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Fables Choisies mises en Vers par M. de La Fontaine
(Fr.. Amb. Didot l'Ainé, 1787)
I am having difficulty locating this lovely book in Bodemann. The two parts are bound together here, and pagination starts over for the second part. Each fable has a fine small engraving about 2½ x 2. I consider this ...
Francisci-Josephi Desbillons e Societate Jesu Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri Quinque Priores Diligenter Emendati
(J. Barbou, 1759)
Here is a second copy of this book by my favorite Jesuit fabulist. It seems to be lacking the frontispiece at the beginning and the errata page at the end. The binding is different from my original copy, which cost almost ...
Phaedri Augusti Liberti et Fl. Aviani Fabulae
(Ex Typographia Pauli Severini, 1792)
The title goes on Accedunt Fabulae Graecae Latinis respondentes et Homeri Batrachomyomachia cum Latina Versione Recens Addita. In usum Scholarum Seminarii Patavini. Busy title-page! Hoogstraten did his edition, beautifully ...
Fabulae in Usum Scholarum
(Impensis B. Law: Prostant Venales Apud C. Lawimpensis B. Law: protestant venales apud C. Law, 1798)
Here are one hundred and thirty-two prose fables in Latin. The book is meant as a device for teaching Latin. The author devotes a page to Properties of the Parts of Speech and another to Rules for Construing--both in ...
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book
(F.G. Melcher, 1787)
Formerly in the Lenox Library, NY. See my comments on the source from which Thomas took his inspiration, Newbury's edition of 1744/67/1966/67. This book is clearly modeled on--but not a facsimile of--Newbury's work, as ...
Le Nouvel Esope: Fables Choisies
(Chez la Veuve Delormel et FilsDelormel & Fils, 1749)
Twenty-six rhyming verse fables on 52 pages. Marbled paper covers. No introductory or concluding material other than a colophon on the last page indicating various permissions and a registration. There are printer's ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Tome Second
(L'Imprimerie de Didot l'A?né, 1787)
Bodemann seems to say that Didot did a major four-volume illustrated edition of this very size (about 3 x 5) in 1787. This present two-volume set may be the texts of that edition arranged now as part of a series: Collection ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Tome Premier
(L'Imprimerie de Didot l'A?né, 1787)
Bodemann seems to say that Didot did a major four-volume illustrated edition of this very size (about 3 x 5) in 1787. This present two-volume set may be the texts of that edition arranged now as part of a series: Collection ...
Aesop's Fables with their Morals: in Prose and Verse, Grammatically Translated
(J. Hodges, 1741)
Together with the History of His Life and Death. Newly and Exactly Translated out of the Original Greek. This edition was first published by Francis Eglesfield in London in 1651 (Bodemann #71.1) and then by Philiips ...
Sixty Amusing and Instructive Fables in French and English
(Printed for E. Johnson, 1773)
The title-page continues: Divided into Sections, and the Two Languages answering almost verbatim for the Greater Conveniency of Learners. The Whole adorned with Cuts. Designed principally for Schools. This is a lovely ...