Gaius Plinius Secundus the older - Caii Plynii Secundi Naturalis Hystoriae - 1481

Caii Plynii Secundi Naturalis hystoriae
Parmae, impressus opera & impensa Andreae Portiliae, 1481

Uncommon incunabulum, consisting of 256 (out of 268) sheets, ten initial white sheets and two white sheets placed before sheet dd2, bound later.

Non-coeval half parchment binding (nineteenth century) with label on the spine, front and back endpaper.

Drop caps handwritten with red and blue ink, large and small.

Book size: approximately 28 x 41 x 6 cm.

In good overall condition. Missing sheets a1-a8 (a1 blank), b1, dd1, ee4, ee6 (blank).
Some coeval handwritten notes on various pages and some underlined words. Defect on bottom right on sheet d2, which does not damage the text. A few slight stains on some pages.
Slightly trimmed pages. Handwritten numbering from page 37 to page 500. Nineteenth-century additions to the white margins of the last two sheets and to sheet c1, which also has a partially restored cut. Small tear at the white bottom margin of sheets b2 and s6.