éSOPE ; Luqmān al-HakīmLivre Rare Book
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1794Best.-Nr. 117012à Paris, chez Debarle, Libraire 1794 2 volumes. In-8 20 x 12 cm. Reliures de l’époque veau havane marbré, dos lisses ornés de fers encadrés de filets dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison maroquin havane, XX-588 pp. en pagination continue, 3-4 gravures hors texte, table. Coupes légèrement frottées, coins émoussés et frottés, 1 coiffe arasée, intérieur frais.
1957Best.-Nr. 131643Paris, Pierre de Tartas 1957 In-4 33 x 25,5 cm. En feuillets, sous couverture rempliée illustrée, chemise et étui rigide toilés vert et gris-moyen, 87 ff., 20 lithographies de Abel Imblot, table des fables. Ouvrage tiré à 237 exemplaires. Celui-ci, un des 32 exeplaires réservés au Cercle bibliophile Joseph Pardo, N J. P. 24, sur Moulins Richard-de-Bas, enrichi d’un dessin original de l’artiste avec son envoi autographe, comportant une suite des lithographies sur Vélin de Rives. Des rousseurs, soutenues en garde et au titre, par ailleurs rares et éparses, la suite des lithographies en bel état.
1804Best.-Nr. 23583Rouen:: A. Lelalain 1804. Nouvelle edition revue corigee & augmentee de la Vie d'Esope. contemporary full sheep. A few old notes on endsheets; some minor staining to text; boards quite scuffed but tight and sound. 16mo. Illustrated with woodcuts throughout. A. Lelalain, hardcover
1954Best.-Nr. 327078New York: The Museum of Modern Art 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition thus. Narrated by Glenway Wescott. Illustrated by Antonio Frasconi. Small quarto. Quarto red cloth and decorated paper over boards. Spine a little toned else about fine in lightly worn very good cardboard slipcase. copy number 195 of 975 numbered copies printed at the Spiral Press Signed by Frasconi Wescott and printer Joseph Blumenthal. A nice copy. The Museum of Modern Art hardcover
1954Best.-Nr. 327078New York: The Museum of Modern Art 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition thus. Narrated by Glenway Wescott. Illustrated by Antonio Frasconi. Small quarto. Quarto red cloth and decorated paper over boards. Spine a little toned else about fine in lightly worn very good cardboard slipcase. copy number 195 of 975 numbered copies printed at the Spiral Press Signed by Frasconi Wescott and printer Joseph Blumenthal. A nice copy. The Museum of Modern Art hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 29897London: S. Fisher Book. Good. Brown Calf. New and Correct Edition. Large 12mo. Brown diced calf with decorative gold-stamped border. Title in gilt to hubbed spine. Brown endpapers. Brown top stain. Marbled side and bottom edges. 10 engravings in panel format to frontis. Offset to title. Light foxing to about a third of the leaves. Front hinge professionally repaired. Slight edgewear. Decorative bookplate affixed to front pastedown. "A new and correct edition" C.1820s. A very good copy. S. Fisher Hardcover
Best.-Nr. 06285London: William Heinemann 1912. Arthur Rackham Illustrates Aesop's Fables First Trade Edition RACKHAM Arthur. Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton and Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann 1912. First trade edition. Small square octavo 8 x 5 7/8 inches; 202 x 149 mm. xxix 1 blank 223 1 pp. Thirteen color plates including frontispiece with captioned tissue guards fifty-three black and white drawings of which nineteen are full page. Publisher's green cloth front cover and spine pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt lower cover with publisher's blind stamp pictorial end-papers printed in green top edge stained green. Spine slightly darkened extremities of cloth slightly rubbed inner hinges cracked but sound. A good copy only. "In Aesop's Fables 1912.Rackham's primary intention was to amuse but his illustrations for fables of 'The Moon and her Mother' and 'The Gnat and the Lion' suggest the imaginative refinement that he brought to the task. Rackham was often his own model; there are several self-caricatures to be detected in Aesop's Fables. He is the man who catches the flea the pompous gentleman who scoldsd the drowning boy the credulous slave-owner who scrubs the black boy" Hudson Derek. Arthur Rackham His Life and Work p. 94. Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. The 1st century AD philosopher Apollonius of Tyana is recorded as having said about Aesop: ". like those who dine well off the plainest dishes he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then too he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events" Philostratus Life of Apollonius of Tyana Book V:14. Latimore and Haskell pp. 38-39; Riall p. 111. London: William Heinemann, 1912 unknown
Best.-Nr. 06285London: William Heinemann 1912. Arthur Rackham Illustrates Aesop's Fables First Trade Edition RACKHAM Arthur. Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton and Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann 1912. First trade edition. Small square octavo 8 x 5 7/8 inches; 202 x 149 mm. xxix 1 blank 223 1 pp. Thirteen color plates including frontispiece with captioned tissue guards fifty-three black and white drawings of which nineteen are full page. Publisher's green cloth front cover and spine pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt lower cover with publisher's blind stamp pictorial end-papers printed in green top edge stained green. Spine slightly darkened extremities of cloth slightly rubbed inner hinges cracked but sound. A good copy only. "In Aesop's Fables 1912.Rackham's primary intention was to amuse but his illustrations for fables of 'The Moon and her Mother' and 'The Gnat and the Lion' suggest the imaginative refinement that he brought to the task. Rackham was often his own model; there are several self-caricatures to be detected in Aesop's Fables. He is the man who catches the flea the pompous gentleman who scoldsd the drowning boy the credulous slave-owner who scrubs the black boy" Hudson Derek. Arthur Rackham His Life and Work p. 94. Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. The 1st century AD philosopher Apollonius of Tyana is recorded as having said about Aesop: ". like those who dine well off the plainest dishes he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then too he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events" Philostratus Life of Apollonius of Tyana Book V:14. Latimore and Haskell pp. 38-39; Riall p. 111. London: William Heinemann, 1912 unknown books
1887Best.-Nr. 962F13London: Frederick Warne 1887 . First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 8". Walter Crane; Edmund Evans. A vibrant example of the first edition of this charmingly illustrated children's edition of Aesop's moral tales in the scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition of this work.In the scarce publisher's original dust wrapper unclipped.Illustrated throughout in colour by Walter Crane printed in colour by Edward Evans. Crane was an English artist and book illustrator and is considered to be the most influential and among the most prolific children's book creators of his generation.Undated; dated 1887 'Walter Crane' by Isobel Spencer p. 203.Aesop's Fables are a collection of brief moral tales attributed to a storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece around the 6th century BCE. These tales typically feature animals as characters who embody human traits and behaviours teaching practical life lessons through their interactions. Classic fables like "The Tortoise and the Hare" "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and "The Ant and the Grasshopper" use simple narratives to convey enduring wisdom about virtues such as perseverance honesty and hard work. In the publisher's original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards with unclipped dust wrapper. A touch of shelf wear to back strip tail otherwise externally excellent. Dust wrapper bright with neat restorations to back strip head and tail head of fore edge of front wrap tail of fore edge of rear wrap. Significant closed tear to rear wrap neatly repaired with tape to the reverse. Minor chips to wrap perimeters. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine Frederick Warne hardcover
1936Best.-Nr. 962Z12London: Ward Lock & Co 1936. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 7". Harry Rountree. Two copies of Blanche Winder's retelling of Aesop's fables beautifully illustrated with colour plates by Harry Rountree including the very scarce original dust wrapper. The Harry Rountree illustrated edition. Bound in the original cloth with pictorial boards and the original unclipped dust wrapper to one of the volumes. Illustrated by Harry Rountree with a coloured frontispiece and twenty-three coloured plates to both volumes. Collated complete. A charming illustrated collection of fables credited to Aesop a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. A two volume set featuring a complete copy and a smaller incomplete copy with the original dust wrapper. The smaller volume is lacking the pages after pp.44 but contains all twenty-four colour plates. One volume is re-backed and the other has been re-bound with the plates bound to the rear with the original spine bound to the front endpapers. Housed in a cloth clamshell box. In the publisher's original cloth re-backed with pictorial covers. The second volume is re-bound and includes the original unclipped dust wrapper. Housed in a cloth clamshell box. Externally very smart with minimal edge wear and the odd slight mark to the rear covers. Original cloth spine adhered to the front pastedown of the smaller volume. The wrap has archival repairs and a tidemark to the verso and minor creasing. Internally the slightest strain in places otherwise firm. Pages bright with the odd spot heavier to the front and rear. The clamshell has fading to the spine and joint. Very Good Indeed Ward, Lock & Co hardcover
1909Best.-Nr. 2126057Published by Hodder & Stoughton 1909. 1st edition. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Detmold Edward J. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Large format. Brown cloth with gilt titles and illustration to front. Pictorial endpapers. 23 beautiful tipped-in colour plates with tissue-guards. Assumed 1st edition. Spotting/browning to spine; some chipping to cloth at top and tail; a little fraying. Wear along cover edges; a few small nicks at corners. Some foxing and browning mostly to prelims. All plates present. Bottom corner of page 144 has small piece torn off. Published by Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
Best.-Nr. 5534-01Leiden Luchtmans 1727. Gestoch. Frontisp. Tit. 25 Bll. 263 S. 22 Bll Index 93 S. Epistola critica. Pbd. d. Zt. m. goldgeprägt. Rückentit. Berieb. Alter Namenstempel am Tit. Beigeb.: SCHACHT Hermanno Oosterdyk. Oratio Funebris in Obitum viri Doctissimi et Celeberrimi Petri Burmanni. Leiden Luchtmans 1741. Tit. 48 S 13 Bll. Mit 1 gefalt. Frontisp. Leiden, Luchtmans 1727. unknown
1908Best.-Nr. 962Z14New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1908. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 10" by 7.5". Lucy Fitch Perkins. The very scarce first Lucy Fitch Perkins illustrated edition of the popular fables of Aesop with her fantastic colour plates throughout and in the original early dust wrapper. The first Lucy Fitch Perkins illustrated edition. Illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins with a colour frontispiece monochrome headpieces and ten colour plates. In the publisher's pictorial cloth covers with the original unclipped early dust wrapper.Lucy Fitch Perkins was an American illustrator known for her delightful illustrations and children's books such as her best known work 'Dutch Twins'. A charming illustrated collection of fables credited to Aesop a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. In the publisher's original pictorial covers with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart with a damp stain and a bump to the centre of the rear board. Owner's inscription to the front free endpaper with tidemarks to the rear endpapers. The wrap has sunning to the spine and cover the odd mark small closed tears to the extremities and a tidemark to the rear and verso. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages and tidemarks to the rear few pages. Very Good Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover
1898Best.-Nr. 11578John Murray. London. 1898. 8vo. 7.4 x 5 inches. Beautifully illustrated throughout with over 100 fine engravings by Tenniel and Wolf. A few light marks to the front blank endpapers but overall a nice clean copy in a fine contemporary leather binding by Bickers and Son of full tree calf. Spine with raised bands each decorated with gilt piping. Compartments ruled and fully decorated in gilt. Brown morocco title label ruled and lettered in gilt. Decorative gilt border on boards. Board edges with decorative gilt tooling. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. A little rubbing to the extremities but overall a lovely copy. John Murray. London. 1898 hardcover
1882Best.-Nr. 962F21London: John Murray 1882 . Cloth. Good. 8.5" by 6". John Tenniel; Wolf. A charming collection of four 19th century copies of Aesop's fables all of which feature the illustrations of John Tenniel. Four volumes of Rev. Thomas James edition of the fables of Aesop which were first published in this edition in 1848.Each of these volumes is the edition of James and features illustrations from John Tenniel and Wolf.Illustrated with over one-hundred vignette illustrations from Tenniel in each volume. Lewis Carroll was so impressed by John Tenniel's animated designs for this edition of the fables that he chose the Tenniel to illustrate 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.Present here are: the 1852 edition of this work; the 1863 edition being the forty-eighth thousand; the 1868 edition being the sixty-third thousand and the 1882 edition being the seventy-eighth thousand.Aesop's Fables are a collection of brief moral tales attributed to a storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece around the 6th century BCE. These tales typically feature animals as characters who embody human traits and behaviours teaching practical life lessons through their interactions. Classic fables like "The Tortoise and the Hare" "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and "The Ant and the Grasshopper" use simple narratives to convey enduring wisdom about virtues such as perseverance honesty and hard work. With a thirty-two page catalogue to the rear of the 1852 volume dated January 1852 and another to the 1868 volume dated April 1868.Housed in a cloth clamshell case these four volumes were collected by Eric Sweet whose bookplate appears to the interior of the clamshell. In the publisher's original cloth bindings and paper wraps housed in a cloth clamshell. The earliest volume is in paper wraps with losses of paper to the back strip and significant rubbing to wraps. Rear hinge of 1863 volume strained but firmly held. Hinges of 1868 volume strained but firmly held. Clamshell fine. Internally 1852 volume strained throughout with remaining volumes lightly strained. Pages a touch age toned with instances of light spotting throughout. Good John Murray hardcover
Best.-Nr. 50174Delance, Paris, 1796 (An V)
1823Best.-Nr. 75538Newcastle: T. Bewick & Son. Very Good. 1823. Fine Binding. This book has been re-bound hard-bound in a fine binding of smooth green leather with gilt-stamping raised bands and gilt stamped leather labels on the spine. The covers show some light scuffing and sunning edge-wear and light rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The spine is lightly sunned. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and legible with vignette illustrations but also with some damp-staining to the outer edge of some of the pages. Limited # 243 with a facsimile signature and "thumbprint" of Thomas Bewick on the Limitation Page. . T. Bewick & Son unknown
1823Best.-Nr. 75538Newcastle: T. Bewick & Son. Very Good. 1823. Fine Binding. This book has been re-bound hard-bound in a fine binding of smooth green leather with gilt-stamping raised bands and gilt stamped leather labels on the spine. The covers show some light scuffing and sunning edge-wear and light rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The spine is lightly sunned. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and legible with vignette illustrations but also with some damp-staining to the outer edge of some of the pages. Limited # 243 with a facsimile signature and "thumbprint" of Thomas Bewick on the Limitation Page. . T. Bewick & Son unknown books
1780Best.-Nr. 016165Berne: Chez La Nouvelle Societe Typographique 1780. Book measures 19.5x13.cm. 460pp 18 plates including frontis. Bound in modern quarter calf marble boards paper title label on top cover. Binding in fine condition. Internally some light spotting light creasing to some pages probably the quality of paper but not aesthetically distracting . Pages and plates in good clean condition. A very nice well bound copy. Housed in a modern cloth drop-back box.F. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. Chez La Nouvelle Societe Typographique Hardcover
1848Best.-Nr. 962F12London: John Murray 1848 . First edition. Cloth. Fine. 9.5" by 6.5". John Tenniel. A vibrantly bound example of the first Thomas James edition of Aesop's fables illustrated throughout by celebrated artist John Tenniel. The first edition of these fables from Rev. Thomas James.Lewis Carroll was so impressed by John Tenniel's animated designs for this edition of the fables that he chose the Tenniel to illustrate 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.Illustrated with an engraved title page and over one-hundred vignette illustrations from Tenniel.Aesop's Fables are a collection of brief moral tales attributed to a storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece around the 6th century BCE. These tales typically feature animals as characters who embody human traits and behaviours teaching practical life lessons through their interactions. Classic fables like "The Tortoise and the Hare" "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and "The Ant and the Grasshopper" use simple narratives to convey enduring wisdom about virtues such as perseverance honesty and hard work. With twelve pages of advertisements to the rear dated March 1848.The leaves of this volume have been washed. Rebound by Eric Sweet in cloth with endpapers renewed. With a slip case from Sweet which incorporates the publisher's original cloth binding.Bound by Eric Sweet a keen collector of private press and fables. He studied at the Brighton College of Art before moving to London to work as a lettering artist and typographer for advertising agencies later becoming the head of Birmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctive style. Reboud in cloth with endpapers renewed housed in a cloth slip case with the publisher's original boards and back strip laid down. Externally fine. Original boards lightly age toned with ring mark to front board and back strip age toned. Slip case in very good condition indeed. Internally firmly bound. The leaves of this volume have been washed. Pages clean and bright. Fine John Murray hardcover
1781Best.-Nr. ABC_45398Copenhagen: widow of Gabr. Christ. Rothen & Leipzig Christian Gottlob Prost 1781. Contemporary half calf brown paper sides brown morocco spine label with the title in oxidized gold. 8vo. With a woodcut title-vignette woodcut head- and tailpieces and 117 etchings with captions "Fab. I-CXVII" illustrating the 117 Aesop fables each pasted on separate leaves except the last one Fab. CXVII. The second edition of the German translation of the French edition of the Aesop fables by Jean-Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde 1648-1734 with extensive dialogues on the moral of each fable together with the life of Aesop by Planudes the 18 fables of the Italian renaissance humanist and classical scholar Francesco Philelphus 1398-1481 and the fables of Gabrias and Avianus Amsterdam for Pierre Mortier 1708. The first edition appeared in Copenhagen by the widow of Gabr. Christ. Rothen und in 1769 in Leipzig by Christian Gottlob Prost Bodemann 97.4. The 117 etchings illustrating the Aesop fables are after the engravings of the first edition but are different.Leather worn top of spine lacking boards damaged with the right corner of the front board nearly cracked hinges weak. Some small stains. Otherwise in good condition.l Cf. Bodemann 97.4 first edition; not in Fabula docet. [widow of Gabr. Christ. Rothen] & Leipzig, Christian Gottlob Prost, unknown
Best.-Nr. 65966Couverture rigide. Bon/1790. in-8. Paris 1790 in-8 588pp pagination continue reliure demi-chagrin vert dos doré Très bel exemplaire! unknown
1790Best.-Nr. 65966Paris, 1790, in-8, 588pp (pagination continue), reliure demi-chagrin vert, dos doré, Très bel exemplaire! 588pp (pagination continue)
Best.-Nr. 14124Mannheim, Typis Academicis, 1768. Deux volumes in-8, 58-615-(2) pp. en pagination continue, veau moucheté de l'époque, dos à nerfs cloisonnés et fleuronnés, pièces de titre, tranches marbrées (nerfs et coiffes un peu frottés).
1988In-4 gr. , brossura orig., sovraccoperta, custodia in cartonato edit., pp. 45,(11), con 1 acquaforte di Ontani, numerata e firmata dall’artista. Così si precisa al Lettore: “Abbiamo ideato questo libro valendoci delle edizioni critiche, dei principali testi di lingua tratti da manoscritti medioevali italiani e stampati nei secoli XVIII e XIX, delle traduzioni e versioni in volgare italiano, portoghese, in inglese e francese, in dialetto genovese, milanese, veneto, romanesco..”. Edizione in carattere Bembo, impressa in Verona con torchio Stanhope su carta Hahnemuhle da Alessandro Zanella, in 150 esempl. numerati. Il ns., 43, è in perfetto stato. .
