Search Results: Titles starting with F from Chartaphilus - Libri antichi e rari

8° (mm 197x121) ; pp. cvii, (1), 185, c. (1). Legatura coeva in marocchino rosso à grain long con decorazioni in oro. Bellissimo esemplare, dai margini eccezionalmente grandi.
Editio princeps. Monglond, I, 1134.
Langlés fu il fondatore, nel 1795, dell'Ecole des langues orientales vivantes.
Al Discours préliminaire sur la religion, la politique, la littérature et les mœurs des Indiens, fanno seguito la traduzione di nove apologhi dall'Hitopadés de Vichnou Sarma – secondo il curatore "le prototype des fables indiennes attribuées à Pilpay ou Beidpay": Fables et Contes Indiens de Vichnou Sarma. Introduction de l'Auteur; Fable I. Les pigeons, la souris, le corbeau, la tortue et le cerf; Fable II. Le voyageur et le vieux tigre; Fable III. Le cerf, le jackal et le corbeau; Fable IV. Le jackal et le chat; Fable V. Histoire de la souris hiraniaka; Fable VI. Le vieillard et sa jeune femme; Fable VII. Le chasseur, le cerf, le sanglier, le serpent et le jackal; Fable VIII. Le fils du Raja et la femme… Read More

4° (mm 204x138) ; cc. (8), cxxiiii, (4) [Errata e Registro]. Capilettera silografici. XVIII century brown half calf, gilt spine with raised bands, boards covered with coloured paper, title in gold on label, red edges. Light waterstains on the first leaves, light repair to the lower margin of the title-page, generally a very good, clean copy.
Provenance: XVIII century engraved armorial bookplate of the Martelli family of Florence, with motto "Sola virtus vera nobilitas", mounted on the front flyleaf facing the title; XX century ex libris on the verso of the front cover.
First edition.
Also in light of Mircea Eliade and Jack Zipes' studies about the "extraordinary symbiotic connection" between myth and fairy tale, Mariconda's Favole - featuring magic, enchantments, metamorphoses, fanciful beings, etc. - seems related more to the written history of the fairy tale than to the novella tradition (M. Eliade, Myth and Reality, New York 1963; J. Zipes, Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale, University Press… Read More