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LES FABLES D'ESOPE Phrigien avec celles de Philelphe avec celles de Philelphe Traduction nouvelle Enrichie de Discours Moraux & Historiques & de Quatrains a la fin de chaque Discours

Paris: Michel Brunet, 1703. Item #137045

2 vols. 16mo (6½ x 4¼ ins). Rebound in later half calf on marbled paper-laid boards, spines gilt ruled in six compartments with gilt lettered labels, blue sprinkled edges (a little rubbed at edges of boards - otherwise a VG set). Pp. [xx] + cxxxv + [1] + 287 + [3] blank [&] [vi] + lxiv + 364 + [4] table + [4] blank, titles printed in red and black, with 117 woodcuts and vignettes in text (front and rear endpapers lightly tanned at edges; previous owners' engraved card on front paste-downs and neat inscriptions and scribbles on title pages in contemporary hand). [French text].

Price: £350.00