PHAEDRUS.
Phaedri Aug. liberti fabularum Aesopiarum libri V. et novarum fabularum appendix. Cura et studio Petri Burmanni.
The Hague, Henricus Scheurleer, 1719. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece by D. Coster and a woodcut printer's device n the title-page. Contemporary vellum, red sprinkled edges. [14], 98, [82].
€ 350
Edition containg 91 fables translated by Phaedrus, including the 34 of the appendix in the edition by J.F. Nilant (1709), here in the redaction of Petrus Burmannus. The fables are presented without the commentaries by Gudius, Rittershausius etc.
With the bookplate of John Landwehr on the front paste-down. Binding a little bit stained and dust-soiled, otherwise in good condition. Landwehr, F149; Schwabe/Barbier, 79.
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