FINE BOOK # 4 Aesopus semper vivus - Peter Bichsel · Fine Books
FINE BOOK # 4 Aesopus semper vivus - Peter Bichsel · Fine Books
FINE BOOK # 4 Aesopus semper vivus - Peter Bichsel · Fine Books
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I L L U S T R A T E D F A B L E B O O K S<br />
pt. The lithographs were printed by Hermann Kratz, Zurich, assisted by Emile Matthieu. The<br />
stones were destroyed after printing. Selection of 21 fables in the original version of La Fontaine.<br />
– Bodemann 478.1; Monod 6727. Not in Fabula docet. – Good copy.<br />
86 Meyer von Knonau, (Johann) L(udwig). Fabeln 1757. Title in<br />
red and black. With numerous text illus. from the 1757 edition. XX, (4), 37, (4) pp.<br />
8vo. Orig. boards with spine and front label. Outer and lower margins uncut.<br />
(Zurich, Gebr. Fretz, Neujahr 1955). CHF 25.– (EUR 17.–)<br />
«Zürcher Druck», 20. One of 1250 copies on Zerkall handmade paper. – Nice copy.<br />
87 CALDER. – La Fontaine, Jean de. Selected Fables. Translated<br />
by Eunice Clark. Title in red and black. With drawings by Alexander Calder. 88 pp.,<br />
1 leaf. 4to. Orig. green cloth with gilt title on spine. In orig. dust-jacket (cloth slightly<br />
faded in parts, dust-jacked with defects to margins and with reinforced spine).<br />
New York, George Braziller, 1957. CHF 40.– (EUR 27.–)<br />
Originally published by the Quadrangle Press in 1948. – Slightly browned.<br />
88 Saroyan, William. Armenische Fabeln. With frontispiece and 8<br />
reproduced linocuts by Rolf Lehmann. 72 pp. Small 8vo. Orig. boards with illus. front<br />
cover (faded in parts).<br />
(Zurich), Sanssouci, (1959). CHF 20.– (EUR 13.–)<br />
«Saroyan’s Fables» translated into German by Maria Dessauer. – Bodemann 484.1. – Good copy.<br />
89 PREETORIUS. – Krylow, Iwan Andrejewitsch. Sämtliche<br />
Fabeln. Deutsch von Rudolf Bächtold. With 70 ink drawings by Wilhelm Preetorius.<br />
309, (10) pp. 8vo. Orig. cloth with gilt-stamped spine titel. Dust-jacket.<br />
Zurich, Die Waage, (1960). CHF 30.– (EUR 20.–)<br />
First edition of this new translation. Willy Preetoroius (1882–1964) was portraitist of Thomas<br />
Mann and the brother of Emil Preetorius. – Fabula docet 151; Bodemann 487.1. – <strong>Fine</strong> copy.<br />
90 HONEGGER-LAVATER. – La Fontaine, (Jean de). Die<br />
Grille und die Ameise. Fabel übersetzt von N. O. Scarpi. Illus. throughout in original<br />
lithography by Warja Honegger-Lavater. Leoprello. 16mo.<br />
Basel and Stuttgart, Basilius Presse, 1962. CHF 250.– (EUR 170.–)<br />
«Folded Story», 2. Unnumbered copy, signed by the artist. The total edition was 50 num. and<br />
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