Historia naturale [...] di lingua latina in fiorentina tradocta per [...] Christophero Landino [...] novame[n]te correcta [...].

Folio: [14]-CCLIX-[1 bl.] ff. (slightly dampstained throughout, wormhole in bottom margin of first quires, stain to f. CCXVI). Good condition inside.

Modern parchment, covers ruled with gilt fillets and decorated with central flower tool, gilt decorated flat spine, red edges (upper joint split, lower part dampstained, some sm. traces of use).

Fifth Italian translation by Cristoforo Landino (1st 1476) but first to be illustrated with 38 woodcuts in text. Those, with one exception, were already used in the Latin edition of 1513. Text in 2 cols. Ornamental initials, some large and/or dotted, and with 2 different marks of Sessa. Title in red and black. Ref. Edit16 30044. - Mortimer (Harvard Italian) 388. - Essling 5. - STC Italian 527. - Not in Adams. Prov. Dyonisius Corronius, whose library was composed of Greek and medical manuscripts, (ms. entry on title. Ref. Meyier, "Paul en Alexandre Petau en de geschiedenis van hun handschriften", 1947, p. 42). - Nannet, Oratorian (ms. entry). - Jean Nélis (bookpl.). - Mention of purchase in Lyon on title. - Some ms. marginalia. - [Georges Petit]