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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.
The Historie of the World. Commonly called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland by Holland, Philemon - Translator ; Plinius Secundus, Caius ; Pliny the Elder - 1601
by Holland, Philemon - Translator ; Plinius Secundus, Caius ; Pliny the Elder
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The Historie of the World. Commonly called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland
by Holland, Philemon - Translator ; Plinius Secundus, Caius ; Pliny the Elder
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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 Bookplates of Mildred Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks (withdrawn) and Francis Hubert Barclay (1869-1935) other works from his library are held by Kansas University and the Getty Research Center.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 the time of his death during the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius. The rest was published posthumously by Pliny's nephew, Pliny the Younger.
The work is divided into 37 books, organised into 10 volumes. These cover topics including astronomy, mathematics, geography, ethnography, anthropology, human physiology, zoology, botany, agriculture, horticulture, pharmacology, mining, mineralogy, sculpture, art, and precious stones.
Pliny's Natural History became a model for later encyclopedias and scholarly works.
The work is divided into 37 books, organised into 10 volumes. These cover topics including astronomy, mathematics, geography, ethnography, anthropology, human physiology, zoology, botany, agriculture, horticulture, pharmacology, mining, mineralogy, sculpture, art, and precious stones.
Pliny's Natural History became a model for later encyclopedias and scholarly works.
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THE HISTORIE OF THE WORLD, Commonly called the Natural History of C. Plinius Secondus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland, Doctor of Physicke.
by Pliny the Elder; Plinius Secundus Gaius; Philemon Holland
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The Historie of the World _ Commonly called the Natural Historie of C. Plinius Secundus
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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.
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The Historie of the World |Commonly called, | THE NATURALL HISTORIE OF I C.PLINIUS SECUNDUS.| Translated into English by PHILEMON HOLLAND I Doctor of Phyjicke
by Pliny, Gaius Secundus / Plinius, Gaius Secundus (23-79 AD) / Translated by Philemon Holland
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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…
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The Historie of the World. Commonly called, the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor in Physicke. The first [& Second] tome
by Pliny, the Elder (23-79 A.D.); Holland, Philemon (1552-1637), translator
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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;…
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