Aesop. Fabulae, collation: A-T⁸ V⁴, italic type, title with woodcut border depicting three hares hunting a peasant at foot and two mermen at head, woodcut initials, some contemporary ink manuscript annotations and underlinings, some in red ink, some shaved at sides, title lightly stained, a few other stains, one or two short tears, slight worming towards end, old ink library stamp to verso of title, modern book-label to front pastedown, eighteenth century half calf over speckled boards and ruled in blind with triple rules, rubbed, [VD16 A 507; Not in Adams], [Nuremberg, J.Petreius], 1552; another edition, collation: A-S⁸, italic type, title with fine woodcut border featuring centaurs and faint contemporary ink inscription at foot, woodcut initials, a little soiled at beginning and end, title and final two leaves frayed at edges (repaired with final two words on final leaf supplied in manuscript), pen trials to verso of final leaf, modern half black morocco over boards, upper cover with small portrait label in pen & ink, [Not in VD16 or Adams], Valentine Neuber, 1568, both preserved in modern cloth drop-back boxes, small 8vo, Nuremberg (2)

⁂ Rare Nuremberg editions of Latin versions of Aesop's fables, including those of Abstemius and a selection of Poggio's Facetiae.