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61 - Plinius Secundus (Gaius) De li homini illustri, in lingua senese traducto et brevemente commentato, first edition in Italian, collation: A-N8 complete with full-page Nardi she-wolf woodcut on verso of errata leaf at end, woodcut diagrams and initials, woodcut primitive world map on L8r, foxing and some staining, small hole to L4 with slight loss of text, fore-margin of first few leaves repaired, a few early ink annotations, later vellum, slight worming, later endpapers, 4to in 8s, (205 x 136mm.), Siena, Simone Nardi, 30 March, 1506.
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Plinius Secundus (Gaius) De li homini illustri, in lingua senese traducto et brevemente commentato, first edition in Italian, collation: A-N8 complete with full-page Nardi she-wolf woodcut on verso of errata leaf at end, woodcut diagrams and initials, woodcut primitive world map on L8r, foxing and some staining, small hole to L4 with slight loss of text, fore-margin of first few leaves repaired, a few early ink annotations, later vellum, slight worming, later endpapers, 4to in 8s, (205 x 136mm.), Siena, Simone Nardi, 30 March, 1506. *** First edition in Italian of De viris illustribus urbis Romae, a collection of biographies of Roman notables attributed to Pliny the Younger. The woodcut world map is modeled on the celebrated map of the Medieval world which first appeared in the edition of Macrobius’ In somnium Scipionis expositio printed in Brescia in 1483 (see Shirley 13). Literature: Mortimer Italian 534; Sander 5767; EDIT 16 CNCE 16247.
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