PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius

Caii Plynii Secundi veronensis, Naturalis Hystoriae Libri. XXXVII. Diligenti admodum labore pervigilique cura nuper nec antea in alma Parrhisiorum academia emendatiores Impressi, atque recogniti

      Title within fine woodcut border & with a large & handsome printer!s mark. Title printed in red & black. [20], cclviii [i.e. 262] leaves. Small folio, 18th cent. half-sheep & speckled boards (gutter of title carefully strengthened at an early date, title a little dusty), spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: N. de Pratis for F. Regnault & J. Frellon, 1511. A handsome copy of this attractive early edition of Pliny!s Natural History, edited by Nicolas Maillard for the university students of Paris. Maillard was rector of the Sorbonne in 1521, advocated the necessity of Greek and Latin for all theologians, and was a friend and correspondent of Erasmus. Pliny!s Natural History !comprises thirty-seven books dealing with mathematics and physics, geography and astronomy, medicine and zoology, anthropology and physiology, philosophy and history, agriculture and mineralogy, the arts and letters.!!Printing & the Mind of Man 5!(1st ed.: Venice, 1469). Fine crisp copy of a rare edition. With the characteristic red stamp on verso of title of August Ferdinand, Graf von Veltheim (1741-1801), an important mining official in the Harz Mountains and the author of a number of mineralogical and mining works. He formed an important scientific library and they all seemingly have survived in fine condition. With a number of contemporary annotations. ❧ Maillard: Bietenholz, ed., Contemporaries of Erasmus. A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation, Vol. II, pp. 369-70. .