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Lot 133

Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$300 - 500
Price Realized
$390
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[Children's & Illustrated] (Hooghe, Romeyn de). Esopus in Europa


Amsterdam: Sebatstiaan Petzold, 1701-(02). First edition. 40 parts bound in one. 8vo. Each part 8 pp., and with separate title-pages. With woodcuts by Romeyn de Hooghe. Main title-page printed in red and black. Full contemporary vellum, joints and extremities worn; two bookseller descriptions mounted on front paste-down; printed book-plate "M.L." featuring a dodo bird laid-in; wormholes at lower margin affecting about half of text; scattered foxing and closed tears to fore-edge; contemporary ownership signature on rear paste-down.

An interesting retelling of Aesop's fables, satirizing contemporary European political affairs, and featuring engravings by Dutch artist Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708).

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

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