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Julii Phaedri, Caesaris Augusti Romanorum Imperatoris, Liberti, Fabulae, in quinque libros ex aequo divisae, ab omni genere obscenitatis expurgatae … Cui operi accesserunt et novellae quaedam fabulae Phaedro attributae, et singulae quas Fontanius versibuus polivit, et Mythologia gallica latine convertenda, Editione et auctore J.S.J.F Boinvilliers ... Sexta edition, ad usum quintanorum.Paris, August Delalain, 1825. 12mo. Half vellum and blue paper over boards.
PHAEDRUS (Jean Etienne Judith Forestier BOINVILLIERS, ed.). · 1765
€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)
XVI, 208, 58 pp.One of the many editions of a choice collection of Phaedrus fables in Latin verses with notes in French, additional fables and the French fables of La Fontaine. The fables are severely purified by the Champion of chastity, Jean Etienne Judith Forestier Boinvill...
Aesopi Phrygis, et aliorum Fabulae …. Elegantissimis iconibus in gratiam studiose juventutis illustratae. Pluribusque auctae & diligentius quam antehac emendatae. Cum indice locupletissimo.Madrid, for Petrus Lopez and his brother, 1815. 12mo. With woodcut of the writing Aesop on title and 86 woodcuts (ca. 43 x 56 mm.). Marbled calf over boards.
AESOP. · 1485
€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)
324, [12] pp.Nineteenth-century edition of de Dorpius redaction of the Aesop fables, the collection of the Aesop fables in prose, originally compiled by Martinus Dorpius (1485-1525), a humanist teaching in Louvain. This so-called ‘Aesopus Dorpii’, was first published in 1509 i...
Noviter detectae Phaedri Fabulae Triginta. E manuscipto Bibiothecae Regiae Neapolitanae Codice nuperrime editae; ad commodiorem lectitantium usum hanc in formam recusae.Stuttgart & Tübingen, apud J.C. Cotta, 1812. 8vo. Later marbled wrappers.
[PHAEDRUS?]. · 1808
€600.00 ($661.31 | £500.56 | ¥105,603)
46 pp.Around 1808 an Italian scholar discovered in the Codex Perottus XXX at the Royal Library in Naples 30 fables which were as yet unknown. A number of editions and pirated editions appeared in the following years in which the editors argued who was responsible for this disc...
Les Fables d’Esope, mises en Français, Avec le sens moral en quatre vers, & des figures à chaque Fable. Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigée et augmentée de la Vie d’Esope, avec les quatrains de Benserade, dédiée à la Jeunesse. Premiere Partie.Lyon, J. Ayné, An XIII (1805). 2 parts (in 1 volume). 12mo. With a full-page woodcut portrait (100 x 68 mm.) of Aesop, woodcut vignette (a fisherman) on the titles, and 225 woodcuts (ca. 38 x 66 )illustrating the 225 fables; woodcut head- and tailpieces. Half vellum over boards,
AESOP. · 1764
€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)
196, [4]; 192, [4] pp.Augmented nicely illustrated re-edition of the editions of 1764 and 1787, printed by Richard Lallemant in Rouen (Bodemann, 113.1-2; see also the re-editions: nrs. 57 and 60). As in these editions, also in our edition there are the 225 fables of Aesop in F...
Les Fables d’Esope, mises en François, Avec le Sens moral en quatre Vers, & des Figures à chaque Fable. Nouvelle édition revue, corrigée & augmentée de la Vie d’Esope, avec Figures, & les Quatrains de Benserade, dédiée à la Jeunesse.Rouen, chez A. Delalain, An XII [1804]. 12mo. With a full-page woodcut portrait (97 x 72 mm.) of Aesop., and 192 woodcuts of ca 56 x 72 mm., illustrating the Vie d’Ésope (28) and 164 out of a total of 225 Fables; woodcut head- and tailpieces. Mottled calf over boards..
AESOP. · 1764
€285.00 ($314.12 | £237.77 | ¥50,161)
[8], C, 314, [2] (out of 10) pp.Augmented nicely illustrated re-edition of the editions of 1764 and 1787 with the same collation, printed by Richard Lallemant in Rouen (Bodemann, 113.1-2). As in these editions, also in our edition there are the 225 fables of Aesop in French pr...
Initia lectionis scholasticae of eerste leesoefeningen voor de Latijnsche scholen. Edente Hermanno Bosscha. Twede, en verbeterde druk.Deventer, L. Leemhorst and son, 1803. 8vo. Contemporary brown decorated paper on cardboards.
PHAEDRUS (Herman BOSSCHA, ed.). · 1755
€295.00 ($325.14 | £246.11 | ¥51,921)
XVI, 200, [2] pp.A selection of 24 shortened Phaedrus fables as part of a well-known schoolbook for the youngest pupils of the Dutch Latin schools for learning to read Latin. The chapter with the fables is titled "Phaedri fabulae selectae" (pp. 29-47). The author of this schoo...
Phaedri, Augusti Liberti, Fabularum Aesopicarum Libri Quinque. Nova edition, cui accesserunt Publii Syri et aliorum Veterum Sententiae. Editio stereotypa.Paris, ex officina stereotype Pierre l’ainé & Firmin Didot, Anno VI [=1799]. 12mo. With the Didot printer’s device (initials P, F. D.) on the title. Half calf, gilt spine with green title label lettered in gold, boards covered with marbled paper.
PHAEDRUS.
€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)
[4], 99 pp.Firmin Didot is the inventor of a revolutionary printing technique, using stereotypes. A stereotype (also known as a cliché), was a solid plate of type metal, cast from a papier-mâché or plaster mould taken from the surface of a forme of type and used for printing i...
Phaedri Aug. Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V. Ex recensione Petri Burmanni Cum notis selectioribuus.Venice, Thomas Bettinelli, 1787. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece of Mercure addressing Aesop by P. Scataglia after Etienne Fessard and Louis Durand, title in an ornamental engraved frame with the illustration for the first fable (the wolf and the lamb) by the same artist, some woodcut typographical head- and tailpieces. Half calf, ribbed spine gilt in compartments, lettered in gold, stamped ornamental paper over boards, red painted edges.
PHAEDRUS.
€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)
[4], XXXII, 151 pp.Nice and well-printed Venice edition of the Phaedrus and additional fables, based on the Burman recension.Head of spine damaged.l Not in Bodemann; Schwabe/Barbier, 113-114.
Phaedri Augusti Liverti Fabulae Aesopiae novissime recognitae et emendatae. Accedunt Publii Syri Sententiae Aviani et Anonymi Vereris Fabulae denuo castigatae. Editio accurate.Zweibrücken, 1784. 8vo. With a fantastical engraving on the title-page. Sprinkled paper over boards, red sprinkled edges.
PHAEDRUS - AESOP. · 1779
€695.00 ($766.02 | £579.81 | ¥122,323)
[2], LII, 232 pp.The well printed celebrated "Biponti society" edition of Phaedrus, part of a renowned series of Greek and Latin texts published in the German city of Zweibrücken (Biponti, a town near Sarbrücken), starting in 1779. The edition is partly based on the edition of...
Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabularum libri V. Cum notis et supplementis Gabrielis Brotier. Accesserunt parallelae Joannis de la Fontaine Fabulae.Paris, Joseph Barbou, 1783. 12mo. With frontispiece (12 x 7 cm.) of Mercure addressing Aesop, engraved by Etienne Fessard (1714-1777) after Louis Durand. Fessard also engraved the 5 fable illustrations (ca. 4 x 6.5 cm., all dated 1747) at the beginning of each of the five fable books, woodcut vignette on title-page, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Mottled calf over boards with triple gilt ruling along the edges of both covers, spine gilt in compartments with label lettered in gold, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gild edges.
PHAEDRUS. · 1723
€340.00 ($374.74 | £283.65 | ¥59,841)
[2], XXIV, 315, [9] pp.Beautifully printed first edition by the French historien, théologien and classical scholar Gabriel Brotier (1723-1789) of the 93 Phaedrus Fables in Latin verses, most of them with a motto underneath; the notes are printed separately on pp. 97-172. The e...
Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V. Et Novarum Fabularum Appendix. E recensione Petri Burmanni. Ed. tertia.Nuremberg, ex off. Libraria Riegeliana, 1783. 16mo. With frontispiece: a reduced version of the frontispieces for the great Burman editions after Joseph Muller/Tydeman (98 x 60 mm.). Half calf, marbled paper over boards, red painted edges.
PHAEDRUS. · 1635
€295.00 ($325.14 | £246.11 | ¥51,921)
119 pp.Apparently third edition of a little book containing only the text of the 94 Phaedrus Fables and the 34 Fables of the Appendix, including the fables found by Marquqtus Gudius (1635-1686), all in Latin verses, in the famous recension of Petrus Burmannus.After his studies...
Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabulorum Aesopiarum Libri V. Ex recensione Petri Burmanni. Cum selectis variorum notis et suis observationibus edidit Io. Gottl. Sam. Schwabe.Halle, for Joannes Jacobus Gebauer, 1779-1781. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With some woodcut headpieces. Three-quarter calf over boards, ribbed spine tooled and lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, edge painted red.
PHAEDRUS. · 1718
€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)
LXXX, 208; XXII, 312; XX, 254, [6] pp.Original edition of this learned but little known edition of the Phaedrus fables in Latin verses on the basis of the Burman edition of 1718, together with a very extended commentary. The editor Johann Gottlob Samuel Schwabe (1746-1835) was...
Choice and experimented receipts in physick and chirurgery, as also cordial and distilled waters and spirits, perfumes, and other curiosities. The second edition corrected and enlarged.London, Andrew Clark for Henry Brome, 1675. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of the author "printed for Henry Brome, 1674". Contemporary calf, black morocco spine labels.
DIGBY, Kenelm. · 1668
€800.00 ($881.75 | £667.41 | ¥140,803)
[6], 146, [8] pp.Second enlarged edition of a popular book containing recipes and prescriptions to treat all kind of pains and diseases, compiled posthumously from Sir Kenelm Digby’s notes and annotations by one of his assistants, George Hartman, who published the book with th...
The dispensary. A poem. In six canto’s. The ninth edition. With several descriptions and episodes never before printed.London, printed for J.T. and sold by Tho. Astley, 1726. 12mo. With frontispiece and 6 full-page plates, one for each of the canto’s engraved by Lud. Du Guernier (included in the collation), many woodcut head- and tailpieces. Calf over boards, gold-tooled spine.
[GARTH, Samuel]. · 1699
€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)
[24], 84, 36 pp.Ninth edition (the first after the dead of the author) of this satirical mock-heroic poem in six canto’s which had been first published anonymously by Garth in 1699. Although the satire on the building of a medicines dispensary for the poor at Royal College of ...
Élémens de pharmacie théorique et pratique...Paris, widow Damonneville, & Musier fils, P.F. Didot Jr & De Hansy, 1762. 8vo. With 2 folding engraved plates depicting utensils for the laboratory. Contemporary mottled calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the title lettered in gold on the spine, red edges, marbled end papers.
BAUMÉ, Antoine. · 1728
€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)
XVI, 854, [2] pp.First edition of this influential textbook on pharmacy by Antoine Baumé (1728-1804), master apothecary and pharmacist of Paris. It is the original edition of 9 successful editions to follow till 1818. He established his pharmacy in 1752, together with a labora...
Two signed autograph letters to Hermann Schlegel.Noordwijk, 10 March and 9 October 1834. Folio (23 x 38.5 cm & 26 x 44 cm). 2 autograph letters, each written on a single leaf and folded for posting with the address and remnants of a seal.
VERSTER VAN WULVERHORST, Abraham Hendrik. · 1797
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
[2] ll.Both letters were written by Abraham Hendrik Verster van Wulverhorst (1797-1882), living in Noordwijk Binnen, near Leiden, as a forester in the Dutch province of Zuid-Holland (he was ”Inspecteur der Opperhoutvesterij”). The present letters contain detailed observations ...
Phaedri, Aug. liberti, fabularum Aesopiarum, libri V. cum integris commentariis Marq. Gudii, Conr. Ritterhusii, Nic. Rigaltii, Is. Neveleti, Nic. Heinsii, Joan. Schefferi, Jo. Lud. Praschii, & excerptis aliorum. Curante Petro Burmanno. Editio quarta emendatior.Leiden, Samuel and Johannes Luchtmans, 1778. Large 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a woodcut printer's device on the title-page and some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Later half black morocco, blue marbled sides, title in gold on spine, marbled endpapers, marbled edges.
PHAEDRUS. · 1698
€495.00 ($545.58 | £412.96 | ¥87,122)
[60], 398, 258, [40] pp.Enlarged fourth edition of the original edition of the Burman redaction of the Phaedrus fables in Latin (Amsterdam, 1698). Petrus Burman the Elder (1668-1741) became famous as a scholar throughout Europe due to his numerous editorial and critical works,...
Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri quinque cum novo commentario Petri Burmanni.Mitau (now: Jelgava, Letland), Jacobus Fridericus Hinzius, 1773. 8vo. Some woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Sprinkled black 18th-century paper over boards with paper label on spine lettered in ink.
PHAEDRUS. · 1727
€475.00 ($523.54 | £396.28 | ¥83,602)
L, [2], 328, [60] pp.Re-edition of the complete and the most prestigious edition of the Burman recension of the 91 Fables of Phaedrus in Latin verses with Burman’s extended commentaries printed in two columns underneath each fable (see nr. 31), without, however, the ‘Epistola ...
Fables choisies, mises en vers par monsieur De La Fontaine…Genève, J. Samuel Cailler, 1772. 2 volumes. 8vo. With titles printed in red and black, a portrait of De la Fontaine as frontispiece for volume 1, and Aesop teaching the animals as frontispiece for volume 2, 241 engraved illustrations to the 239 fables. Many woodcut and typographical endpieces. Marbled paper over boards, manuscript title on spine.
FONTAINE, Jean de la. · 1772
€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)
[4], XLVIII, 256; [4], 352 pp.Apparently a co-edition with another title page of the edition Lausanne, J. Pierre Heubach, 1772 (Bodemann, 156.1 who considers this a ‘Neuausgabe’ of the Coste redaction; cf. also the caption on the frontispiece for vol. 2: ‘a Lausanne chez J.P. ...
Phaedri, Aug. Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V. In gratiam studiosae Juventutis notis illustrati. Cura Davidis Hoogstratani. Editio Septima, prioribus multo accuratior.Amsterdam, for D. Onder de Linden and son, 1772. Small 8vo. Title printed in red and black, with frontispiece (139 x 78 mm.) after Muller/Tiedeman, with the imprint: Amsterdam, D. Onder de Linden; engraved printer’s device. Modern vellum over boards.
PHAEDRUS. · 1718
€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)
[32], 151, [32] pp.Between 1718 and 1742 at least seven unillustrated editions of David Van Hoogstraten’s redaction of the Phaedrus fables in Latin verses were published in Amsterdam for use in the Latin Schools (Landwehr, F157-F162). This is the seventh. Apart from being a pr...