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Printed Adam Islip, London: ., 1634 Two Volumes. 614 + (42); 632 + (86) pp. Large printer's device on the title pages. First title page age stained and chipped at fore edge and detached. Large 4to sewn in sixes. 330 x 220 mm. Disbound. Pliny the Elder was born 23 CE, at Novum Comum, Transpadane Gaul [now in Italy]. He died August 24, 79, Stabiae, near Mount Vesuvius. He was a great Roman savant and famed author of this celebrated Natural History, an encyclopaedic work that was an authority on scientific matters up to the Middle Ages even though it is today known to be of uneven accuracy. The translator - Philemon Holland (1552-1637) was an English schoolmaster, physician and translator. He is best known for the first English translations of several works by Livy, Pliny the Elder, and Plutarch, and also for translating William Camden's Britannia. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W150. No Binding. Good.

London: Adam Islip, 1634. Hardcover Quarto. Hardcover. Fair. 2 volumes rebound, half leather, decorated papered boards, five raised bands to spine, gilt lettering on black label, two new blank end papers front and rear, 614 + 42, 632 +86 pp (2 vol.), owner's bookplate to front paste down of both volumes with signature of owner, Jesus College, Oxford, 1947, title page and preface missing in volume one , first pages of both volumes with tears on corners, edges trimmed in both volumes, paper slip with contemprary description laid in volume 1,light damp stains to edges and corners Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

London: Adam Islip, 1601. First Edition in English, second issue. Folio, 11.75 x 8 inches (298 x 203 mm), 2 VOLUMES bound into one. Pp. (58), 614, (42); (12), 632, (84, 2). Title pages with woodcut devices present in both parts (lacking blanks [pi]1 and Ppp8), woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, copious indexes of both volumes, final errata sheet. Full later calf, rebacked, extra­ gilt spine with 5 raised bands, some rust spots, marginal tears and paper flaws, eight leaves with expertly repaired corners, with resulting small loss of text; occasional marginalia; paper supple and evenly toned; binding somewhat scuffed but firm and square. Armorial bookplate of James Backnell Praed pasted inside front cover. [Carter 5; Pforzheimer 496; ESTC 006187259]. A handsome and rare copy of the first full English translation of Pliny's Naturalis Historia, by Philemon Holland, the greatest translator of the Elizabethan age. «The 'Natural History' of Pliny the Elder is more than a natural history: it is an… Read More

London: Impensis G. Bishop, 1601. FIRST EDITION, second issue with cancel title page. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary English calfskin, ruled in blind, rebacked and recornered in morocco. An excellent, crisp, bright copy with very minor faults: repaired clean tear with no loss, leaf P4. A few signatures with very light marginal dampstains. Occasional rust spots, marginal tears, or marginal natural paper flaws, no loss whatsoever. Title pages to both volumes. The first with an elaborate architectural border with Solomonic columns. The second with a large woodcut device. An impressive book. "The 'Natural History' of Pliny the Elder is more than a natural history: it is an encyclopaedia of all the knowledge of the ancient world... It comprises 37 books with mathematics and physics, geography and astronomy, medicine and zoology, anthropology and physiology, philosophy and history, agriculture and mineralogy, the arts and letters... The 'Historia' soon became a standard book of reference;… Read More