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ESOPE. The fables of Aesop, engraved by Sadeler...

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ESOPE. The fables of Aesop, engraved by Sadeler with a preliminary discourse on moral meanings in distichs. Edition quite different from the first one. Paris, Thiboust, 1743, in-4, xxiii- 306 pp.- 2 ff. half calf marbled, spine ribbed, decorated. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 139 etched figures by Aegedius Sadeler, Flemish painter and engraver at the court of Emperor Rudolf II. Some foxing.