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169010502Bruxelles: Jean Léonard 1690. Provanance: Antonetta Schrassert. In-12° 15 x 9 cm 118 pp et frontispice en taille-douce. Dans la même reliure : Esope comédie accomodée au Théâtre Italien. Par Mr. Le Noble. Paris Guillaume de Luynes 1691. Frontispice 107 pp manquent les pp. 101-104. Illustré de gravures dans le texte. Reliure en plein vélin de l'époque estampée à froid titre en encre sur le dos old books Jean Léonard unknown
1607271841607. Antverpiae Anvers / Antwerpen ex Officina plantiniana / apud Joannem Moretum 1607 - Antverpiae ex Officina plantiniana / apud Joannem Moretum 1607 - Antverpiae ex Officina plantiniana / apud Joannem Moretum 1607. 3 ouvrages reliÂŽs en un volume au format in-16 133 x 92 mm de 351 pp. ; 29 pp. et 1 f. n.fol. ; 90 pp. et 1 f. n.fol. Reliure de l'ÂŽpoque de plein veau glacÂŽ blond double filet dorÂŽ encadrant les plats dos ˆ nerfs ornÂŽ de filets gras ˆ froid roulette dorÂŽe sur les nerfs doubles caissons d'encadrement dorÂŽs fleurons dorÂŽs filet en pointillÂŽs dorÂŽs en tÂte et queue titre dorÂŽ tranches rouges. RÂŽunion - en un volume - de trois ouvrages rares sortis des presses de Christophe Plantin et Jean Moretus. L'Officina Plantiniana est considÂŽrÂŽe comme l'entreprise d'ÂŽdition et d'imprimerie la plus importante qui ait jamais ÂŽtÂŽ ÂŽtablie en Belgique. Vignette au ''Compas d'or'' en page de titre troisiÂme et derniÂre marque qu'utilisa l'imprimeur. Lequel - ˆ lÕinstar de Robert Estienne - exposait devant sa porte ses ÂŽpreuves en promettant une rÂŽcompense ˆ ceux qui y dÂŽcouvriraient quelque faute. ''En raison de ses origines alexandrines Claudien assimile le gožt pour le Ç baroque È de son temps reprÂŽsentÂŽ par exemple par le poÂte Nonnos de Panopolis. PoÂte de cour et mondain c'ÂŽtait aussi un pa•en convaincu. Avec Prudence il est l'un des derniers grands poÂtes latins de l'Empire romain. Les deux ouvrages de Claudien sont ici accompagnÂŽs des notes estimÂŽes de Martin Antonio Del Rio. Graesse II TrÂŽsor de livres rares et prÂŽcieux p. 193 - Brunet II Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres 88 pour une ÂŽdition de 1602. Angles ÂŽmoussÂŽs. Petites altÂŽrations superficielles ÂŽparses affectant par ailleurs la reliure. Papier oxydÂŽ prÂŽsentant en outre de claires rousseurs. Infime manque en marge infÂŽrieure d'un feuillet. Nonobstant ensemble en belle condition. b42961 unknown
16948748London. c. 1694. Bound by Richmond in full elaborately blind embossed calfskin. Guilt-tool ornamental devices to front and rear covers. Raised bands and guilt titles to spine. Marbled endsheets. Tall 4to. Early Printing. Illustrated with a frontis Depicting Aesope surrounded by animal characters. Wing A-706: Hodnett-Aesope in England 63. This copy; lacks title page ad leaf @ pg.38 and portrait of L'Estange. Spine heal lacking with lacquered repared. Corners bumped. Covers mildly rubbed. Else a Very Good sound copy. hardcover
16097836<p><b>1609 Aesop's Fables Greek Mythology AESOP Planudes Homer Batrachomyomachia Latin</b></p><p><i>"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other and we then know how to meet him." </i></p><p>― Aesop<i> Aesop's Fables</i></p><p><i><br />Aesop's fables have been printed for centuries and include some of the most famous fables and tales of all time. Originating sometime in the 6th- to 7th-century BC these tales have appeared in popular culture for well over 2000 years in the form of books plays songs and visual media.</i></p><p><i>This incredible early 17th-century printing of Aesop's fables features several additional works including:</i></p><p>· A 'life of Aesop' by 13th-century Byzantine monk Maximus Planudes</p><p>· Galeomyomachia by Theodorus Prodromus</p><p>· Batrachomyomachia attributed to Homer</p><p>Item number: #7836</p><p>Price: $750</p><p>AESOP</p><p><b><i>Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae elegantissimis iconibus illustratae. Cum latina versione graeco textui adiuncta. Accesserunt et huic editioni vltra pracedentes icones quae in vita Aesopi desiderabantur. Adiectae sunt diuersorum fabulae nec non opuscula quae in sequenti pagina videre est.</i></b></p><p>Lugduni: Sumptibus I. Iullieron. M. DCIX 1609</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Details</u>: </p><p>· Collation: Complete with all pages</p><p>o 427 5</p><p>o Signatures: a-z⸠2A-2Dâ¸</p><p>· References: BMC 12304.a.8</p><p>· Language: Latin / Greek in parallel</p><p>· Binding: Vellum; tight & secure</p><p>· Size: ~5in X 3in 13cm x 8cm </p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>7836</p><p>Photos available upon request.</p> Sumptibus I. Iullieron hardcover
17004112Venice and Bassano: Gio. Antonio Remondini 1700. 12mo 134 x 67 mm. Collation: A-R12. 394 14 pp. 2 parts separately titled second title-page on F5r. Woodcut printer’s device on titles 120 text woodcuts a very few repeated. A few cuts with black dots e.g. on p. 257 apparently from wormed blocks. Fol. K12 with short closed tear touching a woodcut a few headlines shaved; some light discoloration. Late 18th-century English green calf covers with gilt intertwining feather and pointillé border smooth spine gold-paneled and tooled with 3 different all-over patterns red calf lettering piece gilt edges marbled endleaves worn: spine cracked headcaps gone. Provenance: a member of the Fletcher family: engraved armorial bookplate two gryphons as supporters motto “Dieu pour nous†the shield described by Burke as “sable a cross flory argent between four escallops. Crest a bloodhound azure ducally gorged or.â€<br/> <br/> An illustrated pocket edition of 400 fables from Aesop and other traditions specifically intended for children preceded by Giulio Landi’s life of the semi-mythic fabulist. The charming simple but decisively cut woodcut illustrations are typical of the early productions of the Remondini firm who used the blocks as well in several Latin editions of the fables.<br/> <br/> Giovanni Antonio Remondini 1634-1711 an enterprising businessman whose earliest commercial successes were in wool production was the founder of the long-lived Bassano print publishing firm later known for its paper production. Specialized at first in the production of popular prints mainly engravings the firm’s typographic activities were circumscribed until the mid-18th century by the Venetian monopoly of book production; thus the Remondinis’ earlier typographical output was limited to popular chapbooks and devotional works for a local readership usually in small formats and often illustrated with quickly but skillfully cut woodcuts as here. <br/> <br/> This undated edition corresponds with the below-cited ICCU record in its pagination and fingerprints but several mispaginations described in ICCU were here corrected. The ICCU editors note two variants one with the place of publication given as Bassano only and this state or issue with imprint “In Venetia et in Bassano†dubbed variant B. ICCU ITICCULO1E04628; cf. M. Infelise I Remondini di Bassano 1980 pp. 23-33 and 132-3. Gio. Antonio Remondini unknown
1667745Amsterdam: Laurentius 1667. Hardcover. Fair. 1st edition thus of Aesop's Fables as printed by Laurentius in 1667 and including over 100 engravings; this copy with the explicit engravings pages 276 and 279 depicting a brothel unaltered which is rare due to centuries of censorship to the rather coarse illustrations. The completeness of this edition is often mentioned for its completeness as it contains ninety-two of the Phaedrus fables. Each fable is richly annotated. About Aesop's Fables - Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Bibliographic Details - Universal Short Title Catalogue USTC number 1804349 found in 13 of the world's best libraries. Richly referenced. One of my favorites for its simplicity comes from Greg Carlson the Carlson Fable Collection online and he writes of this edition: We have a title-page and the glorious frontispiece featuring a Roman Emperor Phaedrus and Aesop. Bodemann #75.1 notes the number of dedications that open the book. The illustrations for each fable are uniformly just over 3½"" by 2¾"". According to Bodemann they have few known sources. They tend to portray several phases of a fable at once; for example on 43 we see in the foreground the stag admiring his image in the water. Further back and to the right we see the dogs catching the stag as the hunter stands by. Similarly we see both phases of FS on 78. The illustrations are strong and well preserved. They were printed in a separate phase from the texts as is clear for example on 25 where the illustration overlaps the bottom of the title. I seem to remember many of the images from various sources like the dramatic pose of the Aesop statue on 128. Page 194 has a second illustration pasted in over the original illustration for III 12 ""Pullus ad Margaritam."" The same on 205 for ""Canis ad Agnum"" III 15. Several fables like V 2 seem to have some lines expurgated and replaced with asterisks. I am unsure why. The fables are followed by significant sections of ""Variae Lectiones"" ""Notae Guyeti"" ""Vocabulorum"" and an ""Index Rerum et Verborum."" The final page has a list of errata. Physical Attributes - Measures approx. 11.5 x 19 x 3.5 cm. Mottled leather binding of the 18th century style. Boards with a single gilt fillet frame. Spine with four raised bands; four compartments with a central gilt flower stamp and one with the title in gilt but the gilt is largely lost as the mottling has reduced the outer layer of the leather. The text block edges are sprinkled red. Top-edge is darkened. Double endbands of white and blue. Illustrated; bibliographies record 103 engravings. I did personally check the collation signed numbers at the bottom of each page and this copy is complete including the often lost two blank leaves at the rear I shined a light through to make sure they matched the 6th leaf in the gathering. Pages - 32 leaves of prefatory material signed to 8 462 numbered pages ending on Ff7verso leaves signed Ff8 to end TT8 are index. Collation - to 8 A-Z8 Aa-Tt8 Condition - See pictures. Some loss of leather where mottled some loss of gilt. Still the binding is performing well. Some small wear to leather at board edges. Rubbing on back board. Start of a crack at ends of joints. Hinge is cracked inside exposing ties/crash at gutter. Pastedown and flyleaf with pasted stamped written and erased bibliographic and shelf mark annotations. Blank bookbinder's endpaper shaken slightly loose and proud. Text block with some toning and occasional rust spots candle ember mark and thumb throughout. Top corner Y3 chipped away no text affected. Small ink spot along fore-edge at rear; just shows on printed page fore-edge margin. Mostly a nice copy; very few thumbs I saw just several no page edge chips and no annotations. Laurentius
166926292<p><strong>1669 Aesop Fables CLASSIC Folklore Mythology Fabulae 62 Woodcuts Illustrated ART</strong></p><p><em>"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other and we then know how to meet him." </em></p><p>― Aesop<em> Aesop's Fables</em></p><p>Aesop's fables have been printed for centuries and include some of the most famous fables and tales of all time. Originating sometime in the 6th- to 7th-century BC these tales have appeared in popular culture for well over 2000 years in the form of books plays songs and visual media. This small 1669 edition of Aesop was published in Paris is notable for the exquisite illustrations throughout – mostly illustrations of animals.</p><p>Item number: #26292</p><p>Price: $950</p><p>AESOP</p><p><strong><em>Aesopi Phrygis et aliorum fabulae : elegantissimis iconibus illustratae et diligentius quàm antehac emendatae</em></strong></p><p>A Paris: Chez Estienne Loyson . 1669.</p><p><u>Details</u>: </p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes in 1</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Vol. 1 – 10 359 1</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Vol. 2 – 6 352</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif--><strong>60 engravings throughout plus 2 engraved frontispieces</strong></p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Provenance: Handwritten – <em>Madelaine Larocque</em></p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: French</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Leather; tight and secure</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~5in X 2.75in 12.5cm x 7cm</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Rare and desirable edition</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>26292</p><p>Photos available upon request. </p> Estienne Loyson hardcover
16051704209Tornaesium 1605. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good early 1605 edition of Aesop's Fables. In protective case. Tornaesium hardcover
16991345219London: 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.<br /> <br /> <p>JR Consignment. Shelved Room A Oversize.<br /> <br /> <p>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. printed for R. Sare, B. Took, M. Gillyflower, A. & J. Churchil, G. Sawbridge, and H. Hindmarsh hardcover
16571334141Londini 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;<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> scarce; AG consignment; shelved case 3. ESTC: R20664 <br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> Per ESTC "The battle of the frogs and mice" is erroneously attributed to Homer.;. 1334141. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. ex officina Rogeri Danielis hardcover
166917325<p>A Bruxelles: Chez François Foppens 1669 A scarce seventeenth century illustrated edition. Jean Baudoin 1590 – 1650 first published his edition of Aesop in Paris in 1631. The Brussels editions contain a different series of illustrations than the earlier Paris editions. Pieter Van der Borcht 1545 – 1608 had a long career working for the Plantin Press in Antwerp. He also provided illustrations for Dodoens' famous herbal. . Rebound in modern tan calf. Gilt spine with black leather morocco label. Marbled edges. Twelvemo. With engraved allegorical title-page and 147 copper engravings in text by Pieter Van der Borcht. Includes a life of Aesop by Jean Baudoin. Ink ownership signature dated 1899 and an earlier note to preliminary blanks. Bright and fresh throughout aside from some minor toning. A very good clean copy. Landwehr 90 erroneously calling for a frontispiece and 148 illustrations. OCLC lists only seven copies in North America.</p> Chez François Foppens hardcover
1689044668Paris: 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
1619ABC_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. hardcover
1607009842Lugduni : 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
1690034148Amsterdam: Antoins Michils 1690. Book. Very Good. Full Leather. First Edition. 12mo. The very rare first edition; pp. 3-14 15-360 9. Title page printed in red and black preface Esope in Belle Humeur printed in red and black La Vie D'Esope The life of Aesop; Censure de L'Ordinaire. Numerous woodcut vignette illustrations in the text plus head and tail pieces the first vignette to the La Vie D'Esope page shows Aesop dancing between apes playing stringed instruments and in the background his murder is depicted. There is no frontispiece plate in this copy but otherwise complete. Later Victorian full mottled sheep binding with burgundy title label to the spine; binding very good with a little gentle wear and rubbing. Contents clean and tight; a little edge-wear to the title page which has a small old paper repair to the base a few pages with short edge-tears. A very good copy of the scarce first edition. Antoins Michils Hardcover
1619ABC_45381Genève or Lyon 1619. Ad 1: 16mo and ad 2: 12mo. Jean de Tournes Contemporary overlapping vellum. Ad 1 with the woodcut portrait of Aesop in a roundel on the title page and 61 woodcuts ca. 3.5 x 4.5 cm in the text illustrating the fables of Aesop most after Bernard Salomon but 22 from another series. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Text in two columns: Greek left and Latin right. Ad 2 with printers device on title page and some woodcut initials. 2 volumes bound as 1. 410 6; 8 168 pp. Ad 1: One of the many Aesop editions based on the famous first illustrated edition by Jean de Tournes Lyon 1571 which was a landmark in humanistic scholarship and printing with woodcuts by Bernard Salomon Bodemann 29.1. The De Tournes family moved to Geneva in 1585 to escape religious persecution as Hugenots. In 1619 Jean de Tournes III sold his house in Lyon to the printer Guichard Juliéron who probably issued the present edition in Lyon under the name of Jean de Tournes.Ad 2: A rare collection of Greek poetry and other works by Theognis and Phocylides ideas and thoughts of Pythagoras and the mottos of Solon. The editor and translator Fredericus Sylberg 1536-1596 was a classical philologist working as a corrector and editor for the publisher Henr. Commelin at Heidelberg. Ad 1: with owners entry on the front pastedown: "Sum ex libris Hugonis Suchier Ritelii = Rinteln 1881". There are more than a dozen errors in the pagination but both books are nevertheless complete. Some woodcuts slightly worn boards slightly damaged. Ad 2: minor water stains pp. 115-158.l Ad 1: cf. Bodeman 29.2. Ad 2: STCN 2 copies. hardcover
1699ABC_45393Utrecht: widow of Jurriaen Poolsom 1699. Marbled wrappers. Small 8vo. With woodcut of a wolf sitting next to a tree 3.5 x 6 cm on the title page and 47 woodcuts in the text ca. 5 x 6 cm. Rare Greek and Latin school edition of Aesop with the same contents and 47 woodcuts as the 1685 edition published by Jurriaen Poolsum in Utrecht Bodemann 65.4 one of the many editions based on the original Heinsius school edition of 1626 published by Johannes Maire in Leiden with a woodcut series by Christoffel van Sichem II ca. 1577-1658. Landwehr counts 15 editions between 1626 and 1727. The unsigned woodcuts in the present edition closely follow the Van Sichem series.The Aesop fables are printed in two columns with the Greek left and Latin right prose texts; Avianuss Latin verse rendition of the fables follows in one column. The added Brachomyomachia or Ranarum & murium pugna a spoof of Homer here attributed to him as in many early editions gives the Greek verse text left and Latin verse translation right on facing pages illustrated with 6 woodcuts.First quire loose part of the last leaf torn out.l Fabula docet 16 p. 99; Landwehr Emblem & fable books F025 cf. p. 312; STCN 2 copies; cf. Bodemann 65.1-5 related eds. widow of Jurriaen Poolsom, unknown
16435227Trevigi: Girolamo Righettini 1643. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. 12mo. With 137 small woodcuts in text illustrating the fables including some repeats. 2 parts in 1 volume. Rare edition of the Italian translation by the philosopher Giulio Landi 1498-1579 of Aesop's fables and the Life of Aesop including no less than 400 animal fables some collected from other sources. The fables are illustrated with numerous small anonymous woodcuts that appeared for the first time in 1569 in the fables collected by Cesare Pavesi and became very popular through Landis translations of Aesop beginning in 1580. They have been attributed to Johann Krieger a German working in Italy where he was known as Giovanni Chrieger. Several woodcuts are repeated especially at the end for the fables taken from other sources. All fables close with a moral here called "Sentenza" intended for the instruction and amusement of the youth.With 2 holes in the last few pages some water stains throughout and some restorations with now discoloured tape. With the binding slightly stained partly detached from the bookblock and with 2 holes in the back board.l WorldCat 2 copies; cf. Fabula docet 14. Girolamo Righettini, unknown
1692049<b>Folio 8-1/2 by 13 inches contemporary full brown calf Skillfully rebacked with blind-stamped spine raised bands red morocco spine label. First edition of former censor Roger L Estrange s classic version of Aesop s Fables with copper-engraved frontispiece portrait of L Estrange and fine copperplate frontispiece of Aesop. In 1690 John Locke was the first to suggest Aesop as a beginning book for children. Shortly thereafter Tory pamphleteer and onetime Surveyor of the Press Roger L Estrange was commissioned to produce this edition of fables likely the first compiled expressly for children. He included many other fabulists besides Aesop notably a selection from La Fontaine within 20 years of the first appearance of any of his fables in French. It is highly probable that this was their earliest appearance in English Muir 24. Simple and somewhat racy in style L Estrange s edition was continuously reprinted helping to popularize both Aesop and the genre of fables among children. The most extensive collection of fables in existence this compilation also includes a biography of Aesop an alphabetical table of the fables and fables by Barlandus Anianus Abstemius Poggius and La Fontaine DNB. Wing A706. Hodnett Aesop in England 63. A very attractive copy. </b> R. Sare, et al. hardcover
1653000384Amsterdam: Joannem Janssonium 1653. Period Calf. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Amsterdam: Joannem Janssonium 1653 dated in apostrophic Roman numerals. Engravings. 12mo; full calf with some tooling see scan. Accompanied by two simple later handmade paper protective jackets. Rubbed soiling shelfwear; binding broken exposing interior of spine. Two previous owner's inscriptions on ffep Josephus Stephani Dedit Hosepho de Villis 1675; Matt Kenrid 1748. Fair to About Good. See scans. Also: 'Eae item quas Avienus carmine espresit. Accedit Ranarum & Murium Pugna Homero olim ascripta. Cum elegantisimis in utroque libello Figuris & utriusque Interpretatione plurimus in Iocisemendata. Exdecreto D.D. Hollandae Ordinum in ufum Scholarum.' Rare 17th century specimen of Aesop's fables published by 17th Century Amsterdam publisher Joannem Janssonium. Fables here presented in Greek and Latin on opposing pages with engraving illustrations. Fragile and precious example no doubt one for the children of the time judging from the illustrations. See scans. L51 <br/> <br/> Joannem Janssonium unknown
1623ABC_45188Paris: Jean Libert 1623. Contemporary French gold-tooled calf sewn on 2 supports each board with the coat-of-arms of Henri de La Tour 1555-1623 Duc de Bouillon and Prince of Sedan who married the daughter of William the Silent founding father of the Dutch Republic with a French Ducal crown the whole in a wreath of 2 laurel branches with berries the flat spine divided into 4 fields each with a central decoration gilt edges. Marbled paste-downs fine-toothed combed pattern in red blue and white. 16mo. With a woodcut decoration on the title-page and woodcut decorated initials in the text. Very rare 24º edition of 150 prose fables by Aesop and 43 verse fables by Babrius here called Gabrius in Greek and Latin on facing pages remotely based on the text of the illustrated humanistic editions published by Jean de Tournes in Lyons. While the existence of Aesop ca. 620-ca. 584 BCE as a story teller is attested in many early sources the canon that appears under his name contains fables passed down orally and rendered in literary form by many authors over the centuries. Babrius wrote verse fables shortly before 200 CE that were later rendered in Greek prose and added to the Aesop canon. Although the title-page indicates that the fables are illustrated the present edition never contains woodcuts: Libert apparently copied his title from one of the illustrated editions. He does include Maximus Planudess extensive account of Aesops life preceding the fables. Although the earliest European marbled papers appear to have been made in or around southern Germany they were not combed. Wolfe notes that the French first used marbled paper for bookbindings and the present paste-downs closely resemble his earliest example of combed marbled paper. The arms on the binding are quartered with an inescutcheon. The Counts of Auvergne had born the quartered arms of La Tour and the Counts of Auvergne with the inescutcheon of the Counts of Boulogne since 1389. With the Counts of Boulogne extinct the arms passed to another branch of the family descending to Henri de La Tour 1555-1623 who took the title Duc de Bouillon by marriage in 1591 and later inherited the title Vicomte de Turenne from his father. In 1595 he married Elisabeth van Oranje Nassau daughter of William the Silent 1533-1584. Their second son was the famous Marshal Turenne 1611-1675. Early owners inscription on title-page in ink. Lacking the last leaf of the index title-page cut short at the head not affecting the text and a small worm hole in the second half sometime affecting a letter in the first line but otherwise in good condition. Binding rubbed not affecting the arms and backstrip worn a few small chips and holes and hinges cracked.l KVK & WorldCat 2 or 3 copies; cf. Bodemann 29.2 similar 1570 De Tournes ed. Jean Libert, unknown
1632F6HD0MAV59JYLeiden 1632. 8vo. Joannes Maire Contemporary vellum sewn at three stations but with 2 tanned leather thongs laced through the joints each board with a panel stamp 59 x 50 mm of the Amersfoort coat of arms in a circular laurel wreath in a rectangle with winged angel heads in each corner in a frame of double filets. Most endpapers later. With Maire's woodcut "fac et spera" device on title-page Breugelmans Maire device 10 47 woodcut illustrations 5 x 6.5 cm by Christoffel van Sichem II in the text and 3 woodcut decorated initials 2 series. Set in Greek and roman types with extensive italic. 158 2 pp. Rare second edition one of three dated "1632" of a popular Greek and Latin school book edited by the famous Dutch neo-Latin poet humanist and Leiden Professor of Greek Daniel Heinsius 1580-1655 with 47 beautiful woodcut illustrations by Christoffel van Sichem II. Aesop's fables were prescribed by the States of Holland in the Hollandsche schoolordre of 1625 as one of the books to be read in the 3rd class. Christoffel van Sichem II ca. 1577-1658 the second of several woodcut artists in that family studied with Jacques de Gheyn and was one of the leading Dutch book illustrators in the first half of the 17th century. Although the book has no prize certificate or inscription and no owner's name the coat-of-arms of the city of Amersfoort on the binding of a school book strongly suggests a prize binding for a student at the Amersfoort Latin school. With an occasional contemporary manuscript note in Greek and Latin. With a small dark stain in the lower inside corner of the foot margin of many leaves not approaching the text and with very slight browning throughout but still in good condition. The vellum of the binding is dirty and slightly rubbed but also good.l Landwehr Emblem & fable books F025 2 copies; Hollstein XXVII Van Sichem II 31; for the panel-stamp: Spoelder Prijsboeken Amersfoort 1. hardcover
168730747London: H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow 1687. Second Barlow Edition. Hardcover. Good . Folio 30.8 by 19.4 cm. 10 40 40 17 2-221 3: table pp; engraved title letterpress title engraved arms of the dedicatee William Cavendish Earl of Devonshire; engraved portrait of Aesop; 30 of 31 numbered full page copperplate engraved plates in the Life; 110 half page engraved plates accompany the fables. 18th-century paneled calf expertly rebacked retaining original backstrip borders and spine tooled in gilt. Light staining and scuffs to covers. Occasional light stains and smudges throughout mostly marginal; a few careful repairs at torn margins; professional repair at margin plate 2 just encroaching on printed surface; 3 cm perforation in plate Fable XII; moderate staining at plate Fable XLVIII; Text block good with otherwise clean plates complete but for the so-called 'indecent' or 'scandalous' plate 17 often defaced or lacking. A good or better copy handsomely bound.<br /> <br /> Second Barlow edition of these superbly illustrated Fables of Aesop first published in 1666. Each of the 110 fables include a half-page engraving text fable and moral in both French and Latin along with new captions in English by Aphra Behn. The English Life of Aesop is likely a reissue of the original sheets from the small-paper copies of the 1666 edition; the French Life is a new version. They are interspersed with thirty full-page plates mostly signed by Thomas Dudley the unsigned plates were engraved by Barlow. <br /> <br /> According to his contemporary the engraver and antiquary George Vertue Francis Barlow d. 1704 came from Lincolnshire and apprenticed in London to the portrait painter William Shepherd. Early and late in his career Barlow designed sets of natural history plates which were etched by Wenceslaus Hollar Richard Gaywood Jan Griffier and Francis Place. These prints proved to be an important source for artists and craftsmen of succeeding generations. Along with his engravings for Edward Benlowes's Theophilia 1652 the present suite of illustrations for Aesop's Fables are considered to be Barlow's finest. The preliminary drawings reside in the British Museum. While Barlow's house at "the Golden Eagle in New-Street near Shoo-lane" was burnt in the great fire the copper plates for the volume survived. ODNB.<br /> <br /> Provenance and annotations: "The Gift of Rich. Wesley Esq to his Son Garret Wesley Year of Christ 1741" entered in black ink at the front endleaf; Garret's entry appears beside the imprint at the title and his "cypher" substitution chart for Greek and English letters appears beneath the gift dediction. A later owner "E.R." has noted in pencil at the pastedown that this book belonged to R. and G. Wesley "ancestors of the Wellesley Family see the autographs for the letter afterwards to the Marquis Wellesley Revnd Dr Wellesley at whose sale I bought it." At the front pastedown is the bookplate of George Aiken Batchelder 1860-1936 who was Vice President E. H. Rollins & Sons Bonds San Francisco California. The bookplate partially obscures another note in pencil which appears to mention the absence of the 'indecent' plate. References: ESTC R22991; S. O'Connell "Barlow Francis" in: ODNB online; Press Reference Library Western Edition Notables of the West vol. I p. 163 International News Service 1913.<br /> <br /> Full title and imprint: AEsop's fables with his life: in English French and Latin. Newly translated. Illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures. To this edition are likewise added thirty one New figures representing his life. By Francis Barlow. London: Printed by H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow and are to be sold by Chr. Wilkinson at the Black-boy against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street Tho. Fox in Westminster-hall and Henry Faitborne at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-yard. M.DC.LXXXVII. 1687. H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow hardcover
16687514<p>Engraved frontispiece portrait of Ogilby by P. Lombart after P. Lely engraved plate of Aesop among his animals and eighty-one engraved plates illustrating the fables by Cleyn most of which were cut by Hollar. The work first appeared in folio in 1665 with 82 fables each with its own full-page illustration save one plate representing two fables printed on a separate leaf with accompanying letterpress text. Hollar was responsible for 57 of the illustrations & the print depicting Aesop. Period debossed full calf with handsome recasing in a fine morocco. Engraved frontispiece portrait cut and mounted with small paper repair in the lower right corner of the image. Some browning and occasional foxing; a few short marginal tears or paper flaws. Title in red and black Portrait of Aesop Dedication to Charles II. 211 1 blank 82 engraved plates pages. Large folio 10.5 x 16.125 inches; 410 x 265 mm.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p> Printed by Thomas Roycroft, for the Author hardcover
1668A-110<p>Volume I--Second Edition The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd with Sculpture. London: Printed by Thomas Roycroft for the Author 1668. Second edition with new title page a re-issue of the 1665 edition sheets. This volume contains the frontispiece engraved vignettes and initials missing Ogilby portrait and has all eighty-one full-paged plates in fabulous condition. Light yellowing/browning of initial few pages as regular. Volume II--Second Edition Aesopics or a Second Collection of Fables illustrated with sixty-eight full-paged plates in early issue before captions were added. Pages are remarkably clean without any browning. Large folio volumes both illustrated throughout; Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677 engraved eighty-eight of the illustrations for these works the others were executed by Dirck Stoop c. 1610-1686 and Francis Barlow c. 1626-1704. Both volumes are uniformly re-bound with original leather panels inset in full brick morocco bindings with gilt titles.</p> Thomas Roycroft for the Author, 1668 hardcover