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PLINY the elder (c.23-79 A.D.). Historia Naturale. Translated from Latin into Italian, with gloss, by Lodovico Domenichi. Venice: Alessandro Griffio, 1580.
4° (227 x 147mm). 1188pp. Mostly italic type. Printer's device and woodcut historiated initials. (Duplicate innermost sheet of quire x accidentally substituted for the outermost sheet at the time of gathering, some worming and dampstaining.)
BINDING: contemporary vellum over thin pasteboard, fine pen-and-ink drawings by Cesare Vecellio: a wide view of a wooded landscape, with elephants, horses and goats (front cover), a crowded seascape with a whale, fish, reptiles and various birds (back cover), arabesque ornament in the manner of binding tools (spine), edges plain, traces of red fabric ties (small defect to back cover, minor stains.) Provenance: Odorico Pillone (cover drawings); Sir Thomas Brooke (bookplate); Berès 152.
Second edition of this translation. ONE OF THE FINEST EXAMPLES IN THE SMALL GROUP OF DECORATED VELLUM COVERS ON THE QUARTOS IN THE PILLONE LIBRARY, no doubt by Vecellio himself. Lionello Venturi in his preface to the 1957 Berès catalogue singled out these drawings on the Pliny binding as being in the tradition of Titian.
4° (227 x 147mm). 1188pp. Mostly italic type. Printer's device and woodcut historiated initials. (Duplicate innermost sheet of quire x accidentally substituted for the outermost sheet at the time of gathering, some worming and dampstaining.)
BINDING: contemporary vellum over thin pasteboard, fine pen-and-ink drawings by Cesare Vecellio: a wide view of a wooded landscape, with elephants, horses and goats (front cover), a crowded seascape with a whale, fish, reptiles and various birds (back cover), arabesque ornament in the manner of binding tools (spine), edges plain, traces of red fabric ties (small defect to back cover, minor stains.) Provenance: Odorico Pillone (cover drawings); Sir Thomas Brooke (bookplate); Berès 152.
Second edition of this translation. ONE OF THE FINEST EXAMPLES IN THE SMALL GROUP OF DECORATED VELLUM COVERS ON THE QUARTOS IN THE PILLONE LIBRARY, no doubt by Vecellio himself. Lionello Venturi in his preface to the 1957 Berès catalogue singled out these drawings on the Pliny binding as being in the tradition of Titian.