1565 PLINIUS encyclopaedia of natural history 5 VELLUM BOUND VOLUMES 16c ANTIQUE

PLINIUS Secundus, Caius

Naturalis Historiae Opus

Coloniae: Maternus Cholinus; 1565

5 volumes

[56], 1026 [=1027], [163] lvs., with continuous pagination.

The last part is the index.

Woodcut printer's device on first title page, first page of every part in beautiful woodcut printed border.

Printed in italics, beautiful woodcut initials.
Italian style, imitated of Alde. 

Original uniform limp vellum bindings, with initials H.W.N. on each front cover, raised bands, red edges, traces of closing ties, loss of small part of vellum of vol. 2

-Ref. VD16 P 3547 , Schweiger II, 788. Not in Wellcome, not in Machiels, not in Adams.-

 Period manuscript ex libris on title page.

Humanist edition of Pliny the Elder's encyclopaedia of natural history by the Jülich humanist and physician Johann Caesarius (1468-1550).

"His public lectures on Pliny and other ancient authors and his lessons in Greek were the real basis of this contemporary fame."

This octavo edition is divided into seven parts, each preceded by a brief summary of contents and covering five books: hence the name quinarii for the sections.

- Ref. Charles G. Nauert jr p. 363-366. Very scarce, only 3 copies in USTC. -
"Maternus Cholinu était issu d'une famille originaire d'Arlon. Né en 1525 à Cologne, il devint membre du sénat de cette ville, et parvint par ses talents et son industrie à acquérir une grande fortune. Les ouvrages sortis de ses presses sont remarquables par leur bonne exécution et leur correction"

Size 4 by 6 1/4"

Text in Latin
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Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 – c. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger , was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him.

Pliny the Younger wrote hundreds of letters, of which 247 survive, and which are of great historical value. Some are addressed to reigning emperors or to notables such as the historian Tacitus. Pliny served as an imperial magistrate under Trajan (reigned 98–117), and his letters to Trajan provide one of the few surviving records of the relationship between the imperial office and provincial governors.

Pliny rose through a series of civil and military offices, the cursus honorum. He was a friend of the historian Tacitus and might have employed the biographer Suetonius on his staff. Pliny also came into contact with other well-known men of the period, including the philosophers Artemidorus and Euphrates the Stoic, during his time in Syria.
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