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166912293312mo. Bruxelles: François Foppens 1669. 12mo engraved general title trimmed with slight loss at foot 8 412 8 indexpp. With 147 engravings in the text by Pieter Van der Borcht. Recent full calf marbled edges gilt backstrip black label. A good clean copy though trimmed a little close to the top edge but not touching text. Ownership signature at front in ink of Joseph Heughan dated 1899 and an earlier note in ink: "Edition très jolie et très rare." and two ink initials on the title-page. § Well represented in libraries but a scarce little edition in commerce. It was translated by Pierre de Boissat who was probably also responsible for the moral reflections attributed to Jean Baudoin. The text and illustrations were reprinted in 1920 as a private press book in Germany. François Foppens unknown books
16948748London. c. 1694. Bound by Richmond in full elaborately blind embossed calfskin. Guilt-tool ornamental devices to front and rear covers. Raised bands and guilt titles to spine. Marbled endsheets. Tall 4to. Early Printing. Illustrated with a frontis Depicting Aesope surrounded by animal characters. Wing A-706: Hodnett-Aesope in England 63. This copy; lacks title page ad leaf @ pg.38 and portrait of L'Estange. Spine heal lacking with lacquered repared. Corners bumped. Covers mildly rubbed. Else a Very Good sound copy. hardcover books
16051704209Tornaesium 1605. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good early 1605 edition of Aesop's Fables. In protective case. Tornaesium hardcover books
16671229198vo. Amsterdam: Johannem Janssonium & Viduam Elizei Wyerstraet 1667. 8vo engraved title trimmed at foot touching the imprint 62 1-462 blank leaf index 204pp. With 103 engraved plates in the text most 1/4 or 1/3 page. 18th-century polished calf panelled covers red morocco label and shelf mark on backstrip subtly rebacked. Large armorial bookplate of Washington Sewallis Earl Ferrers probably bound for him. § First illustrated edition of Phaedrus to be published in the Netherlands and the first edition edited by Laurentius. It contains the text of 92 Phaedrus fables with extensive annotations the first edition of 1596 had only 64 fables. In this copy the plates to pages 133 194 and 205 are not the cancellanda i.e. have not been cancelled. Also Landwehr records that the 'brothel scene' on page 276 has often been defaced or removed but is untouched in this copy. Landwehr F143. Phaedrus 15 BC - AD 50 Italy was a "Roman fabulist the first writer to Latinize whole books of fables producing free versions in iambic metre of Greek prose fables then circulating under the name of Aesop." Ency. Brit. Johannem Janssonium & Viduam Elizei Wyerstraet unknown books
1667WRCLIT79851Amsterdam: Johannem Janssonium à Waesberge & viduam Elizei Weyerstraet 1667. 62462204pp. Octavo 18.5 x 12 cm. Contemporary vellum short-title in manuscript on spine. Engraved frontis by Christopher Ganes and 103 engraved half-page illustrations in text. Vellum somewhat handsoiled and darkened bookplate frontis trimmed close along fore- edge short marginal tear in H2 without loss otherwise very good. First and only printing of this well- illustrated edition of the adaptations by the Latin fabulist Phaedrus of the Greek fables of Aesop as edited by Johannes Laurentius. Two engravings at pages 133 and 194 have been supplanted by other tipped in engravings. The Fables are followed by an "index vocabularum" and an "index rerum & verborum." BRUNET IV:588. Landwehr EMBLEM BOOKS Low Countries F143. Johannem Janssonium à Waesberge & viduam Elizei Weyerstraet hardcover books
