PLINIUS Secundus, Caius - Historiae naturalis libri xxxvij. aptissimis figuris exculti ab Alexa(n)dro Benedicto (...) emendatiores redditi. Venice, M. Sessa, 20 August 1513, folio, cont. blindst. half leather over wood (rubbed), metal strips on leather cover border, 2 metal clasps and catches, spine on 4 raised bands (head def.), [14]-ccxix (= 219)-[1 bl.] ff. (some minor marg. soiling or spotting, a few single wormholes in 1st and last quires). Excellent copy.
Beautiful early Renaissance ed. of Pliny’s Natural History, illustrated with 37 woodcuts (incl. 3 maps) and numerous sm. decorative initials. Sessa’s woodcut "cat and mouse" device on title; another sm. mark at the end. Title in red & black. Some old rubrication and marg. reader’s notes. Ref. Edit16 29933. Durling 3687. Wellcome I:5114. Cp. Mortimer (Harvard Italian) 388 (Italian trsl. of 1516). Not in Adams. Joined : Arias Montano, Benito - Antiquitatum Iudaicarum libri IX. in queis, praeter Iudaicarum, Hierosolymorum, & Templi Salomonis accuratam delineationem, praecipui sacri ac profani gentis ritus describuntur (...). Leiden, Plantin Press (Fr. Raphelengius), 1593, 4to, cont. limp vellum, flat spine, [4]-200 pp. (lacking plates; usual toning and spotting). Good copy. Textually complete copy of this treatise of Jewish antiquities by the Biblical scholar Arias Montano (1527-1598), unfortunately lacking the 15 plates lettered A-P. Ref. Typogr. Bat. 284. Adams M-1630. (2 vol.)
PLINIUS Secundus, Caius - Historiae naturalis libri xxxvij. aptissimis figuris exculti ab Alexa(n)dro Benedicto (...) emendatiores redditi. Venice, M. Sessa, 20 August 1513, folio, cont. blindst. half leather over wood (rubbed), metal strips on leather cover border, 2 metal clasps and catches, spine on 4 raised bands (head def.), [14]-ccxix (= 219)-[1 bl.] ff. (some minor marg. soiling or spotting, a few single wormholes in 1st and last quires). Excellent copy.
Beautiful early Renaissance ed. of Pliny’s Natural History, illustrated with 37 woodcuts (incl. 3 maps) and numerous sm. decorative initials. Sessa’s woodcut "cat and mouse" device on title; another sm. mark at the end. Title in red & black. Some old rubrication and marg. reader’s notes. Ref. Edit16 29933. Durling 3687. Wellcome I:5114. Cp. Mortimer (Harvard Italian) 388 (Italian trsl. of 1516). Not in Adams. Joined : Arias Montano, Benito - Antiquitatum Iudaicarum libri IX. in queis, praeter Iudaicarum, Hierosolymorum, & Templi Salomonis accuratam delineationem, praecipui sacri ac profani gentis ritus describuntur (...). Leiden, Plantin Press (Fr. Raphelengius), 1593, 4to, cont. limp vellum, flat spine, [4]-200 pp. (lacking plates; usual toning and spotting). Good copy. Textually complete copy of this treatise of Jewish antiquities by the Biblical scholar Arias Montano (1527-1598), unfortunately lacking the 15 plates lettered A-P. Ref. Typogr. Bat. 284. Adams M-1630. (2 vol.)
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