Item #245603 La Moltiplicazione del Bestiame Toscano […]. Cattle Breeding, Filippo Andreucci, Luigi TRAMONTANI.

Tuscan Beef

La Moltiplicazione del Bestiame Toscano […].

Florence: Nella Stamperia dello Strecchi e Pagniniu, 1773.

Price: $500.00


About the item

First edition. [ii], 136 pp. 8vo. Tuscan Beef. Bound in quarter contemporay calf and marbled boards. Some lose to spine label, remnant of small label to bottom of spine, boards rubbed at tips, binding cracked after title page, else a a fine, clean copy. Huzard Catalogue 2768; Bibliografia storico-ragionata della Toscana, p. 35; Il nobile contado: guida bibliografica alla conoscenza della provincia di Firenze, p. 140. OCLC locates 1 copy (Universitaet Goettingen) and we located one other copy at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.

Item #245603

A rare work on the breeding of Tuscan cattle, containing two prize essays from the Acadmia dei Georgofili in Florence. Tuscany is of course renowned for its chianina breed of cattle.