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Le tredici giornate della vera agricoltura & de piaceri della villa
Agostino Gallo (Italian, 1499 – 1570)
Italian
1566
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with 18 woodcuts
Dimensions
Overall: 22.5 × 15 × 3.5 cm (8 7/8 × 5 7/8 × 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Rumiko and Laurent Adamowicz
Accession Number2023.1236
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Description(Venice: Nicolo Bevilacqua, 1566); *8, **6, A-B4, C-Z8, Aa8, Bb4; full contemporary blind-stamped German tanned calfskin, rebacked (front board nearly detached).
ProvenanceSeptember 27, 1997, International Auction of Antique Woodworking and Allied Trades Tools, David Stanley Auctions, Osgathorpe, England, lot 1132 to Laurent and Rumiko Adamowicz, Cambridge, MA; April 20, 2018, sale (consigned by Laurent and Rumiko Adamowicz), Skinner, Marlborough (auction 3093M), lot 190 unsold; 2023, gift of Laurent and Rumiko Adamowicz to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 2023)