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• Fables -- Early works to 1800
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• امثال لقمان الحكيم وبعض اقوال العرب (apud S. et J. Luchtmans, 1767), by Thomas Erpenius, Jacobus Golius, Albert Schultens, and the Sage Luqmān (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Calila et Dimna (Imprimerie royale, 1816), by -approximately 760 Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ, A. I. Silvestre de Sacy, approximately 560-approximately 661 Labīd ibn Rabīʻah, al-Zūzanī Ḥusain ibn Aḥmad, called Rūzbah ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Muḳaffaʻ, and Imprimerie royale (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ḥayawān wa-al-insān (Maṭbaʻat al-Taraqī, 1900), by Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Loqmân berbère, avec quatre glossaires et une étude sur la légende de Loqmân (E. Leroux, 1890), by Luqmān and René Basset (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fabulas de Loqmán; vertidas em portuguez e paraphrasesdas em versos hebraicos (Imprensa nacional, 1898), by Luqmān, Lazare Eliszer Wogue, Joseph Bénoliel, and Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Loca quaedam fabularum Locmani illustratura dissertatio (Excudebant Regiae Academiae Typographi, 1831), by Henr. Gerh. Lindgren and Gustavus Vilhelmus Leuhusen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables de Lokman, texte arabe, revue sur les meilleures éditions, collationné avec le manuscrit de la Bibliothèque du roi et suivi d'un dictionnaire ... (Hachette & Cie., in the 1840s), by the Sage Luqmān and M. Cherbonneau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables de Lokman (Librairie Hachette et cie, 1897), by the Sage Luqmān and A. Cherbonneau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pendname-yi Lokman Hekim tercüme-yi manzumesi (Mahmut Bey Matbaası, 1906), by the Sage Luqmān and Ahmet Raşit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fabulas de Loqmán (Imprensa Nacional, 1898), by the Sage Luqmān, Lazare Eliezer Wogue, José Benoliel, and Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grammatica arabica. Accedunt Locmani sapientis fabulae et selectae quaedam arabum sententiae. (Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide, 1829), by Thomas Erpenius and the Sage Luqmān (page images at HathiTrust)
• Locmani sapientis fabulae 40 (Bibliopólii Schubothiani, typis J.H. Schultz, 1831), by the Sage Luqmān and Rasmus Rask (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables de Loqman surnommé Le Sage : édition Arabe corrigée sur un manuscrit de la bibliothèque royale de Paris, aved une tracution Française et accompagnée de remarques et d'un vocabulaire Arabe-Français (Chez Arnold, 1831), by the Sage Luqmān and Karl H. Schier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables de Lokman et autres auteurs suivies de récits Arabes (Dayr al-Ābāʼ al-Dūminikīyīn, 1873), by the Sage Luqmān (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amthāl (Paris, etc., 1839), by the Sage Luqmān (page images at HathiTrust)
• Igeret baʻale ḥayim (Yehuda Leyb ben E.L. Mets, 1874), by Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ and Qalonymos ben Qalonymos ben Meʼir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fākihat al-khulafāʼ wa-mufākahat al-ẓurafāʼ (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Kubrá, 1873), by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn ʻArabshāh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liber arabicus... Fructus imperatorum et iocatio ingeniosorum. (s.n., 1832), by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn ʻArabshāh and G. W. Freytag (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables de Lokman (Hachette, 1847), by Luqmān and A. Cherbonneau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales from the Arabic of the Breslau and Calcutta (1814-18) editions of the Book of the thousand nights and one night not occurring in the other printed texts of the work ([s.n.], 1884), by John Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Ḥayawān wa-al-insān : wa-hiya khātimat wa-zhubdat Rasā’il Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ (880-03 Miṣr : Dār al-Taraqqī, 1318 H. = 1900 M., 1900), by Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fākihat al-khulafāʼ wa-mufākahat al-ẓurafāʼ (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Maymanīyah, 1890), by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn ʻArabshāh and -approximately 760 Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb Kalīlah wa-Dimnah (1645), by Baydabā, -approximately 760 Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ, John R. Redpath, and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)

• Geschiedenis van Kalilah en Daminah : uit het Maleisch in het Madureesch (Landsdrukkerij, 1879), by Raden Pandji Adi Koro (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fabulae locmani sapientis (P.B. Lopez, 1784), by the Sage Luqmān, Miguel Garcia Asensio, and Manuel Lasala (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fabulae locmani sapientis (P.B. Lopez, 1784), by the Sage Luqmān, Miguel Garcia Asensio, and Manuel Lasala (page images at HathiTrust)

• C. Iulii Hygini, Augusti liberti, Fabularum liber, : ad omnium poetarum lectionem mire necessarius, & nunc denuò excusus .. (ex Officina Hervagiana, per Eusebium Episcopium, 1570), by C. Julius Hyginus, Herwagen, philosophus Albricus, Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, Jakob Moltzer, ca. 410-485 Proclus, Solensis Aratus, Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, and Palaephatus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ésope en belle humeur; ou, L'élite de ses fables, enrichies de discours moraux & de quatrains; auxquelles on a joint les plus belles fables de Phèdre, de Pilpai & de Mr. de la Motte, avec Les devoirs de l'honnête homme; ou, Maximes politiques & morales. (Chretien Herold, 1750), by Aesop and Charles Mouton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flea sic parua componere magnis. (London : Printed [by Edward Allde] for Iohn Smethwick and are to be solde at his shop in Saint Dunstanes Churchyard in Fleet-street, vnder the Diall, 1605), by Peter Woodhouse (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The tragicocomedie of serpents. By Lodowik Lloid Esquier. (London : printed by Thomas Purfoot, and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson, at his shop neere the great north dore of Paules, at the signe of the White Horse, 1607), by Lodowick Lloyd (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Delightful fables in prose and verse. None of them to be found in Aesop; but collected from divers ancient and modern authors, with pictures and proper morals to every fable, some very pertinent to the present times. Published as a means which in all ages hath been found useful for pleasure, and likewise for instruction in the prudent conduct of our lives and actions. / By R.B. (London, : Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultry near Cheapside., 1691), by 1632?-1725? R. B. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Æsop's fables with his life in English, French & Latin / the English by Tho. Philipott Esq. ; the French and Latin by Rob. Codrington M.A. ; illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures by Francis Barlow. (London : Printed by William Godbid for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by Ann Seile ... and Edward Powell ..., 1666), by Francis Barlow, Robert Codrington, and Thomas Philipot (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Æsopicks: or, A second collection of fables, paraphras'd in verse, adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations. / By John Ogilby, esq; his Majesty's cosmographer, geographick printer, and master of revels in the kingdom of Ireland. (London : Printed for T. Basset, R. Clavel, and R. Chiswel ..., 1675.), by Aesop and John Ogilby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The dialoges of creatures moralysed. Applyably and edificatyfly, to euery mery and iocounde mater, of late tra[n]slated out of latyn into our Englysshe tonge right profitable to the gouernaunce of man. And they be to sell, vpo[n] Powlys churche yarde. ([Antwerp : Printed by Jan van Doesborch? and sold in Paul's churchyard, 1530?]), by Nicolaus and Mayno (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The fabulous tales of Esope the Phrygian, compiled moste eloquently in Scottishe metre by Master Robert Henrison, & now lately Englished. ; Euery tale moralized most aptly to this present time, worthy to be read.. ([Im]printed at London : by Richard Smith., Anno. 1577.), by Aesop, Robert Henryson, and Richard Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Dialogus creaturarum optimé moralizatus. Dialogues 1-7. English. ([[London] : Imprynted by me Robert wyer, dwellynge in seynt Martyns parysshe. Ad imprimendum solum, [1550?]]), by Pergaminus Nicolaus and de' Mayneri Mayno (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• F.P. Fulgentii Christiani philosophi Mythologiarum libri tres, : in quibus enarrat quid omnes insigniores ueterum fabul[amqu?]e significent, quo docendi genere, miscentes utile dulci, sapientissimè [sophōtagoi?] poëtae & formauere mores & rerum tradididerunt caussas. His non temere, opinor, adiunximus Graecum autorem Palaephatum de fabulis supra fidem confictis. (Excudebat Henricus Petrus,, 1536), by Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, Heinrich Petrus, and Palaephatus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tragicocomedie of serpents. By Lodowik Lloid Esquier. (London : printed by Thomas Purfoot, and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson, at his shop neere the great north dore of Paules, at the signe of the White Horse, 1607), by Lodowick Lloyd (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Sinryke fabulen : verklaart en toegepast tot alderley zeede-lessen, dienstig om waargenoomen te werden in het menschelijke en burgerlijke leeven. (By Hieronymus Sweerts ..., 1685), by Pieter de la Court, Hieronymus Sweerts, and Jacob Gole (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reynard's prosecution of the unfortunate bruin, assisted by the wolfe, ox, ass, ram, beaver, &c. : together with the sufferings of the pard, agent for the unhappy bruin : a fable. ([s.n.], 1761) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aesop Dress'd; Or, A Collection of Fables Writ in Familiar Verse, by Bernard Mandeville, contrib. by John S. Shea (Gutenberg ebook)
• Philomythie. Part 2. (Printed at London, : [By Edward Griffin] for Francis Constable., 1616.), by Tho. Scot and Thomas Scott (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The pleasant history of Cawwood the rooke. Or, The assembly of birds with the severall speeches which the birds made to the eagle, in hope to have the government in his absence: and lastly, how the rooke was banished; with the reason why crafty fellowes are called rookes. As also fit morralls and expositions added to every chapter. (London : Printed by T. C[otes] for F. Grove, and are to be sold at his shoppe, at the upper end of Snow-Hill, neere the Sarazens head without Nevv-Gate, 1640) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reynard the Fox. ([London] : Printed for J. Conyers, and are to be sold by J. Blare at the Looking-glass on London-Bridge, [1700?]), by fl. 1680-1702 J. S. (John Shirley) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A schole of wise conceytes vvherin as euery conceyte hath wit, so the most haue much mirth, set forth in common places by order of the alphabet. Translated out of diuers Greke and Latine wryters, by Thomas Blage student of the Queenes Colledge in Cambridge. (Printed at London : By Henrie Binneman, dwelling in Knight rider streate, at the signe of the Marmayd, [Anno Domini. 1569]), by Thomas Blague (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The country mouse, and the city mouse. Or a merry morrall fable enlarged out of Horace. Serm. lib. 2. Sat. 6. (London : Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Michael Sparke Iunior, and are to be sold at the blue Bible in Greene Arbour, 1637), by Wye Saltonstall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A schole of wise conceytes vvherin as euery conceyte hath wit, so the most haue much mirth, set forth in common places by order of the alphabet. Translated out of diuers Greke and Latine wryters, by Thomas Blage student of the Queenes Colledge in Cambridge. (Printed at London : By Henrie Binneman, dwelling in Knight rider streate, at the signe of the Marmayd, [Anno Domini. 1569]), by Thomas Blague (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The fable of the sun and frogs in elegant Latin verse, applyed to the present state of affairs between the French and Dutch. With three several translations in English, by three several hands. The first nearer the Latin; the other two allowing themselves a greater liberty of phansie. (London : printed for William Gilbert bookseller, at the half Moon in Pauls Church-yard, 1672) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Fākihat al-khulafāʼ wa-mufākahat al-ẓurafāʼ (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Maymanīyah, 1907), by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn ʻArabshāh and -approximately 760 Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ (page images at HathiTrust)

• Select fables of Aesop and other fabulists (Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1781), by Robert Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dictionnaire de la fable (Le Normant, imprimeur-libraire, rue des Prêtres Saint-Germain-L'Auxerrois, 1810), by François Noel, Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, Barthélemy Joseph Fulcran Roger, and Imprimerie de Le Normant (page images at HathiTrust)

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