Phaedrus. Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V, edited by David Hoogstraten, engraved additional pictorial title, title in red & black with engraved device, large folding engraved portrait and 18 medallion plates by Jan van Vianen, each containing 6 roundels, engraved head- & tail-pieces, contemporary ink inscription to verso of title, lightly browned, trace of ink library stamp to one or two lower margins, a good tall copy in contemporary calf, rubbed and scuffed, rebacked preserving part of old gilt spine (part detached and loosely inserted), Amsterdam, F.Halm, 1701; another edition, edited by P. Burmann, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, engraved folding portrait, with prize presentation leaf completed in manuscript bound in at beginning, modern vellum-backed boards titled in pen & ink, Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1727; another edition, engraved frontispiece, title with woodcut device, modern morocco-backed boards, upper cover with title and Greek key border in pen & ink, Paris, 1675, the last two preserved in modern cloth folder & slip-case or drop-back box; and 3 others including another copy of the first, 4to (6)
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