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Inventorum natura : the wonderful voyage of Pliny

Title
Inventorum natura : the wonderful voyage of Pliny / Una Woodruff ; [translation by D. MacSweeney].
Author
Woodruff, Una
Publication
New York : Harper & Row, 1979.

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Additional Authors
Pliny, the Elder
Description
126 p. : chiefly col. ill., col. maps; 31 cm.
Subject
  • Fantasy in art
  • Natural history > Fiction > Illustrations
  • Voyages and travels > Fiction > Illustrations
Note
  • "The journal of [Pliny's] three-year expedition to distant lands, begun in about 53 A.D., with the object of making first-hand observations of the creatures he was later to describe in his monumental Natural history (77 A.D.)"--Introd.
  • Edited from the restored fragments of a 1st cent. ms. owned by the Somerset family, near Glastonbury, Eng.; includes Una Woodruff's scientific reconstructions of the biological specimens in the ms.
  • Text in English and Latin.
ISBN
0060147261
LCCN
79063799
OCLC
  • 5857697
  • SCSB-32934
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library