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    Graphite and watercolour on wove paper, 220 x 277 mm, upper margin trimmed to cut heads of the characters. Pencil sketch and a blue ink stamp “Nachlaß O R SCHATZ", traces of hinges to verso. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961).
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    Two volumes, 132 x 85 mm, uniformly bound in mottled calf, panel bordered with gilt garland, flat spine richly tooled in gilt, gilt lettered black label, blue endpapers, “MK” bookplate to front pastedown, gilt-ruled edges and dentelle inside, all edges gilt, an etching on india paper laid in; text and plates printed on laid paper, with tall ‘s’. Vol. 1: Collation 18mo: A-C-E-G12 B-D-F-H6 I10(I10 blank) (i.e. 82 leaves); pp. [1-5] 6-161 [3], plus 9 plates with tissue guards, extr. to collation; and a flyleaf at the front and at the rear. Title-page: THÉRESE | PHILOSOPHE, | OU | MÉMOIRES | Pour servir à l'Histoire de D. DIRRAG, & | de Mademoiselle ERADICE. | Nouvelle édition, augmentée d'un plus | grand nombre de figures que toutes les | précédentes. | (in rules) TOME PREMIER. | {fleuron} | A LONDRES. | — | M.DCC.LXXXV. || Vol. 2: Collation 18mo: ffl, π2 A-C-E6 B-D12 (D11,12 blank) ffl (i.e. 44 leaves); pp.: [4] [1] 2-80 [4], plus 11 plates with tissue guards, extr. to collation; and a flyleaf at the front and at the rear. Title-page: THÉRESE | PHILOSOPHE, | AVEC | L'HISTOIRE | DE | MME BOIS-LAURIER. | Nouvelle édition, augmentée d'un plus | grand nombre de figures que toutes les | précédentes. | (in rules) TOME SECOND. | A LONDRES. | M.DCC.LXXXV. || Twenty plates were executed in stipple engraving by an unknown engraver after François-Rolland Elluin (French, 1745 – 1810) after Antoine Borel (French, 1743 – 1810). Elluin’s plates are executed in etching and burin, besides: pl. 2 mirror image, pl. 5 and 6 mixed up, pl. 9 here is pl. 19 in the original, pl. 12 here is pl. 9 in the original, pl. 11 is 10, pl. 10 is 11, pl. 13 is p. 12, pl. 16 is pl. 13, pl. 14 does not have clocks, p. 14 corrected by hand to 15 and it is 15 indeed, pl. 17 is pl. 16, pl. 18 is pl. 17, pl. 19 is pl. 18, woman has no hat. The edition is legitimate; however, the plates are pirated copies. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel № 1092, p. 235/6. Contributors: Boyer d'Argens, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1703 – 1771)] Borel, Antoine (French, 1743 – 1810) « Eradice » – Cadière, Marie-Catherine (French, 1709 – ?) « D. Dirrag » – Girard, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1680 – 1733) Laid in sheet — illustration to Thérèse philosopher by Félicien Rops. Microphotographs of certain plates in this edition:  
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    Two volumes in one, 131 x 89 mm, bound in full burgundy morocco, panels ruled with triple gilt fillet, gilt filleted edges, interior gilt dentelle, flat spine with double gilt fillet bands, gilt fleurons in compartments, gilt title label and date at the foot to spine (modern pastiche binding); all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, two bookplates to front pastedown: “MK” and “Ex-libris Yves Refoulé”, the latter drawn by Georges Leone and engraved by Picard. Laid paper with a hardly legible watermark resembles Van Gelder’s beehive. Letterpress head- and tailpieces. Collation 6to: (24mo) t. 1: π3 A-L6 M5; t. 2: χ3 N-Z6 2A6, 2B5, 2 blanks, 100 plates (pl. 32 and 33 is one) within collation, but extraneous to pagination, thus uncounted — pp.: t. 1: [4] 1-48, t. 2: [4] 49-100, total 155 leaves or 310 pages, incl. plates and everything but two binder’s flyleaves at the front and two at the rear. Vigesimo-quarto, 24mo (13 x 9 cm) – typical Cazin’s book format. Title-page: LE | CABINET | DE | LAMPSAQUE, | OU | Choix d'Épigrammes érotiques des plus célebres | Poëtes François. | (in rules) TOME PREMIER/SECOND). | {fleuron putto 1/2} | A PAPHOS. | | 1784. || One hundred figures are executed by burin on a copper plate and attributed to Claude Louis Desrais (French, 1746 – 1816) or some Leclerc, who is unlikely to be Sébastien Leclerc (1637 – 1714), living 100 years earlier. The author of the text is unknown. Catalogue raisonné: Cohen p.197 – provides for 16mo; Dutel № A-171 – provides for 12mo, pagination as 1-50 and 51-100, and mentions the 1st edition in 1744, but does not provide a description of the latter. “Lampsacus was also notable for its worship of Priapus, who was said to have been born there”.
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    Two hardcover volumes, 205 x 160 mm each, uniformly bound in red quarter-shagreen over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, original wrappers preserved, marbled endpapers, previous owner’s bookplate to front pastedown “Ex libris de Alfred de Maghellen 02”, and his initials to spine. Text printed on wove paper, red initials, top margin speckled, other trimmed roughly. La Rive Droite: [1-11] 12-278 [12], pagination includes wrappers; collated 8vo: ffl, front wrapper, π3 [1]-178 184, rear wrapper, ffl; plates within collation, i.e. 145 leaves total, excl. ffls. La Rive Gauche: [1-11] 12-290 [12], pagination includes wrappers; collated 8vo: ffl, front wrapper, π3 1-188 192, rear wrapper, ffl; plates within collation, i.e. 151 leaves total, excl. ffls. Title-page (red and black): PARIS VIEUX & NEUF | DESSINS DE CHARLES HUARD | TEXTE PAR ANDRÉ BILLY | LA RIVE GAUCHE (LA RIVE DROITE) | ❦ |  ÉDITÉ PAR EUGÈNE REY, LIBRAIRE | 8, BOULEVARD DES ITALIENS, PARIS | 1909 || Colophon: IMPRIME | SUR LES PRESSES | DE " LA SEMEUSE " | POUR | EUGÈNE REY | LIBRAIRE-ÉDITEUR | PARIS || Contributors: André Billy (French, 1882 – 1971) – author. Charles Huard (French, 1874 – 1965) – artist. Eugène Rey (French, 1868 – 1949) – publisher Alfred de Maghellen (French, 1871 – 1959) – provenance (bookplate)
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    Hardcover, 287 x 227 mm, pictorial boards with white lettering on blue background, red endpapers, glossy dust jacket of similar design, pp.: ffl, [1-6] 7-462 [2], addenda sheet laid in, ffl; illustrated throughout in b/w and colour. Title-page: BERNARD SAUGIER | SYLVAIN SAUVAGE | 1888 – 1948 | VOYAGE AU PAYS LITTÉRAIRE | D'UN ILLUSTRATEUR | {vignette} | Chez l'auteur | rule in red || Colophon: ACHEVÉ D'IMPRIMER | SUR LES PRESSES | DE CHAZELLE IMPRIMEURS | ZONE PORTUAIRE | 39100 DOLE | JUIN 2014 | Bertrand CHAZELLE, | Ancien élève de l'École Estienne, étant directeur. | Dépôt légal N°447 || Contributors: Sylvain Sauvage [Félix Roy] (French, 1888 – 1948) Saugier, Bernard (French) Chazelle, Bertrand (French)
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    Hardcover, 206 x 138 mm, quarter blue buckram over marbled paper boards, red and green calf labels with gilt lettering to spine; pp.:[2] [1-5] 6-34 (53, i.e. 35), [36], [2]; collated [1]6, 24, 34, 46 i.e. 20 leaves plus 13 leaves of plates. Bookseller ticket to front pastedown A. Aubry libraire, 18 rue Séguier, Paris. Title-page: NOTICE | DE | QUELQUES COPIES TROMPEUSES | D'ESTAMPES ANCIENNES | Extraite et traduite de l'Ouvrage intituled : | ANLEITUNG ZUR KUPFERSTICHKUNDE, PAR BARTSCH | AVEC DES ADDITIONS | PAR M. CH. LE BLANC | DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DE PARIS. | — | ( Tiré à deux cents exemplaires. ) | PARIS | Chez l'AUTEUR, rue du Bac, 89; | Chez DEFLORENNE Neveu, quai de l'École, 16. | 1849. || Author: Charles Le Blanc (French, 1817 – 1865)
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    Artist: Kawanabe Kyōsai [河鍋 暁斎] (Japanese, 1831 – 1889) Signed: Seisei Kyosai [惺々暁斎], and sealed. Media: Fan print (uchiwa-e, 団扇絵), 215 x 233 mm. Publisher: Unknown / No seal Date: Unknown / No seal Media: Fan print (uchiwa-e, 団扇絵), 215 x 233 mm. Possibly, a private order. Wind chimes (fûrin, 風鈴) are associated with a Wind Chimes Festival [風鈴祭り], held in summer all over Japan. Seller's description: wo swallows streak by with seeming joy past a fûrin, a wind bell. These Japanese wind chimes were introduced to Japan in the Heian era, and in the Edo period, they began to be constructed out of glass. We see the hanging length of paper twisting in the breeze as it creates a delightful chime; these tones are a characteristic sound of summer in Japan. A layer of deluxe mica covers the entire design, lending sparkle. This work was meant to be pasted onto an uchiwa, or fan, for summer use.
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    Artist: Utagawa Kunisada, a.k.a. Toyokuni III (Japanese, 1786 – 1865) [歌川 国貞]. Publisher: Unidentified, Marks 01-033|U335a To-Chū [ト忠] Date-aratame seal: Bunka 14 (1817). Signed: Kunisada ga [国貞画]. Media: Fan print (uchiwa-e), 230 x 270 mm. Kabuki play Chūkō shōbu-gatana [忠孝菖蒲刀] performed at the Nakamura Theater in Tokyo (Edo) in 5/1817. Actor Seki Sanjūrō II [関三十郎], a.k.a. Seki Utasuke I; Nakamura Utasuke; Arashi Sôtarô; Meijin Seki; Sekisan (Japanese, 1786 – 1839) as Nakano Tōbei [中野藤兵衛] – top. Actor Bandō Mitsugorō III [坂東三津五郎], a.k.a. Bandô Minosuke I, Morita Kanjirô II, Bandô Mitahachi I, Bandô Minosuke I, Bandô Mitahachi (Japanese, 1775 – 1831) I  as Miki Jūzaemon [三木十左衛門] – left. Actor Matsumoto Kōshirō V [松本幸四郎], a.k.a. Ichikawa Komazô III; Ichikawa Sumizô I (Japanese, 1764 – 1838) as Akabori Mizuemon [あかぼり水右衛門] – right. Reference images:  
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    French weekly periodical, full set for the year 1896 (52 issues), 4 leaves (8 pages) each issue, bound in green half sheepskin over green shagreen, ruled with blind dentelle, raised bands, gilt floral diamonds and gilt lettering in compartments, marbled endpapers, blank flyleaves; size 405 x 280 mm. Illustrated mainly by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (French, 1859 – 1923), Paul Balluriau [Jean-Baptiste Balluriau] (French, 1860 – 1917) and Albert Guillaume (French, 1873 – 1942).
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    French weekly periodical, full set for the year 1893 (53 issues), 4 leaves (8 pages) each issue, bound in green half sheepskin over green shagreen, ruled with blind dentelle, raised bands, gilt floral diamonds and gilt lettering in compartments, marbled endpapers, blank flyleaves; size 405 x 280 mm. Illustrated mainly by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (French, 1859 – 1923), Paul Balluriau [Jean-Baptiste Balluriau] (French, 1860 – 1917) and Albert Guillaume (French, 1873 – 1942).
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    Two volumes, 135 x 85 mm each, uniformly bound in full brown morocco with triple fillet border, flat spine with gilt fleurons and double fillet bands, gilt lettered label, interior dentelle, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; four volumes in two, collated in 12mo. Vol. 1: pp.: [1-5] 6-100, coll.: 1-86 92;(i.e. 50 leaves); [1-5] 6-130; coll.: 1-106 115 (i.e. 65 leaves); plus two blanks in the front and at the rear, and nine plates, incl. frontispiece. Vol. 2: pp.: [1-5] 6-111 [112 blank], coll.: 14 2-96 104 (i.e. 56 leaves); [4 ht, tp] [1] 2-99 [100 blank], coll.: π2 1-86 92 (i.e. 52 leaves); plus two blanks in the front and at rear, and four plates. Title-page: FÉLICIA, | OU | MES FREDAINES. | {in rules} La faute en est aux Dieux qui me firent si folle.|  TOME PREMIER/ SECOND/ TROISIÉME/ QUATRIÈME. | —•— | A LONDRES | M. DCC. LXXVI. || Catalogue raisonné: Dutel, A-399, p. 132. Contributors: André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat (French, 1739 – 1800) – author.
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    Set of three tablespoons and three forks of fiddle thread pattern with imperial monogram NE under crown to handle in .950 silver by Etienne Henri Sanoner (Paris), with his hallmarks:
    1. Minerva’s head with a lock of hair on the temple in an irregular octagonal frame; Paris from 1838 to 1919.
    2. E (rabbit) S in a diamond of Etienne Henri Sanoner, 79 rue Quincampoix, 75003 Paris.
    3. Grasshopper (la sauterelle) with chevron
    The set is housed in a hinged box with a blue velvet and silk insert; the outside is made of dark green chagrin and monogrammed with gilt NE under the crown on the lid; two brass swing clasps. Length of spoon, fork = 20 cm; weight spoon 64.3 g, fork 63.0 g; box 24 x 25 x 4 cm; weight of the set in box brutto 957.6 g. Provenance: Présent du couple impérial Napoléon III et Eugénie. Napoleon III [Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte] (French, 1808 – 1873), Eugénie de Montijo [María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick] (Spanish-French, 1826 – 1920). Contributors: Etienne Henri Sanoner (French, 1824 – 1868) – silversmith
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    Hardcover, 169 x 100 mm, quarter brown sheepskin over speckled paper, flat spine, gilt double fillet bands, crimson morocco label with gilt lettering, printed on French paper watermarked “FIN 1787”; two volumes in one, collated in 12mo. Tome premier: π1 h.t., A8 (A1 t.p., A2,3 Lettre de Sophie au chevalier d'Olzan), B4 C8 D4 E8 F4 G8, H4, I4; pp.: [2] [i-iii] iv-vi, [7] 8-104, plus three plates, p. 24 printed on cream wove paper,  pp. 66, 67 on blue laid paper (or pasted on such). Tome second: A8 (incl. h.t. and t.p.) B4 C8 D4 E8 F4 G8 H4 I8 K4, L4; pp.: [1-5] 6-127 [1 blank]; all three plates printed on cream wove paper; plate marked as p.68 is after p. 64, plate marked p.64 is after p. 68, plate p. 79 is on its place. Plates attributed to Louis Binet. Text is attributed mainly to Comte de Mirabeau; however, Guillaume Apollinaire, in his L’Enfer de la Bibliothèque Nationale (1913), believes that Marquis de Sentilly wrote it. Catalogue raisonné: Cohen-de Ricci 709; Dutel I A-988, p. 294. Contributors: Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de (French, 1749 – 1791) Binet, Louis (French, 1744 – 1800) Seller's description: Deux parties en un volume in-12. 165 x 97 mm. Tome premier: I f. n. ch. faux-titre, 104 pp. y compris le titre avec une vignette gravée, la "Lettre de Sophie au chevalier d'Olzan" qui débute l'ouvrage est paginée en chiffres romains. Tome second: 127 pp. tout compris et 1 p. bl. 6 gravures libres non signées qui sont de Binet. Reliure de l'époque. Demi-basane brune, plats de papier coquille moucheté, dos lisse omé de deux filets dorés répétés, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, lettres dorées, tranches jaspées. Reliure un peu frottée, coins émoussés. Quelques rousseurs. Rarissime deuxième édition de cet Émile de l'éducation sexuelle enrichie de gravures libres attribuables à Binet.
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    Hardcover, 150 x 110 mm, greyish brown cloth with brown embossed vignette to front, brown lettering to spine, top margin brown, pp.: [1-8] 9-241 [3], collated 8vo: 1-158, 162, i.e. 122 leaves, plus six woodcut plates, extraneous to collation; woodcut head- and tailpieces, vignettes. No dust jacket. Title-page (red and black): ЛИРИКА | ДРЕВНЕЙ ЭЛЛАДЫ | В ПЕРЕВОДАХ РУССКИХ ПОЭТОВ | Собрал и комментировал | Я. Голосовкер | ACADEMIA | 1935 || Contra-title (red and black): АНТИЧНАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | под общей редакцией | Д. А. Горбова, В. О. Нилендера | и П. Ф. Преображенского | ЛИРИКА | ДРЕВНЕЙ ЭЛЛАДЫ | ACADEMIA | Москва – Ленинград || Title verso: Гравюры на дереве художника | М. И. Пикова | Переплет по его же рисунку || Print run: 5300 copies. Printer: Печатный двор (Л.) / Полиграфкнига Catalogue raisonné:  Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 743, p. 265. Contributors: Голосовкер, Яков Эммануилович [Яків Еммануїлович] (Ukrainian-Jewish, 1890 – 1967) – compiler/foreword/comments Пиков, Михаил Иванович (Russian, 1903 – 1973) – artist, wood engraver
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    Hardcover, 150 x 108 mm, blue cloth red embossed vignette to front, red lettering to spine; pp. [2] 5-97 [3], collated 8vo: 17, 2-68 72, i.e. 49 leaves plus four plates, incl. frontispiece, extraneous to collation, leaf 11 missing or published without it. No dust jacket. Title-page (red and black): ЭСХИЛ | ПРИКОВАННЫЙ | ПРОМЕТЕЙ | Перевод, статья | и комментарии | Адр. Пиотровского | ACADEMIA | 1935 || Imprint: Фронтиспис и рисунки – фототипии с офортов М. А. Доброва. Супер и переплет по его же рисункам. Заставки и концовки выполнены автоцинкографией. Print run: 5300 copies. Printer: Красный пролетарий (М). Catalogue raisonné:  Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 789, p. 272. Contributors: Aeschylus [Эсхил, Αἰσχύλος] (Greek, 525 – 456 BC) – author. Пиотровский, Адриан Иванович [Piotrovsky, Adrian] (Russian, 1898 – 1937) – translator, killed by the Soviet State on November 21, 1937. Добров, Матвей Алексеевич (Russian, 1877 – 1958) – artist.
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    Hardcover, 165 x 105 mm, full tree sheepskin, flat spine with gilt bands, black calf label with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, all margins marbled; collation: 2ffl, a4 ([i] engraved t.p., [ii] letterpress t.p., iii-vi frontis.), A-F8 a8 (i.e. G8), i.e. 60 leaves, pp.: [8] 1-79/90-106, 1-16, plus one plate (p. 106); iron gall ink ms to first rear ffl. Two parts in one volume, 1st illustrated edition, engraved t.p. and five plates, only one extraneous to collation with blank verso. Engraved title (tall ‘s’): LES | QVATRAINS | DV SIEUR | PIBRAC. Enrichis de figures. | Dedie a Monseigneur | le DAVPHIN. | A PARIS, |Chez ANTOINE ROBINOT, | en la place Dauphine au | Soleil d’Or. | 1640. || Title-page (tall ‘s’): LES | QVATRAINS | DES SIEVRS | PYBPRAC, FAVRE, | ET MATHIEV : Ensemble les Plaisirs de la Vie Rustique. | Enrichis de Figures en Taille-douce. | Dediez | A MONSEIGNEVR LE DAVPHIN | {fleuron} | A PARIS, | Chez ANTOINE ROBINOT, en l'Isle du | Palais, au Soleil d'Or, & en la Boutique | sur le Pont-neuf. | — | M. DC. XL | AVEC PRIVILEGE DV ROY. || Contributors: Guy du Faur de Pibrac (French, 1529 – 1584) – author Pierre Matthieu (French, 1563 – 1621) – author Antoine Favre (French, 1557 – 1624) – author Pierre Brébiette (French, 1598? – 1642) – engraver
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    Hardcover 470 x 305 mm, bound in 20th century by a previous owner in quarter vellum over marbled boards, 2 blank fly leaves as endpapers, in-folio, 15 laid paper leaves 450 x 290 mm, i-iv t.p., preface, 8 unpag. leaves incl. f.t. “Première partie / la myologie”, incl. 7 plates, and 5 leaves under f.t. “Deuxieme partie / l’osteologie”, incl 3 plates. A ms signed letter from a previous seller laid in: Librars & Antiquaria s.r.l., Roma, dated 17/7/83; their ticket at rear pastedown. Title-page: ABRÉGÉ | D'ANATOMIE, | ACCOMMODÉ AUX ARTS | DE PEINTURE | ET | DE SCULPTURE, | Par FRANÇOIS TORTEBAT, Peintre de l'Académie de Peinture & de Sculpture, | Et mis dans un ordre nouveau, dont la méthode est très-facile & débarrassée de toutes les | difficultés & choses inutiles, qui ont toujours eté un grand obstacle aux Peintres pour | arriver à la perfection de leur Art. | PAR DE PILES. | OUVRAGE très-utile & très-nécessaire à tous ceux | qui font profession du Dessin. | — | A PARIS, | Du Fonds de CHARLES-ANTOINE JOMBERT, | Chez {BARRIOS, l’aîné, Libraire, rue de Savoie, № 23; | MAGIMEL, Libraire, quai das Augustins, près le Pont-neuf. | — | 8. || Faux-title (1): ABRÉGÉ | D'ANATOMIE, | ACCOMMODE AUX ARTS | DE PEINTURE | ET | DE SCULPTURE | LA PREMIÈRE PARTIE (in double-rules) | CONTENANT | LA MYOLOGIE | OU DESCRIPTION DES MUSCLES, | ET LA CONNOISSANCE DE LEURS PRINCIPALS FONCTIONS. || Faux-title (2): […] DEUXIEME PARTIE (in double-rules) | CONTENANT | L'OSTÉOLOGIE | OU | LA CONNOISSANCE DES OS. || Contributors: François Tortebat (French, 1616 – 1690) – artist/engraver Roger de Piles (French, 1635 – 1709) – author Charles-Antoine Jombert (French, 1712 – 1784) – publisher
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    Zeugnis (Grade book) – a set of fifteen plates, incl. the title page and the colophon, that tells the story of a schoolgirl whose parents spanked her for not being a good student. Watercolour and ink on 244 x 344 mm cream laid paper with Hahnemühle's watermark (rooster with a shield), signed and dated in manuscript on the last page (colophon) "O. R. SCHATZ | 954 | X", unbound (disbound), with four binding holes in the left margin of each sheet; no boards. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961).
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    Watercolour, pen and ink on laid paper 313 x 265 mm; each monogrammed "ORS” in manuscript; seven ex-album holes along the left margin. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961).
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    Cardboard clamshell box of red buckram over marbled paper 360 x 260 mm, contains 13 drawings (watercolour and pen on paper), wove paper sheets approx. 220 x 190 mm, title page mounted on a blank sheet and monogrammed 'ORS", others in passe-partout 350 x 250 mm, unsigned. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961).
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    Green paper cardboard flapped portfolio 325 x 235 mm with the pasted label "• ENTRÉE • | INTERDITE | AU | PUBLIC", contains a folded by half in-folio sheet with the title "INTERDITE | AU | PUBLIC", limitation statement "TIRÉ A 250 EXEMPLAIRES TOUS SUR JAPON IMPÉRIAL | N° 22", and a notice by Pierre Mac-Orlan; and 20 loose leaves of plates—heliogravures, printed in black, bistre, red or green on Japon Impérial laid paper ~ 275 x 210 mm, each in a passepartout 314 x 226 mm, plate marks from 63x92 to 220x277 mm. According to J.-P. Dutel № 1487, pp. 150/1, five of these prints have not been published before, while fifteen are copies of two original works by Vertés:
    • Six from Le Pays A Mon Gout: 12 etchings. — Paris: [n.p.], 1921; Limited to 550 copies.
    • Nine from L'Heure exquise: 20 pointes sèches originales. — Paris [Vienne], 1920 ; Limited to 200 copies.
    Interestingly, Michel Vokaer lists this portfolio as № 1 in his catalogue raisonné Bibliographie de Marcel Vertès (1967) and attributes it to 1920. Catalogue Raisonné: Vokaer № 1; Dutel № 1487. Text by Mac-Orlan: "Le titre est de ceux qui invitent à entrer. Derrière cette fragile barrière d'une couverture en carton toute une humanité aimable et galante se divertit selon les rythmes éternels de 'amour et du libertinage qui demeure encore la garantie de l'amour. A ceux qui suivent le mouvement artistique contemporain, il ne sera pas difficile de mettre à sa place la signature du jeune maître qui créa ces délicieuses figures de femme. Il est encore nécessaire que l'art se dérobe sous le chaste manteau pour reproduire certains gestes parmi les plus harmonieux et les plus délicats de la vie. La pensée secrète peut être interdite au public, mais il ne peut être question d'anéantir un témoignage de goût, parmi les plus merveilleux, d'une époque que l’érotisme domine, parce que c'est là une grande joie de vivre et que la joie de vivre est la rançon du sang versé. Dans ces jolis croquis, qui ne diminuent en rien la grâce et la pudeur de la femme, 'artiste a créé un document précieux. Il faut remercier le hasard qui en assemble les éléments sous une forme séduisante et qui permettra à quelques rares privilégiés d'en apprécier l'émouvante sensibilité." Google Translation: The title is one of those that invites you to enter. Behind this fragile barrier of a cardboard cover, a whole kind and gallant humanity are entertained according to the eternal rhythms of love and libertinage that remain the guarantee of love. For those who follow the contemporary artistic movement, it will not be challenging to put in its place the signature of the young master who created these delicious female figures. It is still necessary for art to hide under the chaste cloak to reproduce some of the most harmonious and delicate gestures of life. Secret thoughts can be forbidden to the public. Still, there can be no question of destroying a testimony of taste, among the most marvellous, of an era dominated by eroticism because it is a great joy of living, and the joy of living is the ransom of bloodshed. In these pretty sketches, which in no way diminish the grace and modesty of women, the artist has created a precious document. We must thank Chance for assembling the elements in an attractive form and allowing a few privileged people to appreciate its moving sensitivity Contributors: Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) Pierre Mac Orlan, a.k.a. MacOrlan, Mac-Orlan (born Pierre Dumarchey] (French,1882 – 1970), other names used: Docteur Fowler, Pierre du Bourdel, Pierre de Jusange, Sadie Blackeyes, Chevalier de X, and Sadinet. Paul Cotinaud – publisher    
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    Flapped portfolio 330 x 245 mm, blue cloth spine over crimson paper boards, contains six loose etched plates printed on laid paper, each in a passepartout 320 x 235 mm, incl. title sheet 175 x 210 mm with plate mark 120 x 165 mm, and five other sheets of various sizes (220-250  x 163-215 mm). Contributors: Schoff, Otto (German, 1888 – 1938) Gurlitt, Fritz (Austrian-German, 1854 – 1893) According to many sources, there should be six etchings besides the title-page. Another set that belonged to Hans-Jürgen Döpp and was sold in Berlin on May 10, 2024, has an additional image: And another '7th plate' can be found at honesterotica.com: However, I believe the six etchings mentioned at t.p. are all in the portfolio, including t.p. The two images above are probably parts of other sets.    
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    A folding pocket map of Paris, 620 x 890 mm, hand-coloured, folded size: 168 x 102 mm. A high-quality image at Wikimedia Commons. Description by seller: "Contours des arrondissements et mur des fortifications aquarellés. Les arrondissements nouvellement annexés ne sont pas reproduits à l'échelle. Avec indication en bleu des percements haussmaniens en cours. Deux panoramas gravés en marge". Label: NOUVEAU PLAN | DE PARIS, | ou Guide des Étrangers. | {Panthéon} | A Paris chez LALLEMAND Rue de Poitevins No. 6. Title: NOUVEAU PARIS [—] FORTIFIÉ 1860. || PLAN GARANTI~COMPLET | OU | LE GUIDE DAN PARIS | DRESSÉ | PAR LALLEMAND, GÉOGRPHE. GRAV. AU DÉPOT DE LA GUERRE | 1860 | A Paris Rue de Poitevins No. 6. Engraver: Dépôt de la guerre Publisher/Cartographer: Lallemand, Armand Joseph (French, c.1810 – 1871)    
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    A jigsaw pocket map of Paris, 763  x 1086 mm, coloured, 36 segments on a canvas base; folded size: 190 x 125 mm. A high-quality image at WikipédiA. Reference: "An extremely large 1878 pocket of Paris by A. Logerot. It covers the walled centre of Paris and its immediate vicinity, including the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes. All streets and many important buildings are noted throughout. Colour-coded by arrondissement. All text is in French. This map was first issued by Logerot in 1859 and updated annually through the 1880s. This is the 1878 edition drawn by Ch. Smith". [Geographicus Rare Antique Maps] Label: ATELIER DE COLLAGE | de Cartes | Géographiques Tableaux etc. | PLAN | de | PARIS | AUGUSTE • LOGEROT | Quai des Augustins, 55. | (Près le Pont neuf) || Top : NOUVEAU PLAN DE PARIS DIVISE EN 20 ARRONDISSEMENTS. | Dans un rayon de 10 kilomètres. | PUBLIÉ PAR AUG. LOGEROT, ÉDITEUR. [—] PARIS, QUAI DES AUGUSTINS, 55. Bottom centre :1878, Right : IMP. MONROCQ, PARIS. Description: Entoilage beige de l’époque, 36 segments. Arrondissements, forts et fortifications en couleurs. Contributors: Logerot, Auguste (French, fl. c.1839 – c.1880) Monrocq, Jean Noël (French, 1819 – 1913) Imprimerie Monrocq (Paris)    
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    Red cloth portfolio 313 x 250 mm, with gilt lettering in frame to front, contains an in-folio brochure (4 sheets folded in-half), unbound, pp. [2] 3-15 [1], plus 24 leaves of loose plates 300 x 239 mm; title page, full-length photo portrait of Pilotell by Charles Reutlinger (German-French, 1816 – 1881), autograph of the former, and a copy of his birth certificate. Printed by l'Imprimerie Union in Paris in 1970 (2nd edition). Portfolio title: AVANT | PENDANT ET APRÈS | LA | COMMUNE || Title-page: PILOTELL | Dessinateur et Communard | PAR | CHARLES FELD | LIVRE-CLUB DIDEROT – PARIS || Contributors: Pilotell [Pilotelle, Georges Raoul Eugène] (French, 1845 – 1918) Feld, Charles Léon Salomon (Jewish-French, 1919 – 1995) Imprimerie Union (Paris, 1910 – 1995)
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    Two hardcover volumes, 222 x 148 mm, uniformly bound in grey cloth with red and black lettering to front board and spine. 1: В. С. НЕЧАЕВА | Журнал | М. М. и Ф. М. Достоевских | «ВРЕМЯ» | 1861–1863 | {publisher’s device} | — | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «НАУКА» | МОСКВА | 1972 ||; pp. [1-4] 5-316 [4], errata slip tipped in. Print run 4,900 copies. 2: В. С. НЕЧАЕВА | Журнал | М. М. и Ф. М. Достоевских | «ЭПОХА» | 1864–1865 | {publisher’s device} | — | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «НАУКА» | МОСКВА | 1975 ||; pp. [1-4] 5-301 [3], errata slip tipped in. Print run 8,000 copies. Blue ink stamp "Из книг А. Б. Муратова" to ffl. Достоевский, Михаил Михайлович [Dostoevsky, Mikhail] (Russian, 1820 – 1864) Достоевский, Фёдор Михайлович [Dostoevsky, Fyodor] (Russian, 1821 – 1881) Нечаева, Вера Степановна (Russian, 1895 – 1979) Муратов Аскольд Борисович (Russian, 1937 – 2005)  
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    Hardcover, 220 x 175 mm, cloth spine over blue floral paper boards, pp.: [1-6] 7-69 [3], 21 leaves of plates. Title-page: Михаил | ГЕРМАН | В. ДВОРАКОВСКИЙ | «ХУДОЖНИК РСФСР» | Ленинград | 1970 || Print run: 3,000 copies. Герман, Михаил Юрьевич (Russian, 1933 – 2018) Двораковский, Валериан Дмитриевич (Russian, 1904 – 1979)
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    Hardcover, 188 x 118 mm, brown half-morocco over burgundy faux-chagrin, spine with raised bands and burgundy label with gilt lettering, gilt fleurons in compartments, floral diaper endpapers, collated 8vo:ffl, π2 1-138, ffl, pp. [4] 1-207 [208], plus frontispiece portrait and 8 unnumbered leaves of plates, etchings, one of them hand-coloured; limitation to half-title verso: "Tirage a 300 exemplaires". The title page is loose. Each gathering has 4 'tall' pages (1, 2, 7, 8 - 181 mm) and 4 'short' (3, 4, 5, 6 - 165 mm). Two parts are in one vol., signed and paged continuously; the second part has its own half-title and title pages. "Fin de première partie" at p. 107 (76), part 2 h.t. at 77, part 2 t.p. similar to the main t.p. but in black only at 78. The portrait of Étienne de Jouy was possibly engraved by Charles Monselet (French, 1825 – 1888) after Julien-Léopold Boilly (French, 1796 – 1874). Title-page (red and black): LA GALERIE | DES | FEMMES | COLLECTION INCOMPLÈTE DE HUIT TABLEAUX | RECUEILLIS PAR UN AMATEUR |  L'amour est le roman du cœur | Et le plaisir en est l'histoire. | BEAUMARCHAIS. Folle journ. | — | A HAMBOURG | – | 1799 Compare to Dutel: 8 plates instead of 9; no two-page text “Nous espérions joinder à ce livre une notice…” before Deux mots de préface, the word FIN on p. 207 instead of 203, no table of contents at the end; no imprint Bruxelles. — Imp. de J. H. Briard, rue des Minimes, 51, on the same page as Table, signed 15. Dutel: № A-456, p.148:
    • In-8 (18,4 x 11) de (2 ff.), II, 203 pp., 1 ff. de table, couv. jaune imp. en rouge.
    • Édition publiée à Bruxelles en 1869 par J.-P. Blanche. Elle est ornée de 9 gravures et d'un facsimilé de l'écriture de Monselet, qui n'est pour rien dans ce volume.
    In fine, mention de l'imprimeur Briard.
    • Tirage : 300 exemplaires.
    Pia № 511/2, p.278: pagination 208 as per our copy. Contributors: Étienne de Jouy (French, 1764 – 1846) - author Auguste Brancart (Belgian, 1851 – after 1909) – publisher
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    Three volumes, hardcover in-folio, 495 x 350 mm, 1st edition, uniformly bound in red faux-chagrin with gilt coat of arms of the city of Paris in the centre of gild-decorated panel, gilt decorated spine with lettering, marbled endpapers, 3 vol. (122 p.-[46] pl., 76-44-24-22-36-26...); vol. 1 – 340 pp, vol. 2 – 296 pp, vol. 3 – 268 pp ; total 100 leaves of plates. Title-page (red and black): PARIS | DANS SA SPLENDEUR | MONUMENTS, VUES, SCÉNES HISTORIQUES, DESCRIPTIONS ET HISTOIRE | DESSINS ET LITHOGRAPHIES | […] | VIGNETTES DE FÉLIX BENOIST ET CATENACCI, EXÉCUTÉES SUR BOIS PAR LES PREMIERS GRAVURS | TEXTE | […] | Premier Volume (Deuxième Volume, Troisième Volume) | PREMIERE PARTIE. — DESCRIPTION DE PARIS | {vignette} | Publié par | HENRI CHARPENTIER, IMPRIMEUR-ÉDITEUR | PARIS, QUAI DES GRANDS-AUGUSTINS, 55. — ÉTABLESSEMENT A NANTES, RUE DE LA FOSSE. | M. DCCC. LXI. || Contributors: Mérimée, Prosper (French, 1803 – 1870) – text Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène (French, 1814 – 1879) – text Audiganne, Armand (French, 1814 – 1875) – text Philippe Benoist (French, 1813 – 1896) – lithography Benoist, Félix (French, 1818 – 1896) – woodcuts Catenacci, Hercule Louis (French, 1816 – 1884) – woodcuts Charpentier, Henri-Désiré (French, 1806 – 1882) Henri Charpentier imprimeur (Nantes) – printer Henri Charpentier éditeur (Paris) –publisher
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    Hardcover, 254 x 190 mm, brown cloth with black and gilt vignette to front, gilt lettering to front and spine, pictorial endpapers, yellow pictorial dust jacket, collated 8vo: 1-248, i.e. 192 leaves, pp.: [1-7] 8-379 [5]; woodcut h.-t., t.p., faux-title, 12 book titles, initials, tail-pieces, and dust jacket. Woodcut title-page: ВЕРГИЛИЙ | ЭНЕИДА | (white on black) ПЕРЕВОД | ВАЛЕРИЯ БРЮСОВА | И | СЕРГЕЯ СОЛОВЬЕВА | РЕДАКЦИЯ, | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ СТАТЬЯ | И КОММЕНТАРИИ | Н. Ф. ДЕРАТАНИ || Woodcut half-title: ПАМЯТНИКИ МИРОВОЙ | ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | ВЕРГИЛИЙ | ЭНЕИДА | Academia | МОСКВА – ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1933 || Imprint (t.p. verso): P. VERGILII MARONIS | ÆNEIS | Супер-обложка и орнаментация книги (гравюры на дереве), | переплет и форзац работы Л. С. Хижинского || Print run: 5300 copies Catalogue raisonné:  Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 529, p. 230. Contributors: Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro; Вергилий] (Roman, 70 BC – 19 BC) Брюсов, Валерий Яковлевич [Bryusov, Valery] (Russian, 1873 – 1924) Соловьёв, Сергей Михайлович (Russian, 1885 – 1942) Дератани, Николай Фёдорович (Russian, 1884 – 1958) Хижинский, Леонид Семёнович [Khizhinsky, Leonid] (Soviet, 1896 – 1972)
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    Hardcover, 252 x 190 mm, green cloth with gilt vignettes to front and back, and gilt lettering to spine, pictorial endpapers, collated 8vo: 1-108 114, i.e. 84 leaves, pp.: [1-7] 8-166 [2], incl. two engraved faux-titles. Title-page (green and black): ВЕРГИЛИЙ | СЕЛЬСКИЕ | ПОЭМЫ | БУКОЛИКИ | ГЕОРГИКИ | ❧ | ПЕРЕВОД | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ СТАТЬЯ | И КОММЕНТАРИИ | С. ШЕРВИНСКОГО | {VIGNETTE} | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА ~ ЛЕНИНГРАД | MCMXXXIII || Contra-title (green and black): Сокровища мировой литературы | ВЕРГИЛИЙ | БУКОЛИКИ | и | ГЕОРГИКИ | {VIGNETTE} | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА ~ ЛЕНИНГРАД | MCMXXXIII || T.p. verso: PUBLII VERGILI MARONIS | BUCOLICA ET GEORGICA | Титульные листы, супер-обложка, переплет | и форзац по рисункам П. А. Шиллинговского || Print run: 5,300 copies. Catalogue raisonné:  Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 528, p. 230. Contributors: Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro; Вергилий] (Roman, 70 BC – 19 BC) Шервинский, Сергей Васильевич (Russian, 1892 – 1991) Шиллинговский, Павел Александрович (Russian, 1881 – 1942)
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    Hardcover, 250 x 310 mm, black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, grey end papers, pictorial dust jacket; pp.: [1-8] 9-237 [3], illustrated in colour throughout. ISBN 0.8457.3150-5 Title-page (pictorial): The Beinecke Library OF YALE UNIVERSITY | Edited by Stephen Parks Architectural photography by Richard Cheek | Dedication photography by Ezra Stoller Collection photography by Stan Godlewski | With contributions by | Robert G. Babcock  Vincent Giroud  George A. Miles  Stephen Parks  Patrick L. Pinnell  Christa Sammons  Barbara A. Shailor  Patricia C. Willis  Marjorie G. Wynne  Timothy G. Young | Published by | The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library | Yale University | Distributed by | University Press of New England || Contents: Introduction The Building Ezra Stoller Dedication Portfolio Crossing Wall Early Manuscripts and Books Modern Books and Manuscripts The Collection of American Literature The Osborn Collection: English Manuscripts German Literature Collection Western Americana Collection Music in the Beinecke
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    Paperback, 240 x 155 mm, publisher’s wrappers, series red label of Cahiers des Annales Publiés avec le concours du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, red vertical rule and black lettering to front, black lettering to spine, and red and black lettering to back; collated 8vo: 1-158 χ2, i.e. 122 leaves, pp.: [i-vi] vii-viii, 1-234 [2]. Autograph dedication signed by Maurice Dommanget to Pierre Dumayet, blue ballpen ms at the top of ffl « À Pierre Dumayet | En Souvenir et bien cordialement | Dommanget ». Title-page: CAHIERS DES ANNALES | 14 | MAURICE DOMMANGET | BLANQUI | ET L'OPPOSITION | RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE | à la fin | du Second Empire | {publisher’s device « economies – sociétés – civilisation » } | LIBRAIRIE ARMAND COLIN | 103, boulevard Saint-Michel, PARIS - 5e | 1960 || Contents: De Belle-Île à la Conciergerie. Vues et action politiques à Sainte-Pélagie. L'action à l'hôpital Necker. Le séjour à Bruxelles et l'action des étudiants blanquistes. L'action blanquiste, de décembre 1867 à la grève du Creusot. Le Blanquisme et l'Internationale. Contributors: Dommanget, Maurice (French, 1888 – 1976) Dumayet, Pierre (French, 1923 – 2011) Blanqui, Auguste (French, 1805 – 1881)
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    A cardboard file 298 x 225 mm made of quarter red cloth over marbled paper, with laces, contains 18 loose chromolithographs approx.190 x 130 mm, 8 vertical and 10 horizontal) in a passepartout 275 x 220 mm (matted) of laid paper with an armorial watermark, with lewd humorous captions on glassine guard tissue attached to each sheet, upper and outer margins uncut. Images signed “–Santippa–36”.Label to front cover lettered Variations Amoureuses | avec 18 gravures en couleurs ||. No title page. It is quite likely that the set exists in only one copy. Description by seller: Album in-folio, 272 x 218 cm. En feuilles, sous chemise cartonnée à lacets de l'éditeur. Les lithographies sont respectivement intitulées : Branlade; Plaisir Champêtre; Justice; Entre Marins ; Cocher; Suce-moi bien ; Encore; Les Joies; Un Marin; On raconte ; Plaisir Divin ; Le Marin; Quand un Gendarme ; soixante et Neuf; Tous les Moyens ; Le Plus Cochon; Le Fantassin; Coup Double. Le peintre Gaston Hoffmann (1883-1977), consacra la majeure partie de son œuvre à l'érotisme et la caricature, en signant ses sujets trop libres sous le pseudonyme de Santippa. Contributor: Gaston Hoffmann [Santippa] (French, 1883 – 1977). Ref: Honesterotica.com provides only 8 images of 18. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III: № 2581:    
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    Softcover comics book, oblong flapped wrappers, 186 x 280 mm, pink border in black rules, black lettering to front, 45 unpaginated leaves (pp. 90) with text and pictorial story, some in-text woodcuts and a tail-piece. No title-page. Catalogue Raisonné: Dutel III, 2424, pp. 368-9. The publication was prosecuted per the French Law of December 20, 1965. Sophie is a re-written version of Puberté. Journal d’une escolière [by Maria Luz],pyblished in 1933 by Éditions Raoul Saillard, Paris. Publisher: Éric Losfeld (Belgian-French, 1922 – 1979)
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    Hardcover, 231 x 165 mm, half brown cloth over cardboard, lettering in a frame to front, similar to t.p., pp.: [4] [1] 2-151 [152], collated 4to: π2 1-194, i.e. 78 leaves. Entries are in alphabetic order by name. Title-page (and front cover): Bibliotheca Germanorum | erotica. | Verzeichniss der gesammten | deutschen erotischen Literatur | mit Einschluss der Uebersetzungen. | Nachschlagebuch für Literaturhistoriker, | Antiquare und Bibliothekare. | Nach den zuverlässigsten Quellen | bearbeitet von | H. Nay. | — •— | Leipzig, 1875. || [Bibliotheca Germanorum erotica. List of all German erotic literature, including translations. Reference book for literary historians, antiquarians and librarians. Based on the most reliable sources edited by H. Nay]. Imprint: Druck von E. Rupfer in Stuttgart. Ref: Worldcat. Author: Hugo Hayn [Nay, H.] (German, 1843 – 1923)
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    Softcover, 210 x 136 mm, in publisher’s wrappers, black and red lettering to front and spine; pp.: [4] i-xi [xii], [2] 1-607 [608], i.e. 313 leaves. Printed from microfiches smuggled from the USSR to the West. English title Life and Fate. Front wrapper: ВАСИЛИЙ ГРОССМАН | ЖИЗНЬ | И СУДЬБА | РОМАН | L’AGE D’HOMME || Title-page: ВАСИЛИЙ ГРОССМАН | ЖИЗНЬ И СУДЬБА | РОМАН | ИЗДАНИЕ ПОДГОТОВИЛИ | С. МАРКИШ И Е. ЭТКИНД | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ СТАТЬЯ Е. ЭТКИНДА | L’AGE D’HOMME || Contributors: Гроссман, Василий Семёнович [Grossman, Vasily] (Soviet-Jewish, 1905 – 1964) Маркиш, Симон Перецович [Markish, Shimon] (Soviet-Jewish-Swiss, 1931 – 2003) Эткинд, Ефим Григорьевич [Etkind, Efim] (Soviet-Jewish-French, 1918 – 1999)
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    Hardcover, 306 x 283 mm, pictorial cardboard, white lettering to front and spine, pictorial dust jacket, pictorial endpapers, pp.: [1-14] 15-224, illustrated in colour throughout. The 1st edition in 2000, published by The Pepin Press in Amsterdam. Title-page (white on black): Erotic Art of the Early Nineteenth Century | Romantique | {publisher’s device} | Bearsville, New York || ISBN 1-59020-000-4. Contents: Daydreams of the Juste Milieu: On the Historico-cultural Milieu of Erotic Lithographs The New Order of Love: Charles Fourier, the Unwavering Dreamer of Liberated Passions Achille Devéria and His School The Trader and the Policeman: Catalogues of Nineteenth Century Erotic Art The Blue Sofa On the Beginning and End of our Sexuality Soloists Duets Trios Quartets The Noble Orgy
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    Hardcover, 310 x 230 mm, red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, brown endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, pp.: [1-5] 6-256, 348 illustrations, incl. 195 plates in full colour. Title-page: Edited by Lesley Hoskins | THE | PAPERED WALL | HISTORY • PATTERN • TECHNIQUE | {vignette} | Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers || Imprint: Copyright @ 1994 Thames and Hudson Ltd, London | Published in 1994 by Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, New York | A Times Mirror Company || ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0810937301 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0810937307 Contributor: Lesley Hoskins, editor, former Secretary of the UK's Wallpaper History Society, Specialist Curator at MoDA (The Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Middlesex University).
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    Hardcover, 226 x 226 mm, pictorial cardboard, pp.: [1-7] 8-205 [3], illustrated in colour throughout. Title-page (crimson and black): PRÉFACE | MARIE-HÉLÈNE LAFON | DIRECTION | MARIE-PAULE CAIRE-JABINET | De la séduction… | CARTES POSTALES | DE LA BELLE ÉPOOUE | ET DES ANNÉES FOLLES | TEXTES DE | CORINNE LEGOY | LAIN QUELLA-VILLÉGER | JULIETTE RENNES | MARIANNE RÖTIG | ATCHA SALMON | CHRISTELLE TARAUD | SYLVAIN VENAYRE | Bleu autour || ISBN: 9782358480727
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    The good old days of naughty postcards: Softcover, 160 x 160 mm, blue flapped wrappers, front with a keyhole openwork showing the vignette in colour on the flap; pp. [1-9] 10-272 [4], colour illustrations throughout, topics from A to Z, historical erotic postcards from the author's collection. Title-page: LA BELLE ÉPOQUE | DES CARTES COQUINES | Christian DEFLANDRE | HORAY || Annotation (back wrapper): De A comme Adam, à Z comme Zizi, de lestes galanteries aux vertes gauloiseries témoignent de 'esprit facétieux de la vie amoureuse à la Belle Époque. Qualifies de « grivoises » par les amateurs de nudités, « licencieuses » par les moralistes, ces cartes au charme désuet dévoilent la sensualité et 'érotisme de nos arrière-grands-parents. ISBN 978-2-7058-0466-4
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    Two-volume edition, uniform pictorial glossy oblong 215 x 263 mm hardcover, catalogue of the sales exhibition from May 25 to July 17, 1993, held at the former rooms of the Galerie Wimmer & Co. in Munich. Vol. 1: The Nude in Art: From Romanticism to the Present; pp.: [2] 3-109, 86 colour plates and 16 b/w illustrations. Artists represented: Otto Müller, Paul Paede, Max Liebermann, Rudolf Nissl, Hans Licht, Leopold Schmutzler, Julius Schlegel, Paul Peel, Karl Truppe, Otto Herbig, Mozart Rottmann, Karl Schlageter, Wilhelm Hempfing, Jean Gabriel Domergue, Franz von Stuck, Marcel Herrfeldt, Jörg Trübner (Sohn des Wilhelm), Julius Hüther, Ludwig Bock, Ernst Fuchs, etc. Title-page: “Der Akt in der Kunst” | Von der Romantik bis zur Gegenwart | Gemälde, Aquarelle, Pastelle, Zeichnungen, Bronzen, Graphiken | — | Verkaufsausstellung vom 25. Mai bis 17. Juli 1993 | ~ |  DAS GEMÄLDE CABINETT UNGER | in den ehemaligen Räumen der Galerie Wimmer & Co. seit 1825 | 8000 München 2, Brienner Straße 7, Telefon (089) 22 75 15 u. 29 84 04 | Montag - Freitag 10 - 18 Uhr, Samstag 10 - 14 Uhr, langer Samstag 10 - 16 Uhr || Vol. 2: Eroticism in Art: From Eroticism to Perversion; pp.: [2] 3-100, 93 colour plates and 29 b/w illustrations. Artists represented: Otto Rudolf Schatz (28 watercolours), Fried Pal, Alois Harbeck, Jean Gabriel Domergue, Max Brüning, Max Schwimmer, Alfons Walde, Karl Heidelbach, Josef Werner Leben, etc. Two aquatints by Emil Sartori (Ranzenhofer) marked as Emil Sartou, and two others of him as Erotischer Meister des 19. Jahrhunderts; two aquatints by Frans von Bayros marked as Unbekannter Meister des 19. Jahrhunderts. Title-page: Erotik in der Kunst | “Von der Erotik bis zur Perversion” | Gemälde, Aquarelle, Pastelle, | Zeichnungen, Bronzen, Graphiken | (ibid).
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    Hardcover, 305 x 235 mm, bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine, collated in 4to: 544, pp. [1-4] 5-94 [95, 96], [I, II] III-CDXXXII (432), i.e. 216 leaves; 578 watermarks catalogued. Title-page (red and black): WATERMARKS | IN PAPER | IN HOLLAND, ENGLAND, | FRANCE, ETC., IN THE XVII | AND XVIII CENTURIES AND | THEIR INTERCONNECTION | BY | W. A. CHURCHILL | {publisher’s device} | MENNO HERTZBERGER & Co. — AMSTERDAM | MCMXXXV || Contributors: Churchill, William Algernon (British, 1865 – 1947) – author. Menno Hertzberger & Co. (Amsterdam) – publisher. Hertzberger, Emanuel [Menno] (Dutch, 1897 - 1982) – publisher.
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    Softcover, 290 x 205 mm, publisher’s flapped pictorial wrappers, pp.: [1-7] 8-205 [3], text in English, French, and German, profusely illustrated. First edition published in 2011. Title-page: Edited by Dian Hanson | LA | PETITE | MORT | § | PHOTOGRAPHS BY SANTILLO | TASCHEN || Hanson, Dian (American, b. 1951) – editor/text Santillo, William (American) – photographer
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    Publisher’s tea green French flapped wrappers with double bordered vignette embossed to front, 298 x 295 mm, 18 gatherings in 4to (i.e. 72 leaves), 280 x 190 mm leaves plus one gathering in the wrappers, outer and lower margins untrimmed; pagination: [2] [1-15] 16-136 [4] [2], not counting leaves in the wrappers; paper watermarked “Lana” (grand vélin de Lana a la forme); 16 pictorial etchings and two fac-simile ms etchings within collation, tissue guards; in a double slipcase 306 x 204 mm with a vignette “capital C in ribbons” to spine of the inner chemise. Title-page (lilac and black) PIERRE LOUŸS | CYDALISE | AVEC DES ILLUSTRATIONS ORIGINALES | GRAVES A L'EAU-FORTE | {woodcut vignette} | LES AMIS DE L'ÉCRIVAIN | | PARIS | M C M X L I X || Limitation: JUSTIFICATION DU TIRAGE | CETTE ÉDITION ORIGINALE | DU LIVRE DE CYDALISE A ETÉ, POUR SON TIRAGE, LIMITÉE | A DEUX CENT SOIXANTE CINQ EXEMPLAIRES | DONT LA DISTRIBUTION S'EFFECTUE DE LA | FAÇON SUIVANTE. […] DEUX CENTS EXEMPLAIRES SUR GRAND VELIN DE LANA A LA FORME NUMÉROTÉS DE 51 A 250. […] EXEMPLAIRE N° 91 || Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 1333, p. 116; Nordmann II № 309, 151. Ref: honesterotica.com Contributors: Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) – author. Jean Traynier (French, fl. 1942 – 1957) – artist (attributed)
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    Paperback, 210 x 140 mm, light brown wrappers with lettering, vignette to front and author’s photo portrait to back, pp. [1-6] 7-349 [3]; ISBN 5-7358-0002-7. Print run 100.000 copies. Title-page: С. ДОВЛАТОВ | — | ЗОНА | записки | надзирателя | — | КОМПРОМИСС | — | ЗАПОВЕДНИК | ПИК | Независимое издательство | — | МОСКВА | 1991 || Contributors: Author: Довлатов, Сергей Донатович [Dovlatov, Sergei] (Soviet-American, 1941 – 1990) Artist: Перевезенцев, Пётр Юльевич (Russian, b. 1962) Chief editor: Мориц, Юнна Петровна [Morits, Yunna] (Ukrainian-Jewish, b. 1937)

    Portrait of Sergei Dovlatov by Mikhail Lemkhin / c. 1980s. [SVMC-0025.2022]

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    Hardcover convolute 186 x 120 mm of two volumes of the French periodical La Revue hebdomadaire, bound in quarter red faux-chagrin over marbled boards, vol. 11, pp. [3-5] 6-506 [2], vol. 12 pp. [3-5] 6-634, plus Le supplément illustré №№ 45-53, 3 leaves of b/w photo reproductions each. Ref.: http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34350607j Author: Lambelin, Roger (French, 1857 – 1929)
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    Softcover, 170 x 120 mm, in white publisher’s wrappers, vignette to front by A.-M. Carmant, red and black lettering to both covers, red lettering to spine, pp.: [1-3 4-109 [3]. ISBN 2-911314-02-6. Title-page: Maurice Joly | Le Plébiscite | Épilogue | du Dialogue aux Enfers | entre Machiavel et Montesquieu | précédé de | César | paris-zanzibar || Front cover (red and black): maurice joly | le plébiscite | épilogue du dialogue aux enfers | entre machiavel et montesquieu | {vignette par A.-M. Carmant | paris-zanzibar || Contents: Préface : F. Leclercq. Maurice Joly, un suicidé de la démocratie César Épilogue au Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu. Premier dialogue. L' arsenal de Machiavel II. L'appel au peuple III. Le plébiscite IV. La noyade parlementaire V. Le oui et le non VI. Comment Montesquieu votera-t-il VIIe et dernier dialogue. Non Annexe La Cloche, dimanche 19 juin 1870 Maurice Joly, son passé, son programme par lui-même (extrait)
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    Two softcover volumes, 4th and 5th of the series Les arts décoratifs, collated 8vo, in uniform brown wrappers with red and black lettering to the front cover and black lettering to the spine and back cover, 215 x 152 mm, published by Librairie d'art R. Ducher, overtaken by Flammarion.
    1. Vol. 4: 1-48, pp. [1-5] 6-63 [64]; LES ARTS DÉCORATIFS (in rules) | JACQUES RUPPERT | LE COSTUME | IV | LOUIS XVI – DIRECTOIRE | = 150 ILLUSTRATIONS = | | {vignette } | PARIS | Flammarion (pasted over) ||
    2. Vol. 5: 1-48, pp. [1-5] 6-63 [64]; LES ARTS DÉCORATIFS (in rules) | JACQUES RUPPERT | LE COSTUME | V | CONSULAT - PREMIER EMPIRE -LOUIS-PHILIPPE - NAPOLÉON III | = 145 ILLUSTRATIONS = | {vignette } | PARIS | Flammarion (pasted over) ||
    Contents of Vol. 5.
    1. Le costume sous le Consulat et l'Empire: Caractères généraux. Costume masculin. Costume militaire.
    2. Le costume féminin sous le premier Empire : Éléments caractéristiques. Spencers et canezous. Robes de cour. Redingotes. Witz-chouras.
    3. Les coiffures sous le premier Empire : Coiffures masculines et féminines.
    4. La Restauration : Caractères généraux. Costume masculin. Costume féminin. Coiffures féminines.
    5. Louis-Philippe: Caractères généraux. Costume masculin. Costume féminin. Robes de bal. Robes à pèlerine. Faux et vrai canezous. Mantelets. Robes à corsage plat et crinolines. Coiffures féminines. Chapeaux et bonnets.
    6. Deuxième République et Napoléon III: Costume masculin. Costume féminin. Crinolines et tournures. Coiffures.
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    Hardcover, 252 x 260 mm, grey buckram with gilt lettering to spine, in a black pictorial dust jacket with white lettering; pp. [6] 1-185 [1] profusely illustrated in b/w plus 16 leaves of colour plates extraneous to collation, .e. total 112 leaves. Title-page (pictorial): JEWELLERY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD | Jack Ogden | RIZZOLI / NEW YORK || Imprint: Published in the United States of America by Rizzoli International Publications Inc. 712, Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10019 First published by Trefoil Books Ltd, 1982 ISBN 0 8478 0444 5 Contents Jewellery and the archaeologist
    • Gold and silver
    Gold; The sources of gold: Egypt and Nubia, Africa to the South of Nubia. Arabia, Russia, India and Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe; The composition of ancient gold items; Impurities; Changes in gold with time; Silver; The sources of silver: North Africa and Arabia, Western Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe; The composition of ancient silver.
    • Metals other than gold and silver
    Copper and copper alloys; Iron; Lead; Antimony; Tin; Platinum group metals.
    • Goldsmithing techniques
    Sheet metal; Raised sheet work; Cutting and pierced work decoration; Engraving; Wire; Ornamental wires; Chains; Soldering and granulation: Gold and silver, Base metals; Mechanical joining; Casting.
    • The gemstones
    Apatite; Azurite; Beryl: Emerald, Aquamarine; Breccia; Calcite; Chrysoberyl; Cordierite; Corundum: Sapphire, Ruby; Diamond; Dioptase; Feldspar; Fluorspar; Garnet; Gypsum; Hematite; Jade; Lapis lazuli; Lazulite; Malachite; Mica; Obsidian; Olivine; Opal; Porphyry; Pyrites; Quartz: Amethyst, Citrine, Rock crystal, Rose quartz, Smoky quartz, Bloodstone, Chalcedony, Chrysoprase, Cornelian and Sard, Jasper, Plasma, Banded Agates, Onyx; Serpentine, Steatite, Chlorite and related materials; Sodalite; Spinel; Topaz; Tourmaline; Turquoise; Zircon.
    • Organic gem materials
    Amber; Coral; Ivory and bone; Jet and lignite; Pearls; Shells; Tortoise shell; Threading materials for beads.
    • Glass, enamel and faience
    Glazed stone and faience; Glass: Glass beads, Glass inlays, Glass intaglios, Other glass jewellery; Enamel; The aging of glass; Egyptian blue; Etched Cornelian beads.
    • Ancient imitation and altered gemstones
    Man-made imitation gemstones; Altered or improved stones.
    • Stone working
    Chipping; Cutting; Abrasion.
    • Forgeries
    The materials; The techniques: Wire, Sheet metal work, Cutting, Solder joins; Style; Ageing fake jewellery; Glass; Distribution; Forgeries of engraved gems and seals.
    • The jeweller
    Supply and demand; The growth of the industry; The shop; The jeweller; The Guild.
    • Bibliography & references
    • Index to illustrations
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    Hardcover miniature book, 150 x 85 x 30 mm, brown buckram with gilt lettering to front and spine, embossed black admiralty boat (crest of Sankt-Peterburg) to front cover, yellow dust jacket with vignette and lettering; pp.: [1-4] 5-454 [2], woodcut frontispiece, plates pp. 211-434. Title-page: Л. М. СОСКИН | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСКИЕ | МАРКИ | ПЕТРОГРАДА – | ЛЕНИНГРАДА | MOCKBA | «НОВЫЙ СВЕТ» | «КНИГА» | 1995 || Contributors: Соскин, Леонид Маркович (Soviet, ? – ?) – коллекционер-библиофил, чл. Ленингр. о-ва книголюбов, первый председатель секции миниатюрных изданий. Баренбаум, Иосиф Евсеевич (Soviet-Jewish, 1921 – 2006)
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    Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 235 x 165 mm, pp. [1-9] 10-176, 120 illustrations, incl. 109 in full colour, 3 maps, glossary, and timeline. An enveloped postcard to E. Varshavsky laid in. Text profusely marked with coloured highlighters. Title-page (pictorial): Art of Edo Japan | The Artist and the City 1615-1868 | Christine Guth | PERSPECTIVES | HARRY N. ABRAMS, INC. PUBLISHERS || Contents: NOTE TO THE READER Map: Japan during the Edo period INTRODUCTION: Mapping the Artistic Landscape
    1. The Artist and the City
    The Castle Town; Urban Culture; The Urban Artist
    1. Kyoto Artists
    Map: Kyoto; The Kano and Tosa Schools; Köetsu, Sotatsu, and Rinpa Design; Taiga, Buson, and the Literati Movement; The Maruyama-Shijo School; Individualists: Jakuchü, Shöhaku, and Rosetsu; The Yamatoe Revival
    1. Edo Artists
    Map: Edo; The Kano School and the Realm of the Official Artist; Developments in Woodblock Prints: 1660-1760; Developments in Polychrome Prints: 1765-1801; Further Developments in Woodblock Prints: 1801-68; Sakai Höitsu and Tani Buncho: Edo Ripa and Bunjinga
    1. Osaka and Nagasaki Artists
    Kimura Kenkadö and his Circle; Osaka Books and Prints; Nagasaki: Window on the World; Monk-Artists of the Öbaku Sect; Visiting Chinese Artists and their Pupils; Painters in the Western Manner
    1. Itinerant, Provincial, and Rural Artists; Itinerant Monk-Artists and Pilgrimage Art; Poet and Literati Painters; Provincial and Rural Artists
    GLOSSARY TIMELINE BIBLIOGRAPHY PICTURE CREDITS INDEX
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    Gilt-bordered half-parchment over vinier-imitating flapped folder with ties, 365 x 310 mm, lettered label to front (in frame): FRANZ VON BAYROS | DIE | BONBONIÈRE | Galante und Erotische Phantasien | = | WIEN 1907 ||, contains two sets of plates, by initial design accompanied with text and poetry by Franz Biel under the nom de plume of Amadée de la Houlette; printed in Vienna by G. Röttig & Sohn. 1) Bayros: Title page on pink laid paper with lettering similar to the label and 13 aquatints (12+1), some hand-coloured, printed on thin wove paper without a watermark, 340 x 290 mm, platemark 225 x 215 mm, some signed Bayros or F. Bayros on the image, pencil inscriptions and fuchsia ink stamp “ARS EROTICA | Hans-J. Döpp” to verso. Title (not stated): 1. Introduction; 2. Kinder; 3. Ringwerfen; 4. Der Dienst; 5. Rissa; 6. Judith; 7. Die Klavierlehrerin; 8. Der Besuch; 9. Die Fliege; 10. Die Nashornjägerin; 11. Schlangenzauber; 12. Nun sprich! + 13. Flagellation scene – not listed in reference books, unsigned, untitled. Fuchsia ink stamp “ARS EROTICA | Hans-J. Döpp” to verso of all plates. 2) Sartori: 18 aquatints, ten printed on thin wove paper sheets 340 x 290 mm without a watermark, one of them with a ‘remarque’ image on the margin, platemark 230 x 210 mm, and eight on thicker wove paper sheets 340 x 295 mm, platemark 240 x 220 mm, some in sepia, no title-page, no text, no name. According to Bibliotheca Germanorum Erotica et Curiosa, the set attributed to Emil Sartori (i.e. Ranzenhofer) under the title Der Hirschpark: Galante und artige Sammlung duftiger Phantasien. Description by the seller: "Bayros, Franz von et Emil Sartori. La bonbonnière. Fantaisies galantes et érotiques. 12 gravures originales à l'aquatinte de Franz von Bayros et 18 gravures originales à l'aquatinte d'Emil Sartori. Vienne, Stern-Rosner, 1907. 1 bl. titre (sur 2). 36,5 x 31 cm. En vrac dans un dossier récent à volets en demi-parchemin avec étiquette montée sur le couvercle (minimes frottements). Brettschneider 33 - Hayn-Gotendorf IX, 43 - Paru en 500 (GA 530) exemplaires numérotés. - L'ouvrage a été publié en 5 livraisons, dont la livraison 1-2 avec 6 planches de Bayros et la livraison 3-5 avec 6 planches de Sartori, celle-ci avec le titre : "Der Hirschpark. Galante et artige collection de fantaisies parfumées". - Sans titre principal, sans mention d'impression et sans le texte de Franz Blei. - Les gravures à l'aquatinte de Bayros en partie signées dans la planche, quelques feuilles légèrement colorées. - 8 planches de Sartori sur vergé plus fort, les autres sur vélin plus fin. - En annexe : une planche supplémentaire de Bayros d'une autre œuvre. - En partie faiblement bruni et minimalement taché, petit tampon rouge de collectionneur sur la page de titre et au verso de toutes les planches. - Provenance : de la collection de Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Francfort." Catalogue raisonné: The amorous drawings of the Marquis von Bayros / Part I and II. — NY: Cythera Press, 1968; pp. 95-111 [LIB-2246.2019]; honesterotica.com/satori; honesterotica.com/Bayros. Contributors: Bayros, Franz von (Austrian, 1866 – 1924) Ranzenhofer, Emil [Sartori, Emil] (Austrian-Jewish, 1864 – 1930) Biel, Franz [Amadée de la Houlette] (Austrian, 1871 – 1942)
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    Fifteen colour aquatints including a title, a dedication, two illustrated quotes (Oscar Wilde and Baudelaire), ten plates with engraved caption and a justification with tailpiece, printed on thick wove paper watermarked BFK Rives, 320 x 225 mm, platemark 184 x 150 mm, title page signed in pencil by the author, fuchsia ink stamp “ARS EROTICA | Hans-J. Döpp” to verso or recto, remains of hinges on some sheets to recto; in a flapped grey cloth portfolio with ties, 330 x 250 mm. Limited edition (235 copies), this is one of Arches vellum print-run of 200; no number indicated. Pl. 1 (title-page): Les | seuils | empourprés | {image} | Dix | Evocations | Erotiques | Composées et Gravées | Par | Ansaad de Lytencia | Se trouve | où l'on peut et se montre | quand il le faut || Signed in pencil “A. de Lytencia” on the plate’s bottom margin. Pl. 2: À | nos Épouses | afin | qu’ au pied des autels maudits, | parmi la sanglante floraison des plaisirs | stériles, et la rosée sacrée des larmes, | elles recueillent | des mains du maître du mal, | le pouvoir de s’affirmer | nos maitresses || [To our wives, so that at the foot of the cursed altars, among the bloody flowering of sterile pleasures, and the sacred dew of tears, they may gather from the hands of the master of evil, the power to assert themselves as our mistresses]. Pl. 3: L’appellation de livre moral ou im- | moral ne répond à rien ; un livre est | bien écrit ou mal écrit, c'est tout. | (O. Wilde) [“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” O. Wilde] Les belles choses n’ont d’autre sens | que leur beauté. | (id.) [“Beautiful things mean only Beauty”; ibid.] Pl. 4: L’Initiation Pl. 5: Mysticisme Pl. 6: Insignifiances Pl. 7: Les Invertis Pl. 8:Réversibilité Pl. 9: La Dance Pl. 10: Le poisson rouge Pl. 11: La Possession Pl. 12: Sérénité Pl. 13: Finale Pl. 14. Maudit soit à jamais le rêveur inutile | Qui voulut le premier, dans sa stupidité, | S’éprenant d’un problème insoluble et stérile, | Aux choses de l’amour mêler l’honnêteté ! (Ch. Baudelaire) || Pl. 15: Il a été tiré de cet ouvrage: | Dix exemplaires hors commerce, numé- | rotés de I à X, Dix exemplaires sur Japon | Ancien, numérotés de 1 à 10, quinze exemp- | laires sur Japon Imperial, numérotés | de 11 à 25, et Deux cents exemplaires | sur Velin d’Arches numérotés de 26 à 225 | Justification de tirage: | {image} | 1927 || Catalogue raisonné: honesterotica.com; Dutel III: № 2395, p. 362; Nordmann  I: № 197, p. 128. Contributor: Lambert, André [Lytencia, Ansaad de](French, 1884 – 1967) Wilde, Oscar (British, 1854 – 1900) Baudelaire, Charles (French, 1821 – 1867)