Rare 1640 Pliny Latin Epistolae Elsevier Press Original Vellum Binding-image
Rare 1640 Pliny Latin Epistolae Elsevier Press Original Vellum Binding-image
Rare 1640 Pliny Latin Epistolae Elsevier Press Original Vellum Binding-image
Rare 1640 Pliny Latin Epistolae Elsevier Press Original Vellum Binding-image
Rare 1640 Pliny Latin Epistolae Elsevier Press Original Vellum Binding-image
Rare 1640 Pliny Latin Epistolae Elsevier Press Original Vellum Binding-image
Rare 1640 Pliny Latin Epistolae Elsevier Press Original Vellum Binding-image
Rare 1640 Pliny Latin Epistolae Elsevier Press Original Vellum Binding-image
Rare 1640 Pliny Latin Epistolae Elsevier Press Original Vellum Binding-image
Rare 1640 Pliny Latin Epistolae Elsevier Press Original Vellum Binding-image
Rare 1640 Pliny Latin Epistolae Elsevier Press Original Vellum Binding-image
Rare 1640 Pliny Latin Epistolae Elsevier Press Original Vellum Binding-image
Rare 1640 Pliny Latin Epistolae Elsevier Press Original Vellum Binding-image
Rare 1640 Pliny Latin Epistolae Elsevier Press Original Vellum Binding-image
Rare 1640 Pliny Latin Epistolae Elsevier Press Original Vellum Binding-image
Rare 1640 Pliny Latin Epistolae Elsevier Press Original Vellum Binding-image

Rare 1640 Pliny Latin Epistolae Elsevier Press Original Vellum Binding

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RARE 1640 PLINY LATIN EPISTOLAE ELSEVIER PRESS ORIGINAL VELLUM BINDING. Text in Latin. EPISTOLARUM LIBRI X. & PANEGYRICUS. Batavorum (Leiden): Ex Officina Elseviriorum,1640. C. PLINII CAECILII SECUNDI EPISTOLARUM LIBRI X. & PANEGYRICUS. Lugd. Batavorum (Leiden): Ex Officina Elseviriorum, 1640 . Small duodecimo (approx. 3¼ × 5¼ inches ). A seventeenth-century Elzevier edition of one of the most influential collections of Roman literature. Pliny the Younger's letters provide an unparalleled account of public and private life in the early Roman Empire, including his famous descriptions of the eruption of Vesuvius and correspondence with Emperor Trajan. The Panegyricus remains one of the principal surviving speeches from imperial Rome. Early ownership inscriptions and annotations to the front endpapers, title page, and throughout the text in several contemporary and later hands, adding evidence of centuries of scholarly use. Text in Latin.

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