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Fabulæ Selectæ Fontanii È Gallico in Latinum Sermonem Conversæ In Usum Studiosæ Juventutis (2 volumes) [Fables of Fontaine]
by [Latin] Jean de La Fontaine; J. B. Giraud
- Used
- Condition
- Very good minus
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Rotomagi [Rouen]: Lud le Boucher; Laurent, Dumesnil, 1775. Later printing. Leather bound. Very good minus. 461; 576pp. Octavo [21 cm] Brown leather with gilt tooled spines. The spines were professionally restored long ago, but have since sustained a bit of cracking along the joints. Red speckled edges. Text block of volume 2 cracked at the beginning; front pastedowns have a previous owner's bookplate; neat manuscript notations on the half titles; faint ink stamps on title pages; despite occasional light foxing, pages clean and bright. The text is in French and Latin. Jean de La Fontaine's first six books of fables were first published in 1668. Five more books followed in 1678-79. And a twelfth book was published in 1694. Fontaine's verse fables transformed traditional folktales into some of the most-loved poetic works in the French language.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60087
- Title
- Fabulæ Selectæ Fontanii È Gallico in Latinum Sermonem Conversæ In Usum Studiosæ Juventutis (2 volumes) [Fables of Fontaine]
- Author
- [Latin] Jean de La Fontaine; J. B. Giraud
- Format/Binding
- Leather bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good minus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- Lud le Boucher; Laurent, Dumesnil
- Place of Publication
- Rotomagi [Rouen]
- Date Published
- 1775
- Keywords
- getman12; fables; Latin; foreign language; leather; French; literature
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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