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BARBARO, ERMOLAO. Castigationes Plinii et Pomponii Melae. [157] (of [160]) leaves; lacks title and i2.7, leaf after title defective * PLINIUS SECUNDUS, CAIUS. Naturalis Hystoriae Libri.xxxvij. Edited by Nicolas Maillard. Title with Regnault device within 4-part woodcut historiated border. [20], 262 leaves. Together, 2 volumes in one. Folio, 285x215 mm, contemporary 1/4 blind-tooled pigskin, wooden boards, missing outer half of front cover; marginal foxing, scattered dampstains, contemporary marginalia, occasional minor worming in blank margins of first work. 13-leaf contemporary manuscript index bound at end. [Venice: Printer of Barbaro, Castigationes, circa 1493-94]; (Paris: Nicolas du Pré for) François Regnault, (13 June 1514)
Second edition of Barbaro's major work, first published in 1492, in which he provided some 5000 corrections to Pliny's Natural History; bound with an early Paris edition of the latter. GW 3341; BMC V, 587; Goff B101.
