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AESOP (c.620-c.560 BC) Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae Elegantissimis Eiconibus Veras AnimaliuSpecies ad viuuAdumbrantes. Gabriae Graeci fabellae XXXXIIII. kßatpaxomuomaxia\K Homeri...\kTazevpuopaxia\K...Nunc primum accesserrunt Avieni...fabulant...Lyons, Jean de Tournes 1570. 16° in eights (?) (111 x 64mm). Collation: a-z8 A8 (lacks all after p.384, the fables of Avienus). Woodcut title-page device with 56 woodcuts in text after Bernard Salomon (some lightly coloured). Modern marbled boards, morocco label. Provenance: R. B. Maby. The 13.h Sept 1792. This De Tournes series was first published in 1547; see Hobbs Fables pp.42-3 (an ed. of 1551) and Osborne I p.1 (an ed. of 1582).
-- FAERNO, Gabriele (d. 1561), Centum Fabulae ex Antiquis...[Ed. by Silvio Antoniano]. Venice, Fancisco Ziletto, 1572. 12° (132 x 67mm). Collation: A-F.2 (title-page holed and repaired in titling; final leaf lacking ? blank). Letterpress titling within a copper-engraved title-page design and 100 woodcut headpieces to the fables with woodcut and metal-cut tailpiece designs. Original vellum. A & M 103.-- L'ESTRANGE, Sir Roger (1616-1704). Fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflexions. The second edition corrected and amended. London, printed for R. Sare, B. Took, M. Gilliflower...etc, 1694. 4° (315 x 200mm). One copper-engraved plate, unsigned (lacks portrait frontispiece). Original blind-stamped panelled calf, re-backed. Osborne II p.569 (3)
-- FAERNO, Gabriele (d. 1561), Centum Fabulae ex Antiquis...[Ed. by Silvio Antoniano]. Venice, Fancisco Ziletto, 1572. 12° (132 x 67mm). Collation: A-F.2 (title-page holed and repaired in titling; final leaf lacking ? blank). Letterpress titling within a copper-engraved title-page design and 100 woodcut headpieces to the fables with woodcut and metal-cut tailpiece designs. Original vellum. A & M 103.-- L'ESTRANGE, Sir Roger (1616-1704). Fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflexions. The second edition corrected and amended. London, printed for R. Sare, B. Took, M. Gilliflower...etc, 1694. 4° (315 x 200mm). One copper-engraved plate, unsigned (lacks portrait frontispiece). Original blind-stamped panelled calf, re-backed. Osborne II p.569 (3)