Fabulae centum ex antiquis auctoribus delectae [...] carminibus explicatae.

4to: [4]-100 ff. (toned, top and bottom margin dampstained, some soiling, old repairs to wormtracks in blank fore-edge margin of final quires).

19th-c. gilt red morocco, covers with gilt ruled border and corner pieces, gilt spine, a.e.g., gilt inside border (sl. rubbed at joints and corners). Good complete copy.

Posthumous first edition of Faerno’s (1510-1561) Fables, published by Silvio Antoniano. Engr. title and 100 numbered full-page engravings after designs variously ascribed to Titian, and to Pirro Ligorio.
Ref. Edit16 18495. - Mortimer (Italian) 178.
Prov. Major Bryan Palmer (armorial bookpl.).
Joined: Fabulae variorum auctorum nempe Aesopi Fabulae Graeco-Latinae CC XC VII. Aphthonii Soph. Fabulae Gr. Lat. XL. Gabriae Fab. Gr. Lat. XLIIII. Babriae Fab. Gr. Lat. XI. [...] ex Bibliotheca Palatina [...] Phaedri Fabulae CXCVIIII., opera & studio Isaaci Nicolai Neveleti [...]. Frankfurt (M.), Chr. Gerlach & S. Beckenstein, 1660. 8vo: [16]-676 pp. (9 ff. missing = pp. 541-548, 565-566, 571-572, 577-580, 613-614; usual toning and spotting, burning hole on fore-edge margin F3 just touching a few letters, some sm. ink stains). Contemp. overl. vellum (sl. soiled). Enlarged ed. by the Swiss scholar Neveletus (1590-?) of the most extensive collection of fables from Classical Antiquity (1st 1610 as "Mythologia Aesopica"). Over 200 woodcuts from the Virgil Solis series. Ref. VD17 23:284808K. - Bodemann 60.2. (2 vol.)