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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
1768039226Venice: Guillaume Zerletti 1768. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Volpato. 2 volumes in full acid vellum - rubbed in a few spots a few small wormholes and cracks on spine but generally tight square and attractive. Lovely vignette illustrations before each chapter a frontis and a fold-out map of Télémaque's travels. Charming Venetian edition of Fenelon's classic. First Illustrated Edition or first by this illustrator and in this format. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Illustrator: Volpato. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 039226. <br/><br/> Guillaume Zerletti hardcover books
175449349Glasgow: printed and sold by Robert and Andrew Foulis 1754. 8vo 2 vols. pp. 2 256; 100 8; bound with: Fenelon. Fables composed for the use of the Duke of Burgundy. 1751. pp. iv 107 1; contemporary mottled calf gilt rules red speckled edges; joints weak tender spines worn and cracked book plate of Wadham Wyndham Esq.; good. It is likely that the Fables of 1751 were always intended to accompany the Dialogues as without them the fables called for in the later's title pages are not present. Gaskell 191 270. <br/><br/> printed and sold by Robert and Andrew Foulis 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
1720WRCLIT66538London: Printed for W. Taylor 1720. 8336pp. 12mo. Three quarter late 19th century red morocco t.e.g. Engraved frontis portrait. Bookplate small ink number of verso of title residue of small paper label on spine i.e. properly deaccessioned from an institution. Trace of gilding seepage at top extremity of fore-edge modest tanning otherwise a very good copy. Denoted the "Second Edition with large additions" although ESTC locates copies of a 1714 edition from Taylor making the same claim. The first edition of Abel Boyer's translation appeared in 1713. A poem by William Cavendish that was an addition to the second edition of 1714 does not make a reappearance here. ESTC T84053. Printed for W. Taylor unknown books
17203244London: Printed for W. Taylor 1720. Second English edition. 12mo. 16336pp. Copper engraved frontis. of the author. Title within a ruled border. Cont. speckled calf gilt ruled covers a bit worn. Title page lightly foxed. The second English much enlarged translation of Fenelon's famous work. The first Englis is 1713 and is paginated 162337. The translator was Abel Boyer. Printed for W. Taylor unknown books
1787D7278Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Franc.-Amb. Didot 1787-92. First Collected Edition. Hardcover. Good. Complete set of 9 volumes. Contemporary calf gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label all edges marbled; 4to 190 x 255 mm. Frontispiece portrait in Volume I. All volumes: Spine a bit dry and chipped; hinges cracked but holding; boards scuffed. Some faint foxing here and there mostly confined to prelims and terminals. Sold as is. <br/><br/> de l'Imprimerie de Franc.-Amb. Didot hardcover books
1785012369Paris: Chez J. Barbou 1785. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes 12mo old tree calf blind ruled six compartments spine with gilt and red leather label xlviii 356 10 plates: 454 12 plates plus foldout map of Mediterranean Very nice copies. Chez J. Barbou hardcover books
171720110Paris: Jacques Estienne 1717. leather_bound. Contemporary full mottled calf. Very good. 526 pages. 16 x 9.5 cm. Twenty-six engraved plates mostly after Giffart large folding map engraved head piece. A biting attack on absolute monarchy and one of the most popular works of the century. BRUNET Vol. II pp. 1212-1213 gives this edition praise: "De Toutes les anciennes editions du Telemaque imprimees a Paris celle-ci est la plus belle et celle qui merite le plus de conserver une place dans la bibilotheque d'un curioux." Text generally clean frontispiece slightly shaved at margin raised bands spine panels richly gilt half centimeter loss at spine head small creases lower backstrip marbled endpapers. Jacques Estienne unknown books
17596719Madrid: Don Antonio Munoz del Valle 1759. First Spanish edition. Vellum. Very Good. Sm. 4to. 2 vols. 38312;38348pp. Index. Title printed in red & black. Cont. limp vellum hand lettered spines some soiling. Scarce first edition in Spanish. The end of Vol. II also contains 28 fables and summaries of fables from Ovid's METAMORPHOSES. Palau 87621. Don Antonio Munoz del Valle hardcover books
1718217246Paris: Chez Jacques Estienne 1718. First edition. 24 278 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf gilt spine with red leather label. Handsome copy with an interesting early bookplate on front pastedown. First edition. 24 278 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. First edition of a classic of Christian literature containing Fénélon's proof of the existence of God his defense of Christianity as the one true religion immortalityof the soul free will etc. etc. Tchemerzine V 227 Chez Jacques Estienne unknown books
179515279Paris: Renouard 1795. hardcover. very good. 2 volumes 4to contemporary patterned polished calf rubricated edges gilt spine red and black leather spine labels inner dentelles. Paris: Renouard 1795. Very good .<br/><br/> The renowned 1699 political novel written for his royal pupil by the archbishop of Cambrai. Not in Brunet.<br/><br/> Renouard unknown books
17953982London: G. and G. Kearsley 1795. Hardcover. Very Good. 12 engraved plates after Thomas Stothard hand-colored. xi 1 xxxv 1 439 12 pages. 4to contemporary tree calf rebacked; plates variously foxed front free endpaper lacking. A surprisingly uncommon edition even more seldom with the plates hand-colored as they are here. <br/><br/> G. and G. Kearsley hardcover books
1705284756A La Haye: Chez Adrien Motjens 1705. Full Leather. Good binding. An early copy of the Avantures de Telemaque Fils d'Ulysse or the "Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses" published six years after the First. Written by Francois Fenelon while he was tutor of Louis Duke of Burgundy. The work served as a didactic tool for the future ruler the young 'Fils de France' as well as a not-so-subtle critique of absolute monarchy and King Louis XIV. Literary historian Jean-Claude Bonnet is quoted as stating that the Avantures is "the true key to the museum of the eighteenth century imagination;" an instant bestseller Telemaque went through numerous editions. Text in French. Two volumes in one; additional title page for Tome II; pagination and collation reset. Title pages in black and red; with seventeen engraved plates throughout. Some offsetting to the type of signature Bb suggesting the leaves were sewn in before they were dry; previous owners' names in ink on the rear flyleaves and first title page; lacking endpapers. 26 272 2 328 pp. Full leather with raised bands leather label and tooling in gilt in compartments. Jean-Claude Bonnet La Naissance du Pantheon: Essai sur le culte des grands hommes. Good binding. Chez Adrien Motjens unknown books
1790D14222Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Monsieur 1790. Hardcover. Very Good. Ornately gilt-stamped early 19th-century straight-grain red morocco a.e.g. pale blue silk doublures and endleaves; complete set of 2 volumes 8vo; pp. 4 half-title p. title-p. viii 4 426; 6 half-title p. title-p. "livre treizieme" title-p. 408; plus frontispiece portrait of Fenelon after Vivien and 24 plates after Marillier. Some light scuffing along joints and edges of boards; corners lightly bumped. Foxing in plate margins and on tissue-guards but overall text blocks are bright and clean. A beautiful set of books. <br/><br/>In this set the portrait after Vivien and plates after Marillier are substituted for the plates after Cochin and Moreau called for on the title-page. Cohen-de Ricci 386. de l'Imprimerie de Monsieur hardcover books
173422235Amsterdam & Rotterdam: J. Wetstein & G. Smith & Zacharie Chatelain; Jean Hofhout 1734. Nouvelle Edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full mottled calf. Aeg. Very good/Near fine. 2 X XVII 424 pages. 28.5 x 23 cm. Folding map 24 plates engraved by Balthasar Bernaerts Philipp Van Gunst Louis Surugue and Jacob Folkema after Louis Fabricius Dubourg Bernard Picart and Guillaume-François-Laurent Debrie with 22 engraved tail pieces. There was also a 1734 folio edition of this work limited to 150 copies. The engravings of the two editions are similar. Our copy contains the suppressed "Ode" last six pages of the text. First edition published 1699: it was also considered an attack on the divine right of absolute monarchy and the the most popular book of its time. BRUNET. p.1214 calls it a "belle edition." GORDON N. RAY. p.8: depicts frontispiece herein. Bookplate of Armand-Jules de Rohan Archbishop of Reims. Raised bands spine panels in gilt floral arabesques triple gilt border panels marbled endpapers spine ends conserved. J. Wetstein & G. Smith, & Zacharie Chatelain; Jean Hofhout unknown books
1796232357Paris: Didot l'aîné 1796. First edition with these illustrations one of 200 printed on GRAND PAPIER VELIN. Engraved portrait after Vivian engraved by Gaucher and 24 plates after drawings by Lefebvre engraved by Delvaux Godefroy Simonet Thomas and Trière. 4 vols. 18mo. Full early 20th-century dark brown morocco richly gilt marbled endpapers. Spines very slightly faded otherwise a beautiful set complete with all half-titles immaculate text and plates with the original tissue guards. First edition with these illustrations one of 200 printed on GRAND PAPIER VELIN. Engraved portrait after Vivian engraved by Gaucher and 24 plates after drawings by Lefebvre engraved by Delvaux Godefroy Simonet Thomas and Trière. 4 vols. 18mo. One of 200 on Large Paper Plates before Letters. Cohen: 388-89 "charmantes figures par Lefebvre" Didot l'aîné unknown books
