FINE BOOK # 4 Aesopus semper vivus - Peter Bichsel · Fine Books

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A E S O P U S S E M P E R V I V U S title vignette and numerous woodcut text vignettes. XIV, 360 pp. Small 8vo. Contemp. marbled boards with ms. spine label (edges somewhat rubbed). Zurich, Orell und Compagnie, 1760. CHF 900.– (EUR 600.–) First edition. Bodmer’s 116 fables in Lessing’s un-Aesopical manner, published here together with a sharp anti-Lessingian treatise on fables by Breitinger, were a satirical answer to Lessing’s collection of fables published one year before. In his 127th «Literaturbrief» Lessing protests against Bodmer’s and Breitinger’s attack. The frontispiece shows a humpback in the tradition of the classical depiction of Aesop and the inscription «Stope Magus», to be understood as a mocking allusion to Daniel Stoppe, whose fables published between 1738 and 1740 were highly esteemed by Gottsched and Lessing. – Bodemann 143.1; Fabula docet 128; Vetter 47; Wilpert/Gühring 82; Goedeke IV/1, 13, 48; Borst 104; Rümann 103; Deneke 17; Baechtold, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur in der Schweiz (1892), pp. 658–59 and note p. 191. – Leaf A5 somewhat cropped at head. Otherwise a mostly clean and wide-margined copy. 18 FESSARD. – La Fontaine, J(ean) de. Fables choisies, mises en vers. Nouvelle Édition Gravée en taille-douce. Les Figures par Fessard. Le Texte par Montulay. Dediées aux Enfans de France. 6 vols. Titles and text fully engraved. With frontispiece in vol. I and 244 engr. plates by Etienne Fessard as well as many engr. endpieces. Together c. 750 pp. 8vo. 19th-century red half morocco. Spine richly gilt over five raised bands. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt (signed Raparlier). Paris, chez l’Auteur, 1765 –75. CHF 5’900.– (EUR 3’930.–) First Fessard edition and first completely engraved edition of La Fontaine’s fables. Original edition, superior to the reprint naming Deslauriers as publisher. Etienne Fessard (1714–1777), engraver to the Royal Cabinet, knew well that his edition rivaled the great Oudry edition published only ten years ago. Thus Fessard’s work was hardly critiziced in its time, as Cohen states. – Bodemann 150.1; Cohen/de Ricci 551; Brunet III, 753. Not in Fabula docet. – Nice and clean copy in a decent and decorative French binding. 19 BUSCH. – Bellegarde, (Jean Baptiste Morvand) de, ed. Les fables d’Esope phrygien ave celles de Philelphe. Traduction nouvelle enrichie de Discours Moraux et Historiques, et de Quatrains …. Title in red and black. With engr. frontispiece by Johann Michael Stock, engr. title-vignette, and 60 engr. plates by Georg Paul Busch. 478, (10) pp. 12mo. Contemp. full calf over five raised bands. Spine gilt with label (front cover with worm traces). Copenhagen, heirs of Rothe and Proft, 1773. CHF 1’400.– (EUR 930.–) 14
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