Author: AESOP.
Title: Favole di Esopo Frigio con la Vita del medesimo, tradotta ed ornata dal Signor Co. Giulio Landi. Nuova editione illustrata, e ridotta a più colta lezione, con aggiunta di multe altre Favole di vari accreditati Scrittori.Venice, Francesco Andreola, 1806. 12mo. With 40 woodcuts (ca 43 x 56 mm.). Half vellum, marbled paper over boards.
Description: 258, [6] pp.One of the later editions of the Laudi redaction and translation of the Aesop fables in Italian prose augmented with many fables by others, to a total of 400, only 40 of which are here illustrated with rather ‘primitive’ woodcuts in a frame, inspired by the original woodcuts for the first Landi editions of 1581 and 1585. Each fable is followed by a ‘Sentenza della favole’.In good condition.l Cf. Bodemann 52.(1-)4.

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