Plinius. Historia Naturalis. Venice: John of Speier, 1469.
Quem modo tam rarum cupiens vix lector haberet,
Quique etiam fractus pene legendus eram:
Restituit Venetis me nuper Spira Ioannes:
Exscripsitque libros aere notante meos.
Fessa manus quondam moneo: calamusque quiescat,
Namque labor studio cessit: et ingenio.
M.CCCC.LXVIIII.
I, erst so rare few bookmen could afford me,
And erst so blurred that buyers’ eyes would fail—