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Buy this book on-line [Galland, Pierre, ed.] : DE AGRORVM CONDITIONIBUS, & CONSTITUTIONIBUS LIMITUM...OMNIA FIGURIS ILLUSTRATAA. Turnèbe, Paris, 8 cal. December, 1554.
Sm. 4to. (8 3/8 x 6 5/8 inches), 18th century 3/4 vellum over paper-covered boards, title lettered in hand on the spine; edges sprinkled in a red and blue marbled pattern. A FINE COPY.First edition of these ancient texts on surveying, edited by Galland and Adrien Turnèbe from a manuscript which they found in the library of a monastery of the Saint-Bertin at Saint-Omer. And as Ruth Mortimer points out, although the title-page fails to name the editor, Galland's name heads the dedication to the cardinal de Lorraine on leaf *2r. The title-page is without ornamentation; there are, however, five-line decorated woodcut initials and occasional headpieces. "Thirteen full pages of woodcuts of land measurement conclude the commentary of Aggeneus Urbicus on Frontinus, ll K3v-M1v. The succeeding texts are illustrated with 134 similar subjects and diagrams, in addition to nine pages of the symbols used in recording surveys. (Mortimer/French. 244). See also: Maittaire. Historia. II, p. 54. NOT IN Brunet, Murray, Rothschild, or Brun. Just THREE COPIES are cited in OCLC: Stanford NYPL, and Oxford. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of [Galland, Pierre, ed.] : DE AGRORVM CONDITIONIBUS, & CONSTITUTIONIBUS LIMITUM...OMNIA FIGURIS ILLUSTRATA. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres anciens, atlases, out-of-print books, first editions and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |