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NEWHardcover, 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). -
NEWHardcover, 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 -
NEWSoftcover, 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) -
NEWHardcover, 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) -
NEWSoftcover 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) -
NEWA 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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NEWPaperback, 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) -
NEWHardcover, 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 -
NEWHardcover, 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) -
NEWHardcover, 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) -
NEWThree 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 -
NEWHardcover, 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.
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NEWHardcover, 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) -
NEWTwo 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) -
NEWRed 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) -
NEWA 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) -
NEWA 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) -
NEWFlapped 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.
