[Rarebooks] FS: Phaedrus' Fables of Aesop. w/103 text plates. Amsterdam: 1667

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Phaedrus. PHAEDRI, AUGUSTI CAESARIS LIBERTI, FABULARUM AESOPIARUM Libri Quinque; Notis Perpetuis Illustrati, & cum Integris Aliorum Observationibus In Lucem Editi a Johanne Laurentio. Amsterdam: Apud Johannem Janssonium a Waesberge; & Viduam Elizei Weyerstraet. 1667. 8vo. (62),462,(204)pp. Double column text. Indices. Added engraved title. Illustrated with 103 copper engraved text plates (approx. 3" x 4"). Complete. This copy with the corrected cancel illustration for Book III, Fable XII. In addition, this copy has both the cancel (tipped in) and the uncancelled illustration for Book III, Fable XVI. Cont. blind tooled calf, worn, rebacked some time ago, with the original spine strip laid back down with the orig. calf label (quite rubbed).    $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
This version of Aesop, modified by the Roman slave Phaedrus in the first century CE, became what was passed down into the medieval tradition. This current version is in Phaedrus' Latin verse with extensive notes in Latin and Greek by Laurentius. The whole is laid out in the manner of an emblem book, with many added mottos in both Latin and Dutch.

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