Jean de LA FONTAINE. Contes et nouvelles en vers. Amsterdam, - Lot 29

Jean de LA FONTAINE. Contes et nouvelles en vers. Amsterdam, s.n. (Paris, David), 1745. 2 volumes in-12, blond speckled calf, spines with 5 ornate nerves (Period binding). Cohen, 557 /// I. (4f.)-XIV-224-(1f.) / II. (5f.)-268-(1f.). Edition illustrated with a frontispiece by Lebas, 2 title vignettes and 70 vignettes engraved by Fessard, Chedel and Ravenet after Cochin, all in the first edition. Edition published in 1743, for which a title with the date 1745 has been removed. Old restorations to headbands and spines and at the foot of one plate, one headband a little rubbed, a few small wormholes to bindings. One leaf partially detached, the last 6 leaves reinforced in the lower margin.