Apparently third edition of a little book containing only the text of the 94 Phaedrus Fables and the 34 Fables of the Appendix, including the fables found by Marquqtus Gudius (1635-1686), all in Latin verses, in the famous recension of Petrus Burmannus.
After his studies of Law and the classical languages in Utrecht, his native city, and Leiden, Petrus Burman the Elder (1668-1741) was nominated to the professorship of eloquence and history at the Utrecht University. In 1715 he was appointed successor to the celebrated Perizonius, who had held the chair of history, Greek language and eloquence at Leiden. In 1724 he became the 9th Librarian of Leiden University. His numerous editorial and critical works spread his fame as a scholar throughout Europe, his Phaedrus edition being the first (1698; see nr. 15). The expression Curante Burmanno became a household word.
Some ownerships entries on fly-leaves. Schwabe/Barbier, 111.