Live auction - Lot 984
Fabulae, elegantissimis iconibus veras animalium species ad vivum adumbrantibus [...]. Editio postrema, caeteris castigatior.
[Geneva], J. de Tournes, 1605
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
16mo: 410-[6] pp. (light dampstains, stamp erased on t.-p., marginal wormholes,French ms. translation of the fables titles).
Cont. vellum, flat spine (small stains, slightly cropped, class. label on front pastedown, ms. ownership on lower flyleaf).
Illustrated by Bernard Salomon with Aesopus portrait on title and 61 ills in text. With also the fables of Gabrias, Avenius, Homer's Batrachomyomachia and the anonymous Galeomyomachia. Parallel text Greek-Latin.