Historia mundi naturalis / C. Plinii Secundi: // hoc est: // amplissimum, // lucidissimum, perspica- // cissimumque, nec non plane // mirandum totius vniuersi, rerumque natura- // lium speculum: ... // [13 lines] // In libros XXXVII distributa, viuisque imaginibus illustrata atque vero proprioqúe naturæ nitori labore impensisqúe Sigismundi Feyerabenij hoc nouo, // ... [1 line] // His breues eruditæque in margine doctissimorum virorum castigationes: Sigismundi Gelenij quoq perspicuæ atq perutiles animaduersiones accesserunt. // Cum Indice rerum & verborum locuplecissimo. // ... [device].
- Pliny, the Elder.
- Date:
- M. D. LXXXII [i. e. 1582]
- Books
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Naturalis historia. Latin. 1582
Publication/Creation
Typis excudebatur Francoforti ad Mœnum, à partu Deipar & virginis : [ex officina M. Lechleri, impensis S. Feyerabendij], M. D. LXXXII [i. e. 1582]
Physical description
17 unnumbered leaves (last blank), 528 pages, 117 pages, 118 unnumbered leaves : title page in red & black, woodcuts, illustrations ; (folio)
Notes
Colophon, Z4 (2d group) recto: Francoforti ad Mœnum ex // officina Martini Lechleri impensis Sigismundi Feyerabendij. // M. D. LXXXII
Signatures: )(³, *⁶, **-***⁴ (***4 blank), A-B⁶, C-Z⁴, a-z⁴, Aa-Zz⁴, Aaa⁴, Bbb⁶ (Bbb6 verso blank), A-Z⁴ (Z4 verso blank). folio
Errors in pagination: 280, 494 wrongly numbered 180, 449
Initials. Tail-pieces
Index has special t.-p.: In C. Plinii // Secundi Natura- // lem historiam // Index copiosissimus; // non contemnenda nunc // denuo accessione locupletatus, // innumerisq́; propemodum in locis, quæ cum authoris sensis non // satis congruebant, non rarò etiam ex diametro pugna- // bant quàm accuratissimè restitutus. // [device] // Francofordiæ, // Excudebat Martinus Lechlerus, impensis Sigismundi Feyerabendij. // M. D. LXXXII
NUC Pre-1956 imprints, NP 0424285; H. M. Adams, Cat. of books printed on the continent of Europe, 150l-1600
Illustrators - Jos. Ammon (page 103 signed) Hans Weiditz (pp69 signed). Some of Weiditz's best work (would have been a perfect illustrator for Grimm's Fables!) Rarely did Weiditz sign a cut. Some of these are better than his Petrarch illus.
Copy 1 Note: Sig. A1 wanting.
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Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/D/5122