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PLÍNIO SEGUNDO (Caio). NATURALIS Historiae Libri XXXVII. Lipsiae. 1870-1880. - PLÍNIO SEGUNDO (Caio) NATURALIS Historiae Libri XXXVII . Recognovit atque indicibus instruxit Ludovicus Janus. Vol. I: Editio altera denuo recognita. Vol. II: Post Ludovici Iani obitum recognovit et scripturae discrepantia adiecta edidit Carolus Mayhoff. Lipsiae: In Aedibus B. G. Teubneri; Sumptibus et Typis B. G. Teubneri, 1870-1880. 5 v. em 2; 180 mm. Complete text of the thirty-seven books of Pliny the Elder's Natural History, in the critical edition from the Teubner publishing house in Leipzig, in a mixed composition reflecting the progressive replacement of Ludwig von Jan's recension by that of Karl Mayhoff: vol. I in Jan's second revised edition (1870); vol. II in Mayhoff's new recension, which continued the work after Jan's death, adding a record of the variants (1875); vols. III to V with the text established by Jan, in printings of 1878 and 1880. Naturalis Historia is the great encyclopedia of natural knowledge from Antiquity, encompassing cosmology, geography, anthropology, zoology, botany, medicine and pharmacology, metallurgy and mineralogy; the final books, on metals and stones, also contain the most extensive ancient information on Greek and Roman painting and sculpture. The editions by Jan and Mayhoff were for decades the reference text for philologists and historians of science. Estimated. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate