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Aesop.
Fables d’Esope, mises en Français, avec le sens moral en quatre vers. Nouvelle édition, ornée de gravures.

. Fables d’Esope, mises en Français, avec le sens moral en quatre vers. Nouvelle édition, ornée de gravures.

With 57 woodcut ilus. on 19 plates. 153 pp. 12mo. Recent half leather.Lille, Blocquel, n.d. (c. 1830).

Nice Lille edition collecting 225 fables by Aesp. With charming illustrations. – Clean in all. – Best.-Nr. 22364

CHF 260.—
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Aesopus.
Les fables d’Ésope, mises en français, avec le sens moral, en quatre vers, à chaque fable. Nouvelle édition ... dédiée à la jeunesse. 2 vols in 1.

. Les fables d’Ésope, mises en français, avec le sens moral, en quatre vers, à chaque fable. Nouvelle édition ... dédiée à la jeunesse. 2 vols in 1.

With engr. frontispiece and 12 engr. plates. 154 pp. 12mo. Contemp. calf (rubbed, corners bumped).Paris, Billois, An X (1801).

– Best.-Nr. 13019

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Bellegarde, (Jean Baptiste Morvand) de, ed.
Les fables d’Esope phrygien ave celles de Philelphe. Traduction nouvelle enrichie de Discours Moraux et Historiques, et de Quatrains ….

. Les fables d’Esope phrygien ave celles de Philelphe. Traduction nouvelle enrichie de Discours Moraux et Historiques, et de Quatrains ….

Title in red and black. With engr. frontispiece by J. M. Stock, engr. title-vignette, and 60 engr. plates by Georg Paul Busch. 478, (10) pp. 12mo. Contemp. full calf over five raised bands. Spine gilt with label (front cover with worm traces).Copenhagen, heirs of Rothe and Proft, 1773.

Attractively illustrated edition of Bellegarde’s compilation of fables by Aesop, Philelphus, Babrius, and Avianus, first published in Amsterdam in 1708. The neat illustrations to the 117 Aesopian fables are by the Berlin engraver G. P. Busch (d. 1756). We could trace these illustrations – Aesop’s life in 6 scenes on 1 plate, 59 plates with 2 fable motifs each – also in a Amsterdam edition of the year 1736, while Bodemann lists them in the Copenhagen edition of 1757. The frontispiece by the Nuremberg born Johann Michael Stock (d. 1773) shows Aesop with a human and animal audience and we suppose it to be published for the first time in the present edition. Stock was a teacher of Goethe in 1766. – Cf. Bodemann 97.3; Fabula docet 124; Bénézit II, 223 (Busch) and VIII, 130 (Stock). – Small stamp on title verso. Some browning throughout, but still a very nice copy. – Best.-Nr. 6784

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HOFFMANN. – Äsop.
Drei Dutzend Fabeln.

. Hoffmann, Felix. Drei Dutzend Fabeln.

Mit 36 Holzschnitten von Felix Hoffmann. 80, (4) SS. Schmal-4to. Illustr. Orig.-Brosch, ungeöffnet und unbeschnitten.Bern, Angelus Presse, o. J. (1966).

“Angelus-Druck”, Nr. 6. Eines von 150 arabisch nummerierten Exemplaren (GA 200), im Impressum von Felix Hoffmann signiert. Hoffmann (1911–1975) gehört zu den wichtigsten Schweizer Illustratoren seiner Generation. Die Auswahl der Fabeln orientiert sich an der Ausgabe Steinhöwel 1476/77. – Wendland (1998), Nr. 54; vgl. Bodemann 512.1 und Fabula docet 135 (beide nur die Buchhandelsausgabe von 1968). – Makelloses Exemplar. – Best.-Nr. 25134

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REINER. – Beauclair, Gotthard de.
Äsopische Fabeln. Älteren Überlieferungen nacherzählt und herausgegeben von G. d. B.

. Reiner, Imre. Äsopische Fabeln. Älteren Überlieferungen nacherzählt und herausgegeben von G. d. B.

Printed in red and black. With 8 orig. full-page lino-cuts and 10 ornamental vignettes in the text by Imre Reiner. 12 unn. leaves, bound in Japanese manner. Small 4to. Private half morocco with gilt lettered spine. Front board with elaborate decoration. Slipcase.Frankfurt a. M, Trajanus-Presse, (1968).

First edition of Beauclair’s adaptation of Aesopian fables in a unique and limited edition on light green Fabriano hand-made paper and signed by both the artist and the publisher. Hand-set in Sabon-Antiqua. Imre Reiner (1900–1987) cut his present illustrations around 1922. They are reissued here together with the text by G. d. Beauclair (1907–1992), important typographer, book designer and lyric writer. – Bodemann 514.1; Fabula docet 158. – Fine copy in a handsome private binding. – Best.-Nr. 24975

CHF 160.—
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