L'estrange Roger Translator (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. no dustjacket as issued. Circa 1920's printing with 24 black and white illustrations. Bound in purple cloth with gilt stamped cover and spine. Cloth shows overall soiling with sunning to rear panel and spine. Corners are lightly bumped and worn through. Ends of spine are softened with small tears to cloth. The binding is tight, text and images unmarked. 52pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Leather bound. Condition: Fine. Book is in fine condition, as new.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Eleventh edition 12mo, fair to good. Full leather , gilt on morocco, raised bands to spine, Abraded wear. small losses to spine end, front hinge virtually detached fep detached, back hinge cracked, binding else sound, small marks to title page, , the odd spot, else good page condition. At the back a list of other books published by R Sare.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First trade edition of this stunningly illustrated collection of Aesop's fables: Detmold at his best. In his vibrant and stylish illustrations for this edition of Aesop's Fables, Edward Detmold exhibits aesthetic influences drawn from a variety of sources, including Japanese and Chinese paintings, Art Nouveau, and classical Western art. His magnificent color plates are magnificent examples of his artistic skill. 11'' x 8.25''. Original light orange cloth boards with gilt stamping. Pictorial endpapers of birds in shades of brown. Illustrated with tipped-in color pictorial frontispiece and 22 tipped-in color plates, all with printed paper guards; black-and-white line images throughout. xvi, 152 pages. 23 color plates in all, this is a very fine near mint copy under brodart mylar jacket. I have never seen a better copy of this classic. Roger L'Estrange did a fine 17 th century of Aesop into English in a folio edition. again. this copy has all the tissue and such . Colors vibrant. . Twenty-five fables comprising: The Vain Jackdaw; The Ants and the Grasshopper; The Eagle and the Arrow; The Oxen and the Axle Trees; The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse; The She-Goats and their Beards; The Mountain in Labour; The Monkeys and their Mother; The Monkey and the Fishermen; The Hart and the Vine; The Lion and the Three Bulls; The Goat and the Ass; The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat; The Hare and the Tortoise; The Geese and The Cranes; The Eagle and His Captor; The Wasp and the Snake; The Grasshopper and the Owl; The Fox and the Crane; The Monkey and the Dolphin; The Eagle and the Beetle; The Pomegranate, the Apple-Tree, and the Bramble; The Owl and the Birds; The Lark Burying Her Father; The Wolf and the Goat. Edward Detmold (illustrator). …

, 1-140 [4], contains 4 pages of advertisements at the rear of the volume, decorative tailpieces and capitals Eleventh Edition , chipping to top and tail of spine, joints and hinges repaired, corners and edges rubbed, covers marked, very slight foxing within, torn bookplate to front pastedown, owner's inscriptions to front and rear pastedowns, good condition , full morocco with 4 raised bands on the spine, gilt borders to boards , 12mo, 16 x 9.5 cm Hardback ISBN. …

Hardcover. Condition: fair. Tenth Corrected. 8vo. 282 + 2 pp. of advertisements. Leather boards with decorative etching and raised bands on spine. Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas (1580 - 1645) poet and master satirist of Spain's Golden Age, who, as a virtuoso of language, is unequaled in Spanish literature. -(Encyclopedia Britanica Online). He was born in Madrid and his political vocation as well as colorful life contributed to the forming of his complex and contrasting personality. His poetry reflects the most spiritual tendencies along with the most base and crude feelings. Jokes appear alongside more serious attitudes, and moral philosophy alongside the most ingenious vulgarity. Orphaned by the age of six, he was able to attend the Imperial School run by the Jesuits in Madrid. He then attended university at Alcalá de Henares from 1596 to 1600. In 1601, Quevedo, as a member of the Spanish Royal Court, moved to Valladolid, where the Court had been transferred by the King's minister, the Duke of Lerma. There he studied theology, a subject that will be a lifelong interest, and on which in later life he will compose the treatise "Providencia de Dios" (God's Providence), against atheism. He was also a political moralist. His works included comedies, satires, poetry and novels. Much of his work is related to religion, or at least had religion or metaphysical overtones, probably because his education in theology, logic, metaphysics, and physics. A polyglot, among the many languages he could speak were Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French, Italian, and English (aside from Spanish, of course). A fair amount of scuffing to boards due to age, front board is detached but present. Lovely decorative endpapers. Binding in poor condition, interior in good - very good condition.…

Hardcover. Seventh Edition. Small Quartos, Four Volumes. In Good minus condition. Bound in contemporary calf with paneled spines bearing matching red labels and gilt volume numbering. Spines have cracking and chipping to leather and heavy rubbing throughout; Vol. 1 has material loss to head/tail revealing the quires below (missing endbands,) and gilding to volume number rubbed away leaving only the imprint; Vol. 2 is missing headcap, has a third of headband remaining, and is missing half of tailband; Vol. 3 is missing headcap, part of tailcap, and endbands, and has volume number gilding mostly rubbed away; Vol. 4 has material loss to head/tail revealing the quires below (missing endbands,) and gilding to volume number rubbed away leaving only the imprint. Boards have splitting to joints, bumping to corners, loss of leather to edges, and scuffing and soiling throughout; Vol. 3 has a crack to bottom fore corner of rear board with a spot of material loss in the middle of it. Text blocks have age-toning and moderate-to-heavy soiling to edges; have splitting to hinges and gutters, and toning, foxing, light penciling, and staining throughout; Vol. 1 has provenance marks to front flyleaf; Vol 2. has provenance marks to rear free endpaper; Vol. 4 has hand-inked decoration and provenance marks to front pastedown, tears to bottom fore corners of first three leaves (text impacted,) and provenance mark to rear free endpaper. Shelved in Room A octavo overflow. CONTENTS: VOL I ([2], 520 pages), published in 1773-VOL II (502 pages), published in 1774-VOL III (485 pages), published in 1775-VOL IV ([2], 506, [22] pages), published in 1775. This mixed-publisher set of the complete four volumes helped bring Josephus' works to the Thirteen Colonies just before their independence from Great Britain. Initiated by publisher John McGibbons, the monumental task was funded directly through pre-orders, leaning on subscriber patronage to underwrite the massive printing costs. Production evolved into an inter-colonial collaboration across major printing hubs: William and Thomas Bradford set Volume I in Philadelphia in 1773, while subsequent volumes were produced in New York by firms including Hodge and Shober and Shober and Loudon through 1775. Revered by colonial readers for its blend of biblical context and classical Roman history, Sir Roger L'Estrange's popular English translation gave early Americans direct access to Josephus's foundational accounts. 1416973. Special Collections - Upstairs.…

Roger L'Estrange's influential translation of this collection of moral essays by the Hispano-Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (d. AD 65), which together forms the most important primary source for classical Stoicism. L'Estrange's Morals principally draws upon three of Seneca's essays from his wider series of dialogues, namely De Beneficiis ('On Benefits'), written between AD 56-62, De Clementia ('On Mercy'), a mirror for princes composed following the murder of Nero's rival Britannicus in AD 55, and De Ira ('On Anger'), which dates to the end of his life, when Seneca was forced to commit involuntary suicide. Seneca was born at the end of the 1st century BC in Corduba, then in the Roman province of Hispania Baetica. He was soon taken to Rome where his father, a rhetorician of equestrian rank, resided, and where Seneca was exposed to the rudiments of Stoic philosophy, in time gaining the quaestorship which allowed him the right to sit in the Senate. After a brief, but eventful political career, which saw his exile for 8 years to Corsica, Seneca became tutor to the future Emperor Nero, and then advisor during his reign. In AD 65 he was implicated, perhaps rightly, in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate the Emperor, for which he forfeited his life. Fourteenth edition; 12mo (17 x 11 cm); engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette headpieces, further head and tail ornaments and woodcut initials, 18th-century ownership inscription to front free endpaper recto, a little toned; contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, contrast red morocco lettering-piece to spine, very good; [24], 445, [7]pp. ESTC R27570; Wing S2514.…

Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press. 1926. Large 8vo. Cream-backed brown publisher's boards lettered in gilt to spine, in typographic dust-jacket; with 11 wood engravings by Celia M. Fiennes; pp. [8], iii-v, [1], 94, [6]; almost entirely uncut, spine tips lightly bumped, previous bookseller sticker "Paul Elder & Co, San Francisco" to rear paste-down, bookplate of Alma Ruth Lavenson to the front paste-down (see below); a near-fine copy; the jacket is lightly spotted, browned along spine and to folds, chipped to extremities with some closed tears along spine; good but seldom found.Limited edition, number 268 of 350 copies, of L'Estrange's translation of the Fables, rare in dust-jacket.L'Estrange first published his version of the fables in 1692, and it is now regarded as one of the most popular English translations. Commissioned by a group of booksellers, his edition appeared two years after Locke had recommended Aesop as an ideal first reading book for children. As Muir notes, it was "the best and largest collection of fables in English, and he had children especially in mind when making his compilation". L'Estrange's Aesop is, in fact, "an assemblage of fables and facetiae from a variety of sources, ancient and modern, the second volume being wholly un-Aesopian. The trenchant reflections added to the individual fables possess a strong political animus and were to draw severe criticism from the later Whig fabulist Samuel Croxall; but all L'Estrange's translations have some degree of political colouring" (DNB).The simplistic yet highly effective wood engravings are by Celia M. Fiennes, a direct descendant of the seventeenth-century travel writer Celia Fiennes. She was an accomplished printmaker and illustrator - in the same year as this publication, she produced twelve wood engravings for the Cresset Press edition of Matthew Stevenson's 1661 work The Twelve Moneths.Provenance: From the library of the American photographer Alma Ruth Lavenson (1897-1989). Lavenson was particularly prolific in the 1920s and 30s and was influenced by Pictorialism; she worked alongside photographers such as Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Edward Weston, and developed friendships with these artists.Chanticleer 45. See Muir, English Children's Books, 1600 to 1900. …