Natural history : in ten volumes

Author(s)

• Pliny, the Elder
• Rackham, H. (Harris)
• Jones, W. H. S. (William Henry Samuel)
• Eichholz, D. E.
• Loeb, James

Bibliographic Information

Natural history : in ten volumes

Pliny ; with an English translation by H. Rackham

（The Loeb classical library, ; 352, 392, 418-419）

Harvard University Press, 1989

• 2
• 6
• 8
• 10

Note

Reprint. First published 1942-

v. 6, 8: translated by W.H.S. Jones -- v. 10: translated by D.E. Eichholz

Latin and English on opposite pages

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Pliny the Elder, tireless researcher and writer, is author of the encyclopedic Natural History, in 37 books, an unrivaled compendium of Roman knowledge. The contents of the books are as follows. Book 1: table of contents of the others and of authorities; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe; 3-6: geography and ethnography of the known world; 7: anthropology and the physiology of man; 8-11: zoology; 12-19: botany, agriculture, and horticulture; 20-27: plant products as used in medicine; 28-32: medical zoology; 33-37: minerals (and medicine), the fine arts, and gemstones. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Natural History is in ten volumes.

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Details

• NCID: BA18557401
• ISBN:
  • 0674993888
  • 0674994310
  • 0674994604
  • 0674994612
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: englat
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: v. <2, 6, 8, 10 >
• Size: 17 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00254115