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1785ABC_49452Paris: l'imprimerie de Monsieur" colophon below advertisement: Pierre François Didot le jeune printer to the future King Louis XVIII who used the title Monsieur from 1774 to 1789 1785. Contemporary gold-tooled dark greenish-brown morocco sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine a red morocco title and volume label on the spine lettered in gold a triple fillet frame on both boards with fleurons in the corners gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins gilt edges marbled endpapers. Super royal 4to. With 98 hand-coloured plates namely two engraved title pages in volume 1 resp. by Augustin de St. Aubin and Montulay 72 illustration plates engraved by Jean-Baptiste Tilliard after drawings by Charles Monnet and 24 engraved plates with summaries of the "books" in decorative frames. Further with an elaborate armorial device incorporating the French royal coat of arms on the title page of each volume. 2 volumes. Deluxe hand-coloured edition of Fénelons popular didactic novel printed with newly designed type by Didot. This is also the first edition to include the 72 beautifully engraved plates drawn by the French painter Charles Monnet or Monet 1732-1808 or later and engraved by Jean-Baptiste Tilliard 1740-1813. The present copy has been luxuriously bound in a neoclassical style by Nicolas-Denis Derome 1731-1790 a renowned bookbinder who was known for the beauty and finesse of his work.Les aventures the Telemaque was originally published anonymously in 1699 because its denunciation of luxury war and selfishness as a matter of principal clearly bore an implied critique of the autocratic rule of King Louis XIV. The author did not remain anonymous for long; François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon mostly known as François Fénelon 1651-1715 was a French Catholic archbishop theologian poet and writer. He was a regular visitor of the royal court at Versailles and for eight years tutor to Louis Duke of Burgundy known as the Petit Dauphin King Louis XIVs grandson. In 1697 however Fénelon was banished to his diocese initially because of a religious dispute and later for writing the present work. Growing dissatisfaction with Louis XVI leading up to the French Revolution made it once again both popular and dangerous though ironically the present edition and others were produced with patronage from members of the royal family.The story of Telemachus and Minerva was meant as a small addition to fill a gap in the chronology of Homer's great epic the Odyssey. While Telemachus the son of Ulysses/Odysseus is in theory the main character the principal focus is actually on "Mentor" or Minerva who teaches him how to rule and how to live life in general with both wisdom and morality. Fénelon's work proved incredibly popular going through numerous editions and translations throughout the 18th and well into the 19th century. The author's ideals of simplicity equality and world peace found their way through Telemachus and Minerva/Athena to French revolutionaries and German romantics thus indirectly shaping 18th- and 19th-century European cultural and political thought. It also found its way to North America - becoming one of Thomas Jefferson's favourites - and the Ottoman Empire. With the publication of an edition in Ottoman Turkish in 1859 it became the first European novel to be translated into Turkish.The present luxurious edition - which stands in stark contrast to the author's original message of simplicity and relative equality - was produced under the direction of Pierre François Didot with the patronage of the future King Louis XVIII. It is the first edition to unite the text with the detailed illustrations by Monnet and Tilliard. The first 6 plates belonging to the first 2 books in volume 1 are numbered signed and captioned all other plates are "avant la lettre" without the textual information and are very rare. The main text is set in the new Gros Romain gras roman type that Didot commissioned for this book from the punchcutter Jean-Baptiste Gérard and printed on high quality wove paper made by Pierre II and Étienne Montgolfier in Annonay.With the bookbinder's label of Nicolas-Denis Derome mounted on the verso of the second flyleaf "Rélié par Derome le jeune". The boards have been slightly rubbed the spines are somewhat faded due to exposure to sunlight in the past. The work is slightly browned and very lightly foxed throughout the tissue paper guards have browned some of the plates are stained. Otherwise in very good condition.l Cohen & De Ricci cols. 384-385; André Jammes Les Didot 1998 p. 27; Jeanne Veyrin-Forrer Les caracteres de Pierre-François Didot 1783-1790 in: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1962 pp. 57-67 at pp. 60-64 & figs. 1-7 also in Veyrin-Forrer La lettre et le texte 1987 pp. 139-157; Quérard III p. 92; for the plates by Tilliard after Monnet: Portalis 1877 pp. 399-413. l'imprimerie de Monsieur" [colophon below advertisement: Pierre François Didot le jeune, printer to the future King Louis XVIII hardcover
178512113Paris: Imprim. de Mosieur Didot et al. 1785. Paris Imprim. de Mosieur Didot et al. 1785. 2 volúmenes. En folio. -I: Portadilla frontis grabado portada 2 h. 309 pp. 12 36 láminas. -II: Portadilla portada 297 pp. 12 36 láminas. Magnífica encuadernación francesa en pleno marroquén rojo de época planos enmarcados por dos ruedas doradas de elegante composición lomera con hilos dorados a modo de nervios y grecas doradas en las calles doble hilo dorado en los cantos y rueda dorada en los contracantos cabeza y cortes también dorados. Magnífico ejemplar encuadernado en marroquén de época con rica decoración que contiene en total 72 láminas grabadas por Tilliard sobre dibujos de Monnet 24 sumarios grabados enmarcados por finas viñetas y un frontispicio. Obra clásica de la literatura francesa del siglo XVIII. La primera edición de las Aventuras de Telémaco hijo de Ulyses escrita por Fenelón 1651-1715 fue publicada en 1699 y desde entonces han sido numerosas las ediciones que han aparecido siendo las más apreciadas las impresas en folio en París por Didot. Típico trabajo francés del siglo XVIII realizado con el mayor esmero: el papel los grabados la disposición tipográfica la soberbia encuadernación. todo es excelente. Buen ejemplar amplio de márgenes y generalmente limpio ligeras manchas ocasionales que afectan generalmente a los márgenes de alguna lámina dos o tres láminas algo oscurecidas por lo demás magnífico ejemplar digno de las más importantes bibliotecas. Imprim. de Mosieur [Didot et al.] unknown
1734ST12855Amsterdam: Wetstein & G. Smith; Rotterdam: Jean Hofhout 1734. First Printing of this Edition. ONE OF 150 COPIES IN FOLIO FORMAT. 375 x 265 mm. 14 3/4 x 10 1/2". 4 p.l. including portrait and frontispiece x xxvi i.e. xvi 395 1 pp. Like most copies ours lacks the suppressed material designed to follow page 395. <br/> FINE CONTEMPORARY RED STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO covers with palmette roll border central panel with gilt-ruled frame and lozenge accented with bead and lozenge roll spine gilt and inlaid with olive morocco bands tooled with gilt chalice and leaves between the double raised bands spine compartments with central urn ornament surrounded by small tools calligraphic flourishes at corners gilt titling turn-ins with elaborate gilt roll featuring leaves and moths blue watered silk endleaves all edges gilt lower board with three older repaired patches. In a modern marbled paper slipcase. Ornamental headpieces and tailpieces title page decorated with vignette author portrait by Drevet after Vivien and 25 more plates illustrating the tale engraved by Folkéma and others predominantly in classical style three including the frontispiece designed by Picart 16 by Dubourg and six by Debrie with original tissue guards; 45 vignettes serving as headpieces 24 and tailpieces 21 designed by Dubourg and Shenk one engraved folding map and extra-illustrated with a portrait of Fenelon by Jean Coraboeuf dated 1920. Text with ornamental border throughout. Front pastedown with the bookplate of Arthur Meyer. Cohen-de Ricci 381-82; Ray 1; Brunet II 1214; Graesse II 564. ◆A few darkened patches on boards small chip to olive band at tail of spine corners gently bumped occasional minor foxing or light browning otherwise QUITE AN EXCELLENT COPY the binding altogether pleasing with only insignificant wear the text clean and fresh with rich impressions of the plates.<br/> <br/> This is a very well-preserved copy of the luxury version of one of the most impressive French illustrated books of the 18th century offered in a Neoclassical binding appropriate for its contents. Ray says that in our volume "all the formal elements of the mid-18th century French masterpieces are present." He describes the 25 plates as "stately and elaborate" and singles out Picart's frontispiece which he reproduces in one of the rare full-page illustrations in his book as being "developed with exceptional spirit and inventiveness." Not only the handsome plates but also the leafy frames of each text page the large type and the many charming headpieces and tailpieces make it an elegant object that provides for a visually memorable experience. Fénelon 1651-1715 wrote this utopian work for Louis XIV's grandson whom he was employed to tutor. The book was designed to give the future ruler more farsighted political social and economic ideas than he might otherwise have met with. Unfortunately the boy died before he could come to power and Fénelon fell into disgrace partly because "Telemaque" reflected badly on the government of Louis. According to Graesse our "beautiful" edition supervised by the marquis de Fénelon is much more correct than previous printings as a great many errors have been corrected and lacunae have been filled in. While the unsigned binding is not quite up to the level of émigré binders Kalthoeber and Staggemeier & Welcher it is in their style and is certainly impressive enough to look handsome on the shelf. Former owner Arthur Meyer 1844-1924 was a French press baron whose collection focused on fine bindings and beautiful illustrations. Wetstein & G. Smith; Rotterdam: Jean Hofhout unknown
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. Cohen: 388-89 "charmantes figures par Lefebvre" Didot l'aîné unknown
1790ST20479Paris: De l'imprimerie de Monsieur i.e. P. Didot jeune 1790. 243 x 154 mm. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4". Two volumes. <br/> LOVELY DARK BLUE STRAIGHT GRAIN MOROCCO BY BOZERIAN JEUNE stamp-signed at foot of Tome I spine covers with pretty gilt frame enclosed by double gilt rule raised bands spine gilt in panels with large millepoint ornament with floral tools emanating from a central circle gilt lettering turn-ins with Greek key roll marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With frontispiece and six engravings by Cochin and Moreau as called for all before letters and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 24 engravings by Marillier here in proofs before the letter and with three versions of the portrait of Fénélon by Vivien engraved by Hubert Figuet and Savart. Cohen-de Ricci col. 386-87 noting the addition of the Marillier plates to some copies; Graesse II 565; Brunet II 1215-16. Spine evenly a little sunned Marillier plates with minor marginal foxing isolated small smudges to the very generous margins one quire a little yellowed a couple of leaves with small holes to a margin due to paper flaws but AN ESPECIALLY FINE COPY--clean fresh and bright in a most appealing binding with almost no signs of wear.<br/> <br/> Our copy of Fénélon's political allegory featuring the son of Odysseus is a very fine example of French Rococo book production with printing illustration and binding by leading practitioners of those arts. Scion of a printing dynasty Pierre-François Didot jeune 1732-95 sought to improve the family's productions by founding a factory to product the luxurious papers that characterize Didot editions as well as by making improvements in type-founding to refine their always-admired font. Ray considers illustrators Cochin and Moreau le jeune part of the Rococo pantheon of greats headed by Boucher Gravelot and Eisen. He praises Cochin’s "mastery of outline and firmness of composition" as well as his "acute observation and unpretentious humor." Ray was also impressed with Moreau's keen eye for detail and agreed with the Goncourt brothers that "the grace and charm of his drawing . . . brought about 'a renaissance in the rococo style.'" Forced by financial necessity to take up book illustration Pierre-Clémént Marillier 1740-1808 soon earned what Ray called "a position in the front rank of book artists" with his skill and energy. Ray deems Marillier "among the most accomplished" illustrators of the century and he says that "nearly all of his designs are characterized by grace liveliness and firmness of drawingâ€â€”a fitting description for the plates in our volumes. François Bozerian generally called Bozerian jeune was active in Paris from just after the turn of the century until 1818 and for much of that time he worked with his elder brother Jean-Claude 1762-1840. The Bozerian workshop produced many fine bindings for clients that included the emperor Napoleon I as well as leading bibliophiles of the day. Their works are valued today especially for their technical achievement and refinement of design. Our two volumes are especially elaborate--even for Bozerian work--and the precision of the faultless finishing here leaves a very strong impression of rigorous order. De l'imprimerie de Monsieur [i.e., P. Didot jeune] unknown
1717TS368Rotterdam: Jean Hofhout 1717. Nouvell Edition: Augmentee & Corrigee . Hardback. Fine. 12mo. Composees par feu Messire Francois de Salignac De la Motte Fenelon.THE RARE RE-ISSUE BY THE AUTHOR'S FAMILY. 2 volumes bound in one with two titles-pages printed in red and black. French text. lxvii xv folding map finely engraved showing Telemaques voyage around the Mediterranean. 525pp xxiii Odes and table i errata. 10 engraved plates all fine. MAINLY ENGRAVED BY D. COSTER. The 2 pp advertment is SIGNED at the foot by the publisher Jean Hofhout. Later nineteenth century full polished calf binding with gilt. dec. single borders to the boards and a fine spine with raised bands and gitl title and decoration. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE BINDING AND SIGNATURE.The title was first published in 1699. This rare edition is the corrected and increased post-humous edition was the second edition correctly published after several 'pirated' editions were sold after the first edition of 1699. The author's family led by his nephew published this edition in French at Rotterdam and Amsterdam in 1717. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. 165x95 mm <br/> <br/> Jean Hofhout hardcover
1764ST15125Augustae 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. <br/> 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.<br/> <br/> 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
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
175632426AB1756. A Londres London Chez Nourse & Vaillant 1756. Octavo 10.8 cm wide x 18 cm high. Pagination: Frontispiece XXXII 386 pages plus 22 unnumbered pages of a Dictionary for Mythology and Geography to the rear of the volume. With ten engravings plus one folded map throughout the Volume resulting in 11 engravings including Frontispiece plus Map. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering on spine-label. Edges of bookblock and binding slightly rubbed. Overall in very good and firm condition with only minor signs of wear. Few dogears. Front free endpaper partially torn name of pre-owner Reverend Richard Meade verso the frontispiece. From the library of Richard Meade Ballymartle with his Exlibris / Bookplate loosely inserted. "Les Aventures de Télémaque fils d'Ulysse" English: The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses is a didactic novel by François Fénelon Archbishop of Cambrai who in 1689 became tutor to the seven-year-old Duc de Bourgogne grandson of Louis XIV and second in line to the French throne. It was published anonymously in 1699 and reissued in 1717 by his family. The slender plot fills out a gap in Homer's Odyssey recounting the educational travels of Telemachus son of Ulysses accompanied by his tutor Mentor who is revealed early on in the story to be Minerva goddess of wisdom in disguise. The tutor Mentor is arguably the true hero of the book much of which is given over to his speeches and advice on how to rule. Over and over Mentor denounces war luxury and selfishness and proclaims the brotherhood of man and the necessity of altruism though that term would only be coined in the 19th century by Auguste Comte. He recommends a complete overhaul of government and the abolition of the mercantile system and taxes on the peasantry and suggests a system of parliamentary government and a Federation of Nations to settle disputes between nations peacefully. As against luxury and imperialism represented by ancient Rome Fénelon holds up the ideal of the simplicity and relative equality of ancient Greece an ideal that would be taken up by in the Romantic era of the 19th century. The form of government he looks to is an aristocratic republic in the form of a constitutional monarchy in which the ruler-prince is advised by a council of patricians. Although set in a far off place and ancient time Télémaque was immediately recognized by contemporaries as a scathing rebuke to the autocratic reign of Louis XIV of France whose wars and taxes on the peasantry had reduced the country to famine. Louis XIV who had previously banished Fénelon from Versailles and confined him to his diocese because of a religious controversy was so angered by the book that he maintained those restrictions on Fénelon's movements even when the religious dispute was resolved. Yet a few years later royal panegyrists were hailing the young king Louis XV as a new Telemachus and flattering his tutors as new "Mentors". Later in the century royal tutors gave the book to their charges and King Louis XVI 175493 was strongly marked by it. The French literary historian Jean-Claude Bonnet calls Télémaque "the true key to the museum of the eighteenth-century imagination".2 One of the most popular works of the century it was an immediate best-seller both in France and abroad going through many editions and translated into every European language and even Latin verse first in Berlin in 1743 then in Paris by Étienne Viel 173787. It inspired numerous imitations such as the Abbé Jean Terrasson's novel Life of Sethos 1731; it also supplied the plot for Mozart's opera Idomeneo 1781. With its message of world peace simplicity and the brotherhood of man Télémaque was a favorite of Montesquieu and of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and through him of the French revolutionaries and of German Romantics such as Johann Gottfried Herder 17441803 who approvingly quotes Fénelon's remark "I love my family more than myself; more than my family my fatherland; more than my fatherland humankind". It was also a favorite of Thomas Jefferson who re-read it frequently. It was also widely read in the Ottoman Empire and in Iran. One critic explains the popularity of Télémaque this way: Fénelon's story stood as a powerful rebuke to the aristocratic court culture that dominated European societies with its perceived artificiality hypocrisy and monumental selfishness. The book did not simply express these feelings; it helped shape and popularize them. From its wellspring of sentimentality a river of tenderly shed tears would flow straight through the eighteenth century fed by Richardson Greuze and Rousseau among others finally to pour out into the broad sea of Romanticism. Influence on Rousseau In Rousseau's Émile 1762 a treatise on education the eponymous pupil is specifically given only two novels although as a young man he also reads poetry and other literature: as a child he is given Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to inculcate him in resourcefulness and self-reliance; and when he becomes a young man the political treatise Télémaque which is put into his hands by his intended Sophie who has read it and fallen in love with the fictional hero. The education of Émile is completed by a journey during which the institutions of various nations are to be studied. His tutor inculcates principles into him which sum up the essentials of the Social Contract. But it is with a Telemachus in hand that teacher and pupil establish a "scale of measurement" for judging various existing societies. Fénelon's story presents models and counter models of monarchs. The princes and governments of the real world will be compared with them. In Rousseau's novel Émile and his tutor travel to Salento which formerly included much of what is now Calabria and Apulia Italy to seek the "good Idomeneo" whom Fénelon's novel had relocated from his former kingdom in Crete to the kingship of a new and reformed government. Contrary to Louis XIV whom he resembles in many traits of character Idomeneus renounces conquest and is able to make peace with his neighbors. The prosperous fields and laborious capital are schools of virtue where law rules over the monarch himself. Everything here is brought down to a "noble and frugal simplicity" and in the harmony of a strictly hierarchical society everything combines in a common utility. Wikipedia _____________________________________________________ Telemachus Romanized: Telemakhos lit. 'far-fighter' is the son of Odysseus and Penelope in Greek mythology and a central character in Homer's Odyssey. When Telemachus reached manhood he visited Pylos and Sparta in search of his wandering father. On his return to Ithaca he found that Odysseus had reached home before him. Then father and son slayed the suitors who had gathered around to woo Penelope. According to later tradition Telemachus married Circe after Odysseus's death. The first four books of the Odyssey focus on Telemachus's journeys in search of news about his father who has yet to return home from the Trojan War and are traditionally given the title Telemachy. Telemachus's name in Greek means "far from battle" or perhaps "fighting from afar" as a bowman does. In Homer's Odyssey Telemachus under the instructions of Athena who accompanies him during the quest spends the first four books trying to gain knowledge of his father Odysseus who left for Troy when Telemachus was still an infant. At the outset of Telemachus's journey Odysseus had been absent from his home at Ithaca for twenty years due to the Trojan War and the intervention of Poseidon. During his absence Odysseus's house has been occupied by hordes of suitors seeking the hand of Penelope. Telemachus first visits Nestor and is well received by the old man who regales him with stories of his father's glory. Telemachus then departs with Nestor's son Peisistratus who accompanies him to the halls of Menelaus and his wife Helen. While there Telemachus is again treated as an honored guest as Menelaus and Helen tell complementary yet contradictory stories of his father's exploits at Troy. Telemachus also learns from Menelaus that his father was last seen stranded on Ogygia. Telemachus focuses on his father's return to Ithaca in Book XV. He visits Eumaeus the swineherd who happens to be hosting a disguised Odysseus. After Odysseus reveals himself to Telemachus due to Athena's advice the two men plan the downfall of the suitors. Telemachus then returns to the palace to keep an eye on the suitors and to await his father as the beggar. When Penelope challenges the suitors to string Odysseus's bow and shoot an arrow through the handle-holes of twelve axe heads Telemachus is the first to attempt the task. He would have completed the task nearly stringing the bow on his fourth attempt; however Odysseus subtly stops him before he can finish his attempt. Following the suitors' failure at this task Odysseus reveals himself and he and Telemachus bring swift and bloody death to the suitors. The Telegony was a short two-book epic poem recounting the life and death of Odysseus after the events of the Odyssey. In this mythological postscript Odysseus is accidentally killed by Telegonus his unknown son by the goddess Circe. After Odysseus's death Telemachus returns to Aeaea with Telegonus and Penelope and there marries Circe. Seemingly later tradition included the character of Cassiphonethe daughter of Odysseus and Circe and therefore half-sister of Telemachusin the narrative. In this account Telemachus still marries Circe but Odysseus is resurrected by Circe at some point. From the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: In the post-Homeric traditions we read that Palamedes when endeavouring to persuade Odysseus to join the Greeks against Troy and the latter feigned idiocy placed the infant Telemachus before the plough with which Odysseus was ploughing. In Contest of Homer and Hesiod it is alleged that the Roman Emperor Hadrian asked the Delphic Oracle about Homer's birthplace and parentage. The Oracle replied that Homer came from Ithaca and that Telemachus was his father by Epicasta daughter of Nestor. According to Aristotle and Dictys of Crete Telemachus married Nausicaa King Alcinous's daughter and fathered a son named Perseptolis or Ptoliporthus. Eustathius says that the mother was Polycaste the daughter of Nestor. Others relate that he became the father of Latinus by Circe. He is also said to have had a daughter called Roma who married Aeneas. Servius makes Telemachus the founder of the town of Clusium in Etruria. Wikipedia hardcover
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
171850930à Amsterdam: Chez J. Frédéric Bernard 1718. Fine. Chez J. Frédéric Bernard à Amsterdam 1718 9 x 15.50 cm relié First edition. Another edition appeared on the same date from Florentin Delaulne in Paris. Title page in red and black. Full old red morocco binding ca 1860 unsigned. Raised bands spine in Jansenist style decorated with blind compartments. Gilt title and ""Edition originale"" at foot. Double blind fillet frame on boards. Rich interior border. Edges gilt. Foxing angular lack at head of leaf 45-46 not touching text light rubbing at foot of spine a very small marginal dampstain affecting some leaves at head otherwise handsome copy in an unsigned master binding. Dialogue between A B and C on the nature of eloquence A having the role of Socrates and employing maieutics B and C responding to A's questions. The characters discuss a sermon they have just heard and from there define the qualities of true eloquence by drawing these from examples of the Ancients. Fénelon criticizes both Ancients and Moderns giving preference to the eloquence of Holy Scripture. Du Cerceau's essay attempts to characterize French poetry and what makes verse specific in relation to prose. Both works are supported by quite subtle and pertinent grammatical analyses adjectives figures genitive and ablative. Chez J. Frédéric Bernard hardcover
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
1742861F3Londres London: J. Gray 1742 . Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4.5". Not Stated . A wonderful copy of this scarce illustrated edition of Francois Fenelon's 'Adventures of Telamachus'. In the original French.Illustrated with a frontispiece folding map and eleven plates. Collated complete.First published in 1699 Fenelon's work recounts the travels of Telemachus the son of Ulysses as he is accompanied by his mentor who is revealed to be Minerva goddess of wisdom.The folding map depicts the route taken by Telemachus.ESTC Citation No. T223001 Revised by Pierre Desmaizeaux.Two volumes in one with separate pagination but only a general title page to the start of the work.With the stamp of the Ipsley Bindery to the rear pastedown.An exceptionally lovely copy of this richly illustrated edition of Fenelon's work. Rebound in half calf with cloth covered boards and endpapers renewed. Externally excellent. Binder's stamp to rear pastedown. Ink marks to fore edge of text block. Internally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned but generally clean and bright. The odd contemporary ink blot throughout. Very Good Indeed J. Gray hardcover
175016113<p>Edinburgh: Printed for James Reid 1750 First Edinburgh edition. The first English edition was published in London for Jonah Bowyer in 1707. Contemporary full polished calf with red calf spine label. Six-paneled gilt spine. . Twelvemo. Binding extremities rubbed. Small chip at foot of spine. Minor split at top of rear joint but holding soundly. Previous owner's signature removed from front pastedown. Light foxing. Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon 1651-1715 was a poet writer theologian and French Roman Catholic archbishop. Fenelon was ordained as a priest in 1675 and served as a missionary to the Huguenots during the reign of Louis XIV as the church wished to convert them from Protestantism. Originally published as Traité de l'education des Filles Fenelon's Instructions is considered a progressive work given its support and encouragement of female education; it has a particular emphasis on theological matters which Fenelon believed was necessary so that they might better understand and refute heresies. He served as a tutor to the Dauphin's eldest son the Duke of Burgundy and composed the works Fables and Dialogues des Morts for him. Fenelon's also wrote Les Aventures de Telemaque which upon its publication infuriated Louis XIV given the fact that it seemingly questioned the foundations of his regime. As a result the king did not revoke an earlier order against Fenelon that forbade him to leave his archdiocese a punishment for his previous Quietist views. Fenelon died in January of 1715.</p> Printed for James Reid,
1740SKU1016068A Paris Rue S. Jacques Guillaume Desprez. LEATHER_BOUND. Les Avantures De Telmaque Fils D'Ulysse Tome Second - Quatrie-me Edition; by Francois De Salignac; De La Motte Fenelon; A Paris Rue S. Jacques Guillaume Desprez 1740; Leather Bound with 5 raised bands to spine and bright gilt titles; bright text; illustrated; fold-out map intact; marbled board and endpapers; VG; very scarce . Very Good. 1740. A Paris Rue S. Jacques, Guillaume Desprez hardcover
178925234<p><strong>1789 FABLES Francois </strong><strong>Fenelon Tales & Mythology Abbas of Persia Aristonous FOLIO</strong></p><p>Primarily remembered for his novel "<em>The Adventures of Telemachus</em>" Francois Fenelon was a French archbishop of Cambray who wrote a number of poems and essays. 'Tales and Fables' is a collection of mythological and ancient stories including those of lesser-known figures such as Aristonous Shah Abbas King of Persia Alfa Route and Clarifilia Celobulus and Phillis and many others.</p><p>This 1789 folio edition includes both French and English translations with separate pagination.</p><p>Item number: #25234</p><p>Price: $599</p><p>FENELON Francois de Salignac</p><p><strong><em>Tales and fables in French and English : written originally for the instruction of a young prince</em></strong></p><p>London: Printed for J. Deighton 1789.</p><p><u>Details</u>:</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 parts in 1</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->4 86 2; 78</p><p> <!--endif-->French translation included in second part</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English / French</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Leather; tight and secure</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~10.75in X 8.5in 27cm x 21.5cm</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>25234</p><p>Photos available upon request.</p> for J. Deighton hardcover
171919965Leiden Apresso Theodoro Haak 1719. First Edition. Hardback. Contemporary full aniline calf edge-scuffed and dulled as with age. Raised bands red morocco label gilt panel designs. Highly uncommon Leiden imprint. Scans on request. ; 671 pages; Publisher's device to the title page with simialr devices closing each of the 4 books. Plate of the New England Histprical society. Top outer edge of the preliminary 18 pages of v.2 worn with some minor textual loss. Leiden, Apresso Theodoro Haak hardcover
1726626815London: Printed for B. Barker near the Dean's Yard Westminster and R. Francklin under Tom's Coffee-house Covent-Garden 1726. 4 1-282 2 pp. 16.5 x 10 cm. Blue half calf with marbled boards five raised bands gilt titling to spine all edges stained red; folded ad tipped in at rear. Rubbing to extremities with bumping and some wear to corners of boards. Front board is detached. Rear joint is split but with board still attached by cords. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Moderate staining from fore edge inward on pages 43-65. Some notations in ink on folded ad at rear with ink script on both sides of second to last blank leaf. The first English translation of Archbishop Francois Fenelon's 'Abrege des vies des Anciens Philosophes' this volume was previously owned by the writer and lepidopterist Philip Bertram Murray Allan. Tipped in at the rear is an ad for Turlington's Original Balsam of Life which also has a handwritten note as to the place it could be purchased in Deptford. Hard Cover. Good. Printed for B. Barker, near the Dean's Yard, Westminster, and R. Francklin, under Tom's Coffee-house, Covent-Garden Hardcover
171825140Paris: Florentin Delaulne 1718. First edition the Delaulne issue without the repeated pages 159-68; pp. 8 419 5; full contemporary calf red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine; joints starting else very good. Published posthumously and seen through the press by Andrew Ramsay who has supplied a preface. An important work by the archbishop of Cambrai "wherein he entered an eloquent plea for greater simplicity and naturalness in the pulpit and urged preachers to take the scriptural natural style of Bossuet as their model rather than the coldly analytical eloquence of his great rival Bourdaloue" EB-11. Three copies of this issue in OCLC. Florentin Delaulne unknown
1730BNEsFÉNE16Paris: the Widow Delaulne 1730. 1730. 2 Volumes in 1. 4to. pp. 2 p.l. ix-xxxiv 289; 2 p.l. 288 2. with half-titles. titles in red & black. folding engraved map. engraved frontis. & 24 plates drawn by Coypel Souville Cazes Favanne & Humblot engraved by Tardieu Cochin Scotin &c. 1 engraved headpiece & 1 engraved initial. woodcut ornaments & initials. 19th century roan gilt edges few leaves lightly browned. BRUNET II 1214. CFCOHEN-DE RICCI 380-81 JACQUES ESTIENNE IMPRINT. Hardcover. Paris: the Widow Delaulne, 1730. Hardcover
1792037580London: William Wilson For J. Parsons J. Ridgway And H. D. Symonds 1792. Early Reprint . Tree Calf. Very Good. 7 1/2" Tall. Fine Plates. Two Volumes. Volume I Title Page And Plates Dated 1792 Viii But Actually X With New 1793 Dedication For This Second Edition After Title Page 480; Volume Ii Title Page And Plates Dated 1794 1 478 Ii Postscript Iv Subscriber's List V Ads. 218; 206. 7 1/2" Tall. Frontispieces In Both Volumes With Plate For Each Of 12 Chapters In Each Volume; 26 Plates Total. Both Volumes Stated Second Edition On Title Pages. Bound In Quarter Red Morocco Gilt Thick Boards; Marbled Endpapers All Edges Gilt. Engraved Bookplate Of Etrangere De Galignani In Volume I. Wear Fraying At Corners Of Bindings. Hinges Solid And Tight. Volume I Has Surface Split Along Front Spine Edge Which Can Be Easily Repaired. One Plate In Volume Ii Is Loose And Surface Paper On Front Board Mostly Peeled Away Revealing Another Identical Surface Paper Beneath. Pages Clean And Complete; Plates With Light Foxing; Tissue Guards With Heavy Foxing. <br/> <br/> William Wilson For J. Parsons, J. Ridgway, And H. D. Symonds unknown
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
1747757280London : printed for C. Davis against Gray's-Inn Holbourn T. Osborne in Gray's-Inn and L. Davis in Fleet-Street 1747. Full leather. Leather is in good condition some age fissures on spine upon closer inspection. Raised bands and gold embossing on spine. Red title label with gold embossing. Previous owner writing on FFEP. Tear and repair on B3 of the Author's life. Otherwise paper is good and text block is clean though there is some text fading. Light soiling to the end papers.12mo London : printed for C. Davis against Gray's-Inn, Holbourn, T. Osborne in Gray's-Inn, and L. Davis in Fleet-Street hardcover
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
1725193687A Rotterdam : Chez Jean Hofhout 1725. New Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original full aniline calf. Professionally and period sympathetically re-backed with the original label laid back. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 535 pages; Nouvelle edition. Augmentee & corrigee sur le manuscrit original de l'auteur avec des remarques pour l'intelligence de ce poeme allegorique. Physical description lix 3 535 27 p. engr. frontis. plate 10 plates : ill. plates map fold. ; 12mo. Notes ""Ode"": pp. 1-5 at end. Includes index.Ramsay's ""Discours de la poesie epique et de l'excellence du poeme de Telemaque"": pp. xviii-lix. Title page in red and black with woodcut device. Subjects; Education of princes. Telemachus Greek mythology - Early works to 1800. Voyages Imaginary. Other names; Ramsay Andrew Michael Chevalier 1686-1743. Language; French A Rotterdam : Chez Jean Hofhout hardcover
