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TELEMACHUS ULYSSIS FILIUS

1764réf. ST15125Augustae Vindelicorum Augsburg: Conradum Henricum Stage 1764. Second Edition in Latin. 208 x 160 mm. 8 1/8 x 6 1/4". 9 p.l. 262 pp.Translated from French into Latin by Joseph Claude Destouches. VERY ATTRACTIVE LATE 18TH CENTURY ETRUSCAN CALF IN THE STYLE OF EDWARDS OF HALIFAX covers with gilt border central panel framed by stencilled palmettes within double gilt rules an Etruscan-style vase at center within a stencilled sunburst raised bands spine panels with blind-stamped Etruscan vase black morocco label gilt-rolled turn-ins all edges gilt. With printer's elaborate engraved device on title page engraved portrait of Elector Maximilian-Joseph of Bavaria at the head of the dedication to him engraved allegorical headpiece at the opening of Book I wood-engraved tailpieces at end of each section. Small wormhole near head of front joint two corners a bit bumped minor foxing to title and final page other trivial imperfections but QUITE A FINE WIDE-MARGINED COPY clean fresh and bright internally and in a binding with only minor defects. This beautifully preserved and attractive Neoclassical binding is a fitting cover for a Latin edition of Fénelon's Homeric coming-of-age tale. Edwards of Halifax is credited with developing the process of acid staining calf by using stencils a method known most notably to produce as here their so-called Etruscan calf bindings after the Etruscan vase decoration they resembled. The process was also adopted by binders on the Continent and became a fashionable choice for bindings in the late 19th century when the present binding was surely produced. It is difficult to say whether this binding was done by the Edwards firm or by an imitator but in any case the quality of execution is very high. The popularity of Fénelon's account of the adventures of the son of Odysseus also spread in this case beyond his native France and it became a favorite of schoolboys far removed from the young Dauphin for whom it was originally composed. First printed in 1759 our Latin translation offered an opportunity for young men to practice reading that classical language. The engravings here were newly designed and executed for this edition by German painter and engraver Georg Sigmund Rösch d. 1766. Conradum Henricum Stage unknown

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TELEMACHUS ULYSSIS FILIUS

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · États-Unis2 340,00 $US≈ 2 086,49 €

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Les Avantures de Telemaque. Fils d´Ulysse. on half-title: Suite de l'Odyssée d'Homere. Nouvelle Edition divisee en dix Livres. 2 Tomes. - MAIN WORK OF UTOPIAN LITERATURE

1699réf. 30837Bruxelles Fr. Foppens 1699. Small 8vo 12mo. Bound in a beautiful later full calf ca. 1800 w. five raised bands on back. Gilt back and blindstamped ornamental borders on boards. All edges of boards gilt and gilt borders on inside of boards. Hinges cracked and boards loosening inner hinges crudely repaired. A bit of brownspotting but internally a very nice copy. The very rare Bruxelles-edition published same year as the first edition Paris Barbin. Fénelon's main work written when he was a tutor to the Duke of Burgundy in order to hold up Ulysses as an example for the young prince. Fénelon was a leader of the Quetism heresy and in 1699 the year Télemaque appeared Pope Innocent XII condemned his writings. The true first edition of Fénélon's Télemaque appeared in one volume in 1699 under the title "Suite du quatrième livre de l'Odyssée d'Homère ou les Aventures de Télémaque fils d'Ulysse" and containing only half of what we consider Télémaque today. According to Brunet the first edition was suppressed and Moetjens printed a pirate-edition called the second edition in Haag with the same year and date June and a bit later the same year the second part appeared. Several editions appeared the same year and Brunet mentions one without printer or Place but Paris and the Liége- and Bruxelles-editions. "Dans les différentes éditions que nous venons de décrire dans lesquelles il le soit sont celles de LIÉGE 1699 et de BRUXELLES FR. FOPPENS même date l'une et l'autre impr. en France en 2 vol. in-12 et en dix livres." Brunet II:1212. Foppens also printed an edition in Bruxelles 1700 but that is divided into 16 books. All early editions of this work are scarce and the first edition is almost impossible to get a hold of. This main work of French literature has been printed numerous times after the author's death 1715 and editions printed before his death are a great rarity. The later editions were corrected and divided into numerous books not intended in the original manuscript."Une autre circonstance allait aggrever la situation de l'archevêque de Cambray. Peu de temps après sa condemnation parut le livre qui l'a rendu le plus populaire et qui après la "Bible" et l'"Imitation de Jésus-Christ" est un de ceux qui ont eu plus d'éditions: "Les Aventures de Télémaque". N.B.G. 17:328. The controversial but highly popular work was among other things accused of satirically portraying Louis XIV and thereby publicly humiliating him -this was probably not the intention but there is no doubt that the work was critical towards the reigning regime and put forth many ideas not previously heard of. In true utopian political manner Fénélon warns against overgrowth of the metropolis and preaches groundbreaking doctrines like free trade international arbitration etc. He actually foresees the French Revolution as a result of the flourishing despotism so visible in France at the time. Lamartine in his "Life of Fénélon" describes the saintly poet as the first Radical and the first communist of his century though not to his own knowledge and he directly traces the Utopias which produced the revolutions of 1793 and 1848 to his groundbreaking work "The Adventures of Telemachus". Especially the part "Voyage en Salente" is considered very important for the study of utopian literature but the entire work is characterized by the attempt to represent people as they might have behaved and might still be were they governed by sages and saints and according to the laws of God. The work represents a religious ideal where God is always higher than man; it is greatly political greatly influenced by the appreciation of ancient Greek life and is designed to evoke the feeling of honour responsibility and religion in the young prince. See Brunet II: 1210-1212. Graesse 2:563-64 Paris- and La Haye-editions. hardcover

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EXTRACTS FROM THE RELIGIOUS WORKS

1809réf. ST14310fLondon: J. Hatchard 1809. 210 x 133 mm. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4". xvi 291 pp.Translated by Louisa A. Marshall. Contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco covers bordered with gilt rule flat spine with simple gilt rules and titling gilt-ruled turn-ins all edges gilt and WITH A FINE FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF A SCENIC RIVER VIEW FEATURING CHRIST CHURCH PRIORY in Hampshire. Front free endpaper with owner signature of E. A. Fetherston. Slight variation in color of boards half title with one inch trimmed away at head probably removing owner inscription leaves a shade less than bright occasional minor foxing or offsetting in the text bed but still an excellent copy the text clean and fresh the pleasant binding entirely sound and the lovely fore-edge painting very well preserved. The typically bucolic fore-edge scene here--boat in tranquil water stately building occupying center stage trees all around puffy clouds--stands out for the level of achievement in execution by the artist. The clouds are painted in a delicately applied range of shades so that they are very convincing; there is considerable architectural detail visible on the side of the church; and it seems as if one can almost see individual leaves in the trees. These features are all hallmarks of the work of the so-called "Dover Painter" the name given by Jeff Weber to the artist who produced very high quality painted fore edges in the 1920s and 1930s. He did work for the famous London bookseller Marks & Company for Dawson's Bookshop in Los Angeles and for J. W. Robinson Company the Los Angeles department store. Estelle Doheny 1875-1958 whose library comprised one of the great collections of the 20th century bought actively from Dawson's and Weber estimates that approximately half of the very considerable number of especially fine fore-edge paintings in the Doheny collection in Camarillo California were done by the Dover Painter. As the fore-edge painting here evokes a feeling of serenity so too does the content religious meditations by François Fénélon 1651-1715 priest writer and tutor to King Louis XIV's grandson for whom he composed his best-known work "The Adventures of Telemachus.". J. Hatchard unknown

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