Aesopi Fabulae

PHAEDRUS. Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V. In gratiam studiose juventutis notis illustrati, cura Davidis Hoogstratani. Editio Altera.Amsterdam, Gerard onder de Linden, 1718. WITH: AESOP. Fabulae Aesopi Graece & Latine, Nunc denuo selectae: Eae item quas Avienus carmine expressit. Acc. Ranarum & Murium Pugna, Homero olim ascripta. Ex decreto D.D. Hollandiae Ordinum in usum Scholarum.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1653. WITH: FAERNO, G. Centum Fabulae ex Antiquis Scriptoribus delectae, et explicatae, Hac Editione variorum Sentensiis Sapientum adornate.Brussels, Fr. Foppens, 1682. Small 8vo. 3 works in 1 volume. The Phaedrus with engraved printer's device on title-page and richly engraved frontispiece showing the poet laureate writing at a table and looking at a tapestry depicting animals. The Aesop with 47 charming woodcuts by C. van Sichem. The Faerno with woodcut of Aesop and animals on title-page and 100 woodcuts by Arnold Nicolai and Gerard Janssen van Kampen. Contemporary mottled calf.
Schoolbooks, Illustrations [Woodcut],Classical antiquity, Children's Books

(32), 151, (33); 158, (2); (16), 200, (6) pp. <I>Phaedrus: Landwehr, Emblem & Fable Books, F157; The Fox and the Grapes, Checklist Aesopic Fables Pierpont Morgan Library, 1699 (first school-ed. by Van Hoogstraten); Cat. Van Rijn 922 (school-ed. of 1749). Aesop: Landwehr, Emblem & Fable Books, F018; Cat. van Rijn 918 (first Leiden ed. of 1626); Fabula Docet 16 (Arnhem ed. of 1649); Muller 943 (Jansonius ed. of 1659); The Fox and the Grapes, Checklist Aesopic Fables Pierpont Morgan Library, 1632 (Leiden ed. of 1632); this edition not in Seters. Faerno: Landwehr, Emblem & Fable Books, F100; The Fox and the Grapes, Checklist Aesopic Fables Pierpont Morgan Library, 1682 (Clark Stillman Coll., on deposit); Fabula Docet 36 (Antwerp ed. of 1585).</I>The three most popular fable books among Dutch schools of the 17th and 18th century.Phaedrus: The school edition of Phaedrus's fables edited by David van Hoogstraten, first published in 1699, with a dedication to Adriaan Velters and contributions by Johan Scheffer, Gerard Vossius and various sources. One of the best scholarly editions.Aesop: Charmingly illustrated school edition by Daniel Heinsius, first published in 1626, a nicely printed parallel edition in Greek and Latin with Avianus's Latin verses and the popular Batrachomiomachia. The fine woodcuts are by Christoph van Sichem II (ca. 1581-1658).Faerno: Very beautifully illustrated school edition of one hundred fables taken from classical authors. Nicolai and Van Kampen made the present woodcuts for first Low Countries edition, publised by Plantin in 1567. With a dedicatory letter by Cardinal Silvius Antonianus addressed to Carolus Borromaeus and a "Censura", dated 1682. Good copies of 3 interesting fable editions, in a contemporary binding. Binding slightly rubbed, spine slightly damaged; old inkstain at upper inner corner of first quires of the 2nd work.

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AESOP: AEsopi Phrygis fabulae, elegantissimis iconibus veras animalium species ad viuum adumbrantibus. Gabriae Graeci fabella XLIII. [Batrachomuomachia] Homeri, hoc est, ranarum & murium pugna. [Galeo muomachia], hoc est felium & murium pugna, fabulae graeca. Haec omnia cum Latina interpretatione. Accesserunt Auieni antiqui auctoris fabulae. Editio postrema, caeteris castigatior. Genevae : Typis & sumptibus Ioannis de Tournes, 1628

In Greek and Latin in parallel columns (and, in a few instances, on facing pages), with oval woodcut portrait of Aesop on title-page and 61 woodcut text illustrations, pages 410, (6), 12mo, contemporary unlettered calf, with the initials "C D" in blind on both boards and the armorial bookplate of Lord Branden ("Indignante invidia florebit justus") on verso of title leaf : light and not unattractive contemporary colouring added on title-page woodcut and on one text illustration, very light signs of use, still a sound, very good, unsophisticated copy.

[SW: GENEVA PRINTED CLASSICS FABLES EDUCATION]

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(Steinhöwel, Heinrich): Buch und Leben des hochberühmten Fabeldichters Aesopi. (Ulm 1476). Mit einer Einführung von W. Worringer und in sprachlicher Erneuerung von R. Benz, Munich, Piper, 1925.
"Hauptwerke des Holzschnittes: Der Ulmer Aesop". Abridged and commented reissue of Heinrich Steinhöwel's "Vita et fabulae Esopi" from 1476/77, one of the most important and beautiful fable editions of the incunabula period. - Slighthly browned. A good copy.

With frontispiece, 1 plate, and 34 vignettes after the orig. Ulm woodcuts. 67, (1) pp. Small 4to. Orig. cloth.

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Aesop: Aesopi Phrygis et aliorum fabulae selectae pro grammaticae tyronibus / Ex fabulis pueri discunt, quae in vita gerantur. Philostr. in Imagin. . Roma/Rom, San Michaelis ad Ripam, apud Paulum Junchi, 1772,

Orig.Pergament d.Zt., Einband leicht fleckig, Besitz- u. andere Eintragungen von alter Hand auf Vorsatz u. Innendeckeln, leicht gebräunt bzw. minimal stockfleckig, sonst nur minimale Gebrauchsspuren, 105 S., H 15x8,5 cm,

[SW: Literatur Altphilologie Rom Antike Altertum]

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