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Sommaire des singularitez de Pline, extraict des seize premiers livres de sa Naturelle histoire, et mis en vulgaire françois, par Pierre de Changy

Changy, Pierre de · 1546 · Lyon : Jean de Tournes · 3 pictures

A 1546 French printed book published in Lyon by Jean de Tournes, a French translation by Pierre de Changy of selected natural history from Pliny's works, dedicated to a cardinal and aimed at a learned readership. Its pictures are a decorated historiated initial with a small figure, a plain woodcut-style decorative initial, and a title page with a dedicatory heading, a portrait-style vignette and a printed ornamental border, showing how Renaissance page furniture organizes text.

Pline

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