[PLINY THE YOUNGER (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus)]. C. Pli. Caecilii Junioris Nouocomensis Plinii Secundi Veronensis Nepotis libri Epistolarum nouem addito nu[n]c [et] Decimo cum Panegyrico.i.oratione de laudibus Traiani I[m]peratoris una cum luculentissima Ioannis Mariae Catanaei expositione his omnibus libris adiuncta felice sydere incipiunt : quarum diligentissime nuper recogniti fideliterque impressi. Venetiis [Venice]: per Ioannem Rubeum Vercellensem. Anno Dni. M.CCCCC.XIX. [1519] Die. XV. Decembris [December 15].
Hardcover. Folio (315 x 220 mm), ff. [4], CCXLVII (247 leaves numbered in Roman numerals). Signatures: .[ ]4 a10 b-z⁸ [&]⁶ A-G⁸. Modern vellum binding. Title-page with woodcut device and surrounding border with dolphin motifs. Imprint from colophon: 'Venetiis per Ioannem Rubeum Vercellesem Anno Dni MCCCCCXIX. Die XV Decembris'. Latin text in Roman letter in up to 46 lines, interspersed with occasional words and paragraphs in Greek, with surrounding commentary in small characters in lines of sixty and shoulder notes. Index at front in four columns on unpaginated leaves. Numerous and variable decorative woodcut floriated and historiated capitals. Ten repeat woodcut illustrations of Pliny working at a desk. Terminal blank present.
Condition: Collated complete. Binding secure. Head perhaps a little short, otherwise margins correct. Largely fresh interior, the leaves generally very clean with very occasional signs of light browning. No marginalia or inking. Scarce post-incunabulum.
