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BELON, PIERRE. Plurimarum singularium & memorabilium rerum in Graecia, Asia, Aegypto, Iudaea, Arabia...observationes [bound with:] BELON. De neglecta Stirpium Cultura, both Antwerp: C. Plantin 1589. 8vo, 170 x 115 mm., contemporary calf, worn, margins of first several leaves frayed, light stains to last few leaves of second work. First editions of Belon's two works as edited by Charles L'Ecluse. Woodcuts after Pieter van den Borcht. The first work constituting an account of singular plants encountered in Belon's extensive travels -- [SANSOVINO, FRANCESCO]. Della agricoltura di M. Giovanni Tatti Lucchese. Libri Cinque. Venice: Francesco Sansovino 1560 [colophon:1561]. 4to, 200 x 147 mm., contemporary limp vellum, minor stain to fore-margin of about 30 leaves . FIRST EDITION. Large woodcut device on title and last page, numerous woodcuts of plants and insects. Hunt 87 (title dated 1561); NLM/Durling 4057 -- ESTIENNE, CHARLES. Agricoltura nuova. Venice: Presso Aldo, 1591. 8vo, 211 x 150 mm., quarter vellum and paper boards, edges speckled blue, slight worming to lower margins of some leaves. Second edition in Italian, translated by Hercole Cato. Woodcut Aldine device on titlepage. Renouard/Estienne, p.246 -- DODOENS, REMBERT. Trium priorum [-posteriorum]...de stirpium historia. Antwerp: Loe, [1552]-1554. Woodcut device at end of first part and on title of part 2, numerous full-page woodcuts, some partially colored by a contemporary hand. 2 volumes in 1, 8vo, 157 x 105 mm., nineteenth-century half calf, worn, first part lacking title (with woodcut portrait on verso), small repair to margin of last leaf, marginalia in an early hand . FIRST EDITION. Adams D-723. Together 4 volumes. (4)