Ferdinando Galiani Agriculture - Galiani, Ferdinando - Della perfetta conservazione del Grano. Discourse of Bartolomeo Intieri. Naples, Raimondi, 1754. In 4°, with a beautiful copper-engraved vignette on the title page depicting operations pertaining to the theme of the work and 7 copper-engraved and fold-out plates outside the text depicting various equipment for the preservation and processing of grain, including a new type of stove invented by Intieri in 1731 and later copied by Duhamel de Monceau. Typographic mark on title page. Contemporary full vellum binding, gusset, gilt title to spine and small lack. Scattered reddening, woodworm marks in seam margin from page 20 to page 40.

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