Binding.- Cato (Marcus Porcius) Varro, Columella & Palladius. De re rustica, Cologne, Joannes Gymnicus, 1536.

Binding.- Cato (Marcus Porcius) Varro, Columella & Palladius. De re rustica, collation: a-b A-Z Aa-Zz Aaa-Eee8, Fff4 complete with final blank, woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials, slight worming towards end, mostly marginal, slight stain to upper margin throughout, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, central panel lettered "Thesmarus Allebeken Pomerany, Anno Domini 1539" with border of figures, one holding a flower, lower cover with the border repeated round a central panel of floral and other decorative devices, a little rubbed, head and foot of spine chipped, small hole to upper cover, metal clasps (one with leather renewed), housed in modern cloth drop-back box, 8vo (160 x 102mm.), Cologne, Joannes Gymnicus, 1536.

⁂ A handsome contemporary binding on an uncommon edition of this classical work on agriculture.

Provenance: Thesmarus Allebeken Pomerany (binding and name on lower pastedown); Joann. Weisser (name on title); John Cox (name on front free endpaper dated 1661); Robert Barclay of Urie in Scotland (bookplate and name on title)