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1849Best.-Nr. 47625Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston 1849. Very good. Early edition of this French reader for young US learners published as the cracks that would lead to the Civil War began to form. The world economic status of the US in 1849 was strong due in no small part to the country's ability to produce cotton cheaply through the labor of enslaved people. With the rise of Industrial Revolution technology people were able to move around the globe faster than every before - an urban American student learning French in this period was not only engaging in mental stimulation but actually stood a chance of using their skills to eventually converse with a real French person. ÆSOP'S FABLES IN FRENCH was published during this period offering moral anecdotes alongside "those idiomatic forms of speech" that "characterize a language" Advertisement. Scarce; OCLC locates only one holding of this edition. Duodecimo. 6'' x 3.5''. Original textured sheep-backed pink boards. 238 pages collated complete. Early partially removed ownership label to front board with last name Stocker. Early pencil ownership inscription to second blank. Early ink ownership inscription to page 3 matching ownership label. Scattered pencil annotations to margins. Binding with wear some dampstaining; careful repair to lower spine. Leaves with light foxing and occasional toning. Sound. Lindsay & Blakiston unknown books
1538Best.-Nr. 338977Basilae: In officina Heruagiana 1538. Collection first published by Froben 1518. A1-Z8: 393 5 pp. 8vo. Late 17th-century stamped-calf binding loss to head and foot of spine title page with borders drawn on it some loss to title page not affecting text annotated throughout some worming needs to be resewn and binding reattached title page should be repaired. Provenance: Johannis Miller. Collection first published by Froben 1518. A1-Z8: 393 5 pp. 8vo. With ownership signaure to the title page: "Ex Libris Johannis Miller pret. 1s. 0d Anno Dm 1693" a further ownership signature to the recto of the last leaf "Ex Libris Johannis Miller A D 1688" and annotations throughout the text. Rev. John Miller 1666-1724 was commissioned fort chaplain of the New York companies in 1692 spending 1692-1695 in New York: "Miller was the sole officiating Episcopal clergyman in the entire province of New York during the three years of his residence; his activities as evinced by contemporary records and his familiarity with all inhabited parts extended beyond the confines of the city." During this time he wrote extensive notes about New York and drew a map of the fort. When his returning vessel was overtaken by French Privateers he threw his documents overboard to destroy the intelligence contained therein. He later rewrote many of his observations and redrew the map from memory it's retained in his manuscripts at the British Museum from George Chalmers in 1842 and was later published in Valentine's 1842-3 Manual. He returned to England where he was given the post of vicar of Effingham gaining a reputation as a "worthy and respectable vicar" and "a man of research." His library was still "preserved with great care" by his successor in the beginning of the nineteenth century then consigned and sold in New York by Bangs and Company in 1894. A number of his books have found their way into prominent libraries and collections Stokes' Iconography; Paltsits Victor Hugo intr. "New Yorke Considered and Improved A.D. 1695 by John Miller" Electronic Texts in American Studies 17. The present work seems to have gone from him to another owner Richard Norton and then to Thomas Norton; the second page has the ownership signature and note: "Thomas Norton pretium / Thomae Dicitur Fr Richard". Thomas Norton could be Thomas Norton 1684-1748 Whig Member of Parliament of Ixworth Abbey Bury St. Edmunds Suffolk; the grandson of Col. Richard Norton M.P. 1615-1691 intimate friend of Cromwell; and nephew of Maj. Richard Norton. Contents include: Aesopi Fabulatoris vita Aesopi Fabulae Gabriae Graeci Tetrasticha Ex Aphthonij Sophistae exercitamentis Ex Philostrati imaginibus fabulae Ex Hermogenis exercitamentis / Prisciano interprete Ex Auli Gellij libro secundo capite undetrigesimo Apologus Aesopi Phrygis memoratunon inutilis Homeri Ranarum et murium pugna heavily annotated Musaeus De Ero et Leandro annotated Expositio capitvm admonitoriorum aedita ex tempora ab Agapeto Hippocratis Iusiurandum GaleÅmyomachia hoc est Felium & murium pugna annotated with translations from the Greek. USTC 608058 In officina Heruagiana unknown books
1856Best.-Nr. 346386Boston: J. Buffum 1856. 96pp. 12mo 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches 9 x 7 cm. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. Very Good. 96pp. 12mo 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches 9 x 7 cm. inscribed on the front free endpaper by John Hay "Ellie Hay/from her Brother/John/1857" and on the following page the signature of "Miss Helen J.ulia Hay 1857 June 1." Helen Hay Whitney was named after her. Likely first edition thus . Publisher's brown cloth gilt. ; 96 pp. woodcut illustrations. Binding a hair worn the stamping dull internally some toning. A presentation copy of this delightful little juvenile inscribed by the young age 18 or 19 depending on the date of gift John Hay. At this time Hay had graduated from Brown and was working for his father Milton Hay. Lincoln had offices next door and after 1860 Hay became an ardent supporter. He would go on to become Lincoln's secretary and later one of his most eminent biographers and in time Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt one of the most powerful figures on the American political scene. J. Buffum unknown books
1909Best.-Nr. 39157London: Hodder & Stoughtond 1909. Very good plus. First edition out of series copy of this large paper edition of Detmold's beautifully illustrated interpretation of Aesop's fables with an original watercolor on parchment signed by Detmold tipped in. In his vibrant and stylish illustrations for this limited edition of Aesop's Fables Edward Detmold exhibits aesthetic influences drawn from a variety of sources including Japanese and Chinese paintings Art Nouveau and classical Western art. This copy is supplemented with an original watercolor by Detmold apparently an early iteration of an illustration of a redshank chick that would appear in his circa 1912 BOOK OF BABY BIRDS. 12.5'' x 10.25''. Original white gilt pictorial cloth. Top edge gilt other edges machine deckle. 25 tipped-in color plates. Unpaginated. Bookplate of Sir Francis Carruthers Gould to front pastedown. Original Detmold watercolor on parchment tipped onto verso of front flyleaf; likely an artist's copy no limitation page present. Binding with light bumping to corners and spine ends a few tiny spots of soil to rear; spine sunned. Watercolor with margins marked-up for framing. Endpapers with mild toning leaves with occasional tiny spots of soil or foxing. Sound with vibrant colors. Hodder & Stoughtond unknown books
1760Best.-Nr. 51396London: Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes 1760. The Sixth edition Corrected and Amended. 155 pp. 1 vols. Later half calf trimmed closely at head and inner margins. The Sixth edition Corrected and Amended. 155 pp. 1 vols. ESTC N31485 Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 40828San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1930. Pullman Jana. Aesop. The subtyl historyes and fables of Esope. Translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe by William Caxton . . . No. 145 of 200 copies. 8 167pp. Woodcut initials and illustrations by Valenti Angelo 1897-1982 hand-illuminated by the artist. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1930. 230 x 160 mm. Custom binding by Jana Pullman of the Western Slope Bindery consisting of tan crushed morocco decorated with paint and colored onlays reproducing two of the book's illustrations; boxed. Very fine. An attractive example of Ms. Pullman's work. . Grabhorn Press unknown books
1983Best.-Nr. 1247071983. San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1983. 4to 58 4pp. Frontispiece 8 illustrations an original leaf and a proof from an original block. Original brown boards white paper spine label. As issued in fine condition. § Edition limited to 518 numbered copies. The inserted leaf is " Jupiter and the Ass" and the proof is "The Boys and the Frogs". Not a rare book but an important addition to Bewick scholarship. There is a biographical sketch by John W. Borden and a history of the fables by Janet S. Krueger. The book was designed by Jack Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press who also took the new impression from the original Bewick block and lithographed at the Cloister Press. unknown books
1708Best.-Nr. 1229361708. London : printed for J. Churchill at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster-Row 1708. 8vo 8 xvi 326 2pp. With the final advertisement leaf. Old speckled calf upper cover rehinged a bit worn but internally very good. § First edition widely held in Institutions but very scarce in commerce -- the last copy sold was in 2004 £160. Foxon English Verse p.31. ESTC T84697. unknown books
1949Best.-Nr. 021687London: Gaberbocchus Press Limited 1949. First Edition. Softcover. Very mild soiling to covers. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Franciszka Themerson. Illustrated wraps with self-dustwrapper 8" x 10" printed in red and black. Copy #249 of 400 printed on a hand press and illustrated by Franciszka Themerson SIGNED by her with an ORIGINAL SELF-PORTRAIT. Also with a spurious signature of Aesop. Laid in is a compliments slip with the handwritten note by Themerson: "one of the very last copies/sorry it's rather dirty." Gaberbocchus Press Limited paperback books
1699Best.-Nr. 1345219London: printed for R. Sare B. Took M. Gillyflower A. & J. Churchil G. Sawbridge and H. Hindmarsh 1699. Third Edition. Hardcover. Folio 12 28 8 476 pages; VG-. Bound by Jon Robbins in modern period style calf. Spine lightly sun-faded. With frontis. portrait pi1v; Includes indices. Minor physical damage to middle of fore edge of text block going in approximately 1/8 inch at most does not impact text. Archival repair to portrait and frontispiece minimal loss to edges. Marginalia to c5. small piece missing from upper fore corner of X1 closed tear to middle of Tt1 small tidemark to upper fore corner of Zz4 small open tear to upper edge of Aaa3. JR Consignment. Shelved Room A Oversize. Oversized items. Will require additional postage for expedited/international orders. Economy international shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. Contact seller for additional information. Lacking part 2. Wing A709.; Includes fables by Barlandus Avianus Abstemius Poggius and others;. 1345219. Special Collections - Upstairs. printed for R. Sare, B. Took, M. Gillyflower, A. & J. Churchil, G. Sawbridge, and H. Hindmarsh hardcover books
1657Best.-Nr. 1334141Londini London: ex officina Rogeri Danielis 1657. Hardcover. 12mo. 8 246 VG-; bound in early full cloth plain spine; moderate wear and rubbing to boards some worming to both boards bumping to corners; ; greek handwriting to front pastedown front and rear endpapers; ex-library with markings to recto of title page; embossed stamp to title page page 99; small ink stains to pages 88/89; lacking last black leaf; Latin and Greek on facing pages; scarce; AG consignment; shelved case 3. ESTC: R20664 Per ESTC "The battle of the frogs and mice" is erroneously attributed to Homer.;. 1334141. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. ex officina Rogeri Danielis hardcover books
2014Best.-Nr. UAESFIN00carjPenguin 2014. Good. Aesop. Fine Life for a Country Mouse. Detwiler Susan. NY: Penguin 2014. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with soiling creasing and abrasions. Adhesive residue on rear cover. Penguin paperback books
Best.-Nr. 06629London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd 1936. The Fox and the Crow - Gooden's Masterpiece of Modern Book Illustration A Signed Limited Aesop in Vellum Finely Printed at Cambridge GOODEN Stephen illustrator. AESOP. Aesop's Fables. Translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange Kt. with plates & decorations by Stephen Gooden. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1936. Limited to 525 numbered copies this being No. 266 signed by Stephen Gooden. Small folio 10 x 7 inches; 254 x 178 mm. 311 1 limitation pp. Finely printed letterpress by Cambridge University Press under Walter Lewis. Copper plates engraved by A. Alexander & Sons London. Illustrated with twelve superb copper-engraved plates including a vignette title-page with original tissue guard. Publisher's full cream vellum covers ruled and decorated in gilt upper cover with central gilt fox spine with five shallow bands decorated and lettered in gilt marbled endpapers top edge gilt. Housed in the original pink/gray mottled paper-covered slipcase printed spine label with matching serial number in ink. A fine copy in a near fine slipcase. This 1936 Harrap Aesop stands among the great illustrated books of the interwar period - a harmonious collaboration of classical text elegant typography and masterful copper engraving. Stephen Gooden one of the finest British engravers of his generation brings to Aesop a line that is precise yet lively classical yet modern and perfectly suited to the moral clarity and wit of the fables Gooden's animals - foxes crows lions and asses - are rendered with quiet authority and restrained humor avoiding caricature in favor of timeless archetype. London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd, 1936 unknown books
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
1936Best.-Nr. 21475London: George G. Harrap and Co Ltd 1936. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Plates and Decorations by Stephen Gooden. 4to. Publisher's full cream-colored vellum gilt spine titles and gilt rules and vignettes on the boards marbled endpapers top edge gilt. Illustrated by Stephen Gooden. Finely printed letterpress by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press. Copper plates by A. Alexander and Sons Ltd. in London. One of 525 copies on hand-made paper. This is copy number 256 signed by the artist. The boards are yawning a bit as happens with full vellum in a dry climate and there are a few small faint stains on the endpapers else this is a fine copy. . George G. Harrap and Co, Ltd hardcover books
1997Best.-Nr. 010195Seattle WA: University of Washington Press 1997 Hard cover in dust jacket. Originally published in 1970 an edition published in 1997 with additional artwork by Lawrence. . Hard Cover. As New/As New. Illus. by Jacob Lawrence. 4to. University of Washington Press hardcover books
1793Best.-Nr. 1415099London: John Stockdale 1793. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo Two Volumes. Very Good Minus Condition. Rebacked 19th Century boards in brown calves leather with gold decorative trim. Boards are lightly soiled with worn corners. Spine is light brown leather with two red labels and five bands. Spine ends are solid. Marbled end papers. Text blocks are gilt trimmed. 110 total black and white plates plus 2 illustrated title pages. Advertisement for Gay's Fables between the Aesop's biography and the first plate. Volume I - lxv 189 pages with the last page denoted as "891". 1 page advertisement for "Gay's Fables" between Aesop's biography and the text. Free front end paper is chipped and is missing the bottom corner. Foxing throughout the text block. Complete set of 47 plates with 15 of them not have their tissue guards bound in. Offsetting to surrounding pages from the plates. Volume II - xi 248 pages. 1" gouge on rear board. Free front end paper has chips missing from the right edge. Foxing throughout the text block. 63 plates of which 14 did not have their tissue guards bound in. Offsetting to surrounding pages from the plates. 1415099. Special Collections - Upstairs. John Stockdale hardcover books
1887Best.-Nr. 45215London: George Routledge & Sons 1887. First edition square 8vo pp. 56; color illustrations throughout decorative endpapers by the artist; original blue cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards by Crane edges rather scuffed with boards occasionally exposed textblock fine. Text based on W. J. Linton's manuscript "The Wisdom of Aesop." Osborne I p. 2. George Routledge & Sons unknown books
1988Best.-Nr. 12395Mount Vernon NY: A. Colish Inc 1988. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. From the library of Dan Kelm. Bumped corners else tight bright and unmarred; near fine. 4to. xi 52pp 2. One on an edition of 1500 copies unnumbered printed in Centaur and Narrow Bembo type on specially made Strathmore Pastelle paper by A. Colish. Design and typography by Jerry Kelly. Introduction by Kit Currie. Over twenty illustrations taken from woodcuts in a fifteenth-century copy of Aesop's Fables. Attractively bound in rose paste-paper patterned boards with gilt spine label. A. Colish, Inc hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 7786Mill Valley CA: Sunflower Press 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight bright and unmarred. Printed paper boards. 33x29mm. 14pp. Numbered limited edition this being 22 of 75. Sunflower Press hardcover books
1607Best.-Nr. 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 books
1979Best.-Nr. 010430Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1979. Collector's Edition. Full-Leather. Very Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Tall 8vo.130pp. Beautiful Unread First "Collector's Edition" one of Easton's "100 Greatest Books Ever Written". Bound in full leather with titles and decoration stamped in gilt on both boards and spine. All edges gilt. Silk bookmark. Square tight and clean throughout with no discernible wear. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price. Easton Press unknown books
1983Best.-Nr. 009245San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1983. Book. Fine. Paper Covered Boards. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. "With an original leaf from the first edition 1818 of The Fable of Aesop and a new impression from one of Bewick's original wood engravings." Fine in plain white paper jacket title in pencil at spine. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Publication no. 175 of The Book Club of California. one of 518 copies designed by Jack Werner Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press binding by the Schuberth Book Bindery. The Book Club of California Hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 008596New York: Hodder & Stoughton Book. Very Good. Hardcover. American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No Date 1909-1912. Collects 313 of Aesop's classic fables and features 23 mounted full-color plates all present by Detmold. Originally published by Hodder and Stoughton in London in 1909 in a limited edition this American edition is quite uncommon in commerce. Very Good in original embossed green cloth with gilt lettering illustrated end papers small prior owner name in ink scattered moderate toning throughout spine evenly sunned to pale green mounting page for illustration at p.134 loose. Still an attractive copy with all of the marvelous Detmold illustrations. Hodder & Stoughton Hardcover books
1933Best.-Nr. 13775New York: Viking Press 1933. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Viking Press 1933. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth red topstain in cream pictorial dust jacket custom cloth slipcase; xii86pp.; woodcut frontispiece and illus. throughout pictorial endpapers printed in red. Dust jacket verso reinforced with archival paper heavy color touch-ups to extremities especially along top margin of front panel with evidence of prior shallow chips and tears along edges and various splits down folds; faint offsetting from woodcuts else Near Fine in a Very Good albeit overly-restored copy of the uncommon dust jacket. Signed by Artzybasheff without inscription on half title. Viking Press unknown books
