PHAEDRUS - AVIANUS.
Phaedri Augusti Liberti, et Avieni Fabulae cum adnotationibs Davidis Hoogstratani. Accedunt Fabulae Graecae Latinis respondentes, et Homeri Batrachomyomachia cum Latina versione recens addita ad exemplar Patavinae editionis.
Naples, Felix Musca for Josephi Ponzelli, 1729. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a woodcut title-vignette and some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Later vellum over boards, red morocco spine label with title in gold, new paste-downs and endpapers. [14], 242, [2] pp.
€ 400
Early 18th-century Naples edition of the 93 Aesop fables in Latin verses with notes underneath, and the 5 additional fables found by the German philologist and classical scholar Marquart Gudius, together with the extended and scholarly annotations, printed below each fable. Also included are 42 fables of Avianus in Latin verses (without annotations), the Greek texts of some Aesop fables, and the Batrachomyomachia by Pseudo-Homerus in Greek and Latin on facing paces. These texts follow the redaction of David van Hoogstraten. The first edition of the Van Hoogstraten redaction appeared in Amsterdam in 1701.
With library stamps on the title-page and the verso of the title-page. Binding a bit dust-soiled and with a few small stains, some occasional foxing and browning, otherwise in good condition. Cf. Bodemann, 94.1.
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