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[email protected] www.WhitmoreRareBooks.com Books may be reserved by email: info @WhitmoreRareBooks.com and by phone: (626) 297-7700 We welcome you to come visit our gallery by chance or appointment at: 4 E. Holly St., Suite 217, Pasadena, Ca 91103 For our complete inventory, including many first editions, signed books and other rare items, please visit our website at: www.WhitmoreRareBooks.com Follow us on social media! @WRareBooks @whitmorerarebooks whitmorerarebooks The Writings of Benjamin Franklin - item 28 Catalogue 16 First Edition of Sebastian Brant’s Greatly Expanded Aesop With Numerous Woodcuts. 1. Aesop, Sebastian Brant Appologi sive Mythologi cum quibusdam Carminum et Fabularum additionibus Sebastiani Brant Basel: Jacob Wolff of Pforzheim, 1501. First edition thus. An early illustrated edition of Aesop’s Fables, augmented and edited by Sebastian Brant, and the first edition to include his additional 140 sections. Two parts in one volume, folio (leaves measuring 297 x 208 mm). Collates complete, retaining one of the two blank leaves (M6 lacking). Collation identical to the Fairfax-Murray copy: a-b8, c6-o8 (alternately), p-s6 (s6 blank and original); A-B8, C-D6, E8-K6 (alternately), L4, M5, (M6, final blank, lacking). With the famous woodcut portrait of Aesop on the verso of a1 and a smaller woodcut portrait of Brant on the verso of A1 in part two. A total of 335 woodcuts divided into 194 in part one and 141 in part two (inclusive of the portraits).