PLINIUS SECUNDUS, CAIUS.

Epistolarum Libros decem, cum Notis selectis... Recensuerunt suisque animadversionibus illustrarunt Gottlieb Cortius et Paulus Daniel Longolius.

Amsterdam, Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1734. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Ms title on spine. Engraved frontispiece. Engraved titlevignette. (52),846 pp. + Indexes. Occassional very light browning to upper margins. Clean and fine. From the library of Frederik Heyman with his exlibris on inside frontcover. Front free endpaper with other owners names.

First edition of the renowned edition by Longolius. "This is a very critical and elaborate edition, calculated for those who wish to enter minutely into the niceties of grammatical construction and historical illustration. No pains have been spared to collect whatever information the more ancient editions could afford, and the elegant Epistles of Pliny have here received as large a portion of classical commentary as was ever contained in any publication of an author whose writings were equally confined. The work was begun and chiefly compiled by Cortius; but, on his death, his pupil Longolius put the finishing stroke to the undertaking, adding a great number of his own notes and emendations." (Dibdin II, p. 332).

Order-nr.: 50073