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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.

Naturkunde : Lateinisch-deutsch. Buch XIV/XV, Botanik / herausgegeben und übersetzt von Roderich König ; in Zusammenarbeit mit Gerhard Winkler Fruchtbäume / C. Plinius Secundus d.Ä.

C. Plini Secundi Naturalis historiæ opus / ab innumeris mendis à D. Johanne Cæsario ... uindicatum, inuenta primũ ab eo, & à nullo quidem antea animaduersa, concinna rõne quædã id opus in septem pemptades siue quinarios [divisum] Dispartiendi ; adjectiśq; in singulos argumentis, & breuiusculis simul in margine scholijs, ab eodẽ illustratũ.

Naturkunde : Lateinisch-deutsch. Buch VII, Anthropologie / herausgegeben und übersetzt von Roderich König ; in Zusammenarbeit mit Gerhard Winkler / C. Plinius Secundus d.Ä.

Aureum opus et sublime ad medellam non parum utile Plinii philosophi et medici integerrimi / Nonnullasque opuscula videlicet Joannis Almenar: Nicolai Leoniceni interpretis fidelissimi ambobus: De morbo gallico ut vulgo dicitur: Angeli Bolognini de cura ulcerum exteriorum: Alexandri Benedicti de peste: et Dominici Arcignanei de ponderibus et mensuris nuper inventi.

The natural history of Pliny / Tr., with copious notes and illustrations, by the late John Bostock and H.T. Riley.

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Naturkunde : Lateinisch-deutsch. Buch XIV/XV, Botanik / herausgegeben und übersetzt von Roderich König ; in Zusammenarbeit mit Gerhard Winkler Fruchtbäume / C. Plinius Secundus d.Ä.

Naturkunde : Lateinisch-deutsch. Buch VII, Anthropologie / herausgegeben und übersetzt von Roderich König ; in Zusammenarbeit mit Gerhard Winkler / C. Plinius Secundus d.Ä.

The natural history of Pliny / Tr., with copious notes and illustrations, by the late John Bostock and H.T. Riley.