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AesopFables D'Esope. French manuscript with 18 hand drawings. Late 18th / early 19th century. 20 vols. Folio (41 x 26 cm). Modern cloth binding with marble boards and mounted cover label (somewhat rubbed). Aesop Fables D'Esope. French manuscript with 18 hand drawings. Late 18th / early 19th century. 20 pp. Folio (41 x 26 cm). Modern cloth binding with marbled boards and mounted cover label (somewhat rubbed). With watermark (lion with sword and initials C.D.L.). - This extraordinary manuscript combines 18 handwritten fables in a finely legible and curved script. The pen and wash drawings that accompany the fables are executed with the utmost care and illustrate the work wonderfully in their meticulous depiction of animals and landscapes. The model for the present manuscript and the drawings appears to be an edition of the fables illustrated by Sadeler, which was published in Paris in 1743: Les fables d'Ésope gravées par Sadeler, avec un discours préliminaire & les sens moraux en distiques. - Browned due to paper. Some waviness in upper margin. Occasionally somewhat stained. Some pp. with small water stain. Overall in very good condition. French manuscript with 18 hand drawings. Late 18th / early 19th c. Modern half cloth with marbled boards and mounted cover label (somewhat rubbed). - With watermark (lion with sword and initials C.D.L.). - This extraordinary manuscript combines 18 handwritten fables in finely legible and curved script. The pen-and-ink drawings accompanying the fables are executed with the utmost care and beautifully illustrate the work in their meticulous depiction of animals and landscapes. The model for the present manuscript and drawings seems to have been a French edition of the fables illustrated by Sadeler in 1743. - Paper browned. Somewhat wavy in the upper part. Sporadically somewhat spotted. A few leaves with a small water stain. Overall very well preserved.

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AesopFables D'Esope. French manuscript with 18 hand drawings. Late 18th / early 19th century. 20 vols. Folio (41 x 26 cm). Modern cloth binding with marble boards and mounted cover label (somewhat rubbed). Aesop Fables D'Esope. French manuscript with 18 hand drawings. Late 18th / early 19th century. 20 pp. Folio (41 x 26 cm). Modern cloth binding with marbled boards and mounted cover label (somewhat rubbed). With watermark (lion with sword and initials C.D.L.). - This extraordinary manuscript combines 18 handwritten fables in a finely legible and curved script. The pen and wash drawings that accompany the fables are executed with the utmost care and illustrate the work wonderfully in their meticulous depiction of animals and landscapes. The model for the present manuscript and the drawings appears to be an edition of the fables illustrated by Sadeler, which was published in Paris in 1743: Les fables d'Ésope gravées par Sadeler, avec un discours préliminaire & les sens moraux en distiques. - Browned due to paper. Some waviness in upper margin. Occasionally somewhat stained. Some pp. with small water stain. Overall in very good condition. French manuscript with 18 hand drawings. Late 18th / early 19th c. Modern half cloth with marbled boards and mounted cover label (somewhat rubbed). - With watermark (lion with sword and initials C.D.L.). - This extraordinary manuscript combines 18 handwritten fables in finely legible and curved script. The pen-and-ink drawings accompanying the fables are executed with the utmost care and beautifully illustrate the work in their meticulous depiction of animals and landscapes. The model for the present manuscript and drawings seems to have been a French edition of the fables illustrated by Sadeler in 1743. - Paper browned. Somewhat wavy in the upper part. Sporadically somewhat spotted. A few leaves with a small water stain. Overall very well preserved.

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