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| Category : Science & Medicine (Pre-1930) > Other Antique Science, Medical | Item Id: 173204 | | Subject: History | Author: Pliny | | Topic: Ancient | Region: Europe | | Original/Facsimile: Original | Language: English | | Binding: Fine Binding | Literature & Fiction: Essays & Speeches | | Special Attributes: Woodcuts, Renaissance, Quarto, Shakespeare, Early Modern, English History, Provenance, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Rome, Roman Empire, Science, Natural History, Encyclopaedia, Illustrated | Tudor: Elizabethan | | Publisher: Adam Islip | Science & Medicine: Natural History | | Place of Publication: London | Translator: Philemon Holland | | Year Printed: 1601 | |
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They had been mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus in the 5th century BC, but Pliny made them better known
This Booke I wrote with one poore Pen, made of a grey Goose quill
The volume measures about 30.5 cm by 22.8 cm by 7.6 cm
each leaf measures about 294 mm by 208 mm
THE VOLUME IS BOUND IN 18TH CENTURY ENGLISH CALF
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