Paris, Desa in t & amp; Sail la nt, chez Durand, de l'primerie de Charles-Anto in and Jombert, 1755 -1759. 4 vols. In 2nd. vol. 1 Allegorical front door in cisa by Dupuis and Coch in on a drawing by Oudry, portrait of Oudry in ciso da Tardieu from the dip in to by L'Argillière, and 70 tables in cise; Vol. II 68 tables in cise; Vol. 3: 68 tables in cise; Vol. 4: 69 boards in cise, light browning, contemporary binding in calfskin, plates framed by frame in gold, back with 5 nerves, golden cuts, marbled looks, some scratches, slight defects. Ex libris of the Conte Sanminiatelli to counterplates.

** Famous edition of Fables de la Fontaine, one of the masterpieces of Rococo illustration and one of the most famous illustrated works of all time. The four volumes contain, in addition to the allegorical ante-door and the portrait of the illustrator, 275 extraordinary intaglio plates engraved by the best carvers of the time on drawings by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755), painter, engraver, designer of porcelain and tapestry cartoons, from 1722 official painter of the "royal hunts" of Louis XV ("Peintre du Roy"). The boards were carved by Aubert, Aveline, Baquoy, Beauvais, Beauvarlet, Cars, Chedel, Chenu, Chevillet, Cochin, Cousinet (Elisabeth), Dupuis, Duret, de Fehrt, Fessard, Flipart, Floding, Gaillard, Gallimard, Lebas, Legrand , Lemire, Lempereur, Marvie, Menil, Moitte, Ouvrier, Pasquier, Pelletier, Pitre-Martenasie, Poletnich, Prévost, Radigues, Riland, Rode, Salvador, Sornique, Surugue, Tardieu, and Teucher. They enchant the realism with which the animals are portrayed, the beauty of the landscapes in the background, the liveliness of the scenes, the subtlety of the details.