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Subtitle: Geoponicorum siue de re rustica libri XX
By: Cassiano Basso, scholastico, collectore ; antea Constantino Porphyrogenneto a quibusdam adscripti ; Graece et Latine post Petri Needhami curas ad mss. fidem denuo recensi [sic] et illustrati ab Io. Nicolao Niclas.
Contributors: Cassianus Bassus, Scholasticus.; Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Emperor of the East, 905-959.; Needham, Peter, 1680-1731.; Niclas, Johann Nicolaus, 1733-1808.
Publisher: Sumtu Caspari Fritsch
Published: 1781
Place of publication: Lipsiae
Language: lat; grc
Number of pages: 1274
Subjects: Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Geoponicorum sive de re rustica libri XX.
Notes: The 1st title appears on the t.p. in Greek characters.
A compendium by an unknown writer made at the request of the Emperor Constantinus VII Porphyrogenitus; Cassianus Bassus is neither its author nor compiler, though it is largely based on his writings.
Vols. 2-4 have only half titles.
Vol. 4 has colophon: Lipsiae : Ex officina Breitkopfia, 1781.
Vol. 1: [12], CVIII, 262, [2] p. (the last leaf blank); v. 2: [263]-562, [4] p. (the last 2 leaves blank); v. 3: [563]-928, [2] p. (the last leaf blank); v. 4: [929]-1274, [142] p.
Addenda and corrigenda on last 8 leaves of v. 4.
Includes indexes.
Library of Congress set bound in 2 v.
Source: Gift of Louise McDonell Browne, Apr. 23, 1948.