Manuscript on paper of Adolfus von Wein, Doligamus. The text, a series of fables concerning the deceitful conduct of women, is heavily annotated with interlinear glosses and lengthy explanatory prose passages inserted both between segments of the text...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Adolfus, von Wien, 14th cent. and Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, 1415-1493.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fables, Laudatory poetry, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
An engraved writing sheet illustrated with seven scenes from Gay’s Fables, each titled above and with rhyming couplet below. At head, and the largest scene, is ‘The Shepherd and the Philosopher’; six smaller scenes form the right and left borders belo...
Description:
Title engraved at top of plate, on either side of the image of "The shepherd and the philosopher."
Publisher:
Published by Robt. Sayer, map, chart & printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street
Illustration to a poetic version of Aesop’s fable of a man with an older and a younger wife; the younger plucked out all his grey hairs, and the older, the dark ones with the inevitable result
Alternative Title:
Aesop's fables. Selections. English Man and his 2 wives Man and his two wives Man & his two wives
Manuscript on paper of Artt. 1-6: Aesop (Aesopus, 6th cent. before C.), Vita et fabulae, Latin translation by Rinuccio da Castiglione (Rinucius Aretinus, ca. 1395-after 1456). Artt. 7-8: Aesop, Fabulae, Latin translation by Ognibene Leoniceno (Omnibon...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aesop.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fables, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Berühmten Freih. v. Münchhausen wunderbare Reisen und lustige Abenteuer zu Wasser und zu Land. Feldzug der sieben Schwaben und ihre siegreiche Heimkehr. Geschichte der ebenso schönen als tugendhaften Agnes Bernauer, Tochter des Barbiers Kaspar Bern...
Description:
[1.] Caspar Hauser / von K. Nitram -- [2.] Rosa von Tannenburg -- [3.] Die Teufelsmühle am Wienerberge / von Ferdinand Schmid -- [4.] Robinson Krusoe -- [5.] Kurzer Auszug aus der merkwürdigen Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck ...
Publisher:
[Rob. Bardtenschlager]
Subject (Name):
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe. German, D'Rith, Armin. Bluthochzeit, Ernst Dannappel, Buch- und Kunst-Antiquariat (Dresden, Germany), bookseller, Frey, Edmund. Freischütz, Günther, Eduard. Gräfin Itha von Toggenburg, Günther, Eduard. Jungfrau v. Orleans, Haar, Albert. Schöne Griseldis als Bauernmädchen und Gräfin, Haar, August. Wilhelm Tell der heldenmütige Befreier der Schweiz, Höcker, Gustav, 1832-1911. Genovefa, Lang, Lorenz. Notburga, die fromme Königstochter, Marchthaler, Hans. Steinkreuz auf der Esslinger Steige bei Stuttgart, Nitram, K. Caspar Hauser, Rob. Bardtenschlager, publisher, Schmid, Ferdinand. Teufelsmühle am Wienerberge, Schneider, Ferdinand. Unterhaltende Geschichte von den vier Haymonskindern, Schönhuth, Ottmar F. H. (Ottmar Friedrich Heinrich), 1806-1864. Beiden Ritter von Rodenstein und Schnellert, and Trenck, Friedrich, Freiherr von der, 1726-1794. Kurzer Auszug aus der merkwürdigen Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck
