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Plinii Caecilii Secundi, Epistolarum Libri X et Pangyricus. Accedunt ariantes Lectiones. Lugd[uni] Batavorum, Ex Officinâ Elseviriorum, 1640. Leiden, 12mo. [xxiv; 1-289 ; 300-414 ; xxviii] Numbers 290-299 not used in pagination. Book is complete. Printer’s device on the title page. (Dedication to Ioanni de Laet (Jean de Laet) by Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevier, Lugd-Batav.Kal.Sept. MDCXL. Praefatio, C. Plinii Caecilii Secundi Vita per Ioannem Mariam Catanaeum composita. Eiusdem Vita ex epistola collecta. Ex Onuphrii Panuini Commentariis in fastos, ad annum DCCCLIII. Nomenclator.) Black gilt morocco, raised bands with armorial backstrip. Bookplates of M. A. G-du Plessis and P. de La Moranderie. Verso of front flyleaf has a shelfmark, “a/3.” With the annotation “au chiffre du duc de Sardes-Bovannes » (?). Hinges worn but holding. Willems, 506. Copinger, 3646. Pliny the Younger’s correspondence.
Publius Terentius Afer Londini impensis Gul Pickering MDCCCXXII Pickering’s Miniature
Theophrasti Eresi Characteres ethici siue morum descriptiones Signed by Peter Wilson
Facetarium Heinrici Bebelii Poetae A D 1561
