Mythologia Aesopica, in qua, Aesopi Fabulae Graecolatinae CCXCVII. quarum CXXXVI. primum prodeunt. Accedunt Babriae Fabulae etiam auctiores [...]. Haec omnia ex Bibliotheca Palatina [...] opera & studio Isaaci Nicolai Neveleti [...].

8vo: [16]-678-[2 bl.] pp. (toned, occ. dampstaining).

Cont. vellum, spine titled in ink (soiled). Good copy.

First edition, “Wichtigste Anthologie der humanistischen und nachhumanistischen Sammlungen und Neuentdeckungen, mit einem umfangreichen Anmerkungsapparat des Neveletus ("Notae") in fünf Abschnitten als Anhang, in denen ausser den Fabeln des Abstemius jede Sammlung einzeln kommentiert wird.” (Bodemann). The French scholar Neveletus (1590-16xx) reprinted the collection of Accursius and added 136 fables from 5 Palatine manuscripts. This was a major source of La Fontaine. 237 woodcuts after Virgil Solis (1514-1562). Woodcut mark on title. Printed in 2 cols with facing Greek and Latin texts. Ref. VD-17 39:138313Z. - Bodemann (Fabelbuch) 60.1. - Hoffmann I:56. - Hollstein 78:14-71. - Paisey (BL) N-183. Bound with: Phaedrus - Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V. Ioannes Meursius post Pithoeum, Rittershusium, Schoppium, Rigaltium denuo recensuit, & Animadversiones addidit. [Leiden], Plantin Press (Raphelengii), 1610. 8vo: [6]-213-[1 bl.]-55-[1 bl., 14, 1 bl.] pp. (lacking blank O4; quire EE bound before quires a-d). Re-issue of the 1598 Leiden ed. (Typ. Bat. 3992) by the young Meursius (1579-1631). Woodcut mark on title. Ref. Landwehr (Fables) F142. - Simoni (BL) P-103. - STCN 114426813.