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NEWHardcover volume 226 x 206 mm, bound in black cloth, orange paper panel with lettering, black endpapers, pp.: [1-8] 9-128 [4]; print run limited to 502 copies, with 500 printed on Papeir Libris numbered from 1 to 500, of which this is copy № 443. Gift ms in blue ballpen to h.t. by Jacques Duprilot for Guy Parguez (French, 1936 – 2021), a librarian at Lyon Public Library (Bibliothèque de la Ville de Lyon) : « Pour Guy Parguez afin qu'il n'ignore plus rien du presque du catalogue du cabinet secret du Prince G***. Aves toute ma sympathie. A Lyon 1e 18 Juin 1989. Duprilot ». Title-page: JACQUES DUPRILOT | L'ÉNIGME DU CATALOGUE | DU CABINET SECRET | DU PRINCE G*** | OU LES RUSES DU LIBRAIRE LEHEC || Half-title: LES CURIOSA DE MONSIEUR LEHEC | ET | LA GENÈSE | DU CATALOGUE DU CABINET SECRET | DU PRINCE G*** | (1887-1890) || Limitation (colophon): ÉDITION ORIGINALE | ACHEVÉE D'IMPRIMER EN MARS 1989 | PAR DUMARET & GOLAY À CAROUGE-GENÈVE | COMPRENANT | 2 EXEMPLAIRES DE TÊTE NOMINATIFS | SUR JAPON KOZU VELLUM | ET 500 EXEMPLAIRES SUR PAPIER LIBRIS | NUMÉROTÉS DE 1 À 500 | EXEMPLAIRE N° 443 || -
NEWHardcover volume 230 x 135 mm, bound in brown buckram with gilt lettering to spine, in craft paper dust jacket with lettering and vignette, and blurb on flaps; collated 8vo: A-O8, i.e. 112 sheets, pp: [1-8] 9-221 [222] [2 blank], plus frontispiece in colour and four leaves of b/w plates after p. 96; First UK edition. Title-page (in cresting frame): THE MEMOIRS | OF AN | EROTIC | BOOKSELLER | by | ARMAND COPPENS | assisted by his | tired wife | CLEMENTINE | and her | distant lover | VOLUME ONE | ⚜ | LONDON: LUXOR PRESS || Imprint: © Armand Coppens, 1969 | Made and printed in | Great Britain by | C. Tinling and Co Ltd | Liverpool, London and Prescot | and | published by | LUXOR PRESS LTD | 50 Alexandra Road | London s w 19 […] || Contributors: Schors, Willem Nicolas [Coppens, Armand] (Dutch, 1925 – 2014) Luxor Press (London) — owner Charles Skilton (British, c.1922 – 1990) -
NEWHardcover volume 180 x 135 mm, blue buckram, embossed black and gilt lettering and vignettes to front and spine, stapled. Collation 8vo: 1-258 264, pp.: [2] 3-405 [406] [2], i.e. 204 leaves plus 13 plates after Boris Efimov and portrait frontispiece after J. M. Holder extraneous to collation; all plates are photomechanical reproductions. This book was published by "Художественная литература" after Academia Publishing, which prepared the edition, had been shut down by the Soviet State in 1938. A reprint of this book with different illustrations was published by Ивановское книжное изд-во in 1959 (see LIB-3349.2024). Title-page (blue and black): Вильгельм Гауф | (in ribbon) СКАЗКИ | {vignette} | 1938 | Государственное издательство | «Художественная Литература» | Москва || Colophon: Книга подготовлена изд-вом «Academia»; print run 10,000 copies. Contents: КАРАВАН. Перевод Н. Г. Касаткиной Рассказ о калифе аисте Рассказ о корабле приведений Рассказ об отрубленной руке Спасение Фатимы Рассказ о Маленьком Муке Сказка о мнимом принце АЛЕКСАНДРИЙСКИЙ ШЕЙХ И ЕГО НЕВОЛЬНИКИ. Перевод И. С. Татариновой Карлик Нос Обезьяна в роли человека История Альмансора ХАРЧЕВНЯ В ШПЕССАРТЕ. Перевод М. А. Полиевктовой Рассказ о гульдене с изображением оленя Холодное сердце. Часть первая. Приключения Саида Стинфольская пещера. Шотландское предание Холодное сердце. Часть вторая. Contributors: Wilhelm Hauff [Вильгельм Гауф] (German, 1802 – 1827) – author. Касаткина, Наталья Григорьевна (Russian, 1902 – 1985) – translator. Татаринова, Ирина Сергеевна (Russian, 1895 – 1978) – translator. Полиевктова, Мария Александровна (Russian, 1892 – 1982) – translator. Пуриц, Елена Феликсовна (Jewish-Russian, 1910 – 1997) – foreword. Ефимов, Борис Ефимович [Фридлянд; Yefimov, Boris] (Jewish-Russian, 1900 – 2008) – artist, plates. Holder, Johann Michael (German, 1796 – 1861) – artist / frontis. portrait, after. -
NEWHardcover volume 220 x 143 mm, bound in dark blue cloth with gilt square monogram to front and gilt lettering to spine, aubergine endpapers, top edge gilt; pagination: [2] limitation leaf bound in, [4] 1-192, 1-48 (total 246 pages), plus 12 loose colour plates 133 x 102 mm tipped-in to the pocket in the rear pastedown. Limited edition of 250 copies, of which this is № 244. Title-page: CATALOGUE | DU | CABINET SECRET DU PRINCE G*** | — | COLLECTION DE LIVRES | ET | OBJETS CURIEUX ET RARES | CONCERNANT | L'AMOUR, LES FEMMES | ET LE MARIAGE | AVEC LES PRIX DE VENTE | (in rules) PREMIÈRE PARTIE | BRUXELLES | M DCCC LXXXVII || Contra-title: CATALOGUE | OF THE | SECRET CABINET OF PRINCE G*** | [GALITZIN] | — | COLLECTION OF BOOKS | AND | CURIOUS AND RARE OBJECTS | CONCERNING | LOVE, WOMEN | AND MARRIAGE | INCLUDING THE SALE PRICE | — | WITH AN INTRODUCTION | TO THIS EDITION BY | W. N. SCHORS | LONDON | CHARLES SKILTON | MDCCCCLXXV || Limitation: EDITION LIMITED TO | 250 COPIES | of which this is | No. 244 | The Coloured Illustrations with this reprint | are reproductions of twelve of the lithographs | by Devéria listed as No. 115 on page 30 of the | Supplement || Imprint: Introduction copyright by W. N. Schors, 1975 | Limited Edition of 250 copies | made and printed by Lewis Reprints Ltd | Tonbridge, Kent | and published by | CHARLES SKILTON LTD | 90 The Broadway, London SW19 || Contributors: Gustave Lehec (French, 1841 – 1922) Charles Skilton (British, c.1922 – 1990) -
NEWHardcover volume 188 x 125 mm, quarter grey shagreen over marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine ruled in double gilt fillet, marbled endpapers, publisher’s wrappers preserved; collated 2 ffl, front wrapper, π4 (blank1, ht/advert.2, blank/frontis., t.p./blank3, dedication/blank4), text 376 χ1, rear wrapper, 2ffl; pp.: [8] [1] 2-446, plus portrait frontispiece. Title-page: GUSTAVE GEFFROY | — | L'ENFERMÉ | AVEC LE MASQUE DE BLANQUI | Eau-forte de Bracquemond | (in rules) CINQUIÈME MILLE | PARIS | BIBLIOTHÈQUE CHARPENTIER | EUGENE FASJUELLE, ÉDITEUR | 11, RUE DE GRENELLE, 11 | 1919 || For another copy published in 1897, see LIB-2583.2020. -
NEWHardcover, 184 x 122 mm, burgundy quarter shagreen over marbled boards, binding savagely restored (ex-library copy) with orange paper, handwritten title to spine in black ink with a catalogue number on top, marbled endpapers; half-title and title with library ink stamps, original wrappers not present, frontispiece: death mask of Blanqui etched by Félix Bracquemond del. et sc., imp. Porcabeuf, with protection sheet. Pp.: [2 blanks] [2 - ht/advert.] [2 - blank/frontis.] [2 - t.p. / blank] [2 - dedication/blank] 1-442, 443-4 table, 445-6 afterword by G.G., [2 blanks]. Title-page: GUSTAVE GEFFROY | — | L'ENFERME | AVEC LE MASQUE DE BLANQUI | eau-forte inédite de F. BRACQUEMOND | — | (in rules) DEUXIÈME MILLE | — | PARIS | BIBLIOTHÈQUE CHARPENTIER | EUGÈNE FASQUELLE, ÉDITEUR | 11 RUE DE GRENELLE, 11 | 1897 | Tous droits réservés || For another copy published in 1919, see LIB-3362.2024. -
NEWHardcover, 217 x 140 mm, bound in quarter vellum over marbled boards, lettering to spine, collated 8vo: π4 1-108 114 (i.e. 88 leaves), pp.: [i-v] vi-viii, [1] 2-168; to front pastedown armorial bookplate “Bibliothèque de Mr de Barante № ___” and pencil inscription “B-183-F”, to rear pastedown bookseller’s ticket “№ 2683”. Title-page: ÉTUDES | SUR LE | SYSTÈME PÉNITENTIAIRE | ET SUR | SON APPLICATION | AU RÉGIME DES PRISONS DE FRANCE | Par M. H. DIARD | PRÉSIDENT HONORAIRE A LA COUR D'APPEL DE RIOM, OFFICIER DE LA LÉGION | D'HONNEUR ET DE L'INSTRUCTION PUBLIQUE, MEMBRE DE LA SECIÉTÉ D'AGRICULTURE, | SCIENCES, ARTS ET BELLES-LETTRES DU DÉPARTEMENT D'INDRE-ET-LOIRE | — | TOURS | IMPRIMERIE LADEVÈZE | Rue Chaude, 6. | — | 1875 || Provenance: Engraved armorial bookplate of Claude Antoine Prosper Félix Brugière, baron de Barante (French, 1851 – 1925). Author: Charles François Hippolyte Diard (French, 1795 – 1877), président à la cour impériale de Riom, Officier de la Légion d'honneur (12 AUG 1869). Printer/publisher: Imprimerie Rouillé-Ladevèze (1834 - 1910). Seller's note: "Rare first edition, rare in commerce. Proposes reforms for the French prison system based on the study of the methods of America and other European countries, including Ireland and England. With a section on the handling of young offenders and agricultural detention centres, like that at Mettray". -
NEWHardcover 165 x 118 mm, red cloth with gilt cursive lettering to front, collated 8vo: π6 1-158 161, i.e. 127 leaves; pp.: [i-x] xi-xii, [1] 2-241 [242] plus two folding plates – plan of the Hermitage and city map. Title-page: GUIDE PRATIQUE DU VOYAGEUR | SAINT-PETERSBOURG | ET | SES ENVIRONS | PAR | JEAN B. ELAROFF | — | AVEC 2 PLANS ET UNE CARTE | ST-PÉTERSBOURG | — | SOCIÉTÉ DE LIBRAIRIE FRANÇAISE EN RUSSIE | ANCIENNE MAISON MELLIER & Cie | A. ZINSERLING, SUCCr | 20, Perspective Nevsky, 20 | 1892 || Imprint: (in rules) Дозволено цензурою. С.-Петербургь, 17 іюня 1892 г. | (under waved rule) Imprimerie TRENKÉ & FUSNOT, Maximilianovsky pér., Nº 13. -
NEWTwo pieces in one hardcover volume, 200 x 129 boards, 196 x 121 block, bound in full marble calf outlined with triple gilt fillet, gilt filleted edges, dentelle inside, flat spine tooled in gilt with fleurons in compartments, burgundy morocco label lettered in gilt “POT | POURRI”, marbled endpapers, bookplate “MK” to front pastedown, all edges gilt, one flyleaf in the front and one in the rear, 18 engraved plates, incl. two frontispieces by François-Rolland Elluin after Antoine Borel, letterpress tailpieces and frames, printed on laid paper with illegible watermark. Collation: Part 1 (Tentation): h.t.π, t.p.1, + 9 leaves of framed text printed on one side of the leaf – pp. 2-9 on verso, p. 10 on recto, followed by 4 leaves of musical notation printed on both sides (numbered 1-8), i.e. 15 leaves, plus engraved frontispiece and 8 plates, unsigned. Text attributed to Michel-Jean Sedaine. Part 2 (Pot-pourri): h.t.π, t.p.1, + 9 leaves of framed text printed on one side of the leaf – p. 2 on recto, pp. 3-10 on verso, 1 leaf “FIN” followed by 6 leaves of musical notation printed on both sides (pp. 1-12, number 11 upside down), i.e. 18 leaves, plus engraved frontispiece (t.p.) and 8 plates, unsigned. Text attributed to Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet (1735-1769) Seller’s note: In-8, veau porphyre, encadrement de triple filet dorée sur les plats, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre en maroquin bordeaux, coupes filetées, tranches dorées (Reliure de l’époque). Faux-titre, titre-frontispice, 10 ff., 8 gravures, 8 pp. de musique gravée ; Faux-titre, titre- frontispice, 10 ff., [1 f.], 8 gravures, 12 pp. de musique gravée. Même édition que la précédente, imprimée sur vergé. Menus frottements à la reliure, taches éparses. Catalogue raisonné: Cohen de Ricci p. 948; Dutel A № A-1049. Contributors : Michel-Jean Sedaine (French, 1719 – 1797) Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet [le jeune] (French, 1735 – 1769) François-Rolland Elluin (French, 1745 – 1810) Antoine Borel (French, 1743 – 1810) -
NEWPublisher’s pink wrappers 376 x 277 mm and spine preserved by being bound in ¾ red morocco over marbled boards 384 x 285 mm outlined in gilt by Semet & Plumelle (stamp to free endpaper verso); marbled endpapers, raised bands, gilt and black decorated compartments, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt. Collation: 2 ffl, front wrapper, half-title with autograph “A Robert … Vertès 1956” and original gouache vignette / limitation imprint, title-page in turquoise and black / blank, i-iii [iv], 1-45 [2 table/colophon], back wrapper, spine, 2 ffl, plus two sets of 12 plates by Marcel Vertès – one on laid paper (vélin) and one on wove paper (chine), and one additional lithograph on thick wove paper laid in. Limited edition of 100 copies on vellum (Papier d'Annam) №№ 1-100 and 500 copies on Vélin pur fil Lafuma №№ 101-600. This copy is № 57. For another copy in this collection without the number, see LIB-2893.2021. Title-page (turquoise and black): LES JEUX | DU DEMI-JOUR | PAR | PIERRE MAC ORLAN | {vignette} | AVEC | DOUZE LITHOGRAPHIES DE | VERTÈS | LES ARTS ET LE LIVRE | 47, RUE LAFFITTE, PARIS | — | 1926 || Imprint: EXEMPLAIRE SUR PAPIER D'ANNAM | N° 57 (signed 'Vertès' in pencil) || Colophon: LE PRÉSENT ALBUM, ACHEVÉ | D'IMPRIMER POUR LE TEXTE | PAR LE MAITRE IMPRIMEUR | COULOUMA, D'ARGENTEUIL, | H. BARTHELEMY ETANT DIREC- | TEUR, ET POUR LES LITHOGRA- | PHIES PAR DUCHATEL, A PARIS, | A ÉTÉ TIRÉ A 600 EXEMPLAIRES | DONT 100 EXEMPLAIRES SUR | PAPIER D'ANNAM (TEXTE) ET | CHINE (HORS-TEXTE) AVEC UNE | SUITE SUR VELIN BLANC, NUME- | ROTES DE I A 100 ET 500 EXEM- | PLAIRES SUR VELIN PUR FIL LA- | FUMA, NUMÉROTÉS DE 101 A 600. Catalogue raisonné: Vokaer № 9, p. 8. Contributors: Pierre Mac-Orlan (French, 1882 – 1970) – author. Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist. Other names: Marcel Vertès, Marcel Vertes, Marcell Vértes Seller's description: Les Jeux du Demi-Jour. Avec douze lithographies de Vertès. Paris, Les Arts et Le Livre, 1926. In-folio, demi-maroquin rouge à coins, dos à nerfs finement orné, titre doré, filet doré sur les plats, tête dorée, couverture et dos conservés (Semet & Plumelle). Vignette de titre et 12 lithographies originales hors-texte de Marcel VERTÈS. Premier tirage et édition originale tirée à 600 exemplaires numérotés ; n°57 des 100 sur Annam (texte) et chine (hors texte) avec suite sur vélin blanc, enrichi d'un grand DESSIN ORIGINAL au feutre et à l'aquarelle avec envoi signé ("à Robert ...") et daté 1956. -
NEWHardcover, 306 x 235 mm, bound in crimson cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine, marbled endpapers; pp.: [1-4] 5-112, illustrated in b/w and colour throughout. Title-page: (in floral frame) ART | and | FASHION | By | MARCEL VERTES | In Collaboration with Bryan Holme | {vignette} | THE STUDIO PUBLICATIONS INC. • NEW YORK AND LONDON || Imprint: Printed in the U.S.A. by The Plantin Press and Albert Davis, Samuel Faber, Colorist. Catalogue Raisonné: Vokaer № 43, p. 17. Contributors: Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist/author Holme, Bryan (American, 1913 – 1990) – co-author Davis, George (American, 1906 – 1957) – translator -
NEWHardcover, 130 x 87 mm boards, 124 x 79 mm block, full mottled sheepskin, gilt-tooled flat spine, gilt fleurons in compartments, crimson morocco label lettered in gilt, board edges tooled gilt; marbled endpapers, bookseller ticket and bookplate “ GERARD NORDMANN EX-LIBRIS”; text and plates printed on laid paper. Collated 18mo: A-M6 (i.e. 72 leaves); pp.:[1-3] 4-143 [144], plus 8 engraved plates, incl. frontispiece, plus one flyleaf in the front and one in the rear. Title-page: BIBLIOTHÈQUE | DES | PAILLARDS, | CHOIX DE POÉSIES | EROTIQUES. | — | A PARIS, | Chez Madame BELLE MOTTE; | rue des Déchargeurs. | AU TEMPLE DE LA VOLUPTÉ. || Title-page: ELÉONORE, | OU | L'HEUREUSE PERSONNE. | Deuxième Édition. | — | A PARIS, | Chez les Marchands de nouveautés. |— | AN VIII. || Faux-t.p.: LA | COMTESSE | D'OLONNE, | COMEDIE | DE M. DE BUSSI RABUTIN. || Table des matières. Épitre dédicatoire La Foutro-Manie Ode à Priape Quatrain du comte de Guiche à M. d'Olonne La Comtesse d'Olonne, comédie Mon testament Le Chapitre général des Cordeliers Le débauché converti La gageure, conte Étymologie de l'Aze-te-foute, conte. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel I № A-146, p. 63; Nordmann II № 90. Provenance: Gérard Nordmann (Swiss, 1930 – 1992). -
NEWHardcover, 132 x 86 mm boards, 127 x 78 mm block, full brown mottled calf bordered with triple gilt fillet, flat spine tooled in gilt, gilt fleurons in compartments, black title label with gilt lettering, board edge tooled gilt, gilt dentelle inside, marbled endpapers, “MK” and “EX-LIBRIS • YVES • REFOULÉ” bookplates to front pastedown (the latter by Picart after Georges Leone), block of watermarked laid paper (Van Gilder?), all edges gilt; text with tall ‘s’. Title-page: L'ARETIN | FRANÇOIS, | PAR UN MEMBRE | DE L'ACADÉMIE DES DAMES. | (in rules) J'appelle un Chat, un Chat. / BOILEAU. | {fleuron} | A LONDRES. | — | 1787. || Faux-t.p.: LES ÉPICES | DE VÉNUS | OU |PIECES DIVERSES | DU MÊME ACADEMICIEN. | (in rules) Les plus intolérans sont les plus vicieux. / ANONYME. | {fleuron} | A LONDRES. | — | 1787. || Collation 18mo: Two ffl at front and two at rear, [a1] h.t./blank, [a2] blank/frontis. stanza, frontispiece plate with guard, [a3] t.p./blank, [a4] advert., [a5] intro/blank; after that the structure is following: recto blank/octave stanza on verso, tissue guard, plate on recto, repeated 17 times, χ1 décima stanza ‘Résumé’ (subtotal 23 leaves unsigned, unpaginated); π2 (h.t., t.p.), A-D6 E3 (subtotal 29 leaves), paginated [4] 1-53 [54], plus one plate with guard oppos. p. 8. The total number is 23+29=52 leaves plus 19 plates with tissue guard each and 4 flyleaves. Plates were executed in etching and burin on copper plates by François-Rolland Elluin (French, 1745 – 1810) after Antoine Borel (French, 1743 – 1810). Catalogue raisonné: Fekete № 141; Dutel № A-99; Nordmann II №№ 396, 397; Eros invaincu № 3, p. 26; Cohen de Ricci pp. 89/90. Text attributed to: Nogaret, François-Félix (French, 1740 – 1831) -
NEWHardcover volume 129 x 84 mm boards, 123 x 76 mm block, full contemporary lavalier-glazed calf, signed DUCASTIN at spine tail, panels framed with a gold fillet and a blind frieze, flat spine decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, roulettes at the head and tail, garnet red calf title label with gilt lettering, gilt dotted lines on the edges, interior dentelle, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, “GERARD NORDMANN EX-LIBRIS” bookplate to front pastedown. Collation 18mo: A-O6 P5 (i.e. 89 leaves); pp.: [i-v] vi-viii [9] 10-178, plus 5 plates with tissue guards, incl. frontispiece, and one flyleaf at the front and one at the rear. Plates: It is believed the edition had only 3 plates, including the frontispiece, and two plates were added, one signed “C. p. Marillier, inv. — E. De Ghendt sculp.” Title-page: ELÉONORE, | OU | L'HEUREUSE PERSONNE. | Deuxième Édition. | — | A PARIS, | Chez les Marchands de nouveautés. |— | AN VIII. || Catalogue raisonné: Dutel № A-314, p. 109 ; Nordmann II №188, p. 93. Provenance: Gustave Lehec (French, 1841 – 1922); Gérard Nordmann (Swiss, 1930 – 1992). Contributors: Clément Pierre Marillier (French, 1740–1808) – artist Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de Ghendt (Flemish, worked in France, 1738–1815) – engraver Alexis Pierre Ducastin [Ducastaing] (French, 1785 – 1860) – binder Nordmann's description: In-18 écu (124 x 78 mm). 178 pp. A frontispiece and 2 free figures. 2 added figures, one signed after Marillier and engraved by de Ghendt. Contemporary binding signed by Ducastin. Glazed lavallière calf, double frame of the covers with a gold fillet and a blind frieze, spine decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, roulettes at the head and tail, garnet calf title piece, gilt title, dotted lines on the edges, interior lace, marbled guards, gilt edges (some minor foxing). The second edition (very likely a fictitious mention) is of great rarity. It is decorated with a frontispiece and has engraved figures, to which two additional plates have been added. The story is the reverse of that of Tiresias: a woman is endowed by a sylph with the power to be alternately a man and a woman and to taste the pleasures of each of the two sexes. "This results in numerous and very piquant adventures; easy and graceful style" (Galitzin). MAGNIFICENT COPY, RARE IN ITS FULL STRICTLY CONTEMPORARY BINDING and signed on the back by one of the great bookbinders of the time, Pierre Alexis Ducastin (1785-1860), member of a dynasty of printers and bookbinders dating back to Henri IV. Lehec cites this copy in his Galitzin catalogue (no. 546): "...charming copy; lavalier calf stamped very rare, admirable conservation". Pia Enfer, 412; B.N. Enfer, 634. -
NEWTwo volumes, 133 x 88 mm each, uniformly bound in full tree calf, bordered in gilt garland, board edges and flat spine tooled in gilt, gilt fleurons in compartments, two crimson morocco labels to spine lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers, bookplate “MK” to front pastedown, one binder’s flyleaf in the front and one in the rear. Title-page: MÉMOIRES | DE | SATURNIN, | ÉCRITS PAR LUI-MÊME, | Nouvelle édition, corrigée & augmentée, | avec Figures. | (in rules) PREMIERE PARTIE / SECONDE PATIE [sic]. | {fleuron} | A LONDRES. | — | M. DCCLXXXVII. || Collation 18mo: Vol. 1: π2 A-T6 V4 (i.e. 118 leaves); pp.: [4] 1-235 [236 blank], plus 13 plates, incl. frontispiece, extraneous to collation. Vol. 2: π2 A-M6 N4 (i.e. 76 leaves); pp.: [4] [1] 2-151 [152], plus 11 plates, extraneous to collation. Twenty-four plates were executed in etching and burin on copper plate by François-Rolland Elluin (French, 1745 – 1810) after Antoine Borel (French, 1743 – 1810). Catalogue raisonné: Cohen 431; Dutel I № A-523, p. 166/7 ; Nordmann I № 156 (large 185 x 125 mm) Author: Gervaise de La Touche, Jean-Charles (French, 1715 – 1782) Microphotographs:
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NEWThree volumes, 124 x 80 mm each, uniformly bound in full marble calf, panels ruled in triple gilt fillet, board edges ruled in gilt, flat spine tooled in gilt with fleurons in compartments, burgundy calf labels lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers, text printed with tall ‘s’ on laid paper with letter “E” under fleur-de-lis watermark. Title-page: LE | MOYEN | DE | PARVENIR. | NOUVELLE ÉDITION, | Augmentée d'une Table sommaire | des Chapitres. | (in rules) Caritas inter jocosve regnat Moria. | TOME PREMIER / SECOND. | {fleuron} | A LONDRES. | — | M. DCC. LXXXI. || Collation 32mo, 1 flyleaf at the front and 1 at the rear in each vol. Vol. 1: πA6 b-e6 f2, A-Q6 R3 (i.e. 131 leaves); pp.: [i, ii] iii-lxiv, [1] 2-197 [198]. Vol. 2: π1 A-Y6, Z2 (i.e. 135 leaves); pp.: [2] [1] 2-267 [268]. Vol. 3: π1 A-Y6, Z2 2A1 (136); pp.: [2] [1] 2-270. Author: Béroalde de Verville, François (French, 1556 – 1626)
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NEWTwo 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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NEWTwo 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”.
