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1912réf. aes01London: William Heinemann. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Cover heavily marked; spine darkened. Sporadic marking and foxing; some discolouration to margins. Occasional staining not impinging. Browning to pages sometimes heavy. Some off-setting. Previous owner's inscription dated 1917 to fep verso. Teg - remaining edges untrimmed. 1912. Limited Edition 1042/1450. White/gilt decorated hardback cloth cover. 300mm x 240mm 12" x 9". xxix 224pp. 13 mounted plates with captioned tissue-guards; additional illustrations in b/w. Signed on the limitation page by Rackham. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . William Heinemann hardcover
1714réf. 015977Amsterdam Etienne Roger: Amsterdam Etienne Roger 1714. First edition in French of Sir Roger L'Estrange's translation with Francis Barlow's engravings. Book measures 25x20.cm. lxxxiv2222pp engraved frontis 27 full-page illustrations of Aesop and 108 illustrations of Fables by Thomas Dudley and Francis Barlow. Bound in modern full vellum title to upper cover within Greek key border in pen & ink full coloured edges marble endpapers. Outer page edges slightly uneven. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally previous owners bookplate period signature on title pages very occasional minor stain tear repair. Pages in very good clean condition throughout. A very good clean copy in a very nice full vellum binding. Housed in a modern cloth drop-back box. First edition in French of Sir Roger L'Estrange's translation with Francis Barlow's engravings.F. Vellum. Very Good Plus. Quarto. Amsterdam, Etienne Roger Hardcover
réf. 58151Figueras: Gregori Matas y de Bodallés estamper y llibreter 1842. 12mo. 15 x 10 cm. pp.iv2797 index. Contemporary calf over marbled boards spine with gilt lettering and gilt foliate decoration. Wood-engraved frontispiece of Aesop and 194 vignettes head- and tail-pieces throughout. Occasional light spotting to margins and edges generally an excellent copy. Not in Palau. Figueras: Gregori Matas y de Bodallés, estamper y llibreter, 1842. hardcover
réf. 70097München J. Michael Müller 1920. 8° Titelkupfer IX 9 - 349 S. 146 Orig.-Kupferstiche Nach den Originalen neu gestochen Reich goldgeprägter Ganzledereinband Lesebändchen Büttenpapier Exlibris a. Vors. Kopfschnitt min. stockfleckig Nr. 4 von 200 Exemplaren. Text franz. Der prachtvolle Einband ist einem Einband der Bibliothek des Britischen Museums nachempfunden. Er wurde in der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts durch den berühmten Pariser Buchbinder Nicolas Eve für ein "Breviarum Romanum Ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini Restitutum Pii V. Pont. Max. Jussu Editum" im Jahr 1588 geschaffen. Mit ausführlicher Einleitung 110 S. zu Leben und Werk Äsops. - Die Kupferstiche sind nicht zuweisbar. Ähnlichkeiten bestehen mit Äsop-Illustr. des berühmten Nürnberger Stechers Virgil Solis. Sie erschien erstmals 1566 in einer lateinischen Übersetzung- Jean Baudoin 1590 in Pradelles; † 1650 in Paris französischer Autor und Übersetzer. Er war Mitglied der Académie Française. An Gicht leidend starb er 1650 an Hunger und Kälte. - Michael Josef Maria Birkenbihl 1877-1960 deutscher Philosoph und Professor der Handelsakademie in München Buchautor von Erzählungen Novellen und Biografien und Übersetzer. 010 München, J. Michael Müller, 1920 unknown
2019réf. 122755Paris Les Cent Une 2019 1 vol. broché in-4, en feuilles, sous chemise et étui. Edition illustrée de sérigraphies originales en couleurs par Hervé Di Rosa formant un magnifique bestiaire avec de grands aplats de couleurs typiques de l'artiste. Tirage limité à 125 exemplaires nominatifs numérotés sur papier Tucco Old Mill 210 gr. et signés par l'artiste et la présidente. Etui partiellement décoloré, sinon parfait état.
2019réf. 122755Paris Les Cent Une 2019 1 vol. broché in-4, en feuilles, sous chemise et étui. Edition illustrée de sérigraphies originales en couleurs par Hervé Di Rosa formant un magnifique bestiaire avec de grands aplats de couleurs typiques de l'artiste. Tirage limité à 125 exemplaires nominatifs numérotés sur papier Tucco Old Mill 210 gr. et signés par l'artiste et la présidente. Etui partiellement décoloré, sinon parfait état.
1921Cartella in cartonato con titolo e immagine impressi al piatto; dorso in tela e angoli; chiusura con tre alette. La cartella contiene 12 tavole incise all'acquaforte accompagnate da un foglio indicante titolo, dichiarazione della tiratura e indice delle tavole. Ogni foglio misura cm. 36,5 x 25 mentre è variabile la dimensione delle incisioni. Ogni tavola è protetta da velina. Le 12 tavole raffigurano: Titel-vignette (Illustrazione del titolo); Widmung (Dedica); Der Wolf und der Kranich (IL Lupo e la Gru); Der Fuchs und der Lowe (La Volpe e il Leone); Der Wolf un das Lammlein (Il Lupo e l'agnello); Juno und der Pfau (Giunone e il Pavone) ; Der Fuchs und der Affe (La Volpe e la Scimmia); Der Lowe und die Maus (Il Leone e il Topo); Affe, Wolf und Fuchs (Scimmia, Lupo e Volpe); Der Fuchs und der Rabe (La Volpe e il Corvo); Der Rabe und die Pfauen (Il Corvo e i Pavoni); Der Fuchs und die Trauben (La Volpe e l'Uva). Di quest'opera sono state tirate a mano direttamente dall'artista 10 copie numerate da I a X; sono altresì state tirate sotto la supervisione dell'artista 100 copie numerate da 1 a 100. La nostra copia n. 17. Quache lieve fioritura, (in particolare una serie di fioriture più fitte al margine superiore della tavola de "Il corvo e i pavoni"); nel complesso insieme davvero bello, non comune, in ottime condizioni.
1689réf. 044668Paris: Pierre Aubouyn Pierre Emery et Charles Clouzier. Printed By Laurent Rondet 1689. In French. Worn. New edition title page dated 1689. Beautifully illustrated includes 139 fables each with the written fable on the left hand page and a wood engraving on the right with the moral below. Full brown leather frontis 12 279p two page colophon errata 1 page advertisement. Rear cover and rear free endpaper detached covers work spine dried but stabilized front hinge cracked front free endpaper and frontis loosened but not detached pages lightly age-toned but clean old dampstain to lower inner margins of first 100 pages and then again toward the end of the book not affecting printed areas different bookplates on either side of front free endpaper second one is from E. Coster Wilmerding name of Richard Creed Paris 1700 inside front cover with an 1814 notation that the book belonged to Richard Creed who was slain at the Battle of Blenheim and was being presented to Miss Katherine Simcoe signed Wililam Walcot names may actually be different that is what we could make out from the handwriting. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pierre Aubouyn, Pierre Emery et Charles Clouzier. Printed By Laurent Rondet Hardcover
1909réf. 25975London: Hodder and Stoughton 1909. First edition. Illustrated with 23 tipped-in color plates by Edward J. Detmold. 4to publisher's original tan cloth the upper cover with an elaborate pictorial decoration of a falcon in red with lettering in green the spine gilt lettered with decorative tool in red. xvi 152 pp. A very nice copy free of the inevitable browning to the endpapers. The binding attractive and sound hinges fine and firm the plates bright and pleasing. A VERY PLEASING COPY AND QUITE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. These illustrations represent in our opinion Detmold's very best work. Their grace and sensitivity reflect a certain Eastern sensibility. The artist’s powers in the delicate communication of nature’s spirit are exemplified by these wonderful paintings rich with the wide variety of the colours in the spectrum. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
1619réf. ABC_45380Venice 1619. Jo. Baptistam Combus Contemporary vellum. Woodcut printers device on title-page and 92 woodcuts in text. 12mo. 450 4 pp. lacking the last blank. One of the many school editions of the fables of Aesop with the same title at least 8 between 1524 and 1589 some printed in Basel by Froben others in Venice with parallel Greek and Latin text printed on facing pages.A few leaves cut short at two or three places affecting the text upper corner of title-page restored. Otherwise in good condition.l Not in Bodemann; Fabula docet. LITERATURE & LINGUISTICS Fable Books ZZ 003 TITELS GEBRUIKT VOOR 2022 hardcover
1941réf. 35131Paris l'Emblme du Secr 1941 In-4, maroquin noir, encadrement de filets dors sur les plats, dos quatre nerfs orn de filets dors, filets or sur les coupes; encadrements intrieurs orns de filets dors s'entrelaant aux angles, doublures et gardes de soie moire rouge grenat, doubles gardes de papier mordor, tranches dores sur brochure, couverture imprime. Etui (Charles Septier).Nouvelle traduction augmente la fin de chaque fable de quatrains et illustre par Andr Collot de 41 compositions dont 20 gravures hors texte en taille-douce et 21 vignettes in texte graves sur bois en deux teintes. Tirage limit 242 exemplaires numrots. Un des 170 exemplaires sur vlin d'Arches comprenant une suite de dcomposition des couleurs des 21 vignettes.
1701réf. 1229424to. Amsterdam: Typographia Francisci Halmae 1701. 4to engraved general title letterpress red & black title page with allegorical engraved vignette. 18 full-page copper-engraved plates by Jan van Vianen each featuring six circular images and 38 in-text reproductions engraved decorative initials and head- and tailpieces. With the oversize fold-out engraved portrait of Joannes Gulielmus Prince of Nassau. Later polished calf c.1750 headcap repaired upper hinge repaired. § Phaedrus 15 BC - AD 50 Italy was a "Roman fabulist the first writer to Latinize whole books of fables producing free versions in iambic metre of Greek prose fables then circulating under the name of Aesop." Ency. Brit. This de luxe edition was especially created for the Prince of Nassau profusely illustrated with fine engravings. Dibdin spoke highly of it in his Greek and Latin Classics 4th edition: "I have always considered this as a correct and very sumptuous edition. It is ornamented with a great number of small plates or medallions in which the subject of the fable is very ably and spiritedly executed. The type is peculiarly rich and bold and is hardly equalled by any Dutch edition of a classic." p. 285. Landwehr F163. Typographia Francisci Halmae unknown books
1976réf. 122907Folio. London: The Scolar Press 1976. Folio 8 cxlii pp. With illustrations in woodcut throughout. Full brown morocco ruled in black backstrip lettered in black and four raised bands slipcase as new. § De luxe edition # XLIII of 50 printed on paper specially made by hand by Barcham Green of Hayle Mill. This is the first facsimile edition of Caxton's "Fables of Esope" 1484 STC 175. It reproduces original size the unique perfect copy of the work in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle which contains a life of Aesop and is illustrated with woodcuts. Caxton translated the fables from Julien Macho's 1482 French version and it proved so popular the version was still being printed in 1658. The Scolar Press hardcover books
1661réf. 003051On Venezia, per Francesco ****, 1661
1889réf. 39636London The Strand: David Nutt. Good with no dust jacket. 1889. 1st Thus. Vellum. frontis; FABLES OF AESOP as First Printed by William Caxton in 1484 with those of Avian Alfonso and Poggio now again edited and induced by Joseph Jacobs. With History of the Aesopic Fable. 2 volumes. Edited by Joseph Jacobs. Frontispiece illustrations. 25.2x15 cm 10x6" original publisher's binding of vellum-backed boards deckle edges. No. 48 of an edition limited to 50 of 60 copies on large paper. Rare Large Paper edition of Caxtons Aesop critically edited and with a long historical essay about the Fables and their origin in Vol. I. Bindings somewhat worn with some scuffing and cracking but fundamentally sound. Internally very clean and attractive. . David Nutt hardcover
1979réf. 2606240072Easton Press 1979. Hardcover. Like New. 40 volume Easton Press set Hardcover. Bound in full leather. Stamped with 22kt gold gilt design on cover front back and spine. All edges gold. Silk moire fabric end papers. Satin ribbon place holder. Fine binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. Some volumes still in publisher's shrink wrap. For more than 30 years the Easton Press has been the standard for finely bound profusely gilt classic leather bindings. Attractive set appealing to the classics reader and decorator alike. Includes some of the most influential books of all time across poetry philosophy and literature. This is an oversized or heavy book which WILL require additional postage for Priority Mail or International delivery outside the US. Contains the following volumes: Aesop - Aesop’s Fables; Aristophanes – The Birds The Frogs; Aristotle – Politics & The Poetics; Bronte Charlotte – Jane Eyre; Bronte Emily – Wuthering Heights; Bunyan John – The Pilgrim’s Progress; Cervantes - Don Quixote; Confucius – The Analects of Confucius; Conrad Joseph – Lord Jim; Crane Stephen – Red Badge of Courage; Dante – The Divine Comedy; Dickens Charles – David Copperfield; Dickens Charles – Great Expectations; Doyle Sir Arthur Conan – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Dumas Alexandre – The Three Musketeers; Fielding Henry – Tom Jones; Goethe Johann Wolfgang von – Faust; Grimm – Brothers Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Hardy Thomas – Return of the Native; Homer – Odyssey; Keats John – Collected Poems; Machiavelli Niccolo – The Prince; Melville Herman – Moby-Dick; Milton John – Paradise Lost; Plato – Dialogues on Love and Friendship; Rousseau Jean-Jacques– The Confessions; Scott Walter – The Talisman; Shakespeare William – The Comedies; Shakespeare William – The Histories; Shakespeare William – The Tragedies; Sophocles – Oedipus the King; Sterne Lawrence – Tristram Shandy; Stevenson Robert Louis – Treasure Island; Swift Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels; Thoreau Henry David – Walden; Turgenev Ivan – Fathers and Sons; Twain Mark – Huckleberry Finn; Voltaire – Candide; Whitman Walt – Leaves of Grass; Yeats W.B. – Collected Poems. Easton Press hardcover
1912réf. 882245London: Heinemann: 1912. 1/1450 numbered copies SIGNED BY RACKHAM at limitation statement on verso of half-title. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. White buckram with gilt stamping including vignettes at spine and front cover t.e.g. untrimmed with numerous full-page and text b/w illustrations. There are 13 tipped-in color plates from watercolors by Rackham with brown art paper mounts. Spine is lightly sun-browned also showing mild wear and some soiling to spine ends. Text pages show some aging following each art paper mount. Includes a printed 1912 flyer for a Rackham exhibition of his watercolors used for this book. Lacking board slipcase. A lovely copy . By the Artist. First Limited Edition. White Buckram Gilt. Excellent. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heinemann: Hardcover
1607réf. 009842Lugduni : Apud Petrum Rigaud 1607. Book. Very Good. Leather. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. 412 pps. 3 leafs. 4 1/2" h x 3" w. Title page portrait of Aesop woodcut illustrations in text. "Gabriae Graeci Fabellae XLIII. Batrachomyomachia Homeri hoc est ranarum et murium pugna. Galeomyomachia hoc est felium et murium pugna tragoedia Graeca". Bound in contemporary leather Very Good top cover nearly detached light pencil notations at paste downs. Text in Greek and Latin in opposing columns or pages. SCARCE OCLC locates only the ST GALLER BIBLIOTHEKSNETZ in Switzerland with a copy. Apud Petrum Rigaud Hardcover
réf. 76424Ayn Ediciones S. XV. Ayn Ediciones unknown
1571réf. 482551571 (Lyon) Lugduni, Apud Ioan. Tornaesivm (Jean de Tournes), Typogr. Regium (Typographe royal). MDLXXI - 1571 - In-16, 12 x 8,5 x 3,8 cm - Edition Originale - Reliure vélin de récupération avec manque - Dos cassé - Collationné complet des 110 gravures sur bois- 637 pagers + Index (3) manque pages d'index- fortes mouillures - Ex-libris illisibles d l'époque - Envoi rapide et soigné - Réf. 48255
1708réf. 1514Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier 1708. First Illustrated Edition. Near Fine. 2 vols. bound into one. Small 8vo 5 7/8 x 3.34 inches 150 x 95 mm 12 297 7; 2 287 4 pp. Frontispiece engraving printer devices on title pages and 117 in-text half-page engravings one for each fable engraved by Georg Paul Busch. Cancel on p. 276 fable LXX where wrong image had been printed. Contemporary vellum binding with later ms. title on spine edges speckled in red. Pages bright and clean with some bookseller pencil and ink markings on front and back flyleaves. Vellum a little thumbed but in excellent condition for a book of its age. STCN 334560683. A VERY RARE and EARLY EDITION of Aesop translated into French by Jean-Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde 1649 -1734 a Jesuit priest author of works on ethics religion and education and accompanied by his discussion of the moral of each fable and four lines of verse. The fables are accompanied by a lively depiction of the story by the Berlin copper-plate engraver Georg Paul Busch 1682 - 1759. In Vol. 1 the 78 fables are preceded by "La Vie d'Esope" pp. 1-93 written by the Byzantine Greek monk and scholar Maximus Planudes c. 1260 - c. 1305. Vol. 2 contains fables 79-117 as well as French prose translations of further fables without illustrations: 18 numbered fables by the Renaissance Italian humanist poet and scholar Francesco Filelfo or Philelphus 139-1481 translated from the Latin verse; 37 fables based on Aesop by Gabrias and Avienus translated from the Latin verse; two longer fables: the "Battle of the cats and the rats" and the "Battle of the rats and the frogs"; five Aesop "tales" taken from Plato's dialogue Protagoras including one titled "De l'Origine de l'Amour"; six numbered "poetical fables" with Olympian Gods as protagonists; and finally three more tales the first from Herodotus and the last from Gerbellius. Each volumes includes an index. Later editions of the book 1736 for example pair two illustrations on one page. Busch's engravings show a certain hand with strong contrasts and dynamic movements. Pierre Mortier unknown
1829réf. 981Z3London: J. M'Gowan and Son c1829. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 5.5" by 4". None stated. A very scarce two volume set of Aesop's fables adapted for young people and illustrated with fantastic aquatint illustrations and both in contemporary half calf. A very scarce illustrated edition with only one copy held institutionally. Bound in half calf. Illustrated with many unique aquatint illustrations with an engraved title page and fifty plates to 'Vol I' and an engraved frontispiece and forty-eight plates to 'Vol II'. Lacking the frontispiece to 'Volume I'.A two volume complete set.A rare to see illustrated edition of Aesop's renowned fables adapted for young people with instructive applications. This edition features a collection of fantastic and anonymously illustrated plates depicting whimsical portrayals of a frog and mice in armour and many more. Undated dated by copies held institutionally. Bound in half calf with marbled paper to the boards. Externally fading cracking and rubbing to the spines with rubbing to the joints and extremities slight marks to the boards with front joint starting slightly at the head of the front joint. Internally engraved title starting otherwise firmly bound with generally bright pages and occasional light spotting heavier to the plates with the odd closed tear to the extremities of the odd plate or page. Very Good J. M'Gowan and Son hardcover
1912réf. IYC132297London: William Heinemann 1912. 1st thus. hardback. Very good 1st thus edition original white cloth spine and front board lettered and decorated in gilt top edge gilt others untrimmed 13 tipped-in colour plates with tissue-guards spine darkened finger-soiling to covers endpapers spotted mounts offset onto adjacent text-leaves as often qty: 1 First edition thus number 743 of 1450 copies signed by the illustrator. 4to 300 x 240 / 12"" x 9_. "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form which is after all the basic device of the morality is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.' Rackham's genius is such that it bridges the two and carries the didactic fable into the realm of fairy story and lends to the imaginative world of fairies a tangible and convincing reality"" Gettings pp. 83-84. Limited numbered edition signed by Rackham. William Heinemann hardcover
1781réf. 962P4London: J. Dodsley 1781. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4"; 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. Robert Dodsley's edition of the fables of Aesop and other eminent fabulists illustrated with engraved head-pieces to each fable. In a custom cloth clamshell in a fine condition.An anthology of the fables of Aesop alongside a selection from other fabulists.Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved title and an engraved head-piece to each fable including a total of one-hundred and fifty-nine head-pieces.Edited by Robert Dodsley a leading bookseller and publisher of the eighteenth century. In a full contemporary tree calf binding in a custom cloth clamshell. Externally smart. Light rubbing to the spine and extremities. Minor bumping to the extremities. A small amount of wear to the front board. Hinges are starting but firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean. Closed tear to page 77/78. Clamshell is in a fine condition. Very Good Indeed J. Dodsley hardcover
1793réf. 6744London: John Stockdale 1793. Two volumes. 112 engraved plates with protective tissue by Thomas Stothard J. Landseer Hunt Medland Lovegrove Skelton Powell Eastgate W. Grainger Clarke L. Chapman A. Smith J. Saunders Audinet et al. Pp. lxi publisher’s ad. leaf 198; xii 248. Large 8vo. original cloth backed marbled paper covered board with printed paper spine labels. Some rubbing light browning to end of volume II and a bit shaken.An excellent untrimmed copy pretty well preserved in the original binding of Stockdale’s well printed and deliciously illustrated Aesop. This is a true first of the great 1793 Stockdale edition with the advertisement leaf for Stockdale’s Gay’s Fables and the misprinted p.891 for p.198 of the first vol. The text is by Samuel Croxall. Booklabels of Carleton Richmond. In the original publisher’s binding John Stockdale hardcover
