C. Plinii Secundi Historiae naturalis libri XXXVII.
Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1635
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3029823
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. : port. ; 12mo. Pencil “520/4” on Baron’s bookplate in vol. 1. Manuscript on vol. 1 flyleaf in a seventeenth-century hand: 3 vol. 0.17.6 Provenance: armorial bookplate (small) on titlepage verso of all 3 vols.: John Lord Sommers Baron of Evesham [i.e. John, Lord Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754) in vol. 1 only: Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: seventeenth-century vellum over boards on three alum-tawed thongs, blue sprinkled edges. Manuscript spine titles: Plinij Opera Tomus. 1. [-3]. Vellum goes over fore-edge.
Makers and roles
Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) Joannes de Laet (1581-1649), editor