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PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius (23-79 A.D.) Historia naturalis, in Italian. Translated from Latin by Cristoforo Landino (1424-1492). Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis, 12 September 1489.
Super-chancery 2° (302 x 212mm). Collation: a12 b-q8 r-s6 A-N8 O-P6 (a1 blank, a2r translator's dedication to Ferdinand of Naples, a5r tabula, a12v register, b1r text, P6r colophon; P6v blank). 259 (of 260, without a1 blank) leaves. 60 lines and headline, double column. Type: 2:80R. 2- to 8-line initial spaces with guide-letters. (A few wormholes in first and final leaves slightly affecting text, occasional light staining and spotting.) 17th-century Italian flexible paste-boards with vellum spine overlay (manuscript scribbles, a little scuffed). Provenance: 17th-century inscriptions (deleted) -- Abbot Lodovico Baratti (monogram on fly-leaf; 18th-century engraved armorial bookplate below colophon; possibly the chronicler of Forli, 1698-1763).
Third edition of Landino's Italian translation of one of the most consulted classical scientific texts in the Italian Renaissance. HCR 13107; BMC V, 431 (IB. 23218); Klebs 787.3; IGI 7895; Goff P-803.
Super-chancery 2° (302 x 212mm). Collation: a
Third edition of Landino's Italian translation of one of the most consulted classical scientific texts in the Italian Renaissance. HCR 13107; BMC V, 431 (IB. 23218); Klebs 787.3; IGI 7895; Goff P-803.
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