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Daniel Heinsius' famous school Aesop, illustrated by Christoph van Sichem

AESOP.
Fabulae Graecae & Latinae, nunc denuo selectae: Eae item, quas Avienus Carmine expressit. Acc. Ranarum & Murium Pugna, Homero olim asscripta: Cum elegantissimis in utroque libello Figuris, & utriusque Interpretatione, plurimis in locis emendata. Ex decreto DD. Hollandiae Ordinum, in usum Scholarum.

With small woodcut of a fox sitting under a tree on title, woodcut depicting Aesop with animals dancing around him and children wearing a crown looking in the door, illustrating Aesop's life, 40 woodcuts illustrating Aesop's fables, and 6 woodcuts illustrating the

With small woodcut of a fox sitting under a tree on title, woodcut depicting Aesop with animals dancing around him and children wearing a crown looking in the door, illustrating Aesop's life, 40 woodcuts illustrating Aesop's fables, and 6 woodcuts illustrating the

With small woodcut of a fox sitting under a tree on title, woodcut depicting Aesop with animals dancing around him and children wearing a crown looking in the door, illustrating Aesop's life, 40 woodcuts illustrating Aesop's fables, and 6 woodcuts illustrating the

With small woodcut of a fox sitting under a tree on title, woodcut depicting Aesop with animals dancing around him and children wearing a crown looking in the door, illustrating Aesop's life, 40 woodcuts illustrating Aesop's fables, and 6 woodcuts illustrating the

With small woodcut of a fox sitting under a tree on title, woodcut depicting Aesop with animals dancing around him and children wearing a crown looking in the door, illustrating Aesop's life, 40 woodcuts illustrating Aesop's fables, and 6 woodcuts illustrating the



utrecht, Ex off. Georgius à Poolsum, 1685. Sm. 8vo. Contemp. vellum. With small woodcut of a fox sitting under a tree on title, woodcut depicting Aesop with animals dancing around him and children wearing a crown looking in the door, illustrating Aesop's life, 40 woodcuts illustrating Aesop's fables, and 6 woodcuts illustrating the "Battke between the Mice and the Frogs", all by Christoph van Sichem. 134, (2) pp.

Very popular Latin school book, edited by Daniel Heinsius (1580-1655), famous Dutch humanist and teacher, first published by order of the Dutch States in 1626, and beautifully illustrated with woodcuts by Christoph van Sichem II (ca. 1582-1658), a pupil of Jacques de Gheyn and a very popular book illustrator in the first half of the 17th century. The school book contains a short introduction on the life and work of Aesop with a charming woodcut portrait, and 40 fables by Aesop, each illustrated by an attractive woodcut, the text was printed parallel in two columns, in Greek and Latin, with the moral of the fable at the end.
This is followed by the same number of fables in verse by Avianus, in Latin only, and the book closes the fable of the "War between the Mice and the Frogs", once ascribed to Homer. Here the text in Greek and Latin is printed parallel on facing pages, and lively illustrated with 6 more woodcuts. The book starts and ends with a poem in Greek by Heinsius, the first on the educational value of Aesop's fables and on the last on the "Batrachomyomachiam", or the "Battle of the Mice and the Frogs".

Good copy, with the bookplates of NP vd Berg & L.H. Dorrenbook.- (Old owner's entries on first endpapers; a few woodcuts partly coloured by a child's hand).
Landwehr, Emblem & Fable Books, F025; Bodemannn 65.4; Van Seters, in: Het Boek XXXIII (1958-1959), p. 84 ff., cat. p. 96; Cat. De Koning 254; Hollstein XXVII, Sichem II, 31; Fabula Docet 16 (Arnhem-ed. of 1649); Cat. Van Rijn 918 (Utrecht-edition of 1626, incomplete); Anne Stevenson Hobbs, Fables, pp.52-53, incl. illustration (Amst. ed. of 1653).

Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Fable Books  Schoolbooks  Woodcuts 

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