First edition. 46pp, richly illustrated in colour. Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Orange endpapers. 4to. Cloth very slightly pushed at spine ends else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout barring a previous owner's name inked on the front free endpaper. In its original glossy dust wrapper, gently bumped at edges.
An examination and exploration of the one surviving text of the Roman historian, Pliny the Elder.
