International standard book number
Title-page printed in red and black; text with printed marginalia.
Shelfmark
Fe.4.04
Author
Uniform title
[Naturalis historia. 1582]
Title
C. Plinij Secundi Historiae mundi libri XXXVII, a Sigismundo Gelenio, diligenter castigati, maioréque studio & fide, quàm hactenus vnquam à vitiis quibus muliplici olim impressione contaminati fuerant, vindicati. Accesserunt ad marginem variae lectiones ac notæ ex Fer. Pintiani, Adr. Turnebi, Ios. Scaligeri, Iusti LipsI, & aliorum doctissimorum virorum scriptis diligenter excerptæ, quorum nomina sequenti pagina indicantur. Vnà cum duplici indice totius operis copiosissimo, non poenitenda rursus accessione locupletato, locisque propemodum innumeris, quæ cum autoris sensu non satis congruebant, quàm accuratissime restituto.
Varying form of title
Historiae mundi libri XXXVII
Varying form of title
C. Plinii Secundi Historiae mundi libri XXXVII
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lugduni, : Apud Petrum Sandandreanum., M. D. LXXXII. [1582]
Physical description
2 pts. in 1 v. ([36], 679, [49]; [232] p. ; 37 cm. (fol.)
Note
Edited and with notes by Sigmund Gelen. The prefatory address to the reader is signed: Iannes Nicolaus Victorius.
Note
Woodcut printer's device as t.p. vignette; historiated initials.
Note
Part 2, containing the indexes, has special title-page reading: "In C. Plinij Secundi Naturalem historiam index copiosissimus. ..." with imprint as above.
Citation/references note
Adams, P1580
Provenance
Engraved bookplate of Eton College on t.p. verso.
Binding
17th century dark brown sprinkled calf; blind tooled double fillet borders; blind tooled double fillet on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled letters and frame; six raised bands; chain mark and holes.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmarks: Ef.2.11, ?Eg.3.01, Fe.4.04.
Subject
Subject
Natural history Pre-Linnean works.
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Gelen, Sigmund, 1497 - 1554 editor.
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Saint-André, Pierre de, 1555 - 1624 printer.
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France Lyon
Identifier
B32161