 (listing only the first edition from 1541).
De Re Rustica libri, Per Petrum Victorium, ad veterum exemplarium fidem, suæ integritati restituti
Lugduni (Lyon), Seb. Gryphium, 1549. 8vo. Without binding. Printers woodcut-device on titlepage. 226,(12) pp. A faint dampstain to upper right margin of ab. 40 leaves. Otherwise fine and clean, printed on good paper.
Scarce firxst edition of Petrus Victorius's edition of Cato's and Varro's famous De Re Rustica. The works relates primarely to agriculture but gives also glimpses of customs and technological factors known to the ancient. The works also deals with development of vine, olive, fruit-growing and grazing. - Adams C 1125.
