Plinius, Epistolae, Naples, 1476, eighteenth-century red morocco gilt

Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Gaius

Epistolae [edited by Junianus Maius]. Naples: Mathias Moravus, July 1476

Chancery folio (288 x 215mm.), 108 leaves, [a¹²] b⁸ c¹⁰ d–f⁸ g¹⁰ h⁸ i¹⁰ k l⁸ m¹⁰, leaf [a]7 a blank, 30 lines, roman type, initial spaces, gaps left for the insertion of Greek quotations by hand, eighteenth-century red morocco elaborately gilt, green silk boardliners, endpapers with large armorial watermark dated 1788, modern slipcase, rebacked in calf, edges of boards repaired

A LARGE CLEAN COPY with beautiful wide margins. The editor, Junianus Maius (Giuniano Maio), was a humanist at the Aragonese court in Naples.

LITERATURE:

ISTC ip00806000

PROVENANCE:

Philipp Wilhelm Lincker von Lützenwick, of Poběžovice or Lnáře (Bohemia), eighteenth-century armorial bookplate