PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius (23-79). Historia naturalis . Edited by Philippus Beroaldus (1453-1505). Treviso: Michael Manzolus, [not before 13 Oct.] 1479.
PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius (23-79). Historia naturalis . Edited by Philippus Beroaldus (1453-1505). Treviso: Michael Manzolus, [not before 13 Oct.] 1479. 2° (293 x 203mm). Collation: a14 b8 c–h10 i12 k–p10 q8 r–z10 &10 ?10 R?10 A10 B6 C–D10 E–I8 K10 L8 M4. 360 leaves, the first and last blank, and leaf I2 in duplicate, 50 lines. Type: 83 R. Capital spaces with guide letters. (Two small worm holes in first few leaves, one affecting text, a few margins waterstained, occasionally affecting text, parts of top and bottom margin of first printed leaf excised and repaired.) Eighteenth-century vellum (very lightly soiled). Provenance : old manuscript annotations in margins (some cropped) — THE STANITZ COPY (sold Sotheby’s 24 April 1984, lot 349). Sixth Latin edition, the second edited by Filippo Beroaldo of one of the most consulted classical scientific texts in the Italian Renaissance. First published in Venice in 1469, the work marked the first appearance of any scientific text in print. The fruit of an inexhaustible curiosity, the Historia naturalis is Pliny's only extant work. By his own account, the 37 books contained 20,000 facts compiled from over 100 sources (the index actually lists 34,707 'observations' from 473 different authors). These comprise all forms of natural curiosity. The sections on the history of painting and sculpture provide the earliest known history of art. The many rich illustrations of Roman life even include the first introduction of barbers to Italy, and reveal Pliny to have been a sharp observer of contemporary man as well as an enthusiastic admirer of nature. Bound in at the end of this copy is an abbreviation by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II) of Flavius Blondus' Decades on Roman History (52 leaves). HC 13092*; GW M34310; Klebs 786.6; Osler(IM) 179; Walt p. 324; Pell Ms 9537 (9359); CIBN P-462; Nice 111; Zehnacker 1904; IGI 7883; Voull(B) 3599; Bod-inc P-363; Pr 6472; BMC VI 888; ISTC ip00791000; BSB-Ink P-603; Goff P-791.
PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius (23-79). Historia naturalis . Edited by Philippus Beroaldus (1453-1505). Treviso: Michael Manzolus, [not before 13 Oct.] 1479.
PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius (23-79). Historia naturalis . Edited by Philippus Beroaldus (1453-1505). Treviso: Michael Manzolus, [not before 13 Oct.] 1479. 2° (293 x 203mm). Collation: a14 b8 c–h10 i12 k–p10 q8 r–z10 &10 ?10 R?10 A10 B6 C–D10 E–I8 K10 L8 M4. 360 leaves, the first and last blank, and leaf I2 in duplicate, 50 lines. Type: 83 R. Capital spaces with guide letters. (Two small worm holes in first few leaves, one affecting text, a few margins waterstained, occasionally affecting text, parts of top and bottom margin of first printed leaf excised and repaired.) Eighteenth-century vellum (very lightly soiled). Provenance : old manuscript annotations in margins (some cropped) — THE STANITZ COPY (sold Sotheby’s 24 April 1984, lot 349). Sixth Latin edition, the second edited by Filippo Beroaldo of one of the most consulted classical scientific texts in the Italian Renaissance. First published in Venice in 1469, the work marked the first appearance of any scientific text in print. The fruit of an inexhaustible curiosity, the Historia naturalis is Pliny's only extant work. By his own account, the 37 books contained 20,000 facts compiled from over 100 sources (the index actually lists 34,707 'observations' from 473 different authors). These comprise all forms of natural curiosity. The sections on the history of painting and sculpture provide the earliest known history of art. The many rich illustrations of Roman life even include the first introduction of barbers to Italy, and reveal Pliny to have been a sharp observer of contemporary man as well as an enthusiastic admirer of nature. Bound in at the end of this copy is an abbreviation by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II) of Flavius Blondus' Decades on Roman History (52 leaves). HC 13092*; GW M34310; Klebs 786.6; Osler(IM) 179; Walt p. 324; Pell Ms 9537 (9359); CIBN P-462; Nice 111; Zehnacker 1904; IGI 7883; Voull(B) 3599; Bod-inc P-363; Pr 6472; BMC VI 888; ISTC ip00791000; BSB-Ink P-603; Goff P-791.
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