Pliny Plinii Secundus (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 8vo, 3 vols. [16] + 838 + (134)p; 917 + [69]p; 853 + [83]p; each volume including engraved title by Wingendorp, Lugd Batav et Roterdami, apud Hackios, 1669 (1668 on 2 printed titles). Finely printed Variorum edition of this great natural science classic. During the Middle Ages Pliny the Elder's Natural History was one of the main sources of available scientific knowledge. His views on geography, zoology, botany, medicine, mineralogy and astronomy continued to exercise considerable influence for centuries to come. Near fine clean set in original full vellum, old lettering on spines slightly faded.…

Leather. Condition: Good. A Latin collection of the immensely historically important letters of Pliny the Elder, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Pliny. In Latin.Illustrated with a frontispiece.Numbers 703 and 704 and 807 and 808 repeated in pagination; numbers 799 & 800 omitted; the text is continuous.The letters of Pliny the Younger, a great historical resource on Ancient Greece.Two hundred and forty seven of Pliny's letters survive, addressed to various emperors or notable Greece figures, such as the historian Tacitus.Pliny's letters provide and essential and unique resource of Roman administrative history, and daily life in the 1st Century CE.One of his most important letters notes and describes the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in October 79, during which his Uncle who raised him died, Pliny the Elder.Bookplate to the front paste down.Neat prize inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper. In a full calf binding. Externally, boards and spine are rubbed. Joints are starting. Some loss of leather to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, light bumping to the extremities. Hinges are strained. Bound without the front endpaper. Bookplate to the front paste down. Neat prize inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper.Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean with only the occasional spot and handling mark. Prior owner's ink inscription and a library stamp to the title page. Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good or better. Later edition. 8vo. [52], 1-818, [28] pp. Full eighteenth-century red morocco with the spine in six and a half compartments, lettered and decorated in gold. Boards ruled in gold with the edges and turn-ins decorated with gold pointillé; all edges gilt. With a green silk ribbon bookmark bound in. Bound by Padeloupe in France. Illustrated with an engraved title page, a woodcut publisher's device on the printed title page, and with woodcut initials and headpieces. Early twentieth-century bookplate of Viscount Birkenhead on the front pastedown. Dibdin 331. Moss 494. Oxford Classical Dictionary 1198. Dibdin cites this imprint as one of the scarcest and most valuable of the octavo Variorum classics. This edition is praised for the elegance of its typography, the correctness of the text, and the usefulness of the commentary. Pliny the Younger was a soldier and a senator in the latter part of the first century A.C.E. into the second century A.C.E. During his lifetime he wrote and published nine books of literary letters, concerned with social, domestic, judicial, and political matters. These letters are rhetorically crafted with their syntax and semantics tooled to create a new literary style (new to Rome). His letters provide a history of quotidian matters in Rome, with plenty of anonymous criticisms (aimed at slave owners, political weasels, and the miserly). Senatorial debates, elections and trials, and other matters of public life are revealed in his letters. The final book is composed of letters between him and Trajan. These were likely first published after Pliny's death. These letters function as a historical source for understanding how the Romans governed their provinces. In one letter, Pliny describes one of the earliest accounts of Christian worship, and describes the prejudiced attitude of pagan people towards (what was then) the Christian minority in the Roman Empire. An illuminating history of Rome, beautifully bound. A Very Good or better copy with a touch of rubbing to the extremities, particularly to the bottom corners and the front joint. Bookseller's ticket on the verso of the free front endpaper.…