Estienne,C. U. J.Liebault.

XV. books Of the field building vnd right volkommener Wolbestellung of a salubrious country seat, vnnd skillfully arranged Meyerhof or estate. Strasbourg, Jobin 1598. fol. With broad title border a. 56 wood engravings in text after Tobias Stimmer a.o. 8 fol., 763 p., 19 fol. (without d. le. w.). Full d. (missing ribbons, somewhat worn and rubbed, partly somewhat fl.). VD16 E 4004. Muller 603, 23 (Ritter 1358). Lindner 11.563.05. Schoene 3688. - Sixth and last German edition of this standard work of the whole agriculture with chapters on cattle breeding, spice-, herb-, and fruit garden, hunting, and forestry. About dairy, horse breeding, beekeeping, home medicine, fishing, poultry, pigeon house, falconry, field fairs, wine, tobacco. Remarkable the fine wood engravings after Tobias Stimmer, J. Amman and others, probably mostly cut by the printer Bernh. Jobin himself, among them the 14 wood engravings on wolf hunting, a bloodletting horse, scenes from country life etc.. - Title barely trimmed, browned (partly stronger), partly somewhat fl. and water-margined, few sheets with backed marginal tears. Tit. with written entry (partly erased). Bookplate on verso of title. - With title border and 56 woodcuts in the text. Contemporary vellum (ties missing, somewhat rubbed and bumped, partly somewhat stained). Browned (partly more severely) partly somewhat stained and waterstained, few sheets with repaired chipping.