- Lot 507

Jean de LA FONTAINE - Selected Fables. First [-fifth] part. The Hague, Henry van Bulderen, 1700. 5 parts bound in 2 volumes in-12, 160 x 100 mm, contemporary brown calf, five-ribbed spine, title-pieces (almost faded) and tomation (caps torn off). [40], 268, [2]; 346, [2] pp. (page break from 1st to 2nd part). Title in red and black. The first part is illustrated with a title-frontispiece after de Hooghe dated 1700. The fables have more than 200 engravings, the majority of which bear the signature of H. Causé. The whole is a corrected reprint of the Van Bulderen edition of 1688-1694. Small worm gallery in the second volume. Rochambeau, 43, STCN, 851079601. ATTACHED: - ESOPE - The Fables. And those of Philelphe. Enriched with moral, philosophical, political, & historical speeches. By J. Baudoin... With figures in intaglio. Volume one [-second]. Paris, Charles Osmont, 1683. 2 volumes bound in 1 volume in-12, 155 x 95 mm, [16], 96, [4], 260; [4], 236; [8], 106 pp. Contemporary brown calf, smooth spine ornamented, title-piece (spine cracked, upper bit rest. & reinforced frontispiece (reassembled), 1 full-page plate opposite the Life of Aesop, numerous vignettes in the text. "Les fables de Philelphe" has its own title page illustrated with a vignette. Margins trimmed short, soiling, small ring of wetness passim, some browning in places, 1st endpaper annotated. TOGETHER 3 VOLUMES.