Pliny. Prima [Secunda] Pars Plyniania Indicis editi per Joannem Camertem [aa1: Di Naturalis Historiae libri XXXVII e castigationibus Hermolai Barbari], [final colophon: Venice, per Melchiorem Sessam & Petrum Serenae Socios, 1525], folio, Roman type, titles to each part in red and black with woodcut device of the Sessa cat and historiated border, woodcut illustration to each book, woodcut initials, white on black (part two bound in before part one, final leaves of part two, and title and preliminaries to part one wormed at outer margin, slightly affecting the title border), old vellum. [Adams P1559; Essling 6 (second part only); Sander II, 5674; not in Mortimer]

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Pliny. Prima [Secunda] Pars Plyniania Indicis editi per Joannem Camertem [aa1: Di Naturalis Historiae libri XXXVII e castigationibus Hermolai Barbari], [final colophon: Venice, per Melchiorem Sessam & Petrum Serenae Socios, 1525], folio, Roman type, titles to each part in red and black with woodcut device of the Sessa cat and historiated border, woodcut illustration to each book, woodcut initials, white on black (part two bound in before part one, final leaves of part two, and title and preliminaries to part one wormed at outer margin, slightly affecting the title border), old vellum. [Adams P1559; Essling 6 (second part only); Sander II, 5674; not in Mortimer]

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