AESOP.

Aesopi Phrygis, et aliorum fabulae, quorum nomina sequens pagella indicabit, elegantissimis iconibus in gratiam juventutis illustratae, Pluribusque auctae, & diligentius, quam antehac emandatae. Cum indice locupletisimo.Bassano, Jo. Antonius Remondinus, 1734. 12mo. With woodcut printer’s vignette on title-page and some woodcut initials and 76 woodcuts (ca. 42 x 55 mm.), partly after Bernard Salomon, partly after Nicolaus and Gerardus Jansen van Kampen. Sheepskin over boards.

279, [280], [8] pp.Elegant edition of de Dorpius redaction of the Aesop fables. All Latin 349 fables in prose are printed in one column, each with a ‘Adfabulation’. The edition is an almost page-for-page reprint of an earlier Bassano edition (see nr. 35) which is a reprint of the Brescia edition of 1623 (Bodemann, 64.1), with partly the same woodcuts as in the undated earlier Bassano edition, which are after those in the 1623 edition but somewhat enlarged. The woodcuts in our edition (not all!) are more worn down than in the u dated Bassano edition).l Bodemann, 64. 2 (variant, or printing error in Bodemann: 1743 = 1734?), see also 64.1 (& 31.1); not in Fabulae docet.

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AESOP.

Aesopi Phrygis, et aliorum Fabulae …. Elegantissimis iconibus in gratiam studiose juventutis illustratae. Pluribusque auctae & diligentius quam antehac emendatae. Cum indice locupletissimo.Madrid, for Petrus Lopez and his brother, 1815. 12mo. With woodcut of the writing Aesop on title and 86 woodcuts (ca. 43 x 56 mm.). Marbled calf over boards.

324, [12] pp.Nineteenth-century edition of de Dorpius redaction of the Aesop fables, the collection of the Aesop fables in prose, originally compiled by Martinus Dorpius (1485-1525), a humanist teaching in Louvain. This so-called ‘Aesopus Dorpii’, was first published in 1509 in Antwerp. All 349 Latin Fables are provided with an ‘Adfabulation’. The Dorpius compilation has been very important for the diffusion of Aesop as a textbook during the following centuries and was reprinted in a variety of ways at least two hundred times. Four of the woodcuts are illustrating the Vita, 82 the Fables.Ownership’s entry of Franc. Ant. Vetonnes, 1819, on first fly-leaf. The woodcuts are partly rather worn out. Title a bit soiled, some slight browning at the end.l Cf. Bodemann, 64,1-3 (1623, 1734, 1788: Madrid with 81 woodcuts).

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AESOP & BABRIUS.

Aesopi Phrygis fabulae elegantissimis eiconibus veras animalium species ad vivum adumbrantes. Gabriae Graeci fabellae lxiv [recté lxiii]. Haec omnia cum Latina interpretatione. Nunc postremùm excusa & accuratè recognita.Paris, Jean Libert, 1623. 16mo. Contemporary French gold-tooled calf, each board with the coat-of-arms of Henri de La Tour (1555-1623), Duc de Bouillon and Prince of Sedan, who married the daughter of William the Silent, founding father of the Dutch Republic (with a French Ducal crown, the whole in a wreath of 2 laurel branches with berries).

[2], 236, [1] pp.Very rare 24º edition of 150 prose fables by Aesop and 43 verse fables by Babrius (here called Gabrius) in Greek and Latin on facing pages, remotely based on the text of the illustrated humanistic editions published by Jean de Tournes in Lyons. While the existence of Aesop (ca. 620-ca. 584 BCE) as a story teller is attested in many early sources, the canon that appears under his name contains fables passed down orally and rendered in literary form by many authors over the centuries. Babrius wrote verse fables shortly before 200 CE that were later rendered in Greek prose and added to the Aesop canon. Although the title-page indicates that the fables are illustrated, the present edition never contains woodcuts: Libert apparently copied his title from one of the illustrated editions. He does include Maximus Planudes’s extensive account of Aesop’s life preceding the fables. Although the earliest European marbled papers appear to have been made in or around southern Germany, they were not combed. Wolfe notes that the French first used marbled paper for bookbindings, and the present paste-downs closely resemble his earliest example of combed marbled paper. The arms on the binding are quartered, with an inescutcheon. The Counts of Auvergne had born the quartered arms of La Tour and the Counts of Auvergne with the inescutcheon of the Counts of Boulogne since 1389. With the Counts of Boulogne extinct, the arms passed to another branch of the family, descending to Henri de La Tour (1555-1623), who took the title Duc de Bouillon by marriage in 1591 and (later?) inherited the title Vicomte de Turenne from his father. In 1595 he married Elisabeth van Oranje Nassau, daughter of William the Silent (1533-1584). Their second son was the famous Marshal Turenne (1611-1675). Early owner’s inscription on title-page in ink. Lacking the last leaf of the index, title-page cut short at the head (not affecting the text) and a small worm hole in the second half, sometime affecting a letter in the first line, but otherwise in good condition. Binding rubbed (not affecting the arms) and backstrip worn, a few small chips and holes and hinges cracked.l KVK & WorldCat (2 or 3 copies); cf. Bodemann, 29.2 (similar 1570 De Tournes ed.).

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AESOP.

Aesopi Phrygis, et aliorum Fabulae, quorum nomina seqens pagella indicabit. Elegantissimis iconibus … illustratae. Pluribusque auctae, & diligentius quam antehac emendatae. Cum Indice locupletissimo.Venice & Bassano, Jo. Antonius Remondinus, [ca.1730; before 1734]. 12mo. Title-page framed in double lines with woodcut printer’s device; some woodcut initials, typographical head- and tail pieces, and typographical borders, also the 76 woodcuts (ca. 42 x 55 mm.) are all framed in a typographical border and are partly after Bernard Salomon, partly after Nicolaus and Gerardus Jansen van Kampen. Full calf.

279, [280], [8] pp.Elegant edition of de Dorpius redaction of the Aesop fables. All Latin 349 fables in prose are printed in one column, each with a ‘Adfabulation’. Our edition is a reprint of the Brescia edition of 1623 (Bodemann, 64.1) with woodcuts after those in the 1623 edition but somewhat enlarged. Our copy is an undated variant of Bodemann, 64.2: identical title and imprint, etc., dated 1743 [printing error for 1734?]. Most of the woodcuts (not all!) in our edition are less worn down than in the 1734 edition (see nr. 36)).With two 19th-cent. German ownership’s entries on first fly-leaf. Some pages in the beginning slightly cropped, some margins repaired. Spine slightly damaged.l Bodemann, 64. 2 (variant), see also 64.1 (& 31.1); not in Fabulae docet.

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AESOP.

Aesopus des Phrygiers Leben und Fabeln, nebst den Fabeln des Philelphus. Mit des Herrn von Bellegarde moralischen und historischen Anmerkungen welchen die Fabeln des Gabrias und Avianus und die Mährchen des Aesopus beygefüget worden. Neue sehr verbesserte Uebersetzung aus dem Französischen.Copenhagen, [widow of Gabr. Christ. Rothen] & Leipzig, Christian Gottlob Prost, 1781. 8vo. With a woodcut title-vignette, woodcut head- and tailpieces and 117 etchings with captions "Fab. I-CXVII" illustrating the 117 Aesop fables, each pasted on separate leaves, except the last one (Fab. CXVII). Contemporary half calf, brown paper sides, brown morocco spine label with the title in (oxidized) gold.

XXIV, 576 pp.The second edition of the German translation of the French edition of the Aesop fables by Jean-Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde (1648-1734), with extensive dialogues on the moral of each fable together with the life of Aesop by Planudes, the 18 fables of the Italian renaissance humanist and classical scholar Francesco Philelphus (1398-1481), and the fables of Gabrias and Avianus (Amsterdam, for Pierre Mortier, 1708). The first edition appeared in Copenhagen by the widow of Gabr. Christ. Rothen, und in 1769 in Leipzig by Christian Gottlob Prost (Bodemann, 97.4). The 117 etchings illustrating the Aesop fables are after the engravings of the first edition, but are different.Leather worn, top of spine lacking, boards damaged with the right corner of the front board nearly cracked, hinges weak. Some small stains. Otherwise in good condition.l Cf. Bodemann, 97.4 (first edition); not in Fabula docet.

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AESOP.

Fabellae Graece et Latine, cum aliis opusculis, quorum index proxima refertur pagella. Venice, (colophon: Giovanni Farri and brothers), 1542. Small 8vo (16 x 11 cm). With 1 woodcut decorated initial but further with spaces left for manuscript Greek and Latin initials (with printed guide letters). Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, with fragments of a vellum manuscript used to reinforce the spine.

364, [4] pp.Venice school edition of Aesop's fables with parallel text in Greek and Latin. The book is neatly printed and the clear Greek type has relatively few ligatures. Besides the life of Aesop and Aesop's fables, the book contains several collections of fables and single fables by other authors (pp. 232-364): [Ignatius von Nicaea], Gabriae Graeci fabellae (often added to the Aesop canon); Aphthonius, Excercitamentis de fabula; Philostratus, De fabula; pseudo Homer, Batrachomyomachia (the battle of frogs and mice, a parody of Homer's Iliad); Musaeus, De Ero & Leandro (Hero and Leander; Agapetus, De officio regis; Hippocrates, Ius iurandum (the Hippocratic oath!), and [Theodorus Prodromus], Galeomnomachia (the battle between the cats and the mice), the last two in Greek only. The book ends with a 4-page index and the colophon.With a few contemporary manuscript notes in brown ink. With some marginal worm holes, mostly in the gutter of quires r and s, and some mostly marginal water stains, more serious in quire c, and a dark stain in the upper outside corner of 2 leaves, not approaching the text, otherwise in good condition. The binding is wrinkled, with a 1½ x 2 cm gap in the backstrip, some small tears and the 2 pair of ties lost. A nice early student edition of Aesop with very extensive additions.l EDIT 16, CNCE 364; STC Italian, p. 8; USTC 807871.

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AESOP/FAERNO.

Fables in English and French Verse. Translated from the original Latin of Gabriele Faerno. With hundred Copper-plates.London, for Claude du Bosci, and sold by C. Davis, 1741. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece by Claude Du Bosc (Aesop communicating with the animals), 100 engraved illustrating the 100 Fables (ca. 96 x 110), inspired by the fable illustrations by Marcus Gheeraerts, numerous head- and tailpieces by Henry Woodfall. Full calf over boards.

[2], XVI, 190, [2], VI, 3-191 pp.First edition of this lovely printed collection of the famous ‘100 (Aesop) fables’ , originally translated in elegant Latin verses by Gabriel Faerno (1563), and now translated into English and French verses by Claude Du Bosc and Charles Perrault.Pope Pius IV, convinced that reading the fables of Aesop was of great use in forming the morals of young children, commissioned Gabriel Faerno, whom he knew as an excellent poet as well as a man with a taste for elegant and beautiful Latinity, to versify these fables so that children might learn, at the same time and from the same book, both moral and linguistic purity. Faerno (1510-1561), a scrupulous scholar and Latin poet from Cremona, has been called a second Phaedrus, by reason of the excellent style of his Fables, though he never saw Phaedrus, who did not come to our knowledge till above thirty years after his death.The French translation by Perrault had been published in 1699 for the first time.With ownership’s entries in ink of Charlotte Biddulph, one dated 1819. Hinges weak, corners bumped, slightly stained.l Bodemann, 119.1; cf. 33.1 not in Fabula docet.

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AESOP.

Les Fables d’Esope, mises en François, Avec le Sens moral en quatre Vers, & des Figures à chaque Fable. Nouvelle édition revue, corrigée & augmentée de la Vie d’Esope, avec Figures, & les Quatrains de Benserade, dédiée à la Jeunesse.Rouen, chez A. Delalain, An XII [1804]. 12mo. With a full-page woodcut portrait (97 x 72 mm.) of Aesop., and 192 woodcuts of ca 56 x 72 mm., illustrating the Vie d’Ésope (28) and 164 out of a total of 225 Fables; woodcut head- and tailpieces. Mottled calf over boards..

[8], C, 314, [2] (out of 10) pp.Augmented nicely illustrated re-edition of the editions of 1764 and 1787 with the same collation, printed by Richard Lallemant in Rouen (Bodemann, 113.1-2). As in these editions, also in our edition there are the 225 fables of Aesop in French prose with the quatrains by the French writer and dramaturge Isaac Benserade (1612-1691). The translation of the Vie d’Ésope is illustrated with 28 woodcuts; the other 164 woodcuts illustrate 164 Fables. They are after the series of Bernard Salomon and Marcus Gheeraerts.Our edition is copied page-for-page, strikingly accurate, from the edition: Rouen, chez les libraires, An VI [=1798], also in 12mo. (see nr. 57), using exactly the same type and (at least for the greater part) the same woodblocks for the illustrations.Library stamp, ownership’s entries and a note (1805) written on the first fly-leaves.l Cf. Bodemann, 113.1-2.

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AESOP, and Francesco FILELFO. (Jean Baptiste MORVAN DE BELLEGARDE, trans.).

Les fables d'Esope Phrygien, avec celles de Philelphe. Traduction nouvelle, enrichie de discours moraux & historiques, & de quatrains à la fin de chaque discours. On a joint à cette nouvelle traduction les fables diverses de gabrias, d'aviénus, & les contes d'Esope.Amsterdam, Johann Peter Schmidt [possibly printed in Leipzig], 1736. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, engraved plate illustrating Aesop's life in 6 small scenes, and 59 numbered engraved plates with 117 half-page illustrations for the 117 numbered Aesop fables, all plates probably engraved by Georg Paul Busch in Berlin (the frontispiece and scenes of Aesop’s life signed). Contemporary calf, sewn on 4 cords, gold-tooled spine, red sprinkled edges.

477, [9], [2 blank] pp.Rare and beautifully illustrated edition of 117 Aesop's fables in French, each with an extensive discussion of the moral followed by a four-line verse, by Jean Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde. He adds French prose translations of further fables without illustrations: 18 numbered fables by the Renaissance Italian humanist poet and scholar Francesco Filelfo or Philelphus (1398-1481), translated from the Latin verse; 37 fables based on Aesop by Gabrias and Avienus, translated from the Latin verse; two longer fables: the "Battle of the cats and the rats", and the "Battle of the rats and the frogs"; five Aesop "tales" taken from Plato's dialogue Protagoras; six numbered "poetical fables", with Olympian Gods as protagonists; and finally three more "tales", the first from Herodotus and the last from Gerbellius. Pieter Mortier in Amsterdam first published the present collection of fables in 1708. Bellegarde (1648-1734), a French Jesuit, was clearly influenced by the very popular French Aesop translation by Jean Baudoin, whose 1649 and 1659 Paris editions also included Filelfo’s fables. Even the frontispiece is based on Baudoin’s, except that the king with armillary sphere, hunting horn and spear is replaced by Aesop with the same objects.The engravings in the present edition are copies of those in the 1708 edition (where each Aesop fable had a separate half-page engraving, here combined in pairs, except for the last). The engravings are beautifully executed by Georg Paul Busch (active 1713, d. 1756), a Berlin copper-plate engraver. The animals and intentions of Aesop's fables are drawn with a firm and certain hand in clear and rather "sec" scenes and movements, with the strong contrasts in black and white working as a kind of "colour" for the plates. The book is set primarily in types (roman and italic) cut by Nicolaus Kis in Amsterdam, but they were probably cast in Leipzig and the book may have been printed there.Very slightly browned, with an occasional (mostly marginal) stain and a marginal worm hole in a few leaves, but still in very good condition. The backstrip is damaged and the boards slightly rubbed.l STCN (1 copy); cf. Bodemann 97.1 & 2 (1708 & 1709 Amsterdam eds.); Fabula Docet 124 & ill. on p. 193 (incomplete 1734 Utrecht ed.); Landwehr, Emblem & fable books F062 (1708 Amsterdam ed.); not in Anne Stevenson Hobbs, Fables; The fox and the grapes: checklist Aesopic fables Pierpont Morgan Library.

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AESOP.

Les Fables d’Esope, mises en Français, Avec le sens moral en quatre vers, & des figures à chaque Fable. Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigée et augmentée de la Vie d’Esope, avec les quatrains de Benserade, dédiée à la Jeunesse. Premiere Partie.Lyon, J. Ayné, An XIII (1805). 2 parts (in 1 volume). 12mo. With a full-page woodcut portrait (100 x 68 mm.) of Aesop, woodcut vignette (a fisherman) on the titles, and 225 woodcuts (ca. 38 x 66 )illustrating the 225 fables; woodcut head- and tailpieces. Half vellum over boards,

196, [4]; 192, [4] pp.Augmented nicely illustrated re-edition of the editions of 1764 and 1787, printed by Richard Lallemant in Rouen (Bodemann, 113.1-2; see also the re-editions: nrs. 57 and 60). As in these editions, also in our edition there are the 225 fables of Aesop in French prose with the quatrains by the French writer and dramaturge Isaac Benserade (1612-1691). All the fables are illustrated by a woodcut, rather rudely after the series of Bernard Salomon and Marcus Gheeraerts. The Vie d’Esop is not illustrated. Library stamp on first fly-leaf.l Cf. Bodemann, 113.1-2.

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AESOP

Les fables d'Esope phrigien, avec celles de Philelphe. Traduction nouvelle, enriche de discours moraux & historiques, & de quatrains a` la fin de chaque discours. On a joint a` cette nouvelle traduction les Fables diverses de Gabrias, d'Avienus, & Les contes d'Esope.A Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier, 1708. Two parts in one volume, 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece showing Aesop standing on a gallery holding an armillary sphere, hunting horn and spear, surrounded by a mixed crowd (including children), with a group of wild and domestic animals standing and lying below, 117 half-page engravings (6,5 x 8 cm) for the 117 numbered Aesop fables, initials, endpieces. Marbled half-morocco binding.

[12], 297, [7], [4], 287, [5] pp.Rare and beautifully illustrated edition of 117 Aesop's fables in French, each with an extensive discussion of the moral followed by a four-line verse, by Jean Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde. He adds French prose translations of further fables without illustrations: 18 numbered fables by the Renaissance Italian humanist poet and scholar Francesco Filelfo or Philelphus (1398-1481), translated from the Latin verse; 37 fables based on Aesop by Gabrias and Avienus, translated from the Latin verse; two longer fables: the "Battle of the cats and the rats", and the "Battle of the rats and the frogs"; five Aesop "tales" taken from Plato's dialogue Protagoras; six numbered "poetical fables", with Olympian Gods as protagonists; and finally three more "tales", the first from Herodotus and the last from Gerbellius.Light wear to binding, some pencil notes to endpaper and throughout, repairs to title page, not affecting the text. With en exlibris of Georges Jal.l STCN 334560683 (1 copy), Bodemann 97.1, Landwehr, Emblem & fable books F062, WorldCat 42461403 (3 copies).

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AESOP.

Fabulae Aesopicae plures quingentis et aliae quaedam narrationes, cum historia vitae fortunaeque Aesopi, compositae studio & diligentia Joachimi Camerarii Pabe[bergensis]. Quibus additae sunt et Livianae & Gellianae ac aliorum quaedam …Leipzig, [colophon: Ernest Vögelin, 1570]. 8vo. With Vögelin’s woodcut device on title-page and 4 woodcut initials with pictorial decoration. Blind-tooled red vellum, sewn on 3 supports, with a hollow back, each board with a double frame of double fillets, the inner and outer connected with diagonal double fillets, the front board with the owner’s initials and the date in the central field: “M E B S | 1598”.

[25], [1 blank], 342, 349-513, [32], [1 blank] pp.Vögelin’s 1570 Aesop edition, a nearly page for page (often line for line) reprint of his own important 1564 edition, including one of the most extensive collections of Aesop fables to that date, following but augmenting Camerarius’s 1544 Leipzig edition. It contains more than 500 fables collected by the humanist classical scholar Joachim Camerarius (Bamberg 1500 - Leipzig 1574) who played a decisive role in the German Reformation, helped Philip Melanchthon with the composition of the famous Augsburg Confession, and published editions of many classical authors. The preface and printer’s note originally copied the 1564 date from the 1564 edition, but in the latter a correction slip changed the date to 1570. One can see in the present copy that the slip was present, but it has fallen off. Many copies lack the last printed leaf, present here, containing only the colophon.Lacking the final blank leaf. Somewhat browned, the title-page thumbed and the corners of the last few leaves gone (not approaching the text), but generally in good condition.l USTC 657123; VD16 A516; cf. Bodemann, 34.1-2 (1565 Plantin Antwerp ed. & 1571 Jean de Tournes Lyon ed.).

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AESOP.

Fabulae ... Graecè & Latinè, nunc denuo selectae: eae item quas Avienus carmine expressit. Accedit Ranarum & murium pugna, Homero olim asscripta. Cum elegantissimis in utroque libello figuris, & utriusque interpretatione plurimis in locis emendata.Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1632. 8vo. With 47 woodcut illustrations (5 x 6.5 cm) by Christoffel van Sichem II in the text. Contemporary vellum, each board with a panel stamp (59 x 50 mm) of the Amersfoort coat of arms. Most endpapers later.

158, [2] pp.Rare second(?) edition (one of three dated "1632") of a popular Greek and Latin school book, edited by the famous Dutch neo-Latin poet, humanist and Leiden Professor of Greek, Daniel Heinsius (1580-1655), with 47 beautiful woodcut illustrations by Christoffel van Sichem II. Aesop's fables were prescribed by the States of Holland in the Hollandsche schoolordre of 1625 as one of the books to be read in the 3rd class. Christoffel van Sichem II (ca. 1577-1658), the second of several woodcut artists in that family, studied with Jacques de Gheyn and was one of the leading Dutch book illustrators in the first half of the 17th century. Although the book has no prize certificate or inscription and no owner's name, the coat-of-arms of the city of Amersfoort on the binding of a school book strongly suggests a prize binding for a student at the Amersfoort Latin school. With an occasional contemporary manuscript note in Greek and Latin. With a small dark stain in the lower inside corner of the foot margin of many leaves, not approaching the text, and with very slight browning throughout, but still in good condition. The vellum of the binding is dirty and slightly rubbed but also good.l Landwehr, Emblem & fable books F025 (2 copies); Hollstein XXVII, Van Sichem II, 31; for the panel-stamp: Spoelder, Prijsboeken, Amersfoort 1.

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AESOP. (Francois Joseph DESBILLONS, comp.).

Fabulae Aesopiae, curis posterioribus, omnes fere, emandatae, accesserunt plus quam CLXX nova; tum etiam observations, grammaticae praesertim, complures, et Index copiosus, nec desunt … Hominum et pecudum figurae elegantes.Mannheim, Typis Academicis, 1768 [colophon: 1767]. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a frontispiece and 15 engraved plates by Egid Verhelst (1733-1804). Contemporary vellum with spine label, red edges.

[2], 58, 290, [2], 291-615 pp.First illustrated edition of the vast complete collection of Aesop fables, arranged in 15 books to give a total of 532 fables in Latin verse, with extensive footnotes, brought together by Francois Joseph Terrasse Desbillons (1711-1789), a Jesuit and poet from Chateauneuf who studied with the Jesuits at Bourges and who became a professor of rhetoric in Nevers and Caen. After the dissolution of the Jesuit order in France he moved to Mannheim. Earlier editions, containing fewer fables, appeared in Glasgow published by the famous printers Robert and Agnew Foulis in 8vo, 1754 (“first edition”) and in Paris, by Guerin & Delatour, 1756 (“second edition”). J. Barbou in Paris also published editions with fewer fables around 1750.With the armorial bookplate of Duke R.H. St. Maur on front paste-down. A very good and clean copy.l Bodemann 152.1; not in Fabula docet.

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AESOP.

Fabulae Aesopi Graecè & Latinè, nunc denuo selectae: ea item, quas Avienus carmine expressit.Utrecht, widow of Jurriaen Poolsom, 1699. Small 8vo. With a woodcut of a wolf sitting next to a tree on the title-page and 47 woodcuts in the text (ca. 5 x 6 cm). Marbled wrappers.

136 pp.Rare Greek and Latin school edition of Aesop, with the same contents and 47 woodcuts as the 1685 edition published by Jurriaen Poolsum in Utrecht (Bodemann 65.4), one of the many editions based on the original Heinsius school edition of 1626, published by Johannes Maire in Leiden with a woodcut series by Christoffel van Sichem II (ca. 1577-1658). Landwehr counts 15 editions between 1626 and 1727. The unsigned woodcuts in the present edition closely follow the Van Sichem series.The Aesop fables are printed in two columns with the Greek (left) and Latin (right) prose texts; Avianus’s Latin verse rendition of the fables follows in one column. The added “Brachomyomachia”, or “Ranarum & murium pugna”, a spoof of Homer (here attributed to him as in many early editions), gives the Greek verse text (left) and Latin verse translation (right) on facing pages, illustrated with 6 woodcuts.First quire loose, part of the last leaf torn out.l Fabula docet 16 (p. 99); Landwehr, Emblem & fable books F025 (cf. p. 312); STCN (2 copies); cf. Bodemann, 65.1-5 (related eds.).

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