C. Plinii Secundi naturae historiarum libri XXXVII
This is a Latin natural history encyclopaedia by Pliny the Elder, printed in Venice by Bartolomeo Benali, with no illustrations, only dense typeset pages of names and text. The pictures are close views of Roman-type pages with running headers, long lines of capitalised names and Latin prose in a compact black letter-spaced setting, showing an early printed book's typography, justification and page density that a designer could study for classical text layout.
