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[PHEDRA]. Phædri, Aug. Liberti Fabularum Æsopiarum libri V. Amsterdam, printed by Francisci Halmæ, 1701. In-4° (222 x 285 mm), red morocco, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, decorated ribbed spine, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Notes by David van Hoogstraten. A portrait of Prince Jean Guillaume de Nassau engraved by Van GUNST, after B. VAILLANT, folded; a frontispiece title page engraved by BOUTATS after J. GOEREE; a fleur-de-lis on the title page, six vignettes including one dedication vignette featuring the Nassau coat of arms, eighteen plates with six medallions engraved by Van VIANEN, nine initials, and 31 tailpieces. Minor damage, restored, in the margins of leaves D4, N3, and Ff3 and at the folds of the portrait; plates 1 and 7 have been remargined; section N is foxed, but, A BEAUTIFUL COPY, ON HEAVY PAPER, IN A CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO LEATHER BINDING. From the Albert Natural Library, with bookplate (2009, 93). “A very carefully edited edition in terms of meter” (Brunet, IV, 588); “A very fine edition, well illustrated” (Cohen, 797–798).
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