1st-century Roman military commander and writer

concept

Caius Plinius Secundus. Woodcut.

Figures representing the investigation of nature; in the background, Pliny the elder being killed while investigating Vesuvius during its eruption. Engraving by J. Wangner after G. Eichler the younger, ca. 1759.

Caius Plinius Secundus. Lithograph by Dumont.

Caius Plinius Secundus senior. Stipple engraving by F. W. Bollinger.

Caius Plinius Secundus. Line engraving.

I medici e la medicina in Plinio, il naturalista / [Aldo Spallicci].

Pliny on mineralogy and metals / J.F. Healy.

The natural history of pigeons / Illustrated by thirty-two plates, coloured, and numerous woodcuts. With memoir of Pliny by Andrew Crichton.

The School of Ferrara and the controversy on Pliny / by Arturo Castiglioni.

Bruchstücke der 'Physica Plinii' im spätmittelalterlichen England / Klaus-Dietrich Fischer.

C. Plinii Secondi Naturalis historiae libri xxxvii / e castigationibus Hermolai Barbari ac codicis in Alemania impressi quam emendatissime editi. Additio indice q[ue] copiosissimo, figurisq[ue] ad singulorum librorum materiam aptissimis.

[Phytobasanos] sive plantarum aliqvot historia. In qva describvntvr diversi generis plantæ veriores, ac magis facie, viribúsque respondentes antiquorum Theophrasti, Diocoridis, Plinij, Galeni, aliorúmque delineationibus, ab alijs hucusque non animaduersæ / Fabio Colvmna avctore. Accessit etiam piscivm aliqvot, plantarúmque nouarum historia eodem auctore.

Historia naturalis / Di C. Plinio Secondo tradocta di lingua latina in fiorentina per Christophoro Landino fiorentino al serenissimo Fernando Re di Napoli.

Aureum opus et sublime ad medellam non parum utile Plinii philosophi et medici integerrimi / Nonnullasque opuscula videlicet Joannis Almenar: Nicolai Leoniceni interpretis fidelissimi ambobus: De morbo gallico ut vulgo dicitur: Angeli Bolognini de cura ulcerum exteriorum: Alexandri Benedicti de peste: et Dominici Arcignanei de ponderibus et mensuris nuper inventi.

The natural history of Pliny / Tr., with copious notes and illustrations, by the late John Bostock and H.T. Riley.

Historia naturalis / [Translated into Italian by Cristoforo Landino].

Plinii Secundi quae fertur una cum Gargilii Martialis medicina / nunc primun edita a Valentino Rose.

De re medica huic volumini insunt, Sorani Ephesii in artem medendi Isagoge, hactenus non visa. Oribasii Sardiani fragmentum de victus ratione antea nunquam aeditum. Caii Plinii Secundi de re medica libri V accuratius recogniti, et repurgati.

Galleries and Reading Room

Library

Shop

Café

Please note, due to essential maintenance work to our systems, you will be unable to request items in our collections; apply for, renew or pre-register for a library membership; or use our computers, laptops and printers from 06:00 on Saturday 12 July until 06:00 on Sunday 13 July. Our library will remain open as usual. Thank you for your understanding.

We're running paid user research studies to improve Wellcome Collection online

Take part in research

Pliny the Elder

Images from the collections

Images by Pliny the Elder

Images featuring Pliny the Elder

Works from the collections

The natural history of Pliny / Tr., with copious notes and illustrations, by the late John Bostock and H.T. Riley.

Historia naturalis / [Translated into Italian by Cristoforo Landino].

Plinii Secundi quae fertur una cum Gargilii Martialis medicina / nunc primun edita a Valentino Rose.

De re medica huic volumini insunt, Sorani Ephesii in artem medendi Isagoge, hactenus non visa. Oribasii Sardiani fragmentum de victus ratione antea nunquam aeditum. Caii Plinii Secundi de re medica libri V accuratius recogniti, et repurgati.

Frequent collaborators

Pliny the Elder

Images from the collections

Images by Pliny the Elder

Images featuring Pliny the Elder

Works from the collections

The natural history of Pliny / Tr., with copious notes and illustrations, by the late John Bostock and H.T. Riley.

Historia naturalis / [Translated into Italian by Cristoforo Landino].

Plinii Secundi quae fertur una cum Gargilii Martialis medicina / nunc primun edita a Valentino Rose.

De re medica huic volumini insunt, Sorani Ephesii in artem medendi Isagoge, hactenus non visa. Oribasii Sardiani fragmentum de victus ratione antea nunquam aeditum. Caii Plinii Secundi de re medica libri V accuratius recogniti, et repurgati.

Frequent collaborators

Related topics