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AESOP Fabule et Vita esopi: cum fabulis Aviani: Alfonsii: Pogii florentini: et aliorum: cum optimo commento: bene diligentero correcte et emendate, Colophon: Antwerp, Gerard Leeu, 26 September 1486
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Footnotes
MAGNIFICENTLY ILLUSTRATED INCUNABLE EDITION OF AESOP. The woodcuts derive from those first used in an edition of Aesop printed by Johann Zainer at Ulm, c.1476-7, and are, in all but four instances, taken from the blocks used for the Latin Aesop printed by Knoblochtzer at Strasbourg, c.1481. Subsequently the blocks were passed to Johann Koehloff the Elder, of Cologne, who used them for his German Aesop of 1489. The text includes Rinucius's translation of the life of Aesop, and Romulus' prose version of the Fables, and several fables by other authors.
Provenance: "Liber S. Nicolaiin... 1700", inscription on leaf a3; Bibliotheque Impériale Impr., circular red stamp on title (just touching image) and leaf a3, dating from c.1865-1870; Prof. Victor Goldschmidt, Heidelberg, ink stamp on final leaf.





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