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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, printed by Adam Islip, and are to be sold by Iohn Grismond, in Ivy-lane at the signe of the Gun, 1635-1634.. AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION by Philemon Holland, Doctor of physicke, of Pliny's Naturalis historia. 2 volumes bound together in 1 volume, each with its own title page dated 1635 and 1634. Volume 1 a reissue of Islip's 1634 edition (ESTC S103160) with a different setting of the title page, adding Grismond's name in the imprint; the title page to Volume 2 is that of the 1634 edition). FROM THE LIBRARY OF DESMOND MORRIS WELL KNOWN ZOOLOGIST, NATURALIST AND ARTIST, WITH HIS BOOKPLATE ON FIRST PASTEDOWN. Lacking the first and last blanks and publisher's advert leaf To the Reader which included the Errata at rear. Thick 4to bound in sixes, approximately 330 x 220 mm, 13 x 8½ inches, pages: Volume 1: [60], 1-614, [54]; Volume 2: 1-632, [84], decorated initials, bound in full leather, contemporary covers but rebacked at sometime in roan, original gilt lettered title label between raised bands to… Read More

London: Impensis G. B[ishop], 1601. First edition. Two volumes bound as one. Folio in sixes. 32 x 21 cm. C. 19 tree calf, nicely rebacked, edges rubbed. Bookplates of Mildred Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks (withdrawn) and Francis Hubert Barclay (1869-1935) other works from his library are held by Kansas University and the Getty Research Center. Lacking initial and terminal blank leaves as usual. Clean, fresh copy. Pliny's Natural History is the largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day. It compiles information gleaned from other ancient authors. Despite the work's title, its subject area is not limited to what is today understood by natural history; Pliny himself defines his scope as "the natural world, or life". It is encyclopedic in scope, but its structure is not like that of a modern encyclopedia. It is the only work by Pliny to have survived, and the last that he published. He published the first 10 books in AD 77, but had not made a final revision of the remainder at… Read More

(58), 614, (42) pp. (12), 632, (86) pp.Pliny's renowned Natural History in its second publication in English (repeating, with corrections, the 1601 first publication), translated by Philemon Holland, the greatest translator of the Elizabethan age. The "Naturalis Historia" is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman empire to the modern day and purports to cover the entire field of ancient knowledge, based on the best authorities available to the author. Pliny claims to be the only Roman ever to have undertaken such a work. It comprised 37 books in 10 volumes and covered over 20,000 facts on topics including the fields of botany, zoology, astronomy , geology and mineralogy as well as the exploitation of those resources. It remains a standard work for the Roman period and the advances in technology and understanding of natural phenomena at the time. Some technical advances he discusses are the only sources for those inventions, such as hushing in mining technology or the use of… 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