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Bronze mortar and pestle with repeating shell and urn design on side
(1775)
Bronze mortar and pestle with repeating shell and urn design on side. 2 1/2" height and 4 1/8" diameter on mortar and 6 7/8" length on banded pestle. European circa 1775.
Sittenlehre für die Jugend in den auserlesensten aesopischen Fabeln
(Weidmannische Handlung/Insel Verlag, 1757)
Here is an extra copy of this book, bought from the same shop as my first copy, biut for about half the price at a sad going-out-of-business sale starting that day. I already have a pair of German editions representing ...
Sittenlehre für die Jugend in den auserlesensten aesopischen Fabeln
(Weidmannische Handlung/Insel Verlag, 1757)
I already have a pair of German editions representing the original German texts and illustrations of the 1757 translation of Samuel Richardson's 1749 London edition, Aesop's Fables, with Instructive Morals and Reflections, ...
Fables de la Fontaine
(Delance, 1796)
Third volume of a four-volume set. Contemporary calf, somewhat rubbed. Marbled endpapers. Significant spine and front cover wear. A rather standard presentation of the first six books of La Fontaine's fables. Then a ...
Fables de la Fontaine
(Delance, 1796)
Fourth volume of a four-volume set. Contemporary calf, somewhat rubbed. Marbled endpapers. A rather standard presentation of the last six books of La Fontaine's fables, followed by notes on the fables (295-358). Not ...
Sämtliche Schriften des Herrn J.W. Gleims: Erster/Zweyter/Dritter Theil
(Bey Johann Georg Fleischhauer, 1779)
Mit Röm. Kaiserl. Allergnädigsten Privilegio. Here are three separately paginated parts of a six-part work bound together. The date of publication of the version of the first part here is 1793. Both the second and third ...
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 ...
Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers par J. de la Fontaine. Tome Premier
(Chez François Lacombe Henri Vincent, Imprimeur,, 1792)
Bodemann #135.10. She calls it a changed reproduction of an edition going back to 1759 in Paris. See my comments on the second, third, and fourth volumes. This acquisition marks the completion of the set. I had started ...
Fables and Other Short Poems Collected from the Most Celebrated English Authors
(London: Thomas Cobb. Reproduced by The Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H. Smith Collections, Toronto Public Libraryreproduced by Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H. Smith Collections Toronto Public Library,, 1731)
This book adds Volumes II and III to my 1731/1975? book from Williamsburg. Volume II includes ten fables, assorted other material, and A New Introduction to the Art of Drawing. The third volume includes eleven fables. ...
Francisci-Josephi Desbillons e Societate Jesu Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri Quinque Priores Diligenter Emendati
(Typis J. Barbou ..., 1759)
Bodemann #141.1. This seems to be the first Desbillons edition in Bodemann. It is in two parts; apparently Part 1, including the first five books, was first published in 1754. To it is now added Part 2, which includes ...