PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius or "Pliny the Elder" (23-79 AD). The Historie of the World.

PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius or "Pliny the Elder" (23-79 AD). The Historie of the World: Commonly called, The Natural Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. London: Printed for Adam Islip, 1634. 2 volumes bound in one, folio (333 x 215mm). Large woodcut ornaments on titles, initials, head-pieces and tail-pieces, publisher’s "Advertisement" leaf at the end [see note] (lacks initial blank, first title partly detached, section excised from upper margin of first title, and repaired, without loss, lower fore-corner of pp. 411/412 in first vol. torn away with loss supplied in later manuscript, a few wormholes and wormtracks, some mainly light spotting, staining and browning, a few darker spots). Contemporary calf gilt (worn, covers detached, heavily rubbed). Provenance: illegible signature on first title dated 1646; Charles Leonard (later signature); inscriptions on modern endpapers; from the Library of the late Sir George Engle. First published in English in 1604, this is the second English edition. The publisher's "Advertisement" states "Whereas in the former edition this page was stuffed full of Errata, which were occasioned by reason of the various matter and words used in this Historie, not common obvious in other Authors; such care in this second Edition hath been taken, as that they have all been amended, whereby the Readers paines to mend, or be offended with them, is taken away. This I thought good to give notice of, least any should think them omitted, not amended." STC 20030; cf. Maggs Medicine, Alchemy, Astrology and Natural Sciences (1929) 78; cf. Nissen ZBI 3191; cf. PMM 5 (citing the Editio princeps of Venice 1469): “The ‘Natural History’ of Pliny the Elder is more than a natural history: it is an encyclopedia of all the knowledge of the ancient world …”.