Aesop, Mythoi, Venice, 1644, French red morocco gilt, from the Royal Library in Paris

Aesop

Μυθοι [translated by Joannes Patousas]. (Venice: Salicata, 1644)

8vo (183 x 120mm.), woodcut initials and headpieces, full-page woodcut illustrations, with both final blank leaves, near-contemporary French red morocco gilt, flat spine gilt, gilt edges, extremities very slightly rubbed

A RARE ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF AESOP IN MODERN GREEK, translated by Joannes Patousas, with woodcuts based on the 1599 edition of Verdizotti's Cento favole morali. ICCU records just one copy, in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice.

PROVENANCE

Bibliothèque royale, Paris, red library stamp ("Biblothecae regiae") and red duplicate stamp on title-page