DALLA BELLA, João António Memoria sobre a cultura das oliveiras em Portugal. Coimbra Real Off. Typ. da Universidade 1786
Small 4to. XIX, 190 pp. Recent half calf. Very slight worming in upper margin of pp. 41-58 & lower margins of pp. 131-152, preliminary & end pp. slightly damp-stained.
First edition. Dalla Bella describes methods for improving the cultivation of olive trees and production of olive oil in Portugal. He recommends picking the olives by hand, rather than shaking the tree, as the olives are thus of better quality, and gives a diagram of a ladder for this purpose. He had been invited by Pombal from Italy to teach at the University of Coimbra following the latter's reforms of the institution. Innocêncio III, 288. Simon, Bibl. Gastronomica, 430.
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