Live auction - Lot 364
[Natural history]
L'histoire du monde [...] collationnée & corrigée sur plusieurs vieux exemplaires latins [...]. Le tout mis en françois par Antoine du Pinet [...].
Paris, R. Fouet, 1608
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Folio: [26]-516-[84], [20]-569-[70] pp. (browning and dampst., title underl., title second part def., lower part replaced by a leaf with pasted vign.).
Mod. black leather, spine with raised bands, red edges.
Re-edition of the translation by A. du Pinet (c. 1510-1584) of this encyclopedic work by C. Plinius (23-79) on the knowledge of Antiquity. The 1st vol. with indexes on names, subjects, weights and measures. Ill. with engr. headpieces and decorated letters.