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Candidatus Rhetoricae (or Novus Candidatus).
(Elzevers?s.n., 1645)
This little book is a find whatever it finally turns out to be! For now it seems to be a Jesuit collegium text in rhetoric following the Progymnasmata of Aphthonius. If one works from the back of the book, there is an ...
Esope en Belle Humeur
(Chez François Foppens, 1693)
The title continues Ou Derniere Traduction et Augmentation de ses Fables, en Prose, et en Vers. As Bodemann notes, there are 157 fables on 360 pages, followed by an AI. A strong frontispiece starts the book facing the ...
The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse
(William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: UCLA, 1668)
Here is the second extra copy of this book. The versions here are longish and filled with topical references. The illustrations are quite faint. Several put another fable's picture in the background. The best illustrations ...
Ad Iambum Ut Carolum Pererium V. Cl. admoneat Fabulam iamdudum promissam in lucem edere
(Andreae Cramoisy, 1686)
Here is a strange little eight-page pamphlet that seems to be a dialogue between two fabulists, Carolus Pererius and Joannes Comirius, S.J. At first there is an introduction and then a fable, Mus, Feles, & Muscipula, that ...
The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse
(William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: UCLA, 1668)
Here is an extra copy of this book. The versions here are longish and filled with topical references. The illustrations are quite faint. Several put another fable's picture in the background. The best illustrations for ...
Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae, Elegantissimis Iconibus Illustratae
(Sumptibus Ioannis Iullieron, 1614)
32 vita illustrations 52 fable illustrations, patterned after Salomon's 1551 illustrations Bodemann's tradition for this family starts with Jean de Tournes in Lyon in 1551, the same in 1570, a Paris edition of 1585 and ...
Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien: Traduction Nouuelle. Illustrée de Discours Moraux, Philosophiques & Politiques
(Chez Pierre Rocolet, 1659)
I already have a copy of a 1660 Baudoin. I mention there the Paris edition by du Bray in 1659. Bodemann writes at the end of the comment on that 1659 edition that other copies have three other publishers' names: Rocolet, ...