Del governo delle pecore spagnuole e italiane e dei vantaggi che ne derivano
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- Milano: Tipografia e Fonderia di Luigi Veladini, 1804
Milano: Tipografia e Fonderia di Luigi Veladini, 1804. 8vo. 210 x 130 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 inches]. Illustrated with 3 folding tables printed one side only, and 4 copper plate engravings. Bound in leather spine and tips, marbled paper boards; spine decorated in gilt, red leather label. Very nice copy with minimal foxing to pastedowns and endpapers.
First edition. Innovative study that helped revitalized the Italian textile trade in fine wools and brought reform to the husbandry of sheep for the food market.
Dandolo (1758-1819), an agriculturalist, politician, and patriot from Lombardy, wrote manuals for the successful cultivation of a variety of crops, including the potato, vines, and tomatoes. In addition to his study of the silk worm for the textile industry in Milan, he studied Merino sheep and brought some stock from Spain and helped to introduce fine wool to the Milanese cloth makers. He studied the best practices for farming, soil conservation and rotations, husbandry and farm management. His influence on the agricultural reform movement in Lombardy can be judged by the number of books published and the many editors from places all over the region that printed and sold his books. His most famous book is the two volume work on viticulture.
OCLC cites 7 copies in American libraries. Preto, P. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol 33, p. 513. Maria Paleari Henssler, Bibliografia Latino-Italiana di Gastronomia, (1998) I, pp. 236.
First edition. Innovative study that helped revitalized the Italian textile trade in fine wools and brought reform to the husbandry of sheep for the food market.
Dandolo (1758-1819), an agriculturalist, politician, and patriot from Lombardy, wrote manuals for the successful cultivation of a variety of crops, including the potato, vines, and tomatoes. In addition to his study of the silk worm for the textile industry in Milan, he studied Merino sheep and brought some stock from Spain and helped to introduce fine wool to the Milanese cloth makers. He studied the best practices for farming, soil conservation and rotations, husbandry and farm management. His influence on the agricultural reform movement in Lombardy can be judged by the number of books published and the many editors from places all over the region that printed and sold his books. His most famous book is the two volume work on viticulture.
OCLC cites 7 copies in American libraries. Preto, P. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol 33, p. 513. Maria Paleari Henssler, Bibliografia Latino-Italiana di Gastronomia, (1998) I, pp. 236.