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Lyon: Amable Leroy, 1805. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. Two parts in one book. Bound in brown leather with very faded gilt ornamentation and titling on the spine. Marbled endpapers. 360 pages including index. A collection of La Fontaine's fables in verse. This volume contains a commentary on La Fontaine and the importance of his fables, as well as a life of Aesop. La Fontaine is considered one of the key fabulists, and one of the most influential early French writer, who served not only to inspire and shape French literature, but also fabulists of other countries as well. In FAIR condition. Minor to moderate scuffing to the covers, especially along the extremities. Small dark stain on rear cover and a small to medium area of darkening along the upper fore edge of the front cover. Some soiling. Small hole in the first layer of leather at the upper front cover near the hinge. Leather worn along the hinges and splitting at the upper and lower edges though still intact. Minor loss of leather at the head… Read More

Basel, Jean Schweighauser [Johannes Schweighauser], 1766. . 247 ausgewählte Fabeln des Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695). - Der griechische Dichter Aisopos (6. Jhdt. v. Chr.) gilt als Begründer der europäischen Fabeldichtung. - Rücken aufgehellt, Lagen unterschiedl. (leicht) gebräunt

lxxi+100pp. 8vo contemp. French dog's paw calf, worn, joints cracked, spine damaged, This lovely edition is engraved throughout: the text leaves with head and tail-pieces, opposite an engraved plate.

lxxi+100pp; 115pp; last three leaves of vol. I stained at head, last vol. p. 41 has corner missing. 8vo contemp. French calf gilt, worn, joints cracked, parts of spine labels missing, This lovely edition is engraved throughout: the text leaves with head and tail-pieces, opposite an engraved plate.