PLINIUS SECUNDUS, GAIUS. Historiae mundi libri XXXVII. Historiated initials throughout with biblical, mythological, and genre subjects after Hans Holbein the Younger. [36], 663, [221] pages, including blank 3e6 and last leaf with printer's device on verso. Folio, 378x255 mm, contemporary calf over wooden boards blind-tooled to panel design formed by repetitions of putti roll and Saviour/David/Paul/John the Baptist roll with monogram NP, brass catches, lacking clasps, rebacked, stains at bottom of spine, endpapers renewed, hinges reinforced with cloth tape; title and last page faintly toned and soiled, otherwise internally a clean, wide-margined copy. 18th-century signature of Conyers Jocelyn on title; bookplate of Clifton College Library. Adams P1573; cf. Haebler, Rollen- und Plattenstempel I, page 339, roll 32. Basel: (Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius), 1554 [colophon dated 1555]