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Sale 428: Americana - Travel - Natural History - Cartography (#428) 05/13/2010 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #38 Ex Aeliani Historia per Petrum Gyllium Latini Facti Itemque ex Porphyrio, Heliodoro, Oppiana, tum Eodem Gyllio Luclentis Accessionibus Aucti Libri XVI

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Title:

Ex Aeliani Historia per Petrum Gyllium Latini Facti Itemque ex Porphyrio, Heliodoro, Oppiana, tum Eodem Gyllio Luclentis Accessionibus Aucti Libri XVI

Author:

Gillius, Petrus

Place Published:

Lyons

Publisher:

Seb. Gryphium

Date Published:

1535

Description:

599, (11) pp. (8vo) 20x15 cm (8x6") full calf. Early edition.

"This rare work contains the first description of the elephant from nature" (Wood). This volume includes only an excerpt of Aelianus. Gillius, primarily responsible for this work, uses culled facts from other writers of the time. This work was first published in 1533.

Condition:

Spine head chipped, some edge wear, lacking front free endpaper; an occasional marginal notation and a few notes on title page, minor worming in gutter of a few leaves; very good.

Item#:

210132

Headline:

Early description of the Elephant 1535
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