PLINIUS SECUNDUS, C

Historiae naturalis liber secundus. Cum Hermolai Barbari Castigationibus,& annotationibus Ioannis Caesarii & Petri Ioannis Olivarii

      Christian Wechel Paris 1537 Contemporay limp vellum (early repair; a bit warped) 8vo . Very rare edition of the second book of Pliny's Natural History, dealing for the most part with astronomy; e.g. comets, fixed stars, movement of the planets, phases of the moon, latitude and longitude, measuring the earth and so on. The work also includes physical geography and related topics; e.g. the winds, air, tides, earthquakes, climates, etc. Appended are two essays by Hermolaus Barbarus, the younger ("Castigationes Prima" & "Secunda"; Johann Caesarus' "Annotationes"; and Pedro Juan Oliver's "Annotationes." This would have been an student's introductory text to the physical sciences which would probably explain its scarcity with the OCLC only locating a copy at the Bayersiche Staatsbibliothek 154 pp. [3] leaves (all blank except for the last page with the printer's woodcut device). With woodcut printer's device on title and last leaf; woodcut initials; faint dampstain on last few leaves. § DSB, XII, pp. 38-40; Schweiger II, 793; not in Adams or the BM/STC French