La Fontaine (Jean de) Fables Choisies..., 4 parts in 1, engraved additional allegorical title by Romeyn de Hooghe, engraved illustrations by Henri Cause, woodcut initials & ornaments, occasional browning, later crushed tan morocco, by Devauchelle, spine gilt with five raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., marbled board slip-case,[Landwehr F119], Antwerp, Henry van Dunewalt, 1688; another edition, 4 vol., engraved frontispiece and plates by Abraham Girardet, contemporary ink signature of Borel Boyer to titles, some light staining, modern half green morocco over striped painted boards, Lausanne, François Lacombe & Henri Vincent, 1792; Fabulae selectae…, translated by J.B.Giraud, engraved portrait after Hycainte Rigault, 2 errata leaves and approbation leaf at end, old ink stamp of Bibliotheca Heberiana to front free endpaper, book-label of Charles Whibley, handsome dark red morocco with double gilt fillet and small ornaments to corners, spine gilt in compartments with floral ornaments and morocco label, g.e., slightly rubbed, Rouen, S.V.Machuel, 1765; La Fontaine en Estampes, ou Nouvelle Édition des Fables, half-title, engraved title-vignette and illustrations reduced from those by Oudry, with old pin-prick floral ?embroidery design loosely inserted, modern half blue morocco, Paris, Neveu, 1821, all preserved in modern cloth drop-back box or folders with slip-case; and 5 others, La Fontaine, 8vo (12)

⁂ The first is the first illustrated edition of La Fontaine outside France, with illustrations by Cause reworked from those by François Chauveau in the Paris edition of 1668.