Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

C. Plinij Liber secundus, De mundi historia : cum erudito commentario v. cl. Iacobi Milichii diligenter conscripto & nunc denuo ex praelectionibus publ. in Academia Vitebergensi recognito, pluribusq[ue] in locis aucto & à mendis repurgato / opera & studio Bartolemaei Schonbornii.

Accession number
PML 195575
Creator
Pliny, the Elder.
Published
Lipsiae : Imprimebat Iohannes Steinman, typis Voegelianis, 1573.
Credit line
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2011.
Notes
Imprint from colophon.
Folded leaf numbered 184, 185, which numbers are omitted in numbering of pages.
Includes index.
Description
636 [i.e. 634], [12] p., [1] folded leaf : ill. ; 21 cm.
Provenance
Ownership inscription of Melchior Cremer on title page.
Binding
Half pigskin blind-stamped with the date 1573 and the initials HPF, the boards covered with a vellum music manuscript. A panel stamp on the front cover has a portrait of the duke of Saxony signed by the binder Thomas Reuter; the back cover has a panel stamp with the arms of Wittenberg, Reuter's initials, and the date 1573. Both panels are described in Haebler, Rollen- und Plattenstempel, vol. 1, p. 392, ii & iv.
Classification
Department