Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Historia naturalis.
Call Number
EXKA Incunabula 1469
South wall 13, 2904.1469e
60.3
Identifier
ark:/88435/q237hx283
Publisher
[Venice, Johannes de Spira before 18 Sept.] 1469.
Language
Latin
Date Created
1469
Extent
[356] leaves (the last blank) 41 cm. (fol.)
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 has bookplates of Brayton Ives and Sir John Hayford Thorold and armorial bookplate of Syston Park (1884, sale lot 1556, to Quaritch for £57).
Princeton copy 2 has arms on front and back covers with inscription: Godefridus Dei gratia abbas Gottwicensis.
Princeton copy 2 has bookplate of Grenville Kane.
Princeton copy 3 acquired 5/13/29 from Olschki.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 presented by Junius S. Morgan.
References
Goff P-786
Hain-Copinger-Reichling 13087 (variation)
BM 15th cent., V, p. 153 (IC.19506) (variations)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
All gatherings unsigned.
Colophon: Restituit Venetis me nuper Spira Ioannes ... .M.CCCC.LXVIIII.
Princeton copy 1 has initial capitals rubricated, and border on l.1a. Pages numbered in ink, but incorrectly, 232-3, 244-5 and 442-3 being repeated.
"First edition, extremely rare."
Princeton copy 1 and 2 imperfect: last blank leaf wanting.
Princeton copy 3 imperfect: leaves 10, 11, 354, 355 are supplied in facsimile; 2 blank leaves wanting.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 2 in old calf with arms in gold as above; all edges speckled; clasps and catches intact.
Princeton copy 3 bound by Gozzi.

Discovery Information

Subject
Natural history—Pre-Linnean works
Armorial bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
720

Institutional Information

Collection
In Principio: Europe's First Printers, 1450-1470
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/83eb3e5d-4839-4690-8ae3-72145e5573b0/manifest