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GAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS (23-79)
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GAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS (23-79)
Prima [Secunda] Pars Plyniania Indicis editi per Joannem Camertem... Di Naturalis Historiae libri XXXVII e castigationibus Hermolai Barbari. Venice: Melchior Sessa & Pietro Serena, 1525. 2 parts in one volume 2° (306 x 210mm). Titles in red and black within woodcut historiated boarders with printer's device, numerous woodcut illustrations and initials. (Without final blank as often, title of Camer's index mounted and repaired with loss, first few leaves with some browning and soiling, light staining, small marginal wormholes.) 18th-century vellum-backed boards, title and shelf mark label on spine, rear joint splitting at tail). Provenance: Bibioteca Prov. Ven. Med. S.L. Letteraria (stamps on title) -- Compagnia del Gesú, Rome (book label).
A later edition WITH FINE WOODCUTS of Plini's Naturalis Historiae. The index by Camers with a separate title is usually bound at end. Adams P1559; Choulant p.191; Essling 6 (second part only); Sander II, 5674; Wellcome I, 5117; not in Mortimer.
Prima [Secunda] Pars Plyniania Indicis editi per Joannem Camertem... Di Naturalis Historiae libri XXXVII e castigationibus Hermolai Barbari. Venice: Melchior Sessa & Pietro Serena, 1525. 2 parts in one volume 2° (306 x 210mm). Titles in red and black within woodcut historiated boarders with printer's device, numerous woodcut illustrations and initials. (Without final blank as often, title of Camer's index mounted and repaired with loss, first few leaves with some browning and soiling, light staining, small marginal wormholes.) 18th-century vellum-backed boards, title and shelf mark label on spine, rear joint splitting at tail). Provenance: Bibioteca Prov. Ven. Med. S.L. Letteraria (stamps on title) -- Compagnia del Gesú, Rome (book label).
A later edition WITH FINE WOODCUTS of Plini's Naturalis Historiae. The index by Camers with a separate title is usually bound at end. Adams P1559; Choulant p.191; Essling 6 (second part only); Sander II, 5674; Wellcome I, 5117; not in Mortimer.