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NEWHardcover volume, 175 x 130 mm, in grey cloth with blue lettering in blind border with volutes to corners, blue lettering to spine; collated 8vo: [1]8, 1-258 262, i.e. 210 leaves plus 8 plates, incl. frontispiece portrait of the author, extraneous to collation, pp.: [i-iv] v-xiv [2] [2] 3-401 [3], errata slip tipped in. Print run 5,300 copies. Title-page: ШАРЛЬ МОНТЕСКЬЁ | ПЕРСИДСКИЕ | ПИСЬМА | Вступительная статья | Л. Е. Гальперина | ACADEMIA | 1936 || Title verso: CHARLES MONTESQUIEU | Lettres persianes | Переплет П. Г. Пастухова || Catalogue Raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова 840 (p. 280). Contributors: Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de (French, 1689–1755) Гальперин, Лев Ефимович (Russian-Jewish, 1872 – 1951) Пастухов, Павел Георгиевич (Russian, 1889 – 1960)
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Hardcover, light grey cloth with brown lettering and two-colour vignette in the central panel, lettering to spine, 15 woodcut headpieces to each book and 5 full-page two-colour woodcuts by Leonid Feinberg (1896-1980). Size: 25.5 x 18.5 cm; collation: 8vo. Frontispiece (grey and black): P. OVIDII NASONIS | METAMORPHOSEON | LIBRI | {XV in frame} | ACADEMIA || Title-page (grey and black): П. ОВИДИЙ HAЗOH | МЕТАМОРФОЗЫ | ПЕРЕВОД | С. В. ШЕРВИНСКОГО | СТАТЬЯ О ТВОРЧЕСТВЕ ОВИДИЯ | А. И. БЕЛЕЦКОГО | РЕДАКЦИЯ И КОММЕНТАРИИ | Ф. А. ПЕТРОВСКОГО | {vignette / 1937} | ACADEMIA || Imprint: Переплет, иллюстрации, заставки | и титульные страницы по рисункам | Л. Е. Фейнберга || Published: II-1937; print-run: 5,300 copies. Pp.: [i-vi] vii-xxix [xxx] [2] 3-358 [8], total 396 pp: i/ii publisher’s device/blank, iii/iv blank/frontis., v/vi t.p./imprint, vii-xxx text preface, 1/2 h.t./blank, 3-330 text,331/2 h.t./blank, 333/59 commentary, 360 summary, 361/2 table of contents/blank, 363/4 errata/blank, 365/6 colophon/blank. Collation: ffl, i8 ii7 1-228 237, ffl, total 198 leaves plus 5 full-page two-colour woodcuts extraneous to collation. Publius Ovidius Naso [Ovid] (Roman, 43 BC – AD 17/18) – Author. Белецкий, Александр Иванович (Ukrainian, 1884 – 1961) – Author (foreword) Петровский, Фёдор Александрович (Russian,1890 – 1978) – Author (editor) Шервинский, Сергей Васильевич (Russian, 1892 – 1991) – Translator Фейнберг, Леонид Евгеньевич (Jewish-Russian, 1896 – 1980) – Artist References: [LIB-2679.2021] Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books / Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. — London: Jacob Tonson, 1717. [LIB-2586.2020] Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Latin and English (2 vols.) — Amsterdam: Wetstein & Smith, 1732.
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NEWTwo hardcover volumes, 8vo, 200 x 140 mm each, uniformly bound in cream cloth with gilt triple fillet frame to front, same blind to back, and blind volutes to corners, gilt lettering, fillets and blind fleurons in compartments to flat spine; cream dust jacket with red lettering and black vignette to front, black spine with cream lettering to spine, publisher’s device to back, and black lettering to flaps. Print-run 5,300 copies. Besides these two volumes, Academia later published volumes 5 (1936), 3, 4, and 8 (1937); other volumes were published in 1939-47 by ОГИЗ-Гослитиздат. Vol. 1: 1-318 324, i.e. 252 leaves plus 13 b/w plates extraneous to collation; pp.: [1-7] 8-501 [3]. Title-page (red and black): ДЕНИ ДИДРО | СОБРАНИЕ СОЧИНЕНИЙ | ТОМ I | ФИЛОСОФИЯ | Редакция и вступительная статья | И. К. Луппола | Перевод И. Б. Румера, | В. К. Сережникова, П. С. Юшкевича | Примечания А. Н. Лаврентьева | ACADEMIA | 1935 || Vol. 2: 1-368 374, i.e. 292 leaves plus 14 b/w plates extraneous to collation; pp.: [1-7] 8-582 [2]. Title-page (red and black): ДЕНИ ДИДРО | СОБРАНИЕ СОЧИНЕНИЙ | ТОМ II | ФИЛОСОФИЯ | Редакция и вступительная статья | И. К. Луппола | Перевод В. К. Сережникова и П. С. Юшкевича | Примечания М. Д. Цебенко| ACADEMIA | 1935 || In both volumes: Contre-Title: ФРАНЦУЗСКАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | ДЕНИ ДИДРО | (1713 – 1784) | СОБРАНИЕ СОЧИНЕНИЙ | в десяти томах | Под общей редакцией | И. К. ЛУППОЛА | ACADEMIA | Москва – Ленинград || Title verso: DENIS DIDEROT | OEUVRES CHOISIES | Супер-обложка и переплет | Б. В. Шварца || Catalogue Raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова 723, 724 (pp. 261-2). Contributors: Denis Diderot (French, 1713 – 1784) Луппол, Иван Капитонович (Russian, 1896 – 1943) – killed in GULAG Румер, Исидор Борисович (Russian-Jewish, 1884 – 1938) – killed in GULAG Серёжников, Виктор Константинович (Russian, 1873 – 1944) – killed in GULAG Юшкевич, Павел Соломонович (Ukrainian-Jewish, 1873 – 1945) Цебенко, Мария Дмитриевна (Russian, ? – 1957) Шварц, Борис Владимирович (1906 – 1967) Лаврентьев, А. Н.
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NEWSoftcover, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, stapled, 215 x 145 mm, pp.: [2] 3-38 [2], a few in-text and five full-page illustrations within collation; 8vo: 28 34, i.e. 20 leaves. Title-page: В. ГАУФ | {vignette} | КАРЛИК | НОС | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ДЕТСКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | МИНИСТЕРСТВА ПРОСВЕЩЕНИЯ РСФСР | ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1955 || Print run 200,000 copies. Contributors: Wilhelm Hauff [Вильгельм Гауф] (German, 1802 – 1827) – author. Шабанов, Иван Васильевич (Russian, 1906 – 1973) – artist.
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NEWHardcover, 210 x 147 mm, black cloth with geometrical (avant-garde style) lettering to front cover and spine, pictorial endpapers, pp.: [1-7] 8-510 [2]. Chair of the editorial board of the almanach Каверин, Вениамин Александрович [Kaverin, Veniamin] (Russian-Jewish, 1902 – 1989) Print run 50,000 copies. ISBN 5-7000-0161-6. It was the first more or less uncensored publication in the Soviet Union. Submitted for typesetting on September 27, 1988, signed to print on January 2, 1989. Referenced as: Moskva-Petushki, in Vest’: Sbornik. Proza, poėziia, dramaturgiia, Knizhnaia palata, Moskva 1990: 418-506 [complete edition]. Contributors: Венедикт Васильевич Ерофеев [Venedikt Yerofeyev] (Russian, 1938 – 1990) – author.
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NEWThe true first edition in original parts, published in four issues of the Soviet magazine «Трезвость и культура», Москва, Профиздат (Sobriety and Culture, Moscow, Trade Union Publishing): Part 1 in № 12/1988, pp. 26-38; Part 2 in № 1/1989, pp. 26-37; Part 3 in № 2/1989, pp. 28-39; Part 4 in № 3/1989, pp. 30-35. Each issue: 260 x 200 mm; 64 pages, in pictorial wrappers, stapled. Print run: 12/1988 — 800,525 copies; 1/1989 — 626,970 copies; 2/1989 — 635,115 copies; 3/1989 — 639,810 copies. The first part was submitted for typesetting on October 10 and signed to print on November 28, 1988. This makes it the first officially published 'Soviet' edition; however, it lacks the author's foreword and was substantially censored. Reference: Id., Moskva-Petushki, “Trezvost’ i kul’tura”, 12 (1988): 26-38 [introduction by S. Chuprinin, censured edition]. Id., Moskva-Petushki, “Trezvost’ i kul’tura”, 1 (1989): 26-37; 2 (1989): 28-39; 3 (1989): 30-35 [censured edition]. Contributors: Ерофеев, Венедикт Васильевич [Yerofeyev, Venedikt] (Russian, 1938 – 1990) – author Чупринин, Сергей Иванович (Russian, b. 1947) – preface Басыров, Гариф Шарипович (Russian, 1944 – 2004) – artist
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NEWHardcover volume, 8vo, 200 x 140 mm, bound in light blue cloth with vignette to front, cream printed label and lettering to flat spine; pictorial dust jacket, black lettering to spine, publisher’s device to back, and black lettering to flaps. Print-run 5,000 copies. Faux frontispieces, binding, and dust jacket designed by Н. В. Кузьмин. Collation: 1-388 394, i.e. 308 leaves plus 12 plates extraneous to collation, incl. frontispiece portrait of the author [1-7] 8-611 [5], errata slip tipped in. Title-page (blue and black): АЛЬФРЕД ДЕ МЮССЕ | ТЕАТР | Перевод, вступительная | статья и комментарии | А. В. Федорова | ACADEMIA | 1934 || Contre-title (blue and black): ФРАНЦУЗСКАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | Под общей редакцией | А. М. Эфроса | АЛЬФРЕД ДЕ МЮССЕ | (1810 – 1857) | СОЧИНЕНИЯ | ACADEMIA | Москва – Ленинград || Title verso: ALFRED DE MUSSET | THÉÂTRE | Фронтисписы титулов, | переплет и супер-обложка | Н. В. Кузьмина || Catalogue Raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова 653 (p. 250). Contents: Венецианская ночь, или Свадьба Лауретты; Андреа дель Сарто; Фантазио; Любовью не шутят; Лоренцаччо; Подсвечник; Не надо биться об заклад; Молча за дело; Всего не предусмотришь; Беттина (пер. Е. Геркена) Contributors: Musset, Alfred de (French, 1810–1857) – author Фёдоров, Андрей Венедиктович (Russian, 1906 – 1997) – translator Геркен, Евгений Георгиевич (Russian, 1886 – 1962) – translator Кузьмин, Николай Васильевич (Russian, 1890 – 1987) – artist Эфрос, Абрам Маркович (Russian-Jewish, 1888 – 1954) – editor
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Large iron tsuba of mokko form with the openwork (sukashi) design, described by some as rotten leaves swirling in the wind and boar eyes (inome, 猪目, heart-shaped elements); round rim (maru-mimi); no hitsu-ana; pronounced iron bones (tekkotsu); chocolate patina.
Signed to the left of nakaga-ana: Yamakichibei (山吉兵へ). Attributed to the First Generation (Shodai) master.
Dimensions: 90 x 82 mm, thickness 3.7 mm at centre, 4.9 mm at rim. Weight: 142 gReferences: similar handguards demonstrated at Yasukazu's Owari to Mikawa no tankō №176 and Kajima's Tsuba no Bi №28.
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NEWArtist: Utagawa Kunisada [歌川 国貞], a.k.a. Utagawa Toyokuni III [三代 歌川 豊国] (Japanese, 1786 – 1865). Signed: Toyokuni ga [豊国 画] in a yellow double-gourd. Publisher unknown. Media: Untrimmed fan print (uchiwa-e), 228 x 298 mm. Series title: Six Jewel Faces (六玉颜, mu tama-gao), a pun on Six Jewel Rivers (六玉河, Mu Tamagawa). The date seal and censor seal are absent. Another print from the same series in the Metropolitan Museum of New York reads:
The colorful background, with explosions of tie-dyed floral motifs, is a reminder of how Kunisada made all his thousands of Genji-print designs a visual record of different textile patterns of the day. The title Six Jewel Faces (Mu tama-gao), along with its allusion to the literary theme of Six Jewel Rivers, suggests that this set of fan prints captures the appearance of a half-dozen attractive individuals, and, indeed, the other five works in the set show images of beautiful women, mostly courtesans of the pleasure quarters.
Mitsuuji with Mountain Roses (Yamabuki), from the series “Six Jewel Faces” (Mu tama-gao). MET Accession Number:2019.3 Ref.: [LIB-2967.2022] Utagawa Kunisada: His world revisited / Catalogue 17, Exhibition March 17-21, 2021. — NY: Sebastian Izzard, LLC., 2021. -
NEWA large hardcover volume, 370 x 265 x 53 mm, bound in burgundy cloth with pasted-in b/w photograph and gilt lettering to front, gilt lettering to spine, in plastic dust jacket, in a slipcase, in a cardboard shipping box, pp. [2] 1-522 [2], 128 leaves total; limited edition of 1000 copies. Author: Nakamura Tessei [中村鐵青] Seller's description: Tsuba Shusei by Nakamura. 1963. Of a limited edition of 1,000. Clothbound with plastic jacket, slipcase, and cardboard storage box, 11 ½ x 14 ½”, 522 heavy stock pages in Japanese. This is a very impressive book. Thousands of tsuba, from Kamakura to late Edo and arranged by school. are illustrated (24 in colour photos and the rest in black & white) and described. If there is a tsuba bible this might be it; there can’t be a more comprehensive book on the subject. The storage box is shelf worn, the slipcase is just a bit toned; the book is in excellentt condition. Produced by Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc. [株式会社中央公論新社] Publisher: 銀集成刊行会 Production details: 鐵集成 第617番 昭和38年2月10日発行 限定1,000部 定価 10,000円 オフセット単色印刷:マイク印刷 オフセット原色印刷:大日本印刷 著者中村鐵青 製作 中央公論事業出版 発行所 銀集成刊行会 活版印刷:精興社 製本:協和製本 本文用紙:三菱製紙 表紙:望月
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NEWAnonymous manuscript half bound in green sheepskin, gilt lettering to spine, 382 x 325 x 65 mm, 424 pp. with pp. 368-400 blank, thick graph paper, tissue samples pasted throughout. According to the seller: “Important treatise on weaving decorated with numerous drawings, sketches, diagrams and samples of laminated fabrics (satin, silk, damask, velvet, etc.). Elegant work, beautiful writing in italics, all pages in a framing net. It contains chapters on the history of silk, the silkworm (hatching, transformation, etc.), silk spinning, dyeing, warping, folding, heddles, different types of mesh, satin, satin drifts, damask for dresses, royal damask for furnishings, velvet, etc. etc.”
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NEWSnuff bottle made of smoky quartz with white skin carved with cats hunting butterflies design; cherry quartz stopper. Late 19th century. Dimensions: H70 x W36 x D17 mm
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NEWSoftcover, 270 x 210 mm, publisher’s flapped pictorial wrappers, in identical dust jacket, pp. [1-4] 5-189 [3], illustrated throughout with 192 collection items. ISBN 978-2-85923-092-0 Title-page (sanguine): — | SAMOURAÏS | GUERRIERS ET ESTHÈTES | — | CATALOGUE DE L'EXPOSITION | ORGANISÉE A LA BIBLIOTHÉQUE | NATIONALE ET UNIVERSITAIRE | STRASBOURG | 11 MARS – 13 JUILLET 2022 | SOUS LA DIRECTION | DE PATRICK LIEBERMANN, | EMMANUEL MARINE | ET DELPHINE MULARD | ASSISTÉS PAR AGATHE JACQUEMIN | bnu | STRASBOURG || Publisher: Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire (Strasbourg) In this collection: TSU-0437.2024 Contributors Collective: Emmanuel Marine Delphine Mulard Patrick Liebermann Agathe Jacquemin
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NEWRose quartz snuff bottle of rounded rectangular form on raised foot with round neck, carved in relief with a double dragon in a cartouche; round turquoise stopper with silver collar.
The Eastern dragon is not the gruesome monster of medieval imagination, but the genius of strength and goodness. He is the spirit of change, therefore of life itself. Hidden in the caverns of inaccessible mountains, or coiled in the unfathomed depth of the sea, he awaits the time when he slowly rouses himself into activity. He unfolds himself in the storm clouds; he washes his mane in the blackness of the seething whirlpools. His claws are in the fork of the lightning, his scales begin to glisten in the bark of rain-swept pine trees. His voice is heard in the hurricane, which, scattering the withered leaves of the forest, a dragon quickens a new spring [C. A. S. Williams. Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs / 3rd Revised Edition. — Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1993].
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NEWSnuff bottle made of rock crystal with brown skin carved with a sage and a deer under the peach tree on one side and a cuckoo on a plum tree on the other, with a chrysotile stopper and tin collar. Late 19th century. Dimensions: H68 x W40 x D21 mm.
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NEWOverlay of red glass on snowflake glass snuff bottle, carved in relief with seven children playing in a landscape with rocks and trees, with aventurine stopper and black collar. Late 19th century Dimensions: H72 x W56 x D30 mm
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NEWHardcover album 387 x 300 mm, bound in orange half-calf over green paper with vertical black zig-zag and embossed gilt rings, by Isy Brachot of Brussels; includes a photographic portrait of D. H. Lawrence pasted to front green ffl verso, ms title-page, six pages of ms text with a woodcut portrait of the same to page 2, 27 plates (including eight double-page), one blank leaf followed by ten pages of ms text and back green ffl with text to recto, 49 leaves total, plates on thick wove paper, text on Canson & Montgolfier watermarked laid paper, all unpaginated; in a slipcase. The title page indicates: “Vertés, a fashionable and popular designer from 1940 to 1960 […] attempted to illustrate in 1959 the famous novel by D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover, but not getting along with his publisher, he sold his sketches for two thousand dollars to count Charles de Kerchove de Denterghem (1819 – 1882). Further, the t.p. reads: Les esquisses, lit-on encore sur cette page, furent reliées par Isy Brachot de Bruxelles. Elles furent classées par lui sans ordre, comme elles venaient. En préface figurent un bref résumé du roman, un historique des difficultés qu'il connut, un compte rendu de sa victoire finale. En postface sont transcrits, en langue originale, les scènes illustrées par Vertès dans l'ordre où elles se trouvent écrites, ainsi qu'une appréciation de l'art de Vertès. Michel Vokaer’s Bibliographie de Marcel Vertès (1967) does not mention this collection of sketches; however, it says that the artist had produced two test etchings for Lady Chatterley’s Lover around 1936, which remained unpublished. The gouaches were drawn in the US, and the texts accompanying them are in English, so one could suppose that the prospective publisher—who remains unknown—was American. Contributors: Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) David Herbert Lawrence (British, 1885 – 1930)
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NEWFrench illustrated pornographic magazine (ouvrage illustrè de photographies pornographiques), in pictorial wrappers, 235 x 160 mm, 16 leaves incl. wrappers, unpaginated.