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AESOP. Vita et fabellae. - GABRIAS. Graeci fabellae tres et quadraginta. - HOMER. Batrachomyomachia. - MUSAEUS. De Ero & Leandro. - AGAPETUS. De officio regis. - [THEODORE PRODROMUS]. Galeomyomachia, hoc est felium & murium pugna. Basel: Johann Froben, 1518.
8o (175 x 116 mm). Collation: a-p8 q12; r-s8; t-u8; x-y8 z4; A8 B4. Text in Latin and Greek, except the Galeomyomachia, which is in Greek alone. Each of the five parts separately titled, titles within a woodcut border, printer's woodcut device at end of each part (white-on-black device in parts 1-4, different device at end of part 5). Nine 4- to 7-line woodcut initials. Ruled in red throughout. (A7-8 stained.) 19th-century blind-tooled olive calf, by Montagnait, gilt edges (joints split and inner hinges reinforced). Provenance : C.N. Radoulesco (morocco bookplate on front pastedown).
First edition of Aesop in Greek to be published outside of Italy, with the life of Aesop by the monk Maximus Planudes (fl. 1300). This is the first edition of this anthology of texts, published by Froben for the use of students and scholars of Greek, and frequently reprinted. The Greek italic type used here was cut for Froben's edition of Erasmus, Novum instrumentum, 1516. Adams A-279 (Part I only); BM/STC German, p. 6; Brunet I, 85 ("édition assez rare").
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First edition of Aesop in Greek to be published outside of Italy, with the life of Aesop by the monk Maximus Planudes (fl. 1300). This is the first edition of this anthology of texts, published by Froben for the use of students and scholars of Greek, and frequently reprinted. The Greek italic type used here was cut for Froben's edition of Erasmus, Novum instrumentum, 1516. Adams A-279 (Part I only); BM/STC German, p. 6; Brunet I, 85 ("édition assez rare").