I've heard about and have seen references to Fernando Vallese's book on figs titled, Il fico: Nozioni botaniche - varietà – coltivazione – produzione – disseccamento – commercia - avversità‬    

I would be interested in seeing this book someday and have a few questions:

1)  I might be able to see it via interlibrary loan, but there are not many libraries that have it.  Worldcat just listed one library in the States - the University of Chicago.   Surely others must have it??

2)  It is in Italian.   Does anyone know if it has been translated in to English?

3)  Does anyone know if it has been scanned into an electronic format.   It would be easier to get a translation from the scanned version if it was scanned into an OCR format.

4) I have seen it on occasion as a used book for sale.  I would prefer the OCR format for ease of translation.

I rarely hit deadends on my research, but could use some assistance on this one.

Thanks,
Ingevald

Just bumping this up - hoping for some suggestions.
Thanks,
Ingevald

Surprised to see you looking for assistance on this Ingevald. You're usually the one who's the "search master" aren't you :) ? Must be a tough one to find.

Sorry, I'm of no help. But I wish you the best in your search. 

Sorry here as well. I can't find.

I looked too. Hopefully an Italian speaker can help you.

Thanks for your thoughts.   Over they years I have heard folks mention that they have "read" through the book, having come to some conclusions that it was a very good book.    I guess those folks were fluent enough in Italian and probably had the actual book in their hands.   

Ingevald