The Historie of the World.
Commonly called,
THE NATURALL HISTORIE OF
C. PLINIUS SECUNDUS.
Translated into English by PHILEMON HOLLAND
Doctor in Physic.
1601
Commonly called,
THE NATURALL HISTORIE OF
C. PLINIUS SECUNDUS.
Translated into English by PHILEMON HOLLAND
Doctor in Physic.
1601
The Contents
| The Dedicatory Letter | P. i (unnumbered) |
| The Preface to the Reader | PP. ii-vii (unnumbered) |
| Errata | P. viii (unnumbered) |
| Plinies Epistle to T. Vespasian | PP. ix-xvi (unnumbered) |
| Book I (Pliny's table of contents) | PP. 1- (unnumbered) |
| Book II (The earth in general: weather, astronomy, the size of the earth and its nature.) | PP. 1-49 |
| Book III (Geography: Europe.) | PP. 50-71 |
| Book IV (Geography: Greece, and the Lies of the Greeks.) | PP. 72-89 |
| Book V (Geography: Africa and Magna Graecia.) | PP. 90-114 |
| Book VI (Geography: Asia. Wondrous shapes of men. Divisions of the Earth.) | PP. 114-151 |
| Book VII (The nature of man: length of life, time of gestation, biggest, smallest, life and death, inventions, and many and sundry stories.) | PP. 152-191 |
| Book VIII (Terrestrial beasts other than man: elephants, bears, tigers, lions, snails, mice, rats, dormice, along with the more fabulous basilisks and so on.) | PP. 192-234 |
| Book IX (Fishes and aquatic animals and their productions: mice of the Nile, pearls, purple, land-fish, lobsters, octopodes, squids, pike, oysters, and shrimp. And so on.) | PP. 234-270 |
| Book X (Birds, with digressions on fertility, modes of reproduction, the enmities and friendships of animals one for the other, whether animals sleep and dream, and animal senses. And a few tirades on luxurious diet.) | PP. 270-309 |
| Book XI (Insects, supposedly, although they occupy less than half of a very long book; the remainder is parts of animals (necks and gizzards and arms, that is), more asides on diet, and stories about the names of Romans.) | PP. 310-356 |
| Book XII (Foreign plants, especially spices.) | PP. 356-379 |
| Book XIII (More foreign plants: trees, papyrus and other aquatic plants. Another tirade on luxury, masquerading as a description of fancy tables.) | PP. 380-402 |
| Book XIV (Plants of Italy: The vine.) | PP. 403-428 |
| Book XV (Fruit-bearing Trees: Olives, apples, pears, nuts and so on.) | PP. 428-454 |
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