price
4 plus 2. On June 29, 1788, Jefferson sent an order to Koenig for more books from his catalogue, including “
Aesopi fabulae Gr. Lat. Haupmanni. 8vo.” of which, with other books, he requested “
les memes editions que j’ai acheté chez vous.” Koenig replied on July 24, that he had no copy of Aesop and had not been able to obtain one[.]
Johann Gottfried Hauptmann, 1712-1782, German scholar, founded this edition on Hudson’s Oxford edition of 1718. The Latin translation of the life of
Aesop is by Bachet de Meziriac.
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Dodsley’s Aesop.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 138, no. 36, as above.
DODSLEY,
Robert.
Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists. In Three Books. By R. Dodsley . . . A New Edition.
Philadelphia: Printed and sold by
Benjamin Johnson,
m,dcc,xcii
. [1792.]
12mo. 108 leaves; a copy of this edition was not examined for collation; the above title was taken from Evans.
Robert Dodsley, 1703-1764, English author and bookseller, began the preparation of his Select Fables in 1759 after he had retired from the
publishing firm of Robert and James Dodsley, and the first edition was printed by Baskerville in 1761. The three books consist
of Fables from the Ancients, Fables from the Modern, and Original Fables newly invented, with a Preface, a life of Aesop from
the French of M. de Mézirac, and an Essay on the Fable by William Shenstone, who also supplied the Index, with the morals.
For William Shenstone, see no. 4430.
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Burton’s Aesop’s fables.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 137, no. 62, Aesop’s Fables, by Burton, 8vo.
AESOP.
The Fables of Æsop, with his life, to which are added Morals and Remarks, accommodated to the youngest Capacities. By Robert Burton.
Philadelphia: printed and sold by
Robert Bell,
1777.
8vo. 72 leaves; a copy of this edition was not available for collation.
Evans 15231.
This edition not in Lowndes.
A copy of Aesop’s Fables in 12mo was bound for Jefferson by John March on April 26, 1806, cost 75 cents, which was probably
this book. A book listed only as Fables was bound by Joseph Milligan on February 24, 1809, cost 50 cents.
Robert Burton was the pseudonym of Nathaniel Crouch, 1632?-1725?, English miscellaneous writer. His edition of Aesop’s Fables in Prose
and Verse was first printed in London in 1712, and is no. 41 in the numbered account of his works listed in the Dictionary
of National Biography. The Library of Congress has a copy of his edition printed in Alexandria, 1802, in which each Fable
is followed by the Moral and the Remark, with the life of Aesop and a Preface at the beginning.
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Aesopi, Gabriae, Homeri, et Avieni fabulae. Batracomuomachia, Musoeus, Agapetus et Gayleomuomachia.
Gr.
Lat.
16.
Haultini. id. same edñ.
1815 Catalogue, page 137, no. 33, Aesopus, Gabrias, Homeri Batrachomuomachia, Aristobulus Galeomuomachia, Avienus, Lug. 1607,
16s.
AESOP.
Æsopi Phrygis fabulæ, elegantissimis iconibus, veras animalium species ad viuum adumbrantibus. Gabriæ græci fabellæ
xliii. Βατραχομυομαχια Homeri,
