PLINE L'ANCIEN. Historiæ naturalis libri XXXVII. Paris, J. B - Lot 146

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PLINE L'ANCIEN. Historiæ naturalis libri XXXVII. Paris, J. B - Lot 146
PLINE L'ANCIEN. Historiæ naturalis libri XXXVII. Paris, J. Barbou, 1779. 6 vol. in-12, marbled calf, triple fillet, smooth spine decorated, brown title and tomaison, gilt edges, inner scroll (period binding). Elegant edition, illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Duflos after Marillier, showing a volcano in eruption. It was established and annotated by the Jesuit Gabriel Brotier (1723-1789). An inexhaustible source, this Natural History contains a great deal of information on various foods from ancient times to the first century of our era, and on the epicurean customs of the Romans... The work deals in particular with the vine and wines (book XIV), fruits (XV), agriculture (XVII), bakery and vegetables (XVIII), the vegetable garden (XX)... This broad picture of human knowledge under the Antiquity also approaches geography, zoology, botany, animal medicine, mineralogy... Armorial bookplate : Dugas (Sine labe probitas). A pleasant copy. A split spine, defects to the covers, slight rubbing.
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