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AESOP; et al.
Habentur hoc volumine haec videlicet: Vita & Fabellae Aesopi
cum interpretatione Latina
[
and other texts]. 150 leaves, comprising Greek text pagi-
nated or in numbered columns, interleaved with unnumbered leaves of Latin text. Folio,
266
x172 mm, early 19th-century vellum boards with chipped morocco lettering piece;
light soiling on title. From the library of Lord Harlech, with Porkington Library Bookplate
(
Venice: Aldus [Manutius], October 1505)
[15,000/25,000]
FIRST ALDINE EDITION
,
containing the Greek text and Latin translation by Aldus of the fic-
titious life of Aesop attributed to Planudes and the fables of Aesop and Gabrias, followed by
the Greek text only of Phurnutus, Palaephatus, Heracles Ponticus, the Hieroglyphica of
Horapollo, the proverbs of Tarrhaeus and Didymus, and the Apologus Aesopi de Cassita apud
Gellium. Renouard, page 49(6); New UCLA 93; Hoffmann I, 63.
