| Author: | Pliny, the Elder. |
| Title: | The secrets and wonders of the world. A booke right rare and straunge, containing many excellent properties, giuen to man, beastes, foules, fishes and serpents, trees, plants &c. Abstracted out of that excellent naturall historiographer Plinie. Translated out of French into English. |
| Print source: | The secrets and wonders of the world. A booke right rare and straunge, containing many excellent properties, giuen to man, beastes, foules, fishes and serpents, trees, plants &c. Abstracted out of that excellent naturall historiographer Plinie. Translated out of French into English. Pliny, the Elder., Alday, John,, I. A., At London: Printed [by Henry Denham] for Thomas Hacket, are are to be solde at his shop in Lumberd streete, vnder the Popes head, 1585. |
| Alternate titles: | Naturalis historia. English. Abridgments Naturalis historia. Secrets and wonders of the worlde. |
| Notes: |
A translation of Pierre de Changy's French abstract of Pliny's "Naturalis historia". A previous edition (STC 20031) had translator's initials I.A., i.e. John Alday?.
Printer's name from STC.
Signatures: A2 B-H4 I2.
Running title reads: Secrets and wonders of the worlde.
The last leaf is blank.
Reproduction of a photostat of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
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| Subject terms: |
Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works.
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| URL: | https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09766.0001.001 |
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