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[BRUSLÉ DE MONTPLEINCHAMP (Jean-Chrysostome)].
Aesop in good humor, or last translation, and increase of his fables in prose, and in verse. Brussels, François Foppens, 1700. 2 volumes in-12, lemon morocco, framed with two gilt roulettes, smooth spine decorated with small foliage around a black pastille and on a thousand points background, red title and greefs, inner roulette, gilt edges (Binding of the end of the 18th century). First complete edition of this famous collection of fables in verse and prose. Remarkable engraved intaglio illustration including a frontispiece and 163 (85 + 78) mid-page figures in the text, all engraved in intaglio. Many browned leaves. Slight dark trace on one plate.
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[BRUSLÉ DE MONTPLEINCHAMP (Jean-Chrysostome)].
