1514 PLINY THE YOUNGER F. Regnault POST-INCUNABULA antique NATURAL HISTORY rare

img{max-width:100%} NATURALIS HYSTORIAE LIBRI. XXXVII [...]. by PLINIUS SECUNDUS (PLINY THE YOUNGER) Paris: Francois Regnault; 1514 Folio: 8 1/4 by 11 1/2" [20]-CCLXII ff. (quires D and E inverted) - Early Parisian edition, of the famous work of Plinius the Younger edited by Nicolas Maillard with the commentary of the Italian humanist Ermolao Barbaro (1410-1471). Title within a wood-engraved ornamental frame with Regnault's device; crible' initials. manuscript marginalia in Latin and Greek - Ref. BP16 102600. - Moreau II:939. - Adams P-1553. - STC French p. 356. - Pettegree (FB) 83228. - Provenance: C. E. Schengk Javor Siles (?), Bratislava, 1751 (manuscript entry). Original half blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, later mottled paper on boards, spine with raised bands (leather to upper part of the spine split, some paper parts are missing). Text in Latin ============================= The Natural History (Latin: Naturalis Historia) is