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Lot 297

Aesop, Trans. C. Leprevost. Esope: Fables Choisies (Les Auteurs Grecs). Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie.

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A scholarly Hachette parallel-text edition presenting Aesop's fables in Greek with dual French translations (literal and idiomatic), devised for classroom use. The title page bears a stamp of noted American Egyptologist Charles Edwin Wilbour; a later inscription of Genevieve Graydon (1953) records a subsequent owner. The binding is worn but the text remains legible throughout. Book is 7 in x 5 in.

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Private Estate, Los Angeles, California

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