Phaedrus/David van Hoogstraten - Ezopische fabelen van Fedrus - 1704

Aesop's fables of Aesop, freely translated by Fedrus and enriched with notes — in Dutch verse — Amsterdam, François Halma, 1704 - (36) 198(12)pp - parchment binding

Good. Ex libris endpaper. Inner hinges partly open - text block fixed in the binding. Pencil scribble on the endpaper. The contents browned here and there, a damp spot at the top of the frontispiece, title page and the following two leaves as well as a smaller one in the upper margin of the majority of the preliminaries (the unpaginated pages) and from page 189 to the end. Tear in the inner margin of the second unpaginated leaf. Some dog-ears, a small nibble from the margin on two pages. Inner margin at the top between pages 176 and 177 slightly open.

Complete. Frontispiece, on the typographical title page printed in black and red a vignette with the motto "In hoc signo", above the dedication to the princess a vignette with her coat of arms and a large folding plate with a portrait engraving (restored tear lower left into the image, about 6 cm) by David van Hoogstraten, after P. van Gunst to A. Boonen, with engraved caption by Janus Broukhusius. Furthermore 9 head- and tail-pieces, 9 historiated initials, and 107 engravings by J. van Vianen, all in a medallion with surrounding inscription - all depicted

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