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BARBARUS, HERMOLAUS [i. e., BARBARO, ERMOLAO]. Castigationes Plinianae et Pomponii Melae. [158] (of [160] leaves; lacks the title (supplied in facsimile) and blank s4. Roman type. Folio, 285x215 mm, modern leather blind-tooled to panel design with gilt arabesque centerpiece on covers; contents washed, marginal soiling on first and last few leaves, scattered early underscoring, cropped early marginal note on b1r. [Venice: Printer of Barbarus, Castigationes, circa 1493-94]
Second edition of Barbaro's major work, first published in 1492-93, in which he provided some 5000 corrections to Pliny's Natural History, as well as to Pomponius Mela's treatise on geography. HC 2420; GW 3341; BMC V, 587; ISTC ib00101000.
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