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Les Fabulistes Latins, Tome 3
(Burt Franklin, 1893)
This volume on Avianus divides roughly into halves. The first is an introduction to the man and to manuscripts and editions for both him and his imitators. The second half, beginning on 261, presents the fables themselves, ...
Les Fabulistes Latins, Tome 4
(Burt Franklin, 1893)
This fourth volume is given to Odo and his imitators. There is a helpful alphabetical list of the surprisingly large number of stories in this volume on 451-63, just before the T of C.
Les Fabulistes Latins, Tome 5
(Burt Franklin, 1893)
In a spirited introduction, Hervieux declares that his project could be considered finished as of the end of the fourth volume. Here he takes up, as the interior title page expresses, an étude sur les fables Latines ...
Fairy Land Tales Told Long Ago
(F.M. Lupton Publishing Company, 1885)
This large-format book with cheap paper presents a potpourri of children's texts and illustration from various genres, with four full-color inserted pages of dressed up children not related to the texts. The black-and-white ...
Das zweite Milwaukeer Lesebuch : nebst praktischen Sprach- und Uebersetzungs-uebungen
(Georg Brumder, 1880)
Here is an unlikely find. This is a revised edition of a reader for students in the third through fifth years of school in Milwaukee. In the introduction, the editors tell us that they did the work on this book for free! ...
Pleasant Stories for My Children
(Blakeman & Mason, 1890)
LM opens a collection of eight stories in an undersized book. The closing story is labelled out of nowhere Story XXIV! The lion puts his paw by accident onto the mouse, who makes only a squeak and no plea. The lion is ...
Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri Quinque.
(John Murphy Company, 1860)
Formerly the possession of the Divine Word Seminary in East Troy, Wisconsin. Book history investigators will find much here. This book uses the same plates used earlier (1860/90?) by a different publisher (Baltimore ...
Hoch-Deutsches Reformirtes ABC und Namen-Büchlein
(Schaefer and KoradiSchäfer und Koradi, 1832)
A lovely little book of letters and words and commandments. Among the Lese-Uebungen at the back are four fables: MM; The Farmer and His Lawyer-Neighbor; TB; and The Apple-Thief Up a Tree. The second has a nice turn: ...
Aesop's Fables
(Porter and Coates, 1848)
Here is a second extra copy of this Alta Edition. The best runs I have seen yet of the Tenniel illustrations. It is unfortunate that there are only fifty of them here. The illustrations are listed on xvii-xviii. This ...
Canadian Series of Readings Books: Second Book of Reading Lessons.
(James Campbell and Son, 1869)
My first book from Canada, I believe. This is a small reader with twelve fables, six of them illustrated (at least one, 126, by Harrison Weir). New to me: The Two Dogs (20) and the long The Bear and the Tomtit ...