[Rarebooks] Fs: All About Fish and Fishing

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Oppianus. OPPIANI POETAE ALIEUTICON, SIVE DE PISCIBUS... C. Plinii Secundi Naturalis Historicae Libri Duo... Sive Piscibus. Pauli Item Jovii, De Piscibus Liber Unus... Strassburg: Jacobus Cammerlander. 1534. Sm. 4to. ff.(4),152. Verso of final leaf with the large woodcut printer's device. 19th(?) century full calf, stained dark red. Final 45 leaves with an old water stain and minor worming at blank bottom margin, and a bit of soiling to some final leaves at blank outer margin. $2,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Text in 3 parts: first is the second Latin translation of Oppian's HALIEUTICA, a long poem on fishing; second is Pliny's book 9 and book 32, both relating to fish; and third is Paolo Giovio's text on fish. This edition was edited by Johann Caesarius (1468-1550). Adams O 202; VD 16 0803; Hoffman III:12.

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