PLINE L’ANCIEN

PLINE L’ANCIEN. L’Histoire du monde, collationnee & corrigee sur plusieurs vieux exemplaires latins, tant imprimez qu’escrits a la main. Lyon, Antoine Tardif, 1584. 2 volumes in-folio, new edition of Antoine du Pinet’s translation. Bound in later green half-basane, 5-ribbed spine. Handwritten bookplate of Jule Itier, director of customs in Montpellier and famous as one of the first amateur photographers to use daguerreotypes, which he used in Senegal, Macao, Guyana and China.