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PLINO the Elder (Caius PLINIUS Secundus) - Lot 584

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PLINO the Elder (Caius PLINIUS Secundus) - Lot 584
PLINO the Elder (Caius PLINIUS Secundus) L'Histoire du Monde de C. Pline Second, collationnée et corrigée sur plusieurs exemplaires vieux latins et enrichie d'annotations en marge a quoy'a Esté adjousté un Traité des Poix et Mesures Antiques Lyon, Tardif, 1584. 2 volumes in folio: 4f, XXXI, 678pp, 1fb, 77f (table) / 14f, 745pp, 1fb, 51f (table). A few small bands of reinforcement on a few leaves of volume 1, marginal central stain (two volumes), wormholes with text damage to part of the leaves (volume 2), light banding on the table leaves, light banding on part of the leaves of volume 1, title leaf of volume 1 doubled. Small paper tears in the outer margins of a few leaves. Handwritten bookplate Chenault. Modern stiff vellum (volumes restored), handwritten title and endpapers on spine. This work constitutes a veritable assessment of the knowledge of the time, dealing with the idea of sovereign nature, cosmography, geography, natural science, botany, medicine and mineralogy. The fourteenth book is entirely devoted to wines: De la vigne & de sa nature ; Des espèces de vignes ; De la nature du vin ; des vins d'outre-mer ; Des sept espèces de vins salés ; De quatorze espèces de vins doux ; Des vins qui ont pris crédit en Italie... ; De l'ancien usage du vin & des vins anciens
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