PLINIO, Caio Secondo. C. Plinii Secundi historiae mundi Libri XXXVII. Basileae, B. Cortesii, 1549 In folio, 370x250 mm; full vellum binding, manuscript title on spine. Green edges. Printer's mark on titlepage and in the end of volume. Printer's name deduced by printer's mark. Nice initial letters. Some elegant marginalia inside the volume. Very nice copy with wide margins.
Precious edition of this famous work by the Roman writer and naturalist. Natural History includes thirty-six books dealing with mathematics and physics, geography and astronomy, medicine and zoology, anthropology and the nature of physiology, philosophy and history, agriculture and mineralogy, of arts and letters. The work was dedicated to Tito and it is Pliny's only work that has come to us. The work also deals with the fire of Vesuvius. Furchheim p. 237
PLINIO, Caio Secondo. C. Plinii Secundi historiae mundi Libri XXXVII. Basileae, B. Cortesii, 1549 In folio, 370x250 mm; full vellum binding, manuscript title on spine. Green edges. Printer's mark on titlepage and in the end of volume. Printer's name deduced by printer's mark. Nice initial letters. Some elegant marginalia inside the volume. Very nice copy with wide margins.
Precious edition of this famous work by the Roman writer and naturalist. Natural History includes thirty-six books dealing with mathematics and physics, geography and astronomy, medicine and zoology, anthropology and the nature of physiology, philosophy and history, agriculture and mineralogy, of arts and letters. The work was dedicated to Tito and it is Pliny's only work that has come to us. The work also deals with the fire of Vesuvius. Furchheim p. 237
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