Oct 14, 2021 - Sale 2582

Sale 2582 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Phaedrus (c. 444-393 BCE)
Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri Quinque.

Amsterdam: Waesberge & Viduam Elizei Weyerstraet, 1667.

First edition edited by Johannes Laurentius, illustrated with added engraved title and 103 fine text etchings; first illustrated edition printed in Holland, octavo, Ff8, Tt7, & Tt8 all blank & present; cancel etchings pasted onto pages 20, 40, 194, & 205; bound in full contemporary Dutch vellum; ex libris Brian Douglas Stilwell; Howard Pyle (1853-1911) (with illustrated bookplate and engraved book label with printed calligraphic signature); George Gostling; and Stephen J.W. Tabor (1815-1883), bookplates of each pasted inside front board on ffep, 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.