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Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque Cum Novo Commentario Petri Burmanni.
Leiden, Sam. Luchtmans, 1727. 4to. Cont. full calf. 5 raised bands. Richly gilt back. Fine. Engraved Frontispiece, printers woodcut device on title. (52),263 pp. + Index. Some leaves slightly yellowing.
Brunet IV,588. ""Edition fort estimée, surtout à cause de la préface critique contre Bentley.""
Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri quinque. Cum novo Commentario Petri Burmanni. (+) Epistola Critica ad H.B. S.E.I. (Bentleji).
Leidae, Samuelem Luchtmans, 1727. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Vellum a bit soiled, but fully intact. Spinetitle gone. Engraved Frontispiece, printers woodcut device on title. (52),263 pp. + Index and Errata-leaf,93 pp. A faint narrow marginal dampstain to the first leaves.Otherwise internally clean.
First printing of Burman's best edition. ""This is the celebrated edition of Burman, which was preceded by some smaller ones in 1698, 1718, and 1719. It contains the notes of Burman and Bentley, a new Commentary, and a admirable critical preface, in which the modesty of Burman is contrasted with the boldness of Bentley..."" (Dibdin II:281).
