Caii Plynii Secvndi Natvralis hystoriae liber ...
Contributors: Beroaldo, Filippo, 1453-1505; Vespucci, Giorgio Antonio, ca. 1434-1514 annotator.; Hoskier, H. C. 1864-1938 former owner.; Carey, Arthur Graham, 1892-, former owner.; Incunabula Collection (Boston College)
Publisher: Andreas Portilia
Published: 1481
Place of publication: [Parma
Language: lat
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works -- Pre-Linnean works.; Incunabula -- Specimens.
Genres: Pre-Linnean works; Specimens.
Other titles: Caii Plynii Secundi Naturalis hystoriae liber; Naturalis hystoriae liber; Natvralis hystoriae liber; Caivs Plynivs Marco svo salvtem; Caius Plynius Marco suo salutem
Work titles: Naturalis historia
Notes: Edited by Philippus Beroaldus.

Imprint from colophon.

"Correctiones:" leaves [265a-266a].

"Registrum:" leaf [267a].

Signatures: a⁸, b⁶, c-e⁸, f⁶, g-h⁸, i-l⁶, m-y⁸, z⁶, &⁴, A-F⁸, G⁶, aa-dd⁸, ee⁶ (a1 unsigned, a2 and a3 signed a and a2 respectively; a1 and ee6 blank).

Signature a2: "Caivs Plynivs Marco svo salvtem" (various testimonials).

Without t.-p. or pagination; two leaves (first and last) blank.

Hain 13094;

Goff, P-793.

Proctor, 6851.

BM v. 191, col. 496.

Manuscript numeration (at top and below text) incorrect in BURNS copy.

Includes numerous and copious manuscript marginal notes attributed to Giorgio Vespucci, uncle of Amerigo Vespucci, the Florentine navigator. Cf. photocopies of research and facsimiles to support attribution by a former owner, H.C. Hoskier (originals retained in Archives) as supplied to A. Graham Carey, Esq. by the dealer, James Tregaskis of London, dated 1912.

Initials in red and black within triple line red and black border.