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PLINIUS SECUNDUS, GAIUS CAECILIUS, attributed to. De li homini illustri. 6 woodcut geographical and astronomical diagrams in text; full-page primitive world map; printer's large woodcut device at end. [104] leaves. 4to, 205x136 mm, 17th-century vellum boards, recased, endpapers renewed; marginal foxing and soiling through most of volume, restoration in blank outer margin of first 6 leaves, scattered early marginalia, dark stains on D4 and N1-3. (Siena: Simone Nardi, 30 March 1506)
first edition in italian of De viris illustribus urbis Romae, a collection of biographies of Roman notables ascribed to Pliny the Younger . Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 534; Sander 5767.
