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LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Contes et Nouvelles en vers. Nouvelle édition reveuë & augmentée de plusieurs Contes du même Auteur, & d'une Dissertation sur la Joconde. Amsterdam, Henry Desbordes (à la sphère), 1691. 2 volumes of [8] ff. 202-[2] pp. and [4] ff. 203-[1] pp. brown pebbled calf, ornate ribbed spine, red title (period binding). Small tear with loss in the margin of the title leaf of volume one. Very rare, partly original edition expanded with five new tales in volume two: Le Florentin, Le Fleuve Scamandre, La Confidente sans le sçavoir, Le Remède and Les Aveux indiscrets (the latter four had appeared in the works of Maucrois and La Fontaine, 1685). Walckenaer believes that this edition was printed furtively in France. (Rochambeau p. 513, no. 32).
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