May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 154

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
[Medicine & Science] Pliny the Elder (23/24-79 CE)
Historiae Mundi Libri XXXVII.

[Lyons]: Apud Petrum Santandreanum, 1582.

Folio, text edited with notes by Fernand Pintianus, Turneb, Joseph Scaliger, and Lipsius; large woodcut device to title, title page printed in red and black; contemporary marginalia to title page and occasionally scattered; bound in full contemporary parchment over boards, lacking ties, corners repaired; some occasional tears and defects; the final section containing the index with some serious water and mildew staining with weakening of paper resulting in some holes; Annotationes section with top and bottom outside corners neatly clipped at a forty-five degree angle for the annotator's ease of finding the section; 15 1/8 x 9 1/2 in.

Adams P-1580.