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Abstemius, Fabulae, Venice, Tacuinus, [1499], modern calf

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Laurentius Abstemius


Fabulae [edited by Domicus Palladius Soranus]. Aesopus: Fabulae [translated by Laurentius Valla]. Venice: Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino, 1 June [1499]


4to (207 x 158mm.), 28 leaves, a8 b-f4, 30 lines, roman type, woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device beneath colophon, modern smooth calf, slight damage to e4v (affecting part of woodcut initial A)


A reprint of the 1495 Tacuino edition of the fables of Astemio and Aesop. The scholar Astemio (c. 1435-1508) worked in the library of the Duke of Urbino.


This edition has the date in the colophon misprinted as 1399; the correctly dated edition is ISTC ia00012000.


LITERATURE:

ISTC ia00011000

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