Hundert Fabeln nach Aesop und den grösten Fabeldichtern aller Zeiten
Subtitle: mit Hundert colorirten Kupfern zur Beförderung der sittlichen Ausbildung der Jugend als Leitfaden zur frühen Erweckung echter Lebensweisheit : in Deutscher, Englischer, Französischer und Italienischer Sprache
Publisher: Carl Kühn
Published: 1830
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: ger
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Fables
Other titles: Aesop's fables.
Description: Part 1 of a 2 volume set of one hundred fables with 50 hand colored copperplates in each volume. Engravings illustrate a fable by Aesop and include text, moral and print caption in German, French, Italian and English.
Notes: Engraved title page signed: F.A. von Fielitz, sc. Engraved illustrations initialled, mostly illegible.

LC copy imperfect: plates for fables 23, 29, and 46 wanting. Plate for fable 45 partially wanting. handwritten note on front paste-down: "H. Rudert. No. 36, 1000". Loose binder's waste paste-down on back cover made from scrap from 1826 calendar.

Purchase; Dietrich Hecht; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:039.5233)

Text in German, English, French, and Italian. Preface and table of contents in German.

Forms part of: Dietrich Hecht collection of Bilderbogen.
Table of contents: title: (from English captions): 1. The fox and the grapes; title: 2. The peasant and the spar-hawk; title: 3. The lying shepherd's boy; title: 4. The cocks and the partridge; title: 5. The ass in the lion's skin; title: 6. The crow and the pitcher; title: 7. The fox and the cock; title: 8. The sick hawk and his mother; title: 9. Hercules and the waggoner; title: 10. The wolf in a sheep's skin; title: 11. The nurse and the wolf; title: 12. The lion infirm by age; title: 13. The eagle and the tortoise; title: 14. The fox and the buck; title: 15. The lark and her little ones; title: 16. The wolf and the crane; title: 17. The old dog and his master; title: 18. The lion on the chase; title: 19. The hunter and the pigeon; title: 20. The stag and the oxen; title: 21. The eagle and the fox; title: 22. The father and his children; title: 23. The wolf and the sow; title: 24. The belly and the other members; title: 25. The lion and the bulls; title: 26. The ass and the horse; title: 27. The woman and her maids; title: 28. The monkey and the fox; title: 29. The wood-cleaver and the forest; title: 30. The frog and the ox; title: 31. The wolf and the lamb; title: 32. The man and the lion; title: 33. The town-rat and the village-rat; title: 34. The dog with a clog to his neck; title: 35. The tiger and the fox; title: 36. The peasant and his goose; title: 37. The two friends and the bear; title: 38. The ass, the lion and the cock; title: 39. Jupiter and the camel; title: 40. The fly and the ant; title: 41. The ant and the pigeon; title: 42. The lioness and the fox; title: 43. The beaver; title: 44. The birds and the other animals in war; title: 45. The fawn and the stag; title: 46. The ant and the cricket; title: 47. The fox and the cat; title: 48. The ox and the heifer; title: 49. The trumpeter made a captive; title: 50. The frogs and their king.