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THE | ADVENTURES | OF | TELEMACHUS, | THE SON OF ULYSSES. | Translated from the French of | Messire François Salignac de la Mothe–Fenelon, | Archbishop of Cambray. | BY | JOHN HAWKESWORTH, L. L. D. | — | LONDON: | Printed for the AUTHOR, by W. and W. Strahan, | M DCC LXVIII. || Binding: half polished brown calf over marbled boards, wave ruled blind, gilt fillet ruled compartments, black label with gilt lettering to spine; 29.5 x 24.5 cm; marbled endpapers. Pagination: 2 blank leaves (wove paper), [I, ii] – t.p. / blank, [iii] iv – dedication, [v] vi-xv – subscribers, [xvi] blank, [xvii] xviii-xix – preface, [xx] xxi-xxxv – contents, [xxxvi] – errata, subscribers omitted, [1] 2-462, printed on laid paper, 2 blank leaves (wove paper). Collation: 4to; A4, a-c4 d2, B-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Mmm4 Nnn3; 24 head- and 24 tailpieces engraved by Charles Grignion the Elder (British, 1721 – 1810) after Samuel Waly (British, 1720 – 1786). Original: François Fénelon. Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d’Ulysse. See № LIB-2522-2020 in this collection. Not in Lewine, 1898; Not in Cohen De Ricci, 1912. -
Title page: THE | ADVENTURES | OF | TELEMACHUS, | THE | SON OF ULYSSES. | FROM THE FRENCH OF | SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE–FENELON, | ARCHBISHOP OF CAMBRAY. | BY THE LATE | JOHN HAWKESWORTH, LL. D. | CORRECTED AND REVISED BY | G. GREGORY, D. D. | JOINT EVENING PREACHER AT THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, AND AUTHOR OF | ESSAYS, HISTORICAL AND MORAL, &C. | WITH | A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND A COMPLETE INDEX, HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL. | EMBELLISHED WITH TWELVE ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS. | IN TWO VOLUMES. | VOL. I. [VOL. II] | — | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR C. AND G. KEARSLEY, FLEET-STREET. | 1795. || Vol. 1: collation: 2 blank leaves, π6, a-d4, B-Z4 Aa-Ff4, 2 blank leaves, 7 coloured engravings; pagination: [i-v] vi-xxxv [xxxvi], [1] 2-223 [224 blank]. Vol. 2: collation: 2 blank leaves, π4, Gg-Zz4, 3A-3K4 [a]4 b2, 2 blank leaves, 5 coloured engravings; pagination: [i-iii] iv-vii [viii], [225] 226-439, [440-452]. Exterior: 2-volume set, uniformly bound in full crimson linen morocco, key fret inside, gilt-ruled with a floral pattern between fillets to boards, flat spine decorated in gilt, with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, AEG, 4to, 28 x 22.5 cm; printed on wove paper with watermark “WS”. Blind stamp to ffl by previous owner: "B. J. WIJNVELDT". Engravings: 12 tinted stipple engravings à la poupée: one by James Neagle (British, 1760? – 1822), four by William Bromley (British, 1769 – 1842), four by William Skelton (British, 1763 – 1848), one by John Ogborne (British, 1755 – 1837), and two by James Parker (1750 – 1805) after Thomas Stothard (British, 1755 – 1834). Ref.: Lewine (1898), p. 183: "The 1795 edition, 2 vols., 4to., with 12 engravings after Stothard, has a nominal value." Not in Cohen De Ricci, 1912. Original: François Fénelon. Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d’Ulysse. See №№ LIB-2522-2020 and LIB-2683.2021 in this collection. John Hawkesworth (British, c. 1715 – 1773). George Gregory (British, 1754 – 1808).George Kearsley the elder (British, 1739 – 1790) (Kearsley, Catharine and George – publishers)
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Half-title: АКАДЕМИЯ НАУК СССР | Литературные памятники | {serial device} || Title page: ФЕОФРАСТ | ХАРАКТЕРЫ | ПЕРЕВОД, СТАТЬЯ И ПРИМЕЧАНИЯ | Г. А. CТРАТАНОВСКОГО | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «НАУКА» | Ленинградское отделение | Ленинград | 1974 || Frontispiece: ΘΕΟΦΡΑΣΤΟΥ | ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡΕΣ Pagination: [1-5] 6- 123 [124]. Collation: 8vo; [1]-68, 76, 88 (total 62 leaves); signed ¼7, ½7. Binding: publisher’s serial green wrappers, lettering on a scroll. Contributors: Theophrastus [Θεόφραστος, Theόphrastos, Теофраст, Феофраст] (Greek, c. 371 – c. 287 BC) – author. Стратановский, Георгий Андреевич (Russian, 1901 – 1986) – translator. -
Title page: ПАНТЕОНЪ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | ТЕОФРАСТЪ. | ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКИ. | ПЕРЕВОДЪ СЪ ГРЕЧЕСКАГО | В. АЛЕКСѢЕВА. |—| С.–ПЕТЕРБУРГЪ. | Типографiя Н. А. Лебедева, Невскiй просп., 8. | 1888. || Pagination: [1-3] 4-32; 32 pages. Collation: 8vo; 1-28; 16 leaves. Binding: Modern owner’s grey wrappers, blank. Page size: 23.2 x 16 cm Contributors: Theophrastus [Θεόφραστος, Theόphrastos, Теофраст, Феофраст] (Greek, c. 371 – c. 287 BC) – author. Алексеев, Василий Алексеевич (Russian, 1863 – 1919) – translator. Лебедев, Николай Афанасьевич (Russian, 1813 – 1896); Типография Н. А. Лебедева (СПб) – publisher, printer. -
Title page: ЛОНГ | ДАФНИС И ХЛОЯ | Вступительная статья, | перевод и комментарии | С. П. Кондратьева | ACADEMIA | 1935 || Opposite title: АНТИЧНАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | под общей редакцией | Д. А. Горбова, В. О. Нилендера | и П. Ф. Преображенского | ЛОНГ | (III—IV век н. э.) | ACADEMIA | Москва—Ленинград || Title verso: ΛΌΓΓΟΥ | Ποιμενικών των κατά Δάφνιν και Χλόην | Λόγοι τέτταρες | LONGI | Pastoralium de Daphnide et Chloë | libri quattuor | Рисунки, заставки, концовки, переплет и супер-обложка В. Г. Бехтеева || Pagination: [i-vi] vii-xx [2], [1, 2] 3-196 [2], 220 pages total, plus frontispiece in colour extra to collation; and 13 b/w plates within collation, headpieces after Бехтеев, Владимир Георгиевич (Russian, 1878 – 1971). Collation: i8 ii3, 1-128 133 = 110 leaves plus 1 plate. Binding: 17.5 x 13 cm, grey cloth, vignette to front board, lettering to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Print run: 5,300 copies. Catalogue raisonné: В. В. Крылов, Е. В. Кичатова (2004): № 744, p. 265. Contributors: Longus [Лонг, Λόγγος] (Greek, 2nd century AD) – author. Кондратьев, Сергей Петрович (Russian, 1872 – 1964) – translator. Бехтеев, Владимир Георгиевич (Russian, 1878 – 1971) – artist. Other titles: Daphnis and Chloe (en), Daphnis et Chloé (fr), Daphnis und Chloe (de), Dafnis y Cloe (es), Gli amori pastorali di Dafni e Cloe (it). -
Vol. 1: Title page: LES AVENTURES | DE | TÉLÉMAQUE, | PAR FÉNELON. — | TOME PREMIER. | {publisher’s arms by Beugnet after Choffard} | DE L'IMPRIMERIE DE MONSIEUR. | M. DCC. LXXXV. || Title-frontispiece (engraved by Montulay): lettering within garland: Les Aventures de Télémaque, FILS D’ULYSSE. GRAVÉES | D’APRÈS LES DESSEINS | DE | CHARLES MONNET | PEINTRE DU ROY | PAR | JEAN BAPTISTE | TILLIARD. ||; Lettering on ribbon beneath the garland: A PARIS | Chez L’AUTEUR Quay des Grands Augustins | Maison de Mr. Debure Fils Aîné Libraire. M. DCC. LXXIII. | AVEC PRIVILEGE DU ROY. ||; Signed under the frame: Montulay Sculpsit. || Pagination: [2] – h.t. / imprint, [2] – t.p. / blank, [2] Advert., [2] d.t.p. / sommaire, [1] 2-309 [3 blanks], total 320 pages on thick wove paper plus engraved title-frontis. by Montulay, 12 engraved text leaves (one for each book), unsigned, and 36 plates (all in ornamental frame of laurel ribbon) by Tilliard after Monnet, all engravings on laid paper. Collation: 4to; vergé flyleaves at front and back, π4 A-2P4 plus 4 additional divisional titles in choirs C, F, I, and M for books 2-5, total 160 leaves, plus 49 plates. Vol. 2: Title page: Same but “TOME SECOND”. Pagination: [2] – h.t. / imprint, [2] – t.p. / blank, [1-3] 4-297 [298 blank] [2] – approb., total 304 pages plus 12 engraved text leaves (one for each book), and 36 plates, last 6 plates in a simple frame without the laurel ribbon and before signatures. Collation: 4to; π2 A-2O4 2P1 χ1, total 152 leaves, plus 48 plates. Binding: Two volumes uniformly bound in green paper boards with two red labels lettered in gilt, untrimmed. Size: overall 36.5 x 28 cm, platemark 32 x 25 cm, with white vergé flyleaves to front and back, similar pastedowns. Catalogue raisonné: Cohen, de Ricci (1912): 384-386; Ray (French): № 37, p. 74; Lewine (1898): p. 181. Contributors: François Fénelon [François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon] (French, 1651 – 1715) – author. Choffard, Pierre Philippe (French, 1730 – 1809) – artist. Monnet, Charles (French, 1732 – after 1808) – artist. Montulay (French, fl. c. 1773) – engraver. Tilliard, Jean Baptiste (French, 1740 – 1813) – engraver. Beugnet, Jean (French, c. 1803) – engraver. Didot, Pierre-François (French, 1731 – 1795) – printer. Barrois, Louis-François (French, 1748 – 1835?); Barrois, Pierre-Théophile (French, 1752 – 1836); Onfroy, Eugène (French, before 1765 – 1809) ; Delalain, Louis-Alexandre (French, 1749? – 1798) – booksellers. -
Title-page (in red and black, with tall “s”): LES | AVANTURES | DE | TELEMAQUE, | FILS D'ULYSSE, | Par seu Messire | François de Salignac, | De La Motte-Fenelon, | Precepteur de Messeigneurs les Enfans de | France, & depuis Archevêque-Duc de | Cambray, Prince du Saint Empire. | NOUVELLE EDITION, | CONFORME AU MANUSCRIT ORIGINAL, ET | ENRICHIE DE FIGURES. | {device} | A AMSTERDAM, | Chez D. J. CHANGUION. | MDCCXXV. || Pagination: fep, 1 bank leaves, frontis., [ii] title, [iii] iv-cvi, [1] 2-490 2 blank leaves, fep, total 496 pages. Collation: 12mo; 1*-4*12 5*5, A-V12 X8 (total 248 leaves) plus frontispiece and 9 plates designed and engraved by Simon Fokke (signed: “S. Fokke in et fec 1753”), and folding map (not signed). Binding: Red quarter roan over contemporary marbled vellum, only top margin trimmed. Edition: 2nd edition with these etchings after the 1st by Jan Daniel Beman in Rotterdam in 1755 (see British Museum 1887,0722.88 and 1887,0722.90 and others.) Catalogue raisonné: Not in Cohen-DeRicci, not in Lewine. Contributors: François Fénelon [François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon] (French, 1651 – 1715) – author. Simon Fokke (Dutch, 1712 – 1784) – artist, engarver. -
Description: 25.1 x 19.2 cm, collated 4to, quarter cream faux-parchment over blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, in a slipcase with pasted pictorial titles, with different vignettes to front and back. Title-page: The pastoral loves of | Daphnis & Chloe | Done into English by George Moore | With Etchings by Marcel Vertès | Folio Society ✶ London ✶ 1954 | {vignette} || Collation: [A]4 B-M4, total 48 leaves, incl. frontispiece plus 6 leaves of plates reproduced by collotype after etchings by Marcel Vertès, extraneous to collation. Pagination: [1-6] (h.t., frontis., t.p./imprint) 7-95 [96]; total 96 pages, ils. Ref.: WorldCat. Catalogue raisonné: Vokaer (1967): № 61, p. 21. Print run: according to Vokaer – 3750 copies. Longus [Λόγγος] (Greek, 2nd century AD) – author. George Moore (Irish, 1852 – 1933)– translator. Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist. Charles Batey (British, 1893 – ?) – printer. James Burn – binder -
Hardcover volume, 8vo, 24.3 x 16.5 cm, bound in contemporary full marbled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt floral tools in compartments, gilt title lettering, marbled end-papers and all edges, printed on laid paper 23.9 x 5.5 cm with a watermark, entirely engraved (frontispiece, title, nine plates, and text), gatherings not indicated. Title-page (engraved, vignette, tall 's') LE | TEMPLE | DE | GNIDE | Nouvelle Edition, | Avec Figures | Gravées par N. LE MIRE, | des Acad. De Vienne en Autriche et de Rouen, | D’apres les Dessins de Ch. Eisen. | Le Texte Gravé par Droüet. | — | {3 lines quotation from Gallien} | A PARIS | Chez le Mire Graveur | Rue St. Etienne des Gres. | AVEC PRIVELEGE DU ROI. | 1772. || Frontispiece (engraved, vignette): Portrait medallion inscribed "CHARLES SECONDAT DE MONTESQUIEU — N. Le Mire del et sc", signed beneath "N. le Mire sculp 1771"; under the plate: "Dessiné par Ch. Eisen, et Gravé par N. le Mire." Pagination: frontispiece, t.p. / explication, dedication, [i] ii-vii [viii blank] 1-104 [105-6 blanks]; engraved throughout, plus 9 plates by Le Mire after Eisen.Catalogue Raisonné: Cohen-de Ricci 726-27; Ray, French Illustrated Book, №32/p. 61-2.Ref.: MFA (Boston): Accession Number 37.1726.Charles Eisen (French, 1720 – 1778) – artist. Noël Le Mire (French, 1724 – 1801) – engraver, publisher. Droüet (French, 18th century) – text engraver. Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (French, 1689 – 1755) – author. -
Description: Original pictorial wrappers, folio, unbound, in a double slipcase with gilt lettering to spine; pp. [4] [1-12] 13-204 [4], 53 folded leaves, 47 dry-point illustrations after Marcel Vertès. Limitation: Edition of 140 copies on Arches paper of which 20 copies (№ 1-20) enriched with one original drawing, one suite of plates incl. 5 cancels and 5 full-page prints; 105 copies (№ 21-125); 15 copies (№ I-XV) for collaborators of witch 5 enriched with an original drawing and a complete suite of plates. This is copy № 45, enriched with an A.L. signed by Claude Roger-Marx (Jewish- French, 1888 – 1977). Colophon: Printed on January 15, 1954 in Paris on a press of madame J.-G. Daragnès by Éditions Manuel Bruker. Catalogue raisonné: Vokaer № 57. Other titles: Daphnis and Chloe (en), Daphnis et Chloé (fr), Daphnis und Chloe (de), Dafnis y Cloe (es), Gli amori pastorali di Dafni e Cloe (it). Other editions in this collection: LIB-2870.2021 and LIB-1926.2019. Contributors: Longus [Λόγγος] (Greek, 2nd century AD) – author Jacques Amyot (French, 1513 – 1593) – translator Paul Louis Courier (French, 1772 – 1825) – editor Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist/illustrator Jean-Gabriel Daragnès (French, 1886 – 1950) – printer Manuel Bruker [Mendel Brucker] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1891 – 1979) – publisher Portrait of Jacques Amyot engraved by Nicolas de Larmessin I (French, 1632 – 1694) in this collection: Isaac Bullart. Academie des sciences et des arts / 2 volumes. — Amsterdam: Elzevier [i.e. Brussels: Foppens], 1682. [LIB-2676.2021]:
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Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse, Par feu Messire François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Précepteur de Messeigneurs les Enfants de France, & depuis Archevêque - Duc de Chabray, Prince du Saint-Empire Romain, &c. / Nouvelle édition enrichie de figures en taille-douce. – À Maestricht, Chez J. E. Dufour & Ph. Roux, Imprimeurs-Libraires associés. M. DCC. LXXXII. Pagination: ffl, [i, ii - ht, explication] [2 - blank, frontis. portrait] [iii, iv - t.p., blank] [v - discours] vi-xxviii, [1] 2-484, bfl; 1 folding map and 24 plates engraved by Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Tardieu. Size: 8vo, 21 x 13 cm. Binding: full contemporary mottled calf, marbled end-papers, all margins red, raised bands, floral gilt elements in compartments, red title label, head- and tail-band absent. Point of issue: the vignette in Liv. 1 is upsidedown. Liv. 1 & 8 plates signed: Gravé par Tardieu résident à Malines. Jean Baptiste Pierre Tardieu (French, 1746 – 1816) - engraver and cartographer from a large family of artists and engravers. For English translation of this book see № LIB-2683-2021 in this collection. -
Hardcover volume, 8vo, 21.5 x 14.5 cm, bound by Riviere & Son (stamped on fep verso bottom) in full brown calf, boards with triple gilt fillet border and gilt dentelle inside, spine with raised bands, gilt in compartments, black label with gilt lettering, all margins gilt, blue endpapers, bookplate of Arthur Rau pasted to front pastedown (text: Les hommes sont méchants mais leurs livres sont bons / Arthur Rau; signed: E. H. New – A.D. 1922), traces of removed owner’s label to fep recto; printed on laid paper. Title-page (engraved, in floral frame): LE TEMPLE | DE GNIDE. | Mis en Vers | Par M. Colardeau | {vignette with portrait of Pierre Corneille} | A PARIS | Chez le Jay, Libraire, Rue St. Jacques au dessus de | celle des Mathurins au Grand Corneille || Collation: 2 blanks, h.t., engraved t.p. with a portrait of Pierre Corneille, a8, A-E8 F4 (52 leaves), 2 blanks, plus 7 plates by various engravers after Charles Monnet. Pagination: [i] ii-xvi, [1] 2-88 (104 pp). Ref: MFA (Boston): accession number 37.1747 Catalogue raisonné: Lewine 114, Cohen-DeRicci 245-6. Contributors: Charles Monnet (French, 1732 – after 1808) – artist. Engravers: Jean Charles Baquoy (French, 1721 – 1777) Nicolas Delaunay (French, 1739 – 1792) Isidore Stanislas Helman (French, 1743 – 1806) Louis Joseph Masquelier (French, 1741 – 1811) François Denis Née (French, 1735 – 1818) Nicholas Ponce (French, 1746 – 1831) Portrait(s) designed by: Guillaume Voiriot (French, 1713 – 1799) Author: Charles-Pierre Colardeau (French, 1732 – 1776) Publisher: Edmé-Jean Le Jay (French, 1734 – 1795) Bookplate artist: Edmund Hort New (British, 1871 – 1931) Provenance: Arthur Rau (British, 1898 – 1972); his obituary can be found in The Book Collector 1973, vol. 22, n°1, p. 86-89. According to the genealogy service Geni, Arthur Aron Rau was born to Jacob Aryeh Rau and Katharina (Kaethe) Rau, and has a sister Cecilia (Tsipporah) Rosenfelder and a brother Frederick Solomon Rau. He went to Oxford and then joined Maggs Brothers in their Paris establishment. "After some years there, he set up on his own, returning to England at the outbreak of the Second World War to be a schoolmaster for ten years". In 1949 he returned to Paris and retired in 1963, "and his last years he happily spent in Wensleydale...". All he published during his lifetime were two catalogues, Livres Rares Et Anciens. Manuscrits et Autographes. — Paris: Arthur Rau, 1932-3 and Cinquante Tres Beaux Livres Avec Un Appendice. — Paris: Arthur Rau, 1933. He also contributed to The Book Collector.Seller’s description: In-8° : [2]-t. gr.-xvi-88 pp. ; 7 h.-t. (qqs rouss.). - Poème d'après le roman de Montesquieu ill. de 7 eaux-fortes par Bacquoy, Delaunay, Née, etc., d'après Charles Monnet. Titre gr. orné d'un portr. de Corneille. Cohen, qui cite un ex. millésimé 1773, signale des ex. avec la date de 1772 ou sans date. - Réf. Cohen 245-246. - Conlon 72:675 (éd. à l'adresse d'Amsterdam et Paris, 1772). - Pas dans Reynaud. - Prov. Arthur Rau (1898-1972), gérant de la librairie Maggs à Paris avant d'ouvrir sa propre librairie en 1932 (ex-libris gr. par E.H. New, 1922 ; réf. BnF). - Traces d'ex-libris décollé à la garde sup. -
Title (black and red): ЦИЦЕРОН | ДИАЛОГИ | О ГОСУДАРСТВЕ 〜 О ЗАКОНАХ | ИЗДАНИЕ ПОДГОТОВИЛИ | И. Н. ВЕСЕЛОВСКИЙ, В. О. ГОРЕНШТЕЙН | и С. Л. УТЧЕНКО | {device} | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО • НАУКА | МОСКВА • 1966 || Frontispiece (black and red): M. TVLLI CICERONIS | DIALOGI | DE REPUBLICA 〜 DE LEGIBUS| {device} || Pagination: [1-7] 8-223 [224], insert errata slip, 2 plates. Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-148. Binding: 22 x 17.3 cm; hardbound: original serial green cloth, blind-stamped with scrolls and gilt lettering to board and spine, lacking DJ. Веселовский, Иван Николаевич (Russian, 1892 – 1977); Горенштейн, Виктор Осипович (Russian, 20th century); Утченко, Сергей Львович (Russian, 1908 – 1976).
