Title
C. Plinij Secundi Veronensis Historiae naturalis libri xxxvij
Title Variants
Alternative:
C. Plinii Secundi Veronensis historiae naturalis libri xxxvii
Alternative:
C. Plinij Secundi Ueronensis historiae naturalis libri xxxvij
Alternative:
Historiae naturalis libri xxxvij
Uniform: Naturalis historia
By
Pliny, the Elder, 23 or 24-79
Benedetti, Alessandro, approximately 1450-1512
Sessa, Melchiorre, active 1506-1549
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
Impressus Venetiis summa diligentia, Per Melchiorem Sessam, anno reconciliate natiuitatis MDXIII, die XX Augusti [1513]
Notes
Imprint from colophon, which reads: Explicit. C. Plinius Secundus De naturali hystoria nunc primum diligentissime ab Alexandro Benedicto phisico recognitus, cunctisq[ue] erroribus expurgatus ...
Signatures: 2a⁸ 2b⁶ a-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ Rx¹⁰ A¹⁰.
"Liber XIII ... De gummi generibus & papyro ... De generibus chartarum & quomodo chartæ fiant & de chartarum probatione & uitiis & glutino earum ... De libris Numæ": leaves LXXVIII-LXXIX; ill., leaf LXXVI.
Title page printed in red and black; decorative and pictorial initials.
Probably printed for Sessa by Agostino de Zanni (cf. STC).
Numerous errors in foliation.
Illustrations: 37 woodcut images, 8 x 9 cm., one at the beginning of every book. One woodcut image, 12 x 9 cm., on verso of leaf 2a2. For a detailed description of the illustrations see Essling.
Melchior Sessa's woodcut cat and mouse device on t.p. and orb and cross on colophon (cf. Kristeller).
BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, | p. 526
Wellcome cat. of printed books, | 5114
Sander | 5760
Essling, V. Etudes sur l'art de la gravure sur bois à Venise, | I, p. 28
Kristeller, P. Die italienischen Buchdrucker- und Verlegerzeichen bis 1525, | 295, 297
Subjects
16th century
,
Early works to 1800
,
Illustrations
,
Italy
,
Natural history
,
Naturalis historia
,
Papyrus (The plant)
,
Pliny,
,
Pre-Linnean works
,
the Elder
,
Woodcuts
Call Number
PA6611 .A2 1513
Language
Latin
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.158705
OCLC:
32791130
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