BOOK FROM THE XVIth CENTURY. ANTIQUE ENCYCLOPEDIA. PLINE THE - Lot 133

BOOK FROM THE XVIth CENTURY. ANTIQUE ENCYCLOPEDIA. PLINE THE ANCIENT. C. Plinii secundi naturalis historię Libri XXXVII... [Venice, Sessa, Serena, March 24, 1525]. - [Bound at the beginning of the volume]. Prima pars Plyniani Indicis, editi per Joãné Camerté minoritanu: Sacre theologie doc. iqua (tabelle picte intar)... [Venice, Sessa, Serena, April 24, 1525]. 2 parts in one in-folio volume, pars prima [72] ff. and pars seconda [14] ff., CCXIX ff., [1] blank p., titles in red and black framed, letterpress mark to title, handsome scroll lettering, woodcuts. Sixteenth-century ivory vellum, 5-rib spine, handwritten title. Beautiful Venetian edition in Latin of Pliny's Natural History, edited by Ermolao Barbaro, an Italian Renaissance humanist, who followed the Sessa edition of 1513 and reused the 37 fine woodcuts by Agostino de' Zanni. Preceded by the Index by Johannes Camerarius. Each beautiful title page, printed in red and black, is engraved in black woodcuts (one for the Index, the other for the main text). Illustrated with woodcut vignettes (one at the head of each book) depicting men, nudes, doctors, maps etc., and woodcut initials, some sifted. USTC, 849926; Edit16 CNCE 30074. Minor worm damage to boards and back covers, upper jaw split over qq. cm, marginal defects on qq. pages, but a good copy.