Paris: Chez Santain c1800. Leather. Very Good. 5.5" by 3.5". None. A charming book of fables by Francois Fenelon. With an engraved title page frontispiece and three further plates. Francois Fenelon 6 August 1651 7 January 1715 was a French Roman Catholic archbishop theologian poet and writer. He today is remembered mostly as the author of The adventures of Telemachus a thinly veiled attack on the French monarchy first published in 1699. As tutor Fenelon was charged with guiding the character formation of a future King of France. He wrote several important works specifically to guide his young charge. These include his Fables and his Dialogues des Morts. In a half calf binding with marbled paper-covered boards. Externally sound with slight rubbing and wear to extremities. Internally firmly bound bright with scattered spots. Very Good Chez Santain hardcover
Cheltenham UK: H. Ruff 1805. 240pp frontis. Contemporary marbled boards with leather spine and corners half-leather. Spine worn hinges tender with bottom panel of spine torn but attached corners rubbed. Quite heavily foxed on frontis with lesser foxing throughout. Translated from the French and adapted for English readers this is the first edition with Dibdin's chapter on religious education. . First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo. H. Ruff Hardcover
Paris: Imprimerie de P.-A. Bourdier et Cie. 1860. 1st Edition . Leather. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Full modern leather binding. An ex-library stamp on the colophon. Small 4to. 27 x 18 cm. In Armenian. 512 8 p. engraved plates. Richly illustrated. Stains on pages and edges. Otherwise a good copy. Extremely rare first Armenian edition of Fenelon's "Telemaque". According to Abdolonyme Ubicini's account in his La Turquie actuelle Paris 1855 Les Aventures de Télémaque was the most popular classic among Levantines in Istanbul in the first half of the 19th century and it was translated into many languages besides Turkish and Arabic in the Ottoman Empire. The first printed version of a Greek translation dates from the 18th century while an Armenian version by Ambroise Calfa was published in Paris in 1860. The Ottoman Reception of Fénelon's Télémaque.; Meral Arzu. The translator Ambroise Calfa Nar Bey Guy de Lusignan 1831-1906 was a Franco-Armenian historian and linguist from the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Ambroise Calfa is one of the three sons of Kévork Georges -Youssouf Calfa an Armenian trader living in Constantinople and Sophie Cantar or Kantaroglou daughter of an Armenian merchant or banker from the Ottoman capital. Member of several learned societies including the Asian Society Ambroise Calfa published several historical or linguistic works including an Armenian Calligraphy Paris 1853 a work awarded at the Universal Exhibition of 1855 and above all an Armenian-French Dictionary Paris Hachette 1861 dedicated to Emperor Alexander II. Wikipedia. Les Aventures de Télémaque fils d'Ulysse The adventures of Telemachus son of Ulisses with the original title is a didactic French novel by Fénelon Archbishop of Cambrai who in 1689 became tutor to the seven-year-old Duc de Bourgogne grandson of Louis XIV and second in line to the throne. It was published anonymously in 1699 and reissued in 1717 by his family. The slender plot fills out a gap in Homer's Odyssey recounting the educational travels of Telemachus son of Ulysses accompanied by his tutor Mentor who is revealed at the end of the story to be Minerva goddess of wisdom in disguise. OCLC 953068302 One institutional copy in BnF. Utopias from the Middle East 3. <br/> <br/> Imprimerie de P.-A. Bourdier et Cie. hardcover
Istanbul: Matbaa-i Âmire. AH 1296 1880. Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original cloth bdg. Foolscap 8vo. 18 x 12 cm. In Ottoman script Old Turkish with Arabic letters. 16 318 p. Lithographed Edition. Early edition of this first translation of Fenelon's "Telemaque"; made by Yusuf Kamil Pasha 1808-1876 under the influence of the leading French writers and thinkers like La Fontaine Racine Voltaire Montesquieu Rousseau; which introduced early Ottoman / Turkish literature to the utopian city called "Salante" for the first time. Özege 20335.; This edition cannot be found in OCLC. Utopias from the Middle East 2. <br/> <br/> Matbaa-i Âmire., [AH 1296] hardcover
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