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185228751New York: Leavitt and Allen 1852. Hardcover. VG-- wear and soiling to cover interior foxing and yellowing text block remarkably tight. Brown cloth black cloth spine. 395 pp. No ills. Text in French. Leavitt and Allen hardcover books
18694340Paris: Garnier Freres Libraires 1869. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good Textblock Very Good/Near Fine. No DJ as Issued. Light/moderate shelf/edge wear small chip at lower corner exposing bit of board light rubbing at head heel and hinges lower label missing at spine owner bookplate at front pastedown hint of toning at textblock edges else tight bright and unmarred. Quarterbound brown leather spine five raised bands marbled paper boards and endpages brown leather labels gilt lettering in blind decorative elements marbled textblock edges frontispiece. 12mo. 496pp. Illus. b/w plate. Table. <br/><br/>Text in French. Overall a very presentable copy. Garnier Freres, Libraires hardcover books
1815292024New York.: D. Huntington. no date but 1815. Contemporary full brown leather. Good moderate wear to covers volume 2 lacks spine label second endpaper torn with some loss light foxing. 12mo. 14.5x9 cm. Uncommon American edition. weight: 0.8 lb. Translated by John Hawkesworth. D. Huntington. hardcover books
1823283234Paris: Boiste File Aine 1823. Second Edition. Full Leather. Good binding. Speckled calf binding with rule and decorative borders at the perimeters; the joints are separating; front board reinforced at the top and bottom of the hinge with cloth tape; there is some loss to the leather at the rear joint. With engraved portrait of Fenelon as frontispiece. Good binding. Boiste, File Aine unknown books
1807WRCLIT70145Paris: Cez Boassange Masson et Besson 1807. xxiv402pp. 12mo. Full contemporary tree calf gilt extra gilt morocco label a.e.g. Nouvelle edition illustrated with frontis and plates engraved by Lorieux. Bookplate crown of spine has very shallow loss forecorners bruised trace of light foxing else very good. Cez Boassange, Masson et Besson unknown books
1807qms1622Philadelphia: John Bioren 1807. Miniature Book: 3 3/4 inches x 2 1/4 inches leather raised spine label xxix 83 pp. Upper cover detaching; otherwise Good with scuffing. John Bioren, 1807. hardcover books
183136673Boston: Hilliard Gray and Wilkins 1831. 8vo 18.4 cm; 7.25". 304 pp. <br><br>Fénelon 16511715 a French theologian and archbishop had a tense and complex relationship with the Church hierarchy because of his writings. His office in Cambray was one of the richest benefices in France and upon his banishment from the court of Louis XIV for the publication of his Maxims of the Saints he dedicated himself fully to his position making himself in all that he did the perfect churchman Encyclopaedia Britannica 253.<br>Â Â Â Â The "lady" was Eliza L. Cabot Follen 17871860 the Boston-born author translator and abolitionist. She used her own translation "a free one; but sedulous care has been taken never to depart from the spirit of the author" v and one of her concerns in selection is to de-Catholicize the archbishop allowing his more universal appreciation for as she says his "writings necessarily contain many things that could not be acceptable to Christians of all denominations and have therefore been uniformly omitted" v.<br>Â Â Â Â Fénelon's appearance in Follen's selective epitome would surely have amused him and it pleased the book-buying public: This is the works third edition.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: A note states that "this book belonged to Grandmother Dyer: Ann Eliza Morse"; Charles Dyer Norton has also signed an endpaper in ink. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â American Imprints 7028. On Fénelon see: Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th ed. X 25254. Mid-19th-century plain black calf with gilt spine compartments tooled in an interesting pattern single gilt rule around covers a little gilt on board edges marbled endpapers and edges; some wear and abrasions but spine gilt still bright. Provenance markings as above some leaves creased across and a little interior staining and spotting especially at rear. => A nice old book. Hilliard, Gray, and Wilkins unknown books
182324133Louvain: Vanlinthout et Vandenzande 1823. Boards. Good. 4 148 pages. 8vo. Exlibrary with several old institutional stamps and labels the most recent being Bibliotheca Mt. St. Alphonsus Esopus N.Y. which closed and was repurposed in 2012. Cloth spine over marbled boards flyleaves lacking bound with stubs affixed to title and last page. Remnants of paper spine label. Generally bright and clean internally. Boards. Originally published by Fenelon in 1687 and translated/published many times since. An attempt to instruct the reader on how to raise and "monitor" one's daughter. Translated from the German here in French. Vanlinthout et Vandenzande unknown books
180547106Clermont: Lanriot 1805. hardcover. very good. Portrait folding map and 24 fine copperplates. 2 vols. 12mo contemporary mottled calf gilt leather spine labels g.e.; some foxing. Clermont: Lanriot An 13 1805. Very Good .<br/><br/> Lanriot unknown books
185985704London: Longmans Brown Green and Roberts an Simpkin Marshall and Co.; Birmingham: R. Davies 1859. 2nd ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vols. xvi 336 x 317p. Later 19th century 1/2 leather. 17cm. Front joints rather tender. Two bookplates in both volumes -- Salt family armorial bookplate signed by Ernest George Salt and a later bookplate of Melba Peters. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED COPY with 48 illustrations from what appear to have been four other and presumably earlier editions of Telemachus which have been mounted on about half of the later and somewhat thicker blank leaves which have been inserted four to a group at regular intervals throughout both volumes. The illustrators appear to have been D. Coster and Lorieux from French-language editions and R. Cooper and J. Scott from English-language editions. <br/><br/> Longmans, Brown, Green and Roberts [an] Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; Birmingham: R. Davies hardcover books
1812114803London: White Cochrane 1812. hardcover. very good. Frontispiece portrait and engraved plates throughout. 2 volumes. Small 8vos full contemporary brown calf with blind-stamped covers and spines red leather spine labels chips in each spine and corners worn; internally clean. Londres: White Cochrane et Co. 1812. Nouvelle Edition. Overall very good.<br/><br/> White, Cochrane unknown books
180738421Paris: Ant. Aug. Renouard 1807. 12mo 14 cm 5.5". viii 204 4 6 adv. pp. <br><br>Uncommon early 19th-century edition of a widely read treatise on the education of girls written by a Roman Catholic archbishop 16511715 now largely remembered for his best-selling Aventures de Télémaque. In 1679 Fénelon became the director of the Nouvelles-Catholiques a community of => Huguenot girls undergoing conversion to Catholicism and published the present work after several years of experience there.<br>Â Â Â Â WorldCat reports => only four U.S. institutional holdings of this attractive Antoine-Augustin Renouard printing. While this copy does include the half-title the engraved portrait cited by OCLC as appearing in some copies is not present here with the volume showing no signs of its ever having been present.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary mottled calf covers framed in gilt roll spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label; board edges with single gilt fillet turn-ins with gilt roll resembling but not identical to cover roll. All edges gilt. Binding as above showing rubbing to spine joints and extremities. Portrait reported in some copies not present here; pages with scattered instances of mild spotting. => An elegant little testament to the enduring influence of this work progressive for its day. Ant. Aug. Renouard hardcover books
180665158Albany: Printed and Published by Backus and Whiting 1806. First American edition. Engraved frontispiece drawn and engraved by Gideon Fairman after a design by I. J. Masquerier. 12mo. Contemporary sheep red morocco label. Head and tail of spine chipped joints and extremities rubbed joints starting front free endpaper removed marginal tears and browning endpapers browned. Leather tipped brown cloth open end case. First American edition. Engraved frontispiece drawn and engraved by Gideon Fairman after a design by I. J. Masquerier. 12mo. Fénelon's "Traité de l'éducation des filles" was first published in 1687. It was written at the request of the Duchess of Beauvilliers who had eight daughters and was the first attempt to deal with this subject in a systematic manner. As such it was his most influential work. Dibdin's translation was first published in 1805. Shaw and Shoemaker 10402 Printed and Published by Backus and Whiting unknown books
180610117Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey 1806. 2nd US edition American Imprints 10401. Modern period-style brown leather spine & tips; marbled boards. New eps. Binding - Fine; Text - VG usual bit of browning & lt foxing. 189 leaves. Bound in 6s 4 1/4' x 7 1/4". <br/><br/> Printed for Mathew Carey hardcover books
