The Historie of the World. Commonly called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland
by Holland, Philemon - Translator ; Plinius Secundus, Caius ; Pliny the Elder
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London: Impensis G. B[ishop], 1601. First edition. Two volumes bound as one. Folio in sixes. 32 x 21 cm. C. 19 tree calf, nicely rebacked, edges rubbed. Bookplates of Mildred Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks (withdrawn) and Francis Hubert Barclay (1869-1935) other works from his library are held by Kansas University and the Getty Research Center. Lacking initial and terminal blank leaves as usual. Clean, fresh copy. Pliny's Natural History is the largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day. It compiles information gleaned from other ancient authors. Despite the work's title, its subject area is not limited to what is today understood by natural history; Pliny himself defines his scope as "the natural world, or life". It is encyclopedic in scope, but its structure is not like that of a modern encyclopedia. It is the only work by Pliny to have survived, and the last that he published. He published the first 10 books in AD 77, but had not made a final revision of the remainder at the time of his death during the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius. The rest was published posthumously by Pliny's nephew, Pliny the Younger.
The work is divided into 37 books, organised into 10 volumes. These cover topics including astronomy, mathematics, geography, ethnography, anthropology, human physiology, zoology, botany, agriculture, horticulture, pharmacology, mining, mineralogy, sculpture, art, and precious stones.
Pliny's Natural History became a model for later encyclopedias and scholarly works.
The work is divided into 37 books, organised into 10 volumes. These cover topics including astronomy, mathematics, geography, ethnography, anthropology, human physiology, zoology, botany, agriculture, horticulture, pharmacology, mining, mineralogy, sculpture, art, and precious stones.
Pliny's Natural History became a model for later encyclopedias and scholarly works.
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- The Historie of the World. Commonly called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland
- Author
- Holland, Philemon - Translator ; Plinius Secundus, Caius ; Pliny the Elder
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- First edition
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- Impensis G. B[ishop]
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- London
- Date Published
- 1601
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