Plinius Secundus, Gaius HISTORIA NATURALE. (VENICE: MELCHIORRE SESSA AND PIETRO RAVANI, 1516) folio (310 x 203mm.), title-page in red and black, printer's device on title with small device (the orb and cross) at the end of the "Repertorio" (bb7v), woodcut inscription from the tomb of Pliny's parents on bb8r, thirty-seven woodcuts in text, woodcut initials, sixteenth-century Italian calf over wooden boards, tooled in blind to a panel design with outer and inner borders blind-stamped with an ornamental design and a centre panel with knotwork tools and rosettes, metal clasps, with early shelfmarks on front flyleaf and pastedown and inventory number at foot of spine, lacking final blank leaf, small tear to leaf M2, title and other leaves with wormholes, first two gatherings slightly dampstained, some slight soiling, binding worn
Plinius Secundus, Gaius HISTORIA NATURALE. (VENICE: MELCHIORRE SESSA AND PIETRO RAVANI, 1516) folio (310 x 203mm.), title-page in red and black, printer's device on title with small device (the orb and cross) at the end of the "Repertorio" (bb7v), woodcut inscription from the tomb of Pliny's parents on bb8r, thirty-seven woodcuts in text, woodcut initials, sixteenth-century Italian calf over wooden boards, tooled in blind to a panel design with outer and inner borders blind-stamped with an ornamental design and a centre panel with knotwork tools and rosettes, metal clasps, with early shelfmarks on front flyleaf and pastedown and inventory number at foot of spine, lacking final blank leaf, small tear to leaf M2, title and other leaves with wormholes, first two gatherings slightly dampstained, some slight soiling, binding worn
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