Alieuticon, sive De piscibus, libri quinque e graeco traducti [...] Disticha ultra centum de rebus uarijs [...] authore Laurentio Lippio Collensi, interprete [...] Oppiani. C. Plinii Secundi Naturalis historiae libri duo [...] de [...] piscibus. Pauli item Iovii De piscibus liber unus [...].

4to: [4]-152 ff. (toned, quire d browned).

19th-c. vellum, flat spine with gilt leather label, marbl. endpapers. Very good copy.

Rare Latin version (1st 1478) of the Greek didactic poem (some 3500 ll.) on fishing by Oppian (Cilicia 2nd C.). With additional verses by the Italian humanist translator Lorenzo Lippi from Colle di Val d’Elsa (1440-1485), as well as Pliny’s chapters on fish, and a similar work by Paolo Giovio (1483-1552). Woodcut mark at the end. Ref. VD-16 O-803. - Adams O-202. - Durling 3400. - Hoffmann III:165. - Muller (Strasbourg) Cammerlander 25 = Ritter 1670.