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Esope en belle humeur ou l'elite de ses fables enrichies de figures/Esopus bey der Lust
(Johann Christoph Kißner, 1729)
"Here is a second copy of this book, bound in a different order and lacking several of the pages in my better copy. Because it is different, I will keep it in the collection. First, what did I write about the original ...
Les Plus Belles Fables Morales de Phedre et de Philelphe; Des Phaedri und Philelphi angenehmste Sinn- und Lehr-reiche Fabeln
(Christian Herold, 1750)
This book is a separate later printing by another publisher of a part of the edition I have titled Esope en belle humeur ou l'elite de ses fables enrichies de figures/Esopus bey der Lust by Johann Christoph Kißner in 1729, ...
Fables Nouvelles Dediées au Roy
(Balthasar Herwart, 1720)
I have wanted to dip into de La Motte's fables, and this book at last gives me a chance. Luckily, Google has a copy of an English translation online: One hundred new court fables: written for the instruction of princes, ...
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 ...
Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par M. de la Fontaine avec la Vie d'Esope, Tome Troisième
(La Compagnie des Libraires; L'Imprimerie de Pierre Prault, 1729)
Bodemann 77.12. This is the third of three volumes, covering Books X-XII. The 12 in Bodemann's catalogue indicates that this edition is one of many that copied Chauveau's illustrations from the first edition of La ...
Fables de Phedre Affranchi d'Auguste, Traduites en Francois, avec le Latin a cote
(Chez Jean-Francois LerouxJean-François Le Roux, 1753)
This small 3¼ x 5¼ book offers a facing French prose translation for Phaedrus' fables. Its singular contribution, I believe, is that it marks the prose word-order of Phaedrus' text with superscribed numbers. Reading this ...
Aesopi Phrygis et Aliorum Fabulae
(Dominici LouisaeSumptibus Dominici Lovisae, 1780)
This little book belongs with three others in the collection, all with the same title and all by different publishers. They are listed under 1757? and 1777 and 1781. The publishers are Johannis Antonii Remondini in ...
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 ...
Fables Choisies Mis en Vers par Monsieur de La Fontaine
(J. Samuel Cailler, 1772)
I consider this one of the best finds of an unusually successful trip to Europe. I had finished at Picard and stopped next door at a shop supposedly dealing rather in technical books. The shopkeeper found this one book ...
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 ...