Cato De Re Rustica Lyons 1541

Cato De Re Rustica Lyons 1541
Cato, Marcus Porcius & Varro, Marcus T., De Re Rustica, Gryphium, Lugduni (Lyons), 1541; Palladius, Antilius, De Re Rustica, Gryphium, 1541; Colmella, Lucius, De Re Rustica, Gryphium, 1541; Beroaldus, Philippi, Enarrationes Vocum Priscarum in Libris De Re Rustica, Gryphium, 1541; Victorius, Petrus, Explicationes sarum in Catonem, Varronem, Gryphium, 1542 (first printing). Five books, all printed by the Lyonaisse shop of Sebastian Gryphium. In an elaborate tooled leather binding the previous owner has noted as "probaby Einsiedeln Monestery Binding", with remains of brass clasps. Contemporary underlining and notes in margins. Condition; leather soiled, cracked along spine edge of front board, lacking 0.25" piece at head of spine; triangular piece cut from title page.