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 3029823.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1 : port. ; 12mo. Pencil “520/4” on Baron’s bookplate. Manuscript on flyleaf in a seventeenth-century hand: 3 vol. 0.17.6 Provenance: armorial bookplate (small) on titlepage verso: John Lord Sommers Baron of Evesham [i.e. John, Lord Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): 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 title: Plinij Opera Tomus. 1. Vellum goes over fore-edge.
Makers and roles
Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) Joannes de Laet (1581-1649), editor