PLINIUS SECUNDUS, CAIUS [i. e., Pliny the Elder]. Historiae naturalis. [48], 314 [i. e,. 308]; 303, [1]; 295, [1]; [252] leaves. 4 volumes. 8vo, 154-56x91-93 mm (Volumes 1-3), 146x97 mm (Volume 4), 17th-century English calf, rebacked retaining most of the original backstrips, with modern calf lettering pieces; 17th-century scored inscriptions on titles, underscoring and partly cropped marginalia throughout, wormhole in blank lower outer corners toward end of Volume 3; author and title lettered in ink on fore edges. Later 17th-/early 18th-century ownership inscription of Hugh Todd; bookplates of the historian Louis Francis Salzmann (1878-1971) dated 1899. (Venice: Heirs of Aldus and Andrea of Asola), 1536-35-36-38