Aesop. Fabularum celeberrimi autoris vita. Fabellae..., collation: [ ]⁸ A⁴ B-V⁸, italic type, title with woodcut border depicting the virtues and arts, woodcut initials, contemporary ink annotations to some of the Fables and inscriptions & pen trials to blank A4 & pastedowns, title and following leaf with hole to foot causing slight loss to edge of woodcut border (repaired), title lightly stained, two small wormholes to first few signatures, contemporary blind-stamped calf-backed wooden boards with brass clasps, old paper label to spine, rubbed, lacking most of clasps, preserved in modern cloth folder and slip-case, [VD16 A 492; Not in Adams], 8vo (155 x 100mm.), Nuremberg, [J.Petreius], 1539.

⁂ Rare second edition of this Latin translation by the German humanist and classical scholar Joachim Camerarius (1500-1574), friend of Erasmus. It was first published in Tubingen the previous year.