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

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38 NEBEL. – Lessing, G(otthold) E(phraim). Fabeln drey Bücher
1759–1777 und Anhang. With 19 hand-coloured orig. woodcuts by Kay H. Nebel.
71 pp., (5) leaves (all double leaves). Small 8vo. Red orig. grained morocco (spine
rubbed).
Darmstadt, Kleukens-Presse, 1920. CHF 800.– (EUR 530.–)
«Sechster Druck der Kleukens-Presse». One of 225 numbered copies of a total edition of 250.
Kay Nebel (1888–1953) was professor at the Kassel art school.–Bodemann 403.1; RodenbergI,
104. – Two modern ex-libris on first paste-down. Inside fine.
39 SEEWALD. – Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott. Fabeln. With
10 coloured full-page illus.,10 initials, and 1 end-piece in woodcut, all by Richard
Seewald. 23 unn. leaves. Folio. Orig. half cloth with coloured front board by R. S.
Berlin, Fritz Gurlitt, 1920. CHF 1’900.– (EUR 1’270.–)
«Die neuen Bilderbücher», 3. Folge. One of 125 copies (no. 97) on tinted handmade paper with
the first woodcut signed by the artist, of a total edition of 175. The first book illustrated with
woodcuts by Richard Seewald (1889–1976). – Bodemann 402.1; Jentsch, Illustrierte Bücher
des Expressionismus (1990), no. 77; Sammlung von Kritter VI/7; Rodenberg 393. – Margins of
front cover somewhat rubbed or dustsoiled.
40 BOUQUET. – La Fontaine, (Jean de). Dix fables. With 71 (18
full-page) woodcuts by Louis Bouquet, coloured in pochoir manner. 52 unn. leaves.
4to. Red half morocco over 5 raised bands. Spine with title gilt. Marbled endpapers.
Top edge gilt, else untrimmed. Orig. wrappers bound in (minor rubbing to edges).
Paris, (Jacomet&Marty for) Éds. de la Sirène,1921. CHF 1’400.– (EUR 930.–)
One of 350 numbered copies on vélin de Rives of a total edition of 390. One of the first illustrated
masterpieces by the French artist Louis Bouquet (1885–1952).– Bénézit II, 66. Monod 6705.
Not in Bodemann, Fabula docet, or Carteret. – Clean copy of this uncommon work.
41 CHODOWIECKI. – Aus Lessings Fabeln. Title printed in
blue. With 12 orig. copper plates by Daniel Chodowiecki. 36, (6) pp. Large 8vo. Orig.
red cloth with gilt- and blind-tooled decoration, untrimmed (some loss of gilt decor.).
Berlin, Eigenbrödler-Verlag, n. d. (1922). CHF 150.– (EUR 100.–)
One of 1000 numbered copies on strong hand-made paper. First edition assembling Chodowiecki’s
illustrations of Lessing’s fables with the text. The copper plates were first published in
1780, in the French «Almanach de Gotha». – Cf. Engelmann 320; Bauer 676–687.
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