NEAR-MINIATURE EDITION NOT IN ESTC
1
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AESOP.
An Intire New and Beautiful Edition of Aesop’s Fables, with
Instructive Morals adapted to the Capacities of Children.
53 half-page woodcut
illustrations. [8], ii-xii, [1], 44; 64 pages, including woodcut frontispiece (A-D
8
; ²A-²D
8
). 2
volumes in one. 16mo, 97x59 mm, early 19th-century black calf, gilt-tooled spine with red
morocco lettering piece; frontispiece mounted, slight gnawing along fore edge of opening
leaves without text loss, lower outer corner of last 4 leaves restored affecting a few letters.
Contemporary child’s crude ownership inscription (“Thomas Marriot his Book”) on
blank final preliminary page.
London: R. Baldwin, 1757
[500/1,000]
Apparently unrecorded edition, not in ESTC, OCLC, or NUC.
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[ALONSO DE OROZCO, Saint.]
Declamatio in laudem precelentissimi pre-
sulis et doctoris ecclesie Aurelij Augustini.
Title within woodcut border with arms of
the dedicatee, Juan Téllez-Girón, Conde de Ureña; 11 woodcut illustrations printed from 5
blocks. [4], 79, [1] leaves, including errata leaf. Printed in gothic type apart from title. Small
8vo, old limp vellum, recased, endpapers renewed; minor soiling, rear free endpaper lacking.
From the collection of the Portuguese historian Alfonso Cassuto (1910-90).
Np, circa 1546?
[2,000/3,000]
SCARCE FIRST EDITION
of a work on the life and doctrines of St. Augustine, by a Spanish
Augustinian mystical author (1500-91). Palau 204443; not in CCPBE, OCLC, or NUC.
1 (actual size)