| Item Description: | Jonathan Hill, bookseller, description: First edition of the first bibliography of Italian agriculture, describing about 1000 works. Lastri (1731-1811), priest, agronomist, economist (he was an early developer of demography), antiquarian, and man of letters, lived in Florence for most of his life and was director of the city’s botanical garden. This work, which includes books on agriculture in its widest sense — veterinary medicine, surveying, weather forecasting, economics, hunting, and fishing — contains valuable details notes on each book’s contents and rarity. Fine copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown endpaper: “Donné par l’Auteur l’Abbé Marc. Lastri a [illegible] André Naville.” Stamp on free front pastedown of the Rothamsted Experimental Station. |
|---|