1634 PLINY the ELDER – NATURAL HISTORY 2 VOLS Histoire Naturale Pub ADAM ISLIP
Translation by Philemon Holland – Doctor of Physicke. Elaborate woodcut on both title-pages; woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Pliny’s renowned Natural History in its second publication in English (repeating, with corrections, the 1601 first publication), translated by Philemon Holland, the greatest translator of the Elizabethan age.