30 - HERESBACH (Conrad). Rei rusticae libri quatuor universam agriculturae disciplinam continentes. Speyer, Typis Smesmannianis, 1595. In-8, cold-stamped sowhide, with a border of fillets and a roulette pattern, different plates on the covers, traces of ties, ribbed spine, title in ink, red edges (contemporary binding).

HERESBACH (Conrad). Rei rusticae libri quatuor universam agriculturae disciplinam continentes. Speyer, Typis Smesmannianis, 1595. In-8, cold-stamped sowhide, with a border of fillets and a roulette pattern, different plates on the covers, traces of ties, ribbed spine, title in ink, red edges (contemporary binding). A very rare treatise on agriculture by Conrad Heresbach (1496–1576), a humanist and diplomat nicknamed the “German Columella.” The volume contains the four books of the *Rei rusticae*, followed by a section on hunting, falconry, and fishing: *De venatione, aucupio, atque piscatione* (pp. 729–831). The first edition was published in Cologne in 1570. (Missing from Souhart; Kreysig, p. 4; Westwood & Satchell, p. 116.) A copy in a cold-stamped binding of the period, likely from a Germanic workshop. The plate on the front cover bears the initials A, P, and C, and the date 1607: it depicts the sacrifice of Abraham; the plate on the back cover features a coat of arms. Handwritten inscriptions and bookplates on the title page. Paper restoration at the bottom of the title page, at the corner of three leaves, and on leaves **6 and C8, with missing words on the latter two. Loose pages within the volume; binding slightly stained and rubbed. Tears in the paper on the upper back cover.