Ardene (Esprit Jean de Rome d') Receuil de Fables Nouvelles, first edition, with ink inscription "Ex dono authoris...1748" to front free endpaper, lightly browned, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt in compartments with alternating lions and flowers and red morocco label, slightly rubbed, Paris, Ph.N.Lottin & J.H.Butard, 1747 § Schellenberg (Johann Rudolph) Vingt Fables en Prose et en Vers, engraved additional pictorial title and 19 plates by Schellenberg only (of 20, lacking plate and text for Fable XIX), light foxing, modern morocco-backed speckled boards, uncut, Berne & Winterthur, 1780 § Pagès (S.) Fables Nouvelles..., restitched into new boards but unbound, marbled dust-jacket, modern cloth portfolio, Carcassonne, R.Heirisson & G.Gareng, An IV [1796] § Reyre (Joseph) Le Fabuliste des Enfans et des Adolescens, third edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece and plates, modern blue morocco-backed decorated boards, Paris, Onfroy, 1806 § Lessing (G.E.) Fables..., translated by A.-J.Grétry, engraved frontispiece and 3 plates, wood-engraved vignettes, contemporary blue wrappers (lower wrapper only), uncut, disbound and loose, Paris, 1811, the first two and fourth preserved in modern cloth drop-back boxes; and 2 others with engraved plates, 8vo et infra (7)

⁂ The first item is a presentation copy of a scarce book of fables by a poet from Marseilles; the second is very rare.