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Miscellanea agraria - Vettori, Piero

Treatise ... of praises and the cultivation of olive trees, 1762

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Florence, Giovanni Battista Stecchi, 1762. Medallion with portrait of the author on the frontispiece, initials and friezes engraved in wood. Linked with: Claudio Todeschi . Essays on agriculture, manufacturing, and commerce, with their application to the advantage of the papal dominion. Rome, Arcangelo Casaletti, 1770. In 4 °. Intaglio vignette on the title page, copper-engraved letterheads, headbands and ends, with the final white paper (in some cases replaced by errata), some slight flourishes, 19th century binding in half parchment with corners, smooth back embossed in gold with insert.

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First work: The first edition is from 1569. The & nbsp; treatise & nbsp; was a great success and in 1870 they had come out already 12 editions. In this reprint, Manni adds his dedication to the Marquis Francesco Gio. Sampieri of Bologna, as well as new annotations which he distinguished with the letter M .. Gamba 1026.
Second work: First edition of & nbsp; this economics text. "Mons. Claudio Todeschi published in 1770 a learned and extensive memoir, in which, having examined the deplorable conditions of the Roman Campagna, he made an extensive review of suitable means to stimulate the productive economy of that region, among which the greatest possible sale of foodstuffs is first; about which he declares false the idea that the freedom ... of trade causes prices to rise, while on the contrary the lower the more the contracts multiply. duty on internal circulation As for the external one, it requires high duties on the import of foreign goods and on imports of raw materials; low on the export of national products "(Marconcini, The main lines of the land and demographic policy of Rome, p. 147) & nbsp; Kress italian, 394. Cossa, p.259.
In the same volume 4 further works are linked as per the handwritten index on the backing paper, now barely legible. " cattle feeding "by Pio Bofondi", undated; "Treatise of grafts" by Antonio Piccioli, Florence, 1835, with 2 chalcographic plates; "Of the epizootic bovine aphtas introduced in the Roman countryside in 1834 memory" by Luigi Mataxà, Rome, 18398; "On the municipal pastures memory" by Casimiro Falzacappa, article extracted from the scientific-literary journal of Perugia of 1842.