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Corso di Agricultura dal Proposito lastri.
5. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 31. no. 6, as above.
LASTRI,
Marco Antonio.
Corso di Agricoltura di un Accademico Georgofilo Autore della Biblioteca Georgica. Edizione
Terza accresciuta e corretta. Tomo I [-V].
Firenze: nella Stamperia del
Giglio,
1801-3.
S515 .L3
5 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 144 leaves; A-S
8, 1 engraved plate; vol. II, 142 leaves: A-R
8, S
6, 1 folded engraved plate; vol. III, 142 leaves: A-R
8, S
6, vol. IV, 120 leaves: A-P
8, the last a blank; vol. V, 130 leaves: A-P
8, Q
10.
This edition not in Gamba da Bassano.
This edition is not in Bradley.
Jefferson’s copy was sent to him from Leghorn by the United States Consul, Thomas Appleton, to whom it had been given by Lastri.
On March 15, 1804, Appleton wrote to Jefferson: “. . . I have taken the liberty to forward you by the same vessel a barrel containing 225. Vine-Cuttings of 9 different qualities,
taken from the botanical garden of florence. they were chosen and presented to me by my particular friend the Proposto Lastri,
Director of the same, and likewise President of the Society of Agriculture--all these plants produce dry wine . . . my friend
has presented me with his treatise on Agriculture, likewise with that of Trinci, both of which I have ventured to inclose
for you . . . in return for these his polite attentions I have sent him your
Notes on Virginia
, as he reads perfectly well our language.--M
r. Lastri who possesses an uncommonly cultivated understanding, has expressed to me a desire of opening a correspondence with
any society of agriculture that may be established in the United States, or to exchange any of the great variety of productions
of his botanical garden (a Catalogue of which I now enclose you) against the native plants of America . . .”
Jefferson replied on July 19: “
Your favors of Jan. 20. and Mar. 15. have been duly recieved, as also the books, vines, and wines announced in them, for which
I pray you to accept my thanks, and to communicate the same to M. Lastri for his book and the vines. these last came in fine
order and are now growing here . . .
”
Marco Antonio Lastri, 1731-1811, a native of Florence. The first edition of this work appeared in 1788.
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Dizionario d’Agricoltura dal Ronconi.
4
to.
[
i.e. “
4 to.”
as per Great Catalog--
Ed.] in
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 31. no. 4, Dizzionario d’Agricoltura dal Ronconi, 2 v 8vo p.
RONCONI,
Ignazio.
Dizionario d’agricoltura o sia la coltivazione italiana, in cui si contiene la coltura, e conservazione de’ diversi prodotti
riguardanti le terre seminative, i prati, i boschi, le vigne, ed i giardini . . . Raccolto dalle piu’ sicure e recenti osservazioni
da Ignazio Ronconi Fiorentino . . . Nuova edizione corretta e notabilmente accresiuta dall’autore di molti utilissimi articoli a maggior comodo
degli amatori dell’ agricoltura e divisa in quattro tomi . . .
In
Venezia: per
Francesco Sansoni,
1783.
4 vol. in 2. 8vo. No copy was seen for collation.
Lastri, page 110.
This edition not in Loudon.
This work is on the list of agricultural books recommended by Jefferson to W. C. Nicholas on December 16, 1809, for purchase for the Library of Congress.
Ignazio Ronconi, Italian agriculturalist. The first edition of this book was published in Venice in 1771.
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