[Pliny, the Elder], The Historie (sic) of The World, Commonl...

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[Pliny, the Elder], The Historie (sic) of The World, Commonly called, The Natural Historie of G. Plinius Secundus, Translated into Englifh (sic) by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Phyficke (sic), first English edition, Printed by Adam Ifip (sic, Islip), London 1601, two volumes bound as one, [55 (lacking 3? unpaginated pages between late preface and contents)], 614pp, index to volume I [32] & (12), 632pp, index to volume II [82], [ii], woodcut devices to title-pages, vignettes to dedication, preface and book no. sub-titles, 17th/18th century reverse calf boards, early 19th century marbled endpapers, red morocco gilt presentation label to front pastedown The Gift of Rebecca Dunn to Thos. Dunn 1825, within a border of two fillets and leafy tendrils, some contemporaneous ink MS marginalia to few pages in volume I, folio

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