[16th century book]. PLINE L'ANCIEN. L'Histoire du monde, co - Lot 86

[16th century book]. PLINE L'ANCIEN. L'Histoire du monde, collationnée & corrigée sur plusieurs vieux exemplaires latins, tant imprimez qu'escrits à la main... Avec deux tables... A Lyon, par Antoine Tardif, 1584. 4 parts in one very large in-folio volume, [4] f., VII p., p. XI-XXXI, 678 p., [1] f. blanc, [78] f. ; [14] f., p.1-392, 411-745, [1] f. blanc, [51] f., half-brown basane circa 1900, spine with 5 ornamented bands, black title page (defects including snags to headpieces, small worm tracts to boards, rubbed edges; rare marginal defects and accidents, margins of last 10 f. repaired; old underlining throughout the volume; 12 ff. lacking). New edition of this long-authoritative French translation by Protestant writer Antoine Du Pinet. Each part is followed by an extensive index. Woodcut headbands and initials. 2 introductory leaves are missing from the first part (*5 and 6), and 10 leaves from the second part (Mm 5 and 6, Nn 1-6, Oo1, and i 4 blank). The copy has been extensively underlined and annotated (USTC 30327 and 56144).