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Title
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Fables d'Amerique (1880-1881)
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Description
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Language note: French
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Not numbered; limited to 200?
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Par un Ingénieur en Chef Honoraire des Mines
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Creator
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Cumenge, E.
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Contributor
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Vimar?
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Date
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2016-01-25T20:11:46Z
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2006-08
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1895
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T20:11:46Z
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Date Issued
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1895
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Abstract
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Here is one of the odder members of this collection. This beautiful paperbound book seems to me filled with mysteries. The mysteries start on the title-page, with its lovely colored presentation of a Colorado morning star plant. The author presents four sets of six fables, as the final T of C demonstrates, taken from the flora and fauna of the two Americas. He dedicates them to Petit Paul. Thus the first fable, illustrated with a full-page black and white illustration signed by an artist whose work I have admired, Vimar, presents Le Bison et le Chien de prairie. I wish my French were good enough to know what happens in these strange matchups! Another fine illustration faces 30: La Tortue et le Caïman. In the illustration, both are weeping. Do not miss L'Ane de Roquecourbe (before 43). The ass here has been pulleyed up a tower. A final illustration caught my eye: Le Serpent Boa et l'Agouti. The boa here is about to engulf a little creature. One of the mysteries here is why a date gets into the title of a book, whose title-page lists a date fourteen years later. A statement facing the title-page says perhaps only that two hundred copies of this book have been kept out of commerce, but then lists No without a number. Strange.
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Identifier
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7811 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Impr. générale Lahure
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Paris
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Subject
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PQ2215.C84 F33 1895
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America
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole