A set of two works by Aesop, in-12, bound in full Empire-gre - Lot 422

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A set of two works by Aesop, in-12, bound in full Empire-gre - Lot 422
A set of two works by Aesop, in-12, bound in full Empire-green long-grained morocco, with covers adorned with a gilt fillet border and cold-stamped scrollwork, spine with raised bands adorned with fleurons and embossed floral motifs, chain on the edges, interior embossing, early 19th-century bindings. 1/ - Aesop in Good Spirits, or the Latest Translation and Expansion of His Fables in Prose and Verse. Amsterdam, Antoine Michils, 1690 – [6 title leaves, preface], 360 pp., [8 pp., censure by “Momus”]. Illustrated with a frontispiece showing Aesop singing and accompanying himself on a hurdy-gurdy, in the middle of a forest and surrounded by 20 animals who have come running at his call: “Come to class, young people… Aesop… is calling you to school. 'Beasts used to speak better than people...'" and 156 vignettes. As noted in the preface, this edition includes a few fables by La Fontaine and Furetière, a fact confirmed in Momus’s preface: “La Fontaine asked me to add that most of the fables included in this new work had not been printed alongside those that had appeared under his name...”. These fables, printed for the first time, are: The Fox and the Turkeys—The Scythian Philosopher—The Rat, the Raven, the Gazelle, and the Tortoise—A Fool and a Sage - The Elephant and Jupiter’s Monkey - Folly and Love - The Monkey. 2/ - The Fables of Aesop the Phrygian, illustrated with moral, philosophical, and political discourses. A new edition, greatly expanded in various places. With moral reflections by J. Baudoin. Brussels, François Foppens, [1669]—[8 pp.], 86 pp. (the life of Aesop), 418 pp. (Fables), [6 pp., table of contents]. Illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece after G. Sadeler and 147 figures after Pieter van der Borcht
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