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Gaio Plinio Secondo (Plinio il vecchio), Ermolao Barbaro 1454-1493, Joannes Camers 1447-1546

NATURALIS HISTORIÆ LIBRI XXXVII E CASTIGATIONIBUS HERMOLAI BARBARI

Melchiorre Sessa il vecchio & Pietro Ravani, 1525

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Year of publication
1525
Place of printing
[Venezia : Melchiorre Sessa il vecchio & Pietro Ravani] (Impressum Venetiis : summa diligentia per Melchiorem Sessam, & Petrum Serenae, socios, 1525 die XXIIII Martii). Al colophon degli Indici di Camers (Excussum Venetiis : per Melchiorem Sessam, & Petrum Serenae socios, 1525 die XXIIII Aprilis)
Author
Gaio Plinio Secondo (Plinio il vecchio), Ermolao Barbaro 1454-1493, Joannes Camers 1447-1546
Pages
610
Publishers
Melchiorre Sessa il vecchio & Pietro Ravani
Size
Folio (31x22cm.)
State of preservation
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Condition
Used

Description

Splendid illustrated and genuine Sessa edition of « the most popular natural history ever written" by Pliny The Elder, here with the commentary of the humanist Barbaro. Two complete parts, collected in a single folio volume, with two elaborate woodcut title pages printed in red and black. Contains charming 32 beautiful woodcut illustrations in the text, as well as 3 small maps and numerous large elegant initials, which made this edition published and printed by the Sessa family one of the most successful of the 16th century.

Description:
Folio (310x220 mm.), 14, 219 (Historia), 72 cc. (Index by humanist Johannes Camers, 1447-1546); browned, few occasional grubby marks, a couple of corners with marginal loss, stained in places, mainly to index; page edges somehow thumbed, block edge worn.
Coeval vellum binding with attractive manuscript fragments to covers.

Bibliografia: Edit16 30074; Sander 5764.
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