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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis
by Whalley, Joyce Irene
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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DORCHESTER, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, [1982], first edition; large 16mo, 220 x 303mm; pp 48; extensively and handsomely illustrated throughout with colour plates printed on art paper. ... ... ... ... ... Pliny's only surviving work, published in 37 books, is considered the world's first encyclopedia. The V&A holds a fifteenth century Florentine illuminated manuscript of the work, thought to be compiled about 1460 and running to over 500 thick vellum leaves. This book is an introduction to Pliny's work and is illustrated with the decorated initials from the Florentine work supported by comment on the many section of the Historia Naturalis.
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- Bookseller
- Chesil Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001168
- Title
- Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis
- Author
- Whalley, Joyce Irene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Weight
- 1.10 lbs
- Keywords
- illuminated manuscript; Florence; incunabulum; Pliny; illuminated initial Ancient, Decorative, Italy, Graphic Arts, Calligraphy, "Ancient, Classical & Medieval", Encyclopedias
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DORCHESTER, Dorset
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