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<dl><dd><div class="nsm-long-item nsm-e28" style="margin-left:1em;padding-bottom:.1em;text-indent:-1em;">Title from incipit of preface at head of [1]₄ recto.</div><div><br></div></dd>
<dd>Imprint details from colophon on [37]₉ recto: impressi Venetiis per Nicolaum Ienson Gallicum .M.CCCC.LXXII.</dd>
<dd>Edited by Giovanni Andrea Bussi--see letter addressed to Paulus II, Pont. Max. ([37]₉ recto-[37]₁₀ recto).</dd>
<dd>Signatures: [1¹² 2⁸ 3-8¹° 9¹² 10-15¹° 16⁸ 17-23¹° 24-27¹° 28⁶ 29-30¹° 31-35⁸ 36¹° 37¹²] ([1]₁, [37]₁₁, and [37]₁₂=blank; all leaves unsigned).</dd>
<dd>Royal folio; [3]₄ (i.e. fol. 24) recto: 50 lines, 284 x 161 mm; type: 115R; initial spaces, most with guide letters.</dd>
<dd>Incunabula short title catallogue</dd>
<dd>Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries</dd>
<dd>Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum</dd>
<dd>COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.25 FOLIO: leaves [1]₁ and [37]₁₂ (both blank) wanting. Initial on [1]₄ illuminated, with border of flourishes in blue ink. Twelve- and thirteen-line initials rubricated throughout in blue ink with red flourishes or red ink with purple flourishes. Two-line initials rubricated in alternating red and blue. Foliated in pencil and in early ink in upper right margins. Leaf dimensions: 41 x 28 cm.</dd>
<dd>PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.25 FOLIO: with autograph of "Michaelis d'Asquier", here conjectured to be Michel D'Asquier (1598-1664), at head of [1]₂ recto. Also at the head of [1]₂: "No 33" in early manuscript. Early marginalia on various leaves. Acquired in Jan. 1953.</dd>
<dd>BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.25 FOLIO bound in modern vellum. Spine ruled and stamped in gilt.</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Natural history</div>
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<dl><dd>Pliny, the Elder</dd>
<dd>Jenson, Nicolas, approximately 1420-1480, printer</dd>
<dd>Bussi, Giovanni Andrea, 1417-1475, editor</dd>
<dd>D'Asquier, Michel, former owner. MB</dd></dl></div>
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