Pliny | Third edition of Landino's Italian translation of Pliny, Venice, 1489

Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Pliny, the Elder)

Historia naturalis [Italian] (Tr: Christophorus Landinus). Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis, 12 September 1489

Super-chancery folio (302 x 214 mm). Roman types, text in two columns, 60 lines plus headline, 2- to 8-line initial spaces with printed guide letters. Collation: a¹² b–q⁸ r–s⁶ A–N⁸ O–P⁶: 259 (of 260) leaves (lacking blank a1); clean internal tear to a2, some scattered marginal soiling and very minor, unobtrusive worming, especially to first few leaves. Seventeenth-century Italian vellum over flexible paper boards, plain endpapers and edges; a bit rubbed and soiled, pen-trials on covers.

Third edition of Landino's Italian translation of Pliny's Natural History.

REFERENCES

BMC V 431 (IB. 23218); Goff P803; GW M34345; ISTC ip00803000

PROVENANCE

Unidentified deleted seventeenth-century inscriptions — Abbot Lodovico Baratti (manuscript monogram on flyleaf, armorial bookplate at foot of final leaf) — Count Oswald Seilern (Christie’s London, 26 March 2003, lot 91)