Caius Plinius Marco suo salutem ...
Contributors: Bayer, Frederick M., former owner; Burndy Library
Publisher: Thomas de Blavis, de Alexandria
Published: 1491
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 616
Subjects: Natural history; Pre-Linnean works; Incunabula; Specimens
Other titles: Naturalis historiae liber; Caii Plinii Secundi Naturalis historiae liber
Work titles: Naturalis historia
Notes: Title from incipit (leaf 2a2 recto).

"Caii Plinii Secundi Naturalis historiae liber ..."--Leaf 2a3 recto, line 7.

Imprint from Goff.

Signatures: 2a-2b⁸ a-b⁸ [cursive d]⁸ e⁶ f-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-I⁸ 2I⁶.

Leaves printed on both sides; 53-54 lines per page.

Guide letters.

Goff P-796

Hain 13097

Proctor 4768

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SCDIRB and SCNHRB have one copy each.

SCDIRB copy 39088007406945 imperfect: lacking leaf 2a1 (blank?). Leaves 2a2-2a8 and 2b1-2b2 are lacking and have been replaced by old ms. text pages in ink; leaf x4 is misbound immediately before leaf x3; the bottom third of leaf2I6, including colophon [?], has been torn out and replaced with a blank piece of paper.

SCDIRB copy has ms. annotations (some affected by cropped margins).

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.

SCDIRB copy has illegible ms. provenance note on leaf 2I6 recto.

SCDIRB copy bound in old full vellum over paper boards; blue sprinkled edges; title inked on spine.

SCNHRB copy 39088011698529 imperfect: lacking leaf 2a1 (blank?); leaf a1 cropped at bottom.

SCNHRB copy has copious early ms. notations (in different inks) throughout; rubricated.

SCNHRB copy bound in modern vellum with raised bands.

SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Dr. Frederick M. Bayer.