PHAEDRUS ALTER ... FABULAE

by Gabriele Faerno, Philippus Mayolus, Aesop

$2,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition

Paris: Widow of Claude Thiboust Madeleine Thévenon / Augustin Leguerrier, 1697. First edition published in France of this influential Latin collection of Aesopian-fables — almost certainly the edition used by fairy tale-popularizer Charles Perrault for his French translation of 1699. Very good. Item #55531 Faerno's Neo-Latin fables were first published in 1563 as FABULAE CENTUM and soon became the most successful

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