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PLINIUS Secundus, Gaius (23-79). Historia naturalis. Edited by Hermolaus Barbarus, revised by J.B. Palmarius. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, [not before 13 February] 1497-98.
Royal 2 (405 x 270mm). Collation as in BMC. 268 leaves. Types 6,11: 110R (108), 105 Greek. 55 lines, shoulder notes. (Occasional small wormholes, mostly marginal.) 19th-century red morocco by S. Ridge, with his ticket on front endpaper, broad gilt dentelle borders, spine elaborately gilt, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (slightly rubbed). Provenance: Syston Park (armorial bookplate); William Henry Smith (armorial bookplate).
"This appears to be the first edition of Barbarus' recension, the note of a 1496 edition by the same printer being probably due to a confusion (Hain 13099)" (BMC). Very large copy with broad margins. HC * 13101; BMC V, 377 (IC. 22396); Klebs 786.14; Goff P. 799.
Royal 2 (405 x 270mm). Collation as in BMC. 268 leaves. Types 6,11: 110R (108), 105 Greek. 55 lines, shoulder notes. (Occasional small wormholes, mostly marginal.) 19th-century red morocco by S. Ridge, with his ticket on front endpaper, broad gilt dentelle borders, spine elaborately gilt, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (slightly rubbed). Provenance: Syston Park (armorial bookplate); William Henry Smith (armorial bookplate).
"This appears to be the first edition of Barbarus' recension, the note of a 1496 edition by the same printer being probably due to a confusion (Hain 13099)" (BMC). Very large copy with broad margins. HC * 13101; BMC V, 377 (IC. 22396); Klebs 786.14; Goff P. 799.