1st-century Roman military commander and writer

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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.

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].

Viehartznei. Erziehung, Gebrauch, Lernung, Artznei in zufelligen und natürlichen Kranckheyten, aller Zahmen, dem Menschen gebräuchlichen, und geheymen Thier und Viehs. Als nemlich. Pferd, Esel, Ochsen, Rüe, Säwe, Schaf, etc.: Tauben, Hüner, Gänsz, Wasser und Lufftvögel, etc., Immen ... Ausz Varrone, Plinio, Vergilio, Palladio, etc.

Historia plantarvm et vires ex Dioscoride, Pavlo Aegineta, Theophrasto, Plinio et recetioribus Graecis, iuxta elementorum ordinem / Per Conradvm Gesnerum Tigurinum ; Adiecta ad margine nomenclatura qua singulas herbas officinae, herbarij, & vulgus Gallicum effere solent.

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Pliny the Elder

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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].

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.

Historia plantarvm et vires ex Dioscoride, Pavlo Aegineta, Theophrasto, Plinio et recetioribus Graecis, iuxta elementorum ordinem / Per Conradvm Gesnerum Tigurinum ; Adiecta ad margine nomenclatura qua singulas herbas officinae, herbarij, & vulgus Gallicum effere solent.

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Pliny the Elder

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Images by Pliny the Elder

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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].

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.

Historia plantarvm et vires ex Dioscoride, Pavlo Aegineta, Theophrasto, Plinio et recetioribus Graecis, iuxta elementorum ordinem / Per Conradvm Gesnerum Tigurinum ; Adiecta ad margine nomenclatura qua singulas herbas officinae, herbarij, & vulgus Gallicum effere solent.

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