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HERBALS]. PLINIUS SECUNDUS, CAIUS. Historiae naturalis Libri. XXXVII... [Venice: Joannem Rubeum & Bernardinum Fratresque Vercellenses, 1507]. Folio, 315 x 207 mm., contemporary south German Monastic (Minorite) blindstamped calf, remnants of clasps, rebacked; marginal staining on title and first few leaves. First edition of Alessandro Benedetti's critical text. NLM/Durling 3686; Graesse V, p. 338. Early inscriptions on title and colophon; KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- DIOSCORIDES, PEDACIUS. De Medica materia: Libri sex... Florence: Junta, 1523. Folio, 319 x 194 mm., seventeenth century vellum. Second edition of the Marcello Vergilio translation and commentaries. Title printed in red and black, printer's device on last leaf. NLM/Durling 1142. Bibliothecae S. Petrii ad Vincula, stamp on title; KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- YAHYA IBN MASAWAIH. Opera... Venice: Giunta, 1623. 2 vols., folio, 342 x 221 mm., contemporary vellum. Third illustrated edition, title printed in red and black. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- CRESCENTIUS, PETRUS. Tradotto nuovamente per Francesco Sansovino. Nel quale si trattano gli ordini di tutte le cose che si appartengono a commodi & a gli utili della villa... Venice: Sansovino, 1561. 4to, 203 x 146 mm., contemporary vellum. Second Italian translation, the first edition of Sansovino's text and the first utilizing this suite of woodcuts. Woodcut printer's device on title, numerous historiated initials, and over 200 woodcuts in text. Edward Sandford Burgess, bookplate -- SANSOVINO, FRANCESCO. Della Agricoltura de M. Giovanni Tatti Lucchese libri cinque. Venice: F. Sansovino, 1560. 4to, 203 x 141 mm., contemporary vellum; margins on title and first few leaves browned and stained, lacks Aaa with printer's device on verso. FIRST EDITION. See Hunt 87 (1561 edition); see NLM/Durling 4057 (1561). KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- ORTA, GARCIA DA and NICOLAS MONARDES. Due libri dell'historia de I Semplici, aromati, et altre cose, che vengono partate dall'Indie Orientali pertinenti all'uso della Medicina. Venice: Ziletti, 1582. 2 vols. in 8vo, 182 x 111 mm., later calf. Briganti's Italian translation of Orta and Monardes. Numerous woodcuts in text. NLM/Durling 3419; Hunt 142. KKM/HSNY, bookplate. (6)