Phaedrus - Book "Augusti Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum" 1778

$400 · Offered by Tamino Autographs

Roman fabulist (1st-century CE), whose full name was Gaius Julius Phaedrus was a 1st-century CE Roman fabulist and the first versifier of a collection of Aesop's fables into Latin. Full book in Latin "Fabularum Aesopiarum" with German notes, published in Nuremberg, 1778, second edition. Size is 3.25 x 5 inches, 119 pages, calf leather on the spine, evident wear, stains on the front end pages, signed by its first owner Joseph Stieglitz, probably in 1779.

• Binding: Hardcover

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