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34861n. p. n. d. Single sheet with artwork and story glued to brown wrappers folded twice as issued displayed as a card. Ex libris bookplate to inner rear wrapper. Withal a Nr Fine copy. A hand colored woodcut by Joseph Low. 7-3/4" x 6" <br/><br/> unknown books
1979Embry 196325Easton Press 1979. Fine. Illus. by Robert Lawson. Full brown leather decoratively gilt. Easton Press, 1979. hardcover books
18154763Madrid: Imprenta de Lopez y Hermano 1815. Hard cover. Good/Charming well-thumbed American copy of the popular compilation of fables. . Small octavo 16 cm; 24 352 pages. Woodcut vignette on title page and 62 woodcuts vignettes many of them captioned with proverbs or "dichos" illustrating the fables. Bound in rustic contemporary vellum over boards in Latin American style laced to text block with headband cores titled in ink on spine worn peeling at fore-edge of upper board; scorched on lower board. Old sewing on spine. Title page loose. Damp stain in lower margin of first 20 leaves affecting title page. Sewing is inexpert yet holding. Protected in clamshell case. Imprenta de Lopez y Hermano hardcover books
166912293312mo. Bruxelles: François Foppens 1669. 12mo engraved general title trimmed with slight loss at foot 8 412 8 indexpp. With 147 engravings in the text by Pieter Van der Borcht. Recent full calf marbled edges gilt backstrip black label. A good clean copy though trimmed a little close to the top edge but not touching text. Ownership signature at front in ink of Joseph Heughan dated 1899 and an earlier note in ink: "Edition très jolie et très rare." and two ink initials on the title-page. § Well represented in libraries but a scarce little edition in commerce. It was translated by Pierre de Boissat who was probably also responsible for the moral reflections attributed to Jean Baudoin. The text and illustrations were reprinted in 1920 as a private press book in Germany. François Foppens unknown books
16671229198vo. Amsterdam: Johannem Janssonium & Viduam Elizei Wyerstraet 1667. 8vo engraved title trimmed at foot touching the imprint 62 1-462 blank leaf index 204pp. With 103 engraved plates in the text most 1/4 or 1/3 page. 18th-century polished calf panelled covers red morocco label and shelf mark on backstrip subtly rebacked. Large armorial bookplate of Washington Sewallis Earl Ferrers probably bound for him. § First illustrated edition of Phaedrus to be published in the Netherlands and the first edition edited by Laurentius. It contains the text of 92 Phaedrus fables with extensive annotations the first edition of 1596 had only 64 fables. In this copy the plates to pages 133 194 and 205 are not the cancellanda i.e. have not been cancelled. Also Landwehr records that the 'brothel scene' on page 276 has often been defaced or removed but is untouched in this copy. Landwehr F143. 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. Johannem Janssonium & Viduam Elizei Wyerstraet unknown books
D16387London: Marcus Ward & Co. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. ca. 1874. Exceptionally scarce book of Animal Fables. Original dark blue cloth gilt and black lettering and elaborate pictorial decoration on upper cover gray end-papers. Lovely color illustrations. First published in parts Osborne p. 567. <br/><br/> Marcus Ward & Co hardcover books
182042859London: Baldwin Cradock and Joy 1820. First edition. Frontispiece 34 of 35 plates each with two engravings. iv 127 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary black roan and marbled boards. Bookseller's yellow ticket of J. Painter Wrexham on front pastedown. Rubbed joints worn. Internally clean. First edition. Frontispiece 34 of 35 plates each with two engravings. iv 127 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Osborne p.7 citing the 1823 ed Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy unknown books
200051043NY:: SeaStar Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 1587170000 . First printing. SIGNED and dated by the illustrator on the title page in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . SeaStar Books, hardcover books
197175037NY:: Seabury Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. 0816430705 . Second printing. Near fine in a near fine one short closed edge tear both corners of front flap are clipped dust jacket. . Seabury Press, hardcover books
199889496London:: Folio Society. Near Fine. 1998. Hardcover. B000LJN6ZG . First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine slipcase.; 152 pages . Folio Society, hardcover books
18648464Boston. T.O.H.P. Burnham. 1864. Bound in blind embossed gilt titled cloth. Thick 12mo 5.5" x 7". Illustrated with 198 woodcuts en texte. Spine well sunned covers mildly sunned and rubbed. Headpiece chipped. Ink inscription to ffep. Light water staining to bottom corners throughout very seldom reaching text block. Volume presents slight lean. Several signatures slightly shaken but very firm. A Good crisp bright copy. T.O.H.P. Burnham. hardcover books
1982RGKK819-118Santa Cruz CA: The Good Book Press 1982. First Edition. Miniature Book. Very Good. Miniature Book. 3 x 2 5/8 inches. Unpaginated. 10 pp. 2 linoleum cuts by Donna Thomas; text clean unmarked. Hand-made paper over boards titled in blue on the spine and front cover; binding square and tight; spine lightly faded. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. RGKK819-118. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 90 copies this is copy number 6 printed and bound with Peter's hand-made paper. Aesop's fable teaches us the folly of greed. REFERENCE: Bradbury 20th-Century U.S. Miniature Books No. 44. The Good Book Press unknown books
198972836NY:: Orchard Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0531057747 . First American printing. Near fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. . Orchard Books, hardcover books
1979299746Norwalk: Easton 1979. hardcover. fine. Lawson Robert. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. 130 pages. Thin 4to gilt-stamped brown leather all edges gilt. Norwalk: Easton Press 1979. A fine copy.<br/><br/> Easton unknown books
15011859Basel: Jacob Wolff of Pforzheim 1501. First edition thus. An early illustrated edition of Aesop's Fables augmented and edited by Sebastian Brant and the first edition to include his additional 140 sections. Two parts in one volume folio leaves measuring 297 x 208 mm. Collates complete retaining one of the two blank leaves M6 lacking. Collation identical to the Fairfax-Murray copy: a-b8 c6-o8 alternately p-s6 s6 blank and original; A-B8 C-D6 E8-K6 alternately L4 M5 M6 final blank lacking. With the famous woodcut portrait of Aesop on the verso of a1 and a smaller woodcut portrait of Brant on the verso of A1 in part two. A total of 335 woodcuts divided into 194 in part one and 141 in part two inclusive of the portraits. Text in Latin. <br/><br/>Full black straight-grain morocco. Boards ruled in gilt with gilt dentelles. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Generous margins. Previous owner's small bookplate on front pastedown. This copy has been very carefully restored and generally presents quite well. Certain passages were deemed obscene shortly after publication and as a consequence most known copies have a few sections defaced. This copy is no different with a number of passages and illustrations crossed out and/or marked "no legas" "do not read". A number of leaves have had small marginal tears or wormholes repaired occasionally affecting a letter or a word. One leaf C4 with a small hole affecting the woodcut on the recto and two or three words on the verso. A few leaves have been remargined including the title page to part 2 leaf A1. In two places leaves are bound out of order. The flaws notwithstanding a lovely book.<br/><br/>The plan of this edition was conceived by Sebastian Brant. The first part of the book is based on Johann Zainer's first illustrated edition of 1476-77 translated into Latin by Heinrich Steinhöwel. Brant expands the work polishes the language and includes his commentaries to these fables. The second part is an entirely new work by Brant of 140 fables riddles accounts of miracles and other wonders of nature. These 140 new chapters follow the same structure as the first section with a woodcut followed by verse and then prose "some of a very remarkable character" according to Hugh W. Davies Fairfax Murray. These compositions are taken from the works of Stace Juvenal Virgil Ovid Lucien. The first story taken from Hesiod is said to be the oldest known fable.<br/><br/>"The numerous woodcuts in this volume fall into two distinct categories. The woodcuts in the first part with a few exceptions are rather simplistic and naive in execution and are based in reverse on the woodcuts from Zainer's successful Ulm edition of c.1476 incidentally the first illustrated edition of Aesop; the actual blocks were first used in Wolff's edition of not after 1489 Goff A115. The woodcuts of the second part are more sophisticated with the use of hatching and perspective to enliven the images and they were cut specifically for this edition; is it thought they were produced by the workshop of Johann Grüninger in Strassburg" Sotheby's. According to Hugh W. Davies "The remainder of the cuts are by a new artist the style entirely differing from the older blocks. These are heavily shaded by thin close parallel lines amalgamating into a solid mass in the deepest shadows. The perspective as a rule is fair: the faces are well rounded the noses being broad at the bridge but well-shaped. The cuts have the appearance of metal but they nevertheless are probably on wood."<br/><br/>In the past 30 years there have been five other auction results for this book one copy selling twice. The average price achieved in those five sales including the buyer's premium is just under $119000. If we average just the two copies sold in the last ten years that average jumps to over $167000. Of those five results the lowest sale price from 2002 made over $81000. And finally to complete the analysis a particularly fine copy was offered by the trade in 2014 for 200000 pounds roughly $329000. So while our copy has its defects and imperfections as do almost all other copies it is priced competitively for such a lovely and important work. <br/><br/> Fairfax Murray 20. Goed. I 390 24. Adams A291. Jacob Wolff of Pforzheim unknown books
16051704209Tornaesium 1605. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good early 1605 edition of Aesop's Fables. In protective case. Tornaesium hardcover books
1708D4271Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier 1708. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes 152 x 95mm. Vol. I: 297pp. 7 table; Vol. II: 287pp. 4 index. Both volumes with the identical engraved frontispiece depicting the traditional theme of Aesop ruling the animals. The moralizing tales are extensively illustrated with copper- plate engravings by Georg Paul Busch. Volume I contains the life of Aesop by Planudes and the beginning of Aesops Fables and Volume II continues with Aesops Fables and includes the Fables of Philelphe Gabrias and Avienus. Modern binding; frontispiece of vol. II somewhat chipped otherwise clean and good. Rare and richly illustrated edition of Aesops fables with extensive dialogue on the moral of each fable. Jean-Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde a clergyman put his mark on the Aesopic work by contributing a four-line rhyming verse at the end of each fable in italics. Bellegarde also added 18 fables of the Latin poet Philelphus and 37 fables based on Aesop by Gabrias and Avienus. The larger fables added are the Battle of the Cats and the Rats and the Battle of the Rats and the Frogs. Thereafter follow five Tales of Aesop taken from Platos dialogue Protagoras another six Poetical fables with Olympian Gods as protagonists two more Tales one taken from Herodot and a last fable taken from Gerbellius. The beautiful fable illustrations are by Georg Paul Busch; a Berlin copper-engraver who died in 1756. Rare early edition of Aesopic literature with several other didactic tales and authors additions. <br/><br/> Pierre Mortier hardcover books
17016410Amsterdam: Ex Typographia Francisci Halmae 1701. Very Good . Lg. 4to. 3016084pp. Indices. Title printed in red & black with an allegorical copper engraved vignette. Added copper engraved title. Illustrated with 18 copper engraved plates each with six large emblematic fable medallions. Plus numerous copper engraved head and tail pieces and large pictorial initials. Early 20th c. full brown morocco hinges & tips rubbed. A.e.g. This copy lacks the folding portrait of the Prince of Nassau. Cohen/de Ricci 797f "tres belle edition bien illustree". Dibdin II 280. Ex Typographia Francisci Halmae unknown books
18292499London: J. M'Gowan and Son 1829. Two volumes in One 140x108mm half black cloth marbled sides worn to foot of spine vii-xxi 263pp and Vol. II iii-vii 311pp.Aquatint plates 100 unusually the plates are bound 51 49 at the end of each volume. Title pages to both volumes in facsimile. Volume I starts with Preface thus seems to lack the contents list. Volume II lacks only the title as contents pages are complete. Name stamp to margin of Preface edge browned and some fingering & soiling a few leaves with edge wear with 3 leaves with 3mm tears to blank margins only. A well loved and well used Aesop with charming AQUATINT PLATES. Very scarce with Oxford the only copy of this printing noted in British libraries - McGowan was printer as well as publisher and his Windmill Street address is given at the foot of the last page of each volume. <br/><br/> J. M'Gowan and Son hardcover books
19339026593New York: Limited Editions Cub 1933. Hardcover. fine. Samuel Croxall's translation with a bibliographical note by Victor Scholderer. With forty six Florentine woodcuts reproduced from a rare sixteenth century Aesop in the library of Wilfred Merton and redrawn by Rogers. One of 1500 numbered copies designed by Bruce Rogers and signed by him printed by John Johnson at the University Press Oxford.Bound in quarter vellum and marbled paper boards. Slipcase worn at the edges. Former owner's bookplate. Publisher's informational postcard laid in. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Cub hardcover books
1849207621Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston 1849. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A French text of Aesop with a French-English dictionary at the end of the book. Scant pencil margin notes. Quarter leather over paper-covered boards with a small japanese tissue patch to the bottom of the spine. Uncommon printing; only a later edition found in OCLC. Very Good binding. Lindsay & Blakiston unknown books
185673373London: John Murray 1856. New Edition. Hardcover. Very good. New Edition with more than one hundred illustrations designed by John Tenniel. Lewis Carroll was so impressed by Tenniel's animated illustrations for this edition of Aesop's Fables first published in 1848 that he chose the artist to illustrate Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1865. From the library of Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott 1824-95 Lord Mayor of London in 1879-80 with his armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Small octavo: xiv 145 p. In a period one-half brown calf over marbled paper binding with a burgundy calf spine label decorative gilt stamping and brown endpapers. Minor ink staining to the extremities of the last few leaves not affecting the text with a small chip to the bottom corner of the final leaf. A bit of rubbing to the marbled paper; otherwise very good. John Murray hardcover books
18001339289London: printed by C. Whittingham. For J. Johnson. W. Ginger and Son. R. Baldwin. F. and C. Rivington. G. and J. Robinson. and 13 others in London 1800. Hardcover. Octavo 2 xii 4 267 1 pages; VG-; bound in contemporary full calf later rebacking with new spine gilt titling; moderate shelfwear and rubbing to binding; The title-page is engraved; with 110 fables and one woodcut per fable; page 129/130 with large tear non-archival repair page 131/132 with large tear; early ink ownership to title page top edge; shelved case 7. ESTC: N42329 ESTC with 3 copies listed. 1339289. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. printed by C. Whittingham. For J. Johnson. W. Ginger and Son. R. Baldwin. F. and C. Rivington. G. and J. Robinson. [and 13 other hardcover books
198843183A. Colish 1988. One of 1500 copies. Large 8vo pp. 52. Introduction by Kit Currie. Patterned paper over boards with applied spine label. A nice copy. Printed on specially made Strathmore Pastelle paper. A. Colish unknown books
1791013739Mitriti: Apud Hilarium Santos 1791. Red leather spine label. Spine floral designs in gilt. Old marbled endpapers. Title-page with illustration. All edges red. Spine extremities worn as are corners. Writing in a very old hand on title-page with small area of brown spotting. See photo. Text is quite clean with occasional brown spots. 88 illustrations through the text indexed at the conclusion. 324pp. index. A rather elusive edition of Aesop's Fables published in Madrid text in Latin. Not listed in OCLC or APBC. We have seen a 1788 Madrid edition with same number of plates but a different publisher. This edition was mentioned in Blake's "Ninth Catalogue of Second-hand Books" on p.312. . Later Edition. Full Mottled Calf. General Moderate Wear/No Jacket. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2". Apud Hilarium Santos Hardcover books
