Published by Penguin Classics, 1991
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Publication Date: 1964
Seller: Antiq. F.-D. Söhn - Medicusbooks.Com, Marburg, Germany
Kölner Med. Beitr., 67. - Hrsg. v. Marielene Putscher. - Köln 1994, 8°, (8), 363, (5) pp., orig. kartonierter Einband. Erstdruck! Mit einem Aufsatz von Vivian Nutton "Wissen, Erfahrung, Magie" und einer Einleitung von P. Schulz und M. Putscher.
Published by B. G. Teubner, 1967
Seller: Ancient World Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light foxing to textblock. Minor bumping to corners. ; Xiv, 496 pp; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; Vol. 3; 496 pages.
Published by B. G. Teubner, 1986
ISBN 10: 3519016516 ISBN 13: 9783519016519
Seller: Ancient World Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing to textblock. ; Xiv, 592 pp; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; Vol. 2; 592 pages.
Published by B. G. Teubner, 1970
Seller: Ancient World Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light foxing to textblock. Includes Vol. VIa. Indices additamenta composuit franciscus semi (1980, 12 pp ISBN: 3519016567) tipped in. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; Vol. 6; 462 pages.
Publication Date: 1483
Seller: Blind-Horse-Books (ABAA-FABA-IOBA), DeLand, FL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Original Leaf measuring 8.5 by 13 with device from 1483. Text in Latin. From the Biblical library of Stanley S. Slotkin. Mounted heavy paper with facsimile of the title page on the left, 22.5 by 7.5 inches. The leaf is printed on one side and is attached on the upper margin by three staples. Evidently this is how the leaves were fashioned for distribution by Slotkin. Paper has a small upper left corner loss with a pushed upper edge on the left side. Folded vertically in the middle. Matting would easily hide these flaws. Background: Stanley S. Slotkin was a successful Los Angeles businessman who owned the medical and party supply rental company Abbey Rents. He was also an avid collector of antique Bibles and other rare books, amassing hundreds of thousands of books which he also regularly donated to various museums, universities, churches, and libraries across the United States. In the 1960s, Slotkin began to donate individual leaves from books to institutions rather than whole works, as he felt intact books were too often locked away where they could not be seen. He dismembered a number of books, and donated sets of pages to any institution that would agree to display them publicly. He was also heavily interested in archaeology, cosmetic medicine, and recreational diving and contributed philanthropically to numerous causes throughout his life.
Published by B. G. Teubner, 1875
Seller: Ancient World Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Former owner's bookplates to inner covers (William Mode Spackman) with scholar's name written in ink below (W. P. Wallace). Spines are lightly browned. Light rubbing. Minor shelfwear. V4 & 6: front inner hinges starting to crack but holding. ; V. 2: (1875) xxxviii, 424 pp; V. 3: (1892) xiv, 496 pp; V. 4: (1897) X, 500 pp; V. 5: (1897) X, 512 pp & V. 6: (1898) iv, 462 pp. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; Vol. 2/6/2024.
First printing thus. Translated by H. Rackham. Introduction by Anthony T. Grafton. All volumes fine in fine publisher's slipcase. Blue cloth-backed illustrated covers, titled in silver, housed in matching publishers slipcase.
Publication Date: 1635
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Leiden: Elzerviriana, 1635. 12mo. Orig. full vellum with faded black ink lettered to spine. Yapp edges. With engrv. illust. title-page to Vol. I, dec. initials, and title-vign. to Vol. II. Armorial bookplate of the Earl of Roden inside front cover.
Published by Parisiis, Typis Antonii-Urbani Coustelier,, 1723
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Association Member: ILAB
hard cover. Condition: Fair. no jacket. 3 vols. Tomus primus; (32pp.), 1 folded map., 790pp., 8 plates. / Tomus Secundus; 796pp., 3 plates., 797-835pp., (addenda; 2pp.) / Tomi II. pars altera ; 836-1289pp., (1pp.). Full calf. Raised bands with title label, gilt title and motif to spine. Red colored edges. Boards and spine somewhat rubbed, light stained and chipped. Joint of spine and boards started and partly torn. Top edge darkened. Tomus Primus; Boards damaged and the surface peeled. Joint of spine and boards almost detached. Lower part of title page torn. / Tomus Secundus; Joint of spine and front board almost detached, and joint of rear board partly torn. Bottom edge of spine damaged. From title page to p.280 small wormed. Ink notation to margin of p.1. / Tomi II. pars altera; Joint of spine and front board started and partly torn. Ink notation to margin of title page. pp.873-4 page number misprinted. 40x25.5cm. [aj1114-102398].
Published by Londini: Curante et imprimente A.J.Valpy, A.M.,, 1826
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Association Member: ILAB
hard cover. Condition: Good. no jacket. 11 vols. v.1. Preface, etc., Naturalis historiae lib.I-III. (viii,652pp.). v.2. Lib.III-VI, De situ Paradisi Terrestris Disquisitto. (653-1277pp.+ 1 folding map). v.3. Lib.VII-IX. (1280-1837pp.). v.4. Lib.X-XV.(1840-2494pp.). v.5. Lib.XVI-XIX.(2496-3070pp.). v.6. Lib.XX-XXV.(3072-3676pp.). v.7. Lib.XXVI-XXXII.(3678-4298pp.). v.8. Lib.XXXIII-XXXVII, Index.(4300-4954pp.). v.9. Notae variorum, lib.I-XXVIII.(4958-5654pp.). v.10. Notae variorum, lib.XXIX-XXXVII, Notitia literaria, Recensus editionum, Recensus codicum mss., Index. (5655-5869pp., 18 plates, cccx). v.11. Index. (ccccxi-mxxi). Full calf. Raised bands with title label, gilt title to spine. Gilt motif to front boards. All edges marbled, and marbled e.ps. Boards light stained and spines somewhat darkened. Flyleaves light stained. Hinge of front boards of vols.1, 3, 4 and 9, and of front & rear boards of vol.5 damaged. 22x14.5cm. [aj1168-102439].
Published by Parisiis, Impensis Societatis,, 1741
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Association Member: ILAB
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3 vols. Tomus primus; (28pp.), 1 folded map., 788pp., 11 plates. / Tomus Secundus; 835pp. / Tomi II. pars altera; 836-1279pp., (1pp.). Full calf. Raised bands with title label, gilt title and motif to spine. Red colored edges. New e.ps. Ex-libris.on front e.p. (Fir John E Swinburne Bar, Capheaton). Boards and spine rubbed and chipped. Corners of bords chipped and surface of spine partly peeled. Joint of spine and boards started and partly torn. Edges spotted. Small ink notation to margin of title page. Some pages of each vol.light stained and foxing. Tomus Primus; A label of spine peeled and chipped. Edges spotted. Pencil notations to pp.69-71 and 73. Margin of p.151 torn. / Tomus Secundus; Pages light damp stained. / Tomi II. pars altera; Small part of spine calf missing. Page number of p.891 misprinted as p.198. Lower corner of pp.973 and 1237 folded. 38.8x25.5cm. [aj1113-102397].
Published by Parisiis, Typis Antonii-Urbani Coustelier,, 1723
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Association Member: ILAB
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3 vols. Tomus primus; (32pp.), 1 folded map., 8 plates, 790pp., / Tomus Secundus; (2)pp., 3 plates., 796pp., 797-835pp., (addenda; 2pp.) / Tomi II. pars altera; 836-1289pp., (1pp.). (Title of "Tomi II. pars altera": Historiae Naturalis C. Plinii Secundi indices locupletissimi tres. Primus geographicus provinciarum, civitatum, montium, fluminum, &c. Secundus exhibet nomina propria numinum, virorum ac feminarum, &c. Tertius idemque copiosissimus verborum ac sententiarum est.) Full vellum, brown title labels to spine with gilt titles. Blind motif on front and rear boards of each vol. Ex-libris. (Augustus Arthur Vansittart) on front e.p.of each vol. Each vol.: Boards rubbed and somewhat curved. Edges of spine somewhat rubbed and title labels sl.rubbed and chipped. Edges foxing. Some pages light spotted. Vol.1: Boards stained. Page number "Ppij" misprinted as "Ooij." Pencil notation to p.388. p.725 and pp.730-731 dark brown spotted. Vol.2: Boards somewhat stained. e.ps.sl.foxing. Vol.3: Boards somewhat stained. Title label partly missing. e.ps.sl.foxing. 45x29cm. [aj1425-102538].
Published by Printed Adam Islip, London: ., 1634
No Binding. Condition: Good. 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.
Condition: Fine. Number of books: 10 vols.in 13.
Published by Franckfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt am Main]: Durch Johan Bringers S. Wittib, Sumptibus Rulandiorum 1618, 1618
Heyden's German translation of selections from Pliny's "Natural History"; focused on anthropology and zoology. The book contains many large Renaissance woodcuts by outstanding artists, e.g. Jost Amman (1539-1591) and Virgil Solis (1514-1562); the first series depicts soldiers, artists, physicians, chemists, scientists and musicians, another series depicts various mammals, birds and fish. Fraktur typesetting; pages are decorated with headpieces, tailpieces and initials. An incomplete copy: the pages 221-226, 391-392, 553-627 and the index (10 leaves) are missing. /// Leather binding with blind embossing (fixed with a different backstrip); hardback, [16]+[544] pp., 8° (17 x 23 cm), cover worn, boards deformed, leather has tiny bookworm traces, backstrip discoloured, with chips, tears and bookworm traces, edges yellowed, top edge darkened, endpapers darkened and worn, with tears, tiny ink stains and (very old) marginalia, back free endpaper has ownership stamp, title leaf worn and darkened, fixed and backed with several pieces of paper, some pages dog-eared, some pages have pale water stains (or small ink stains), some pages have tiny chips, tears or/and bookworm traces, several pages darkened, several pages have very old pen marginalia, condition: fair Book Language/s: German.
Seller: Librairie Chat, Beijing, China
Condition: Fine. Number of books: 11 vols.
Condition: Fine. Number of books: 3 vols.
Published by Melchior Sessa & P. Ravani, Venice, 1516
Seller: Milestones of Science Books, Ritterhude, Germany
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5th Edition. 14 August 1516. Folio (297 x 203 mm). [14], CCXIX, [1] leaves. Signatures: aa6 bb8 a-r? s6 A-O8 P6. Colophon on P5v, text in two columns. Including the final blank P6, title printed in red and black, printer's device on title, 38 woodcut illustrations in text, several large figurative- and small woodcut initials. Bound in 19th century vellum, spine with gilt lettering and ruling, boards with gilt ruling and central floral gilt tooling, vellum turn-ins gilt-decoated, red-dyed edges, marbled endpapers (spine and hinges at foot with light water damage, upper hinge cracked but holding). Text generally bright and clean, light dampstaining to lower gutter thoughout, occasional very minor spotting, single worm hole at lower margin of first gatherings, closed tear in leaf F7, some contemporary ink notes (mostly shaved at fore-margin). Provenances: Dyonisius Corronius (insription on title), whose library was composed of Greek and medical manuscripts (see Meyier, "Paul en Alexandre Petau en de geschiedenis van hun handschriften", 1947, p. 42); Nannet, Oratorian (inscribed on title); Jean Nélis (bookplate to fron pastedown); Mention of purchase in Lyon on title; Georges Petit. A nice, crisp copy. ---- br>Edit16 30044; Mortimer (Harvard Italian) 388; Essling 5; STC Italian 527; not in Adams. Fifth Italian translation by Cristoforo Landino (1st 1476) of Pliny's famous scientific encyclopaedia, and the first to be illustrated. The woodcuts, with one exception, were already used in the first illustrated Latin edition of 1513. A fine specimen of early 16th century Italian typography. With 38 woodcuts, including maps of Europe and Africa as well as representations of mining, handicraft, medicine, music and others. In his great encyclopaedia Pliny set forth by his own count 20,000 facts compiled from 2,000 different works, all of which he scrupulously cited in his remarkably thorough indices. The 36 books of this vast compilation, the only extant work of more than 100 said to have been composed by Pliny, cover cosmology, mathematics, geography, medicine, zoology, agriculture, botany, history, philosophy, anthropology, mineralogy, and the arts and literature. When Pliny died at the age of 56 while observing the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, the work was still unfinished. The importance of the Historia naturalis for the study of ancient art has somewhat been overshadowed by its renown as the first encyclopaedia of natural history. In fact, the Historia remains a principal source of information on the development of sculpture and painting and the techniques of metalworking and silversmithing in antiquity, topics covered in the last four books. Together with Vitruvius' De architectura, Pliny's work is one of few extant testimonies to the flowering of art criticism and art historical study in the Roman period. - Visit our website for additional images and information.
Published by London printed by Adam Islip and are to be sold by Iohn Grismond in Ivy-lane at the signe of the Gun -1634, 1635
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. 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 spine, new endpapers. Binding rubbed and scuffed, corners worn, spine faded, small crack to top of upper hinge, inner paper hinges cracked, outer edge of title page slightly trimmed and repaired, corner tips of title page neatly repaired, title page slightly dusty with pale brown stain to top (see image), small tear just touching side notes on1 page with loss, neatly repaired, small pale stain affecting top margins of a few pages at front and rear, fore-edges of first 3 pages lightly worn, old ink marginalia of "Os" and "Xs" in most margins in first volume, much less in second, a few fore-edges slightly trimmed, affecting a few side notes, text mainly clean. Good working copy used by a well known naturalist. The work was one of the first classical manuscripts to be printed, at Venice in 1469 by Johann and Wendelin of Speyer. First published in English in 1601. It comprises thirty-seven books dealing with astronomy, mathematics, medicine, geography, ethnography, anthropology, human physiology, zoology, botany, agriculture, horticulture, pharmacology, mining, mineralogy, sculpture, art, and precious stones. See: Wikipedia for a very interesting full acount; Pforzheimer Library, English Literature, Volume 2, page 499, No. 496, listing first edition; W. Carew Hazlitt, Second Series of Bibiographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature, page 480; ESTC S103160. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Published by Johannes Froben, Basel, 1525
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio, ABAA, Tuxedo, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Folio (37 cm); [18] leaves, 671, [143] pages. Woodcut printer's device, the double-headed caduceus designed by Holbein, on title page, on verso of p. 671, on the title page of the index, and on the final page. Holbein's detailed chiaroscuro woodcut initials throughout. Bound in vellum over boards, titled in manuscript on spine. Old jottings in manuscript on upper board (apparently an Italian and Latin vocabulary list including the names of foodstuffs). Portion of vellum near head of spine replaced. Erasmus's name on running head of dedicatory letter aggressively inked over! Occasional scattered very light foxing in a generally bright and unblemished text. References; Adams P-1560; van der Haeghen, Biblioteca Erasmiana, p. 45. For the initials (among Holbein's largest), see Schneeli and Heitz, table V #II, and table LXXXIII, #XL. Erasmus's edition of Pliny's Natural History, conserving the notes from Ermolao Barbaro's edition of 1492, printed by Johannes Froben at the height of his powers. Froben's title page is effectively a billboard: "We give you the work of the Divine Pliny called History of the World, more immaculate than any edition ever produced before, starting with the annotations of erudite men, first among them Ermolao Barbaro, and then exemplary contributions by learned people which are still worth correcting, with faith in the oldest codices, from which we have restored many faults, so difficult to find that no one, no matter how learned, could find them or had found them before. We have nothing to envy [in any previous edition]. We have defeated all of our elders. And if someone now takes this prize from us, we will not envy them, but we will be grateful for the improvement of public education. Go, reader, and be fruitful. And, by the way, we added an index that lacks for nothing.".
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. [36], 671, [188] pp.Praised 1532 edition of Pliny's Naturalis historia: "Cette édition citée avec éloge par Ernesti et par Rezzonico." (Brunet). Pliny's Natural history is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire and purports to cover the entire field of ancient knowledge, based on the best authorities available at the time. It encompasses 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. ''We know from Pliny that there were important pearl fisheries in the Gulf Pliny identifies Tylos (Bahrain) as a place famous for its pearls [He] attests that pearls were the most highly rated valuable in Roman society, and that those from the Gulf were specially praised The pearl related finds at the site of El-Dur indicate the site was integrated into the maritime trade routes linking the Roman Empire, the Persian Empire, India and South Arabia'' (Carter).With bookplate on paste-down, some ink notes on the title-page, the first page, and occasionally in the margins; title-page a bit soiled; some wormholes near the end of the book, mostly in the margins. Binding slightly worn along the extremities. Overall in good condition.l Brunet IV, col. 715; Carter, ''The history and prehistory of pearling in the Persian Gulf'', in: Journal of the economic and social history of the orient, 48 (2005), pp.139-209; Graesse V, p. 339 ("Excellente édition"); for Pliny: DSB XI, pp. 38-40.
Condition: USED_FINE. Number of books: 3 vols.
Published by Johannes Alvisius, Venice, 1499
Seller: Milestones of Science Books, Ritterhude, Germany
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 18 May 1499. Chancery folio (302 x 197 mm). 268 unnumbered leaves. 57 lines plus headline, initial spaces, most with printed guides. Types 2:83R, 3:180G. Signatures: (a-e)8 f6 (g-z)8 &8 (A-I)8 K6. Colophon on K6r reads "C. Plynii Secundi de naturali historia libri .xxxvii. Ex castigationes Hermolai Barbari diligentissime Recogniti. Impressi Venetiis per Ioannem Aluisium de Varisio Mediolanensem anno a Natali Cristiano M.CCCCLXXXXIX. die .xviii. Maii." Text upto leaf n5 with large initials painted in red. Bound in 18th century Italian plain vellum, spine reinforced with broad vellum band in early times (vellum soiled and stained, corners worn and bumped), sprinkled edges, original endpapers. Text very little browned (just a few pages stronger), pale waterstaining to outer margins of gathering a and stronger at lower outer corner of final 4 gatherings, few marginal wormholes in first 3 gatherings, title dust-soiled, first gathering working loose, final leaf detached, clean short tear in leaf h4 repaired without loss, a few painted initials with offsetting to opposite page, scattered manuscript annotations of the 16th century in red and black ink (mostly cropped). Provenance: Bibliothèque de l'école Saint-Ange, Saint-Ouen (ink stamps to title and elswhere in text); French collector Nicolas Jouravleff. Very good copy in contemporary binding. ---- LAST INCUNABULUM EDITION of Pliny's Natural History, a re-issue of Benalius' 1497/8 edition, with the text corrected by Hermolaus Barbarus and revised by Johann Baptist Palmarius. It is one of only four books by the Venetian press of Joannes Alvisius (BMC lists a total of 7 books to which this printer contributed, one published in 1501). In his great encyclopaedia, the Historia naturalis, being the first comprehensive examination of the natural sciences and the arts, Pliny set forth by his own count 20,000 facts compiled from 2,000 different works, all of which he scrupulously cited in his remarkably thorough indices. The 36 books of this vast compilation, the only extant work of more than 100 said to have been composed by Pliny, cover cosmology, mathematics, geography, medicine, zoology, agriculture, botany, history, philosophy, anthropology, mineralogy, and the arts and literature. When Pliny died at the age of 56 while observing the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, the work was still unfinished. The importance of the Historia naturalis for the study of ancient art has somewhat been overshadowed by its renown as the first encyclopaedia of natural history. In fact, the Historia remains a principal source of information on the development of sculpture and painting and the techniques of metalworking and silversmithing in antiquity, topics covered in the last four books. Together with Vitruvius' De architectura, Pliny's work is one of few extant testimonies to the flowering of art criticism and art historical study in the Roman period. References: GW M34317; HC 13104; Pellechet 9368; Polain 3203; BMC V573; Goff P-800. - Visit our website to see more images!.
Published by Adam Islip,, London,, 1634
2 parts in one volume. 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 water mills for crushing or grinding corn. Much of what he wrote about has been confirmed by archaeology. ''We know from Pliny that there were important pearl fisheries in the Gulf [.] Pliny identifies Tylos (Bahrain) as a place famous for its pearls [. He] attests that pearls were the most highly rated valuable in Roman society, and that those from the Gulf were specially praised [.] The pearl related finds at the site of El-Dur indicate the site was integrated into the maritime trade routes linking the Roman Empire, the Persian Empire, India and South Arabia'' (Carter). Book 6 holds a chapter that gives the first detailed account of the regions around the Gulf, including what are now Qatar, the Emirates and Oman. Binding rubbed; front hinge splitting. Includes the final printed leaf in vol. 2, containing the publisher's advertisement to the reader that all errors have been corrected in the present edition and the errata leaf (included in the same position in 1601) has become unnecessary rather than having been mistakenly omitted. Some slight browning and brownstaining, but an excellent copy removed in 1973 from the Royal Meteorological Society (Symons Bequest, 1900) with their bookplate on the front pastedown.l STC 20030. Cf. Pforzheimer 496 (1601 ed.). Contemporary calf, spine in six compartments, tooled and lettered in gilt. Elaborate woodcut device on title-page; woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Pages: (58), 614, (42) pp. (12), 632, (86) pp.
Published by London, Adam Islip, 1634., 1634
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
Folio (235 x 320 mm). 2 vols. in one. (58), 614, (42) pp. (12), 632, (86) pp. Elaborate woodcut device on title-page; woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, spine in six compartments, tooled and lettered in gilt. 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 water mills for crushing or grinding corn. Much of what he wrote about has been confirmed by archaeology. "We know from Pliny that there were important pearl fisheries in the Gulf [.] Pliny identifies Tylos (Bahrain) as a place famous for its pearls [. He] attests that pearls were the most highly rated valuable in Roman society, and that those from the Gulf were specially praised [.] The pearl related finds at the site of El-Dur indicate the site was integrated into the maritime trade routes linking the Roman Empire, the Persian Empire, India and South Arabia" (Carter). Book 6 holds a chapter that gives the first detailed account of the regions around the Gulf, including what are now Qatar, the Emirates and Oman. - Binding rubbed; front hinge splitting. Includes the final printed leaf in vol. 2, containing the publisher's advertisement to the reader that all errors have been corrected in the present edition and the errata leaf (included in the same position in 1601) has become unnecessary rather than having been mistakenly omitted. Some slight browning and brownstaining, but an excellent copy removed in 1973 from the Royal Meteorological Society (Symons Bequest, 1900) with their bookplate on the front pastedown. - STC 20030. Cf. Pforzheimer 496 (1601 ed.).
Published by Paris, (Nicolaus Savetier) for Jean Petit, 1526., 1526
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
Folio. (188), (34), CCCCCXXXVI [= CCCCCXXXVIII; 538] pp. Title-page in red and black and separate title-page to index, both with woodcut border. Elaborately decorated calf, with image of the crucifixion on both panels. Blind-tooled spine. First and only Paris edition of "Historiae naturalis", with the annotations by Hermolaus Barbarus (1454-94), an Italian Renaissance scholar. His discussions of Pliny's "Naturalis Historia" was first published as "Castigationes Plinianae" in 1492, in which he made over 5000 corrections to the original text. Due to this work and other classical works he translated or edited he was considered a leader authority on Latin and Greek work on antiquity. The present copy was published by Jean Petit, in his days a leading bookseller in Paris, whose name and device are shown on the title-page with decorative woodcut border. The title-page to the index, here bound before the text, has the initials of the printer Nicolaus Sauetier. - The original text was by Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79), better known as Pliny the Elder. He was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian. - 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 Pliny. He 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 water mills for crushing or grinding corn. Much of what he wrote about has been confirmed by archaeology. ''We know from Pliny that there were important pearl fisheries in the Gulf [.] Pliny identifies Tylos (Bahrain) as a place famous for its pearls [. He] attests that pearls were the most highly rated valuable in Roman society, and that those from the Gulf were specially praised [.] The pearl related finds at the site of El-Dur indicate the site was integrated into the maritime trade routes linking the Roman Empire, the Persian Empire, India and South Arabia'' (Carter). Book 6 has a chapter that gives the first detailed account of the regions around the Gulf, including what are now Qatar, the Emirates and Oman. - Not only is it virtually the only work which describes the work of artists of the time, and has it become an important reference work for the history of art, due to the wide range of topics, the referencing system and index it became a model for later encyclopaedias. - Panels shaved, affecting the decoration, spine cracked on the hinges. With manuscript ownership on title-page of the index. A good copy. - Bird 1910. USTC (2 copies). Not in Adams, BMC French, Durling, Hunt, Wellcome.
Published by London, Adam Islip, 1601., 1601
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
Folio (32 x 20 cm). 2 vols. in one. (58), 614, (42) pp. (12), 632, (86) pp. Elaborate woodcut device on title-page; woodcut initials, head and tailpieces. 19th century half morocco & marbled boards, spine tooled in blind, lettered in gilt, raised bands. Pliny the Elder's renowned Natural History in its first publication in English, 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 Pliny. He 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 water mills for crushing or grinding corn. Much of what he wrote about has been confirmed by archaeology. "We know from Pliny that there were important pearl fisheries in the Gulf [.] Pliny identifies Tylos (Bahrain) as a place famous for its pearls [. He] attests that pearls were the most highly rated valuable in Roman society, and that those from the Gulf were specially praised [.] The pearl related finds at the site of El-Dur indicate the site was integrated into the maritime trade routes linking the Roman Empire, the Persian Empire, India and South Arabia" (Carter). Book 6 holds a chapter that gives the first detailed account of the regions around the Gulf, including what are now Qatar, the Emirates and Oman. - Includes the final printed leaf in vol. 2, containing the errata and printer's colophon. In this copy, the title-page was evidently cut horizontally, above the device, then pieced back together, backed with early laid paper, with the lower half slightly darkened. - STC 20029. Pforzheimer 496.
Published by (Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornus, 1524)., 1524
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
First Edition
Folio. (16), 311, (60) ff. Title-page and sub-title to index with ornamental woodcut border. Woodcut initials, head and tail pieces. Calf, gold-tooled ribbed spine with title-label. Sprinkled edges. First edition of the "Natural history" edited by Johannes Caesarius (1468-1550), a humanist and close friend of Erasmus. The original text was by Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23 - August 25, AD 79), better known as Pliny the Elder. He was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian. The text in the present edition is decorated with woodcut borders and many woodcut initials. - 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 Pliny. He 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 water mills for crushing or grinding corn. Much of what he wrote about has been confirmed by archaeology. ''We know from Pliny that there were important pearl fisheries in the Gulf [.] Pliny identifies Tylos (Bahrain) as a place famous for its pearls [. He] attests that pearls were the most highly rated valuable in Roman society, and that those from the Gulf were specially praised [.] The pearl related finds at the site of El-Dur indicate the site was integrated into the maritime trade routes linking the Roman Empire, the Persian Empire, India and South Arabia'' (Carter). Book 6 holds a chapter that gives the first detailed account of the regions around the Gulf, including what are now Qatar, the Emirates and Oman. - Not only is it virtually the only work which describes the work of artists of the time, and has it become an important reference work for the history of art, due to the wide range of topics, the referencing system and index it became a model for later encyclopaedias. - With manuscript notes of multiple owners on pastedown (including written ex-libris by Antonii Mauritii Seguin 1713 and Mathon de la cour 1744). Some underling in text, and notes in the margins (partly lost due to trimmed edges). A very good copy with bookplate of De Ponsainpierre on pastedown. - VD 16, P 3531. Adams P 1556. BM-STC German 704. Durling 3689 (imperfect copy). Hunt 23. USTC (11 copies).
Published by Venice, Bernardinus Benalius, 1497 (but not before 13 Feb. 1498)., 1498
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
First Edition
Folio. 268 ff. Contemporary vellum with ms. title to spine. Fine incunabular edition of Pliny's famous encylopedic work, covering the entire field of ancient knowledge. With his "Natural History", Pliny gives a mathematical and physical description of the world, discusses geography, ethnography, anthropology, human physiology, zoology, botany, mineralogy, sculpture and painting. As "a purveyor of information both scientific and nonscientific, Pliny holds a place of exceptional importance in the tradition and diffusion of culture" (DSB). Through the present work Pliny "gives us by far the most detailed account of the coast of the United Arab Emirates that has come down to us. Chapter 32 of Book 6 (§ 149-152), beginning near the Qatar peninsula, proceeds to describe the Emirates islands, tribes, and coast right up to the Musandam peninsula, before continuing on south along the coast of Oman. As such, it is a mine of invaluable information on the UAE in the late pre-Islamic era" (UAE History, online). Pliny "completed his 'Natural History' in 77 AD and, to judge from his account of the peoples and places of south-eastern Arabia [.], the area of the UAE was full of settlements, tribes, and physical features, the names of which he recorded for posterity" (Ghareeb/Al Abed 54). - "This appears to be the first edition of Barbarus' recension, the note of a 1496 edition by the same printer being probably due to a confusion (Hain 13099)" (BMC). Dated 1497 in the colophon, but the dedication is dated the Ides of February in the twelfth year of the Doge Augustinus Barbadicus (30 Aug. 1497 to 29 Aug. 1498). - Numerous contemporary marginalia. Slight worming to gutter and some waterstaining near end; spine restored. Late 19th-c. bookplate of Dr. J. Klauber on front pastedown. - HC 13101*. Goff P-799. GW M34321. Klebs 786.14. Proctor 4893A. BMC V 377. ISTC ip00799000.