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65 - PLINY. Historiae naturalis liber secundus. Paris, Prigent Calvarin, 1539. In-8, unbound.

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€500 - 600

Sale fees

30%

PLINY. Historiae naturalis liber secundus. Paris, Prigent Calvarin, 1539. In-8, unbound. An extremely rare edition of the second book of Pliny’s *Natural History*. (Moreau, vol. V, no. 1475.) The USTC electronic catalog lists this edition as lost (USTC, no. 182654). Printed by Prigent Calvarin, a Breton printer active in Paris at Clos Bruneau, it is adorned with a lovely woodcut frame on the title page. Several handwritten annotations on folios 12–13, in the same contemporary hand that signed the bookplate on the title page: Rogerius de la Noe. A handwritten bookplate by another hand appears at the end. A handwritten note appears in the margin of folios 32v° and 33r°.

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Auction details

Antique and Modern Books
Thursday, November 26
11:00 AM
Hôtel Drouot
9, rue Drouot
75009 Paris, France

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Giquello +33 1 47 42 78 01 info@giquello.net
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 100,000 lots published

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