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Softcover, 19 x 12 cm, publisher’s yellow wrappers with lettering to front, rear and spine, pp. [i-v] vi-xix [xx] [1] 2-474 [6], including index pp. 465-71 and contents pp.473-74. Bookseller’s label to front wrapper in the bottom: « LIBRAIRIE CLASSIQUE | ET | MILITAIRE | S. MILON FILS | SAUMUR | FOURNITURES DE BUREAU » Title-page: Pierre Vésinier | ANCIEN MEMBRE DE LA COMMUNE | — | COMMENT A PÉRI | LA COMMUNE | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | NOUVELLE LIBRAIRIE PARISIENNE | ALBERT SAVINE, ÉDITEUR | 12, RUE DES PYRAMIDES, 12 | – | Tous droits réservés. || Contributors: Pierre Vésinier (French, 1824 – 1902) – author. Albert Savine (French, 1859 – 1927) – publisher. Imprimerie de Saint-Denis, H. Bouillant (Paris) – printer. -
An essay by Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980) about a poem Жди меня (Wait for Me, Zhdi menia) written by Konstantin Simonov [Константин Михайлович Симонов] (Russian, 1915 – 1979) in August 1941. Magazine, softcover, publisher’s wrappers, 20 x 12.5 cm, collated 16mo: [1]-916 (total 144 leaves), pp.: [2] 3-286 [2] (total 288 pages). Bimonthly (6 times a year) magazine "Вопросы литературы" (Questions of Literature, Voprosy literatury) published from 1957; circulation of 15,640 copies. Editor-in-Chief (1979-87): Мстислав Борисович Козьмин (Russian, 1920 – 1992). -
Softcover, original wrappers, 16 x 11 cm, collated 8vo: 48, 54, total 36 leaves, pp.: [2] 3-71 [72]. Front wrapper (lettered in black and white): {photo} | Б. РЕСТ. | КНИГИ | И | ЛЮДИ | ГОСЛИТИЗДАТ || Title-page (black and red): Б. РЕСТ | КНИГИ И ЛЮДИ | ОЧЕРКИ ИЗ ИСТОРИИ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЙ | ПУБЛИЧНОЙ БИБЛИОТЕКИ | имени | М. Е. САЛТЫКОВА-ЩЕДРИНА | 1814 — 1939 | {vignette} | — | Государственное издательство | “ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА” | Ленинград 1939 || Print run: 7,500 copies. B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980). -
Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980). B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980). Monthly magazine Star ("Звезда", Zvezda) published from 1924; circulation of 60,000 copies. Editor-in-Chief: Валерий Павлович Друзин (Russian, 1903 – 1980). Softcover, original wrappers, 25.3 x 16.8 cm, pp.: [2] 3-190 [2], total 192 pages; collated 8vo: [1]-128, total 96 leaves. -
Description: Softcover, 8vo, 22 x 14.5 cm, tan wrappers, lettered in terra-cotta to spine and front wrapper: “Cергей Варшавский | УПАДОЧНОЕ | ИСКУССТВО ЗАПАДА | ПЕРЕД СУДОМ РУССКИХ | ХУДОЖНИКОВ- | РЕАЛИСТОВ | Искусство”, title in brown in a frame, blue ink autograph inscription: “Дорогому Толе | на память и на рецензию | с нежностью и любовью | 25.XII. 49. Сергей” (probably to his son Anatoly). Collation: 8vo, [1]-98 105; pp.: [2] 3-151 [3], total 154 pages, plus 4 plates extraneous to collation. Title-page: Cергей Варшавский | УПАДОЧНОЕ | ИСКУССТВО ЗАПАДА | ПЕРЕД СУДОМ | РУССКИХ ХУДОЖНИКОВ- | РЕАЛИСТОВ | Государственное издательство | «ИСКУССТВО» | Ленинград 1949 • Москва || T.p. verso: ОБЩАЯ РЕДАКЦИЯ | В. Я. БРОДСКОГО || Colophon: Редактор Н. Р. Мервольф, Художник И. С. Серов, и т.д. Тираж 10 000. Типография имени Володарского. Print run: 10,000 copies. Comment: the book was written and published to survive during the so-called “Anti-cosmopolitan campaign (Борьба с космополитизмом, Bor'ba s kosmopolitizmom) in 1948-53 in USSR during the Stalin’s rule. The author was later ashamed of writing it and never mentioned this book in his list of works. Contributors: Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980). -
Description: softcover, 16.5 x 13 cm, in wrappers, white lettering on blue panel to front: “C. ВАРШАВСКИЙ Б. РЕСТ | СЫН | ОТЕЧЕСТВА | — | ВОЕНМОРИЗДАТ 1942”. Pagination: [2] 3-71 [72]; collated 8vo: [1]-48 54, total 36 leaves. Title-page: СМЕРТЬ НЕМЕЦКИМ ОККУПАНТАМ! | БИБЛИОТЕКА КРАСНОФЛОТЦА | C. ВАРШАВСКИЙ, Б. РЕСТ | СЫН | ОТЕЧЕСТВА | {publisher’s device} |—| ВОЕННО-МОРСКОЕ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО НКВМФ СОЮЗА ССР | МОСКВА • 1942 || Another copy: LIB-3083.2022. Contributors: Сергей Петрович Варшавский [Sergei Varshavsky] (Russian-Jewish, 1906 – 1980) – author. Б. Рест (Юлий Исаакович Шапиро (Russian-Jewish, 1907 – 1984) – author. -
Сборник из семи рассказов: Карты на Запад; Ответственное задание; Старт на Берлин; Корабли идут над морем; «Боевой! Так держать!»; Второй удар; Благодарит Сталин. Two identical copies LIB-3028.2022(1) and LIB-3028.2022(2). Front wrapper: C. ВАРШАВСКИЙ И Б. РЕСТ | НАД БЕРЛИНОМ | {PHOTO} | БИБЛИОТЕКА “ОГОНЕК” | №7 | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО “ПРАВДА” | МОСКВА — 1942 || Title-page: C. ВАРШАВСКИЙ и Б. РЕСТ | НАД БЕРЛИНОМ | Издательство “Правда” | Москва – 1942 || Description: Brochure, 14.7 x 10.9 cm, wrappers photo vignette and black lettering, pp.: [2] 3-37 [3], total 40 pages. Print run: 150.000 copies. Contributors: Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980). B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980).
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Title-page (text in frame): FRANCIS CARCO | RIEN QU'UNE | FEMME | {vignette} | EAUX-FORTES DE | CHAS LABORDE | — | PARIS — M.CM.XXV || Description: 4to, 24.5 x 20 cm, owner’s red cloth, yellow leather label with gilt lettering to spine, original wrappers bound in, woodcut bookplate “ИЗ КНИГ Ф.РОЖАНКОВСКАГО” to front pastedown; chapter titles and initials printed in pink. Collation: fep, 2 blanks before front wrapper, front wrapper with a black lettered pink label, 2 blanks, h.t., t.p., dedication, 1-204 212,2 blanks, rear wrapper, 2 blanks, rep; total 89 leaves within wrappers, plus 15 plates with tissue guards, incl. frontispiece – hand-coloured etchings by Chas [Charles] Laborde, extraneous to collation. In some copies, there are two additional plates. Pagination: [10] [1] 2-162 [2 colophon/blank] [4], total 178 pages. Limitation: Date of printing: September 15, 1925. Printer: Imprimeur Coulouma (Argenteuil) Print run: 267 copies of which 1 copy on Japon Ancien (№1), 15 on Japon Impérial (№№ 2-16), 60 on Hollande (№№ 17-76), and 200 copies on Vélin de Rives (№№ 77-276) ; this is copy № 82. Etchings printed on BFK Rives paper (embossed). Provenance: Rojankovsky, Feodor [Rojan; Рожанковский, Фёдор Степанович] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970). Contributors: Francis Carco [François Carcopino-Tusoli] (French, 1886 – 1958) – author. Chas Laborde [Charles Laborde] (French, 1886 – 1941) – artist. Roger Lacourière (French, 1892 – 1966) – engraver. -
Description: One volume, collated 4to, 26.2 x 18.5 x 8 cm, ¾ calf over marbled boards, gilt decorated flat spine with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, publisher’s wrappers preserved. Title-page (red and black): LE TRÉSOR | DU | BIBLIOPHILE | ÉPOQUE ROMANTIQUE | 1801–1875 | PAR | L. CARTERET | Libraire de plusieurs Sociétés de Bibliophiles | LIVRES ILLUSTRÉS DU XIXe SIÈCLE | PARIS | L. CARTERET, ÉDITEUR | ANCIENNE LIBRAIRIE CONQUET | 5, RUE DROUOT, 5 | Novembre 1927 || Publisher's wrapper similar, in a frame Collation: front wrapper, π4 (2 blanks, h.t./limit., t.p./copyright], [1] – 894, χ2 (colophon, 1 blank), back wrapper, orig. spine, ils. within collation; total 362 leaves within wrappers; 2 leaves of modern inset bound-in between pp. 106 and 107. Pagination: [8][1-3] 4-712 [4], total 724 pages plus 4 pp inset, ils. Content: pp. 1-25 – propos; 29-600 – bibliographie; 601-603 – table ills; 605-639 – table des ouvrages cités; 641-712 – table des artistes. Printed by Imp. Lahure on November 30, 1927. Contributors: Léopold Carteret (French, 1873 – 1948) Imprimerie Générale de A. Lahure (Paris) Alexis Lahure (French, 1849 – 1928) -
Description: Publisher’s wrappers, 20 x 12.8 cm, serial design; lettering to cover: (white on sanguine) И. Л. ГАЛИНСКАЯ | ЗАГАДКИ | ИЗВЕСТНЫХ | КНИГ | (white on aubergine, black frame) | ТАЙНОПИСЬ СЭЛИНДЖЕРА | Символика числа «девять» | «В ялике» | «И эти губы и глаза зеленые» | «Голубой период де Домье-Смита» | Повести о Глассах | ШИФРЫ МИХАИЛА БУЛГАКОВА | Тема Пилата | Не свет, а покой… | Смерть Иуды из Кариафа | «Рукописи не горят» | «Жонглер с копытом» | (white on black) ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО • НАУКА • || Title-page: АКАДЕМИЯ НАУК СССР | Из истории мировой культуры | И. Л. ГАЛИНСКАЯ | ЗАГАДКИ | ИЗВЕСТНЫХ | КНИГ | Ответственный редактор | доктор философских наук | И. К. ПАНТИН | {publisher’s device} | Москва | «НАУКА» | 1986 || Pagination: [2] 3-124 [125] [126 contents] [2 colophon/advert.] ; total 128 pages. Collation: 16mo; [1]-416; total 64 leaves. Print run: 142,000 copies. Contributors: Ирина Львовна Галинская [Шмарук] (Ukrainian, 1928 – 2017) Игорь Константинович Пантин (Russian, b. 1930) Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков [Mikhail Bulgakov] (Russian, 1891 – 1940) Jerome David Salinger (American, 1919 – 2010) -
Description: Volume 2 of 3, 16 x 12.5 cm, publisher’s grey wrappers, lettered in black and white to front cover, black to spine. Half-title: publisher’s device «ЗиФ» to recto, to verso: ГЮИ ДЕ-МОПАССАН | СОБРАНИЕ СОЧИНЕНИЙ | ТОМ II | — | «ЗЕМЛЯ и ФАБРИКА» | МОСКВА – ЛЕНИНГРАД || Title-page: ГЮИ ДЕ-МОПАССАН | НАГРАЖДЕН | ОРДЕНОМ | ПЕРЕВОД С ФРАНЦУЗСКОГО | ПОД РЕДАКЦИЕЙ | И. БАБЕЛЯ | ЧЕТВЕРТАЯ ТЫСЯЧА | — | «ЗЕМЛЯ и ФАБРИКА» | МОСКВА – ЛЕНИНГРАД || Imprint: Обложка худ. Н. Альтман | Отпечатано в типогр. рабоч. | Изд-ва «Прибой» им. Евг. | Соколовой, Пр. Красн. | Командиров, 29, в ко- | личестве 4.000 экз. | Главлит № 61.389. | 10 и. лист. | Ленинград | 1926 || Collation: 8vo; 1-108 111, total 81 leaves. Pagination: [1-5] 6-161 [162 contents], total 162 pages. Edition: 1st thus. Print run: 4,000 copies. Contents: Награжден орденом (пер. Александры Чеботаревской); Порт (пер. И. Смидович); Верхом (пер. Валентины Дынник); Ночь под Рождество (пер. Александры Чеботаревской); Пьерро (пер. Валентины Дынник); Болезнь Андрэ (пер. И. Бабеля); Ожерелье (пер. Александра Элиасберга); Мститель (пер. Александры Чеботаревской); Шкаф (пер. Александры Чеботаревской); Заместитель (пер. Александры Чеботаревской); Дождевой зантик; Покинутый (пер. А. Мирэ). Contributors: Guy de Maupassant (French, 1850 – 1893) – author. Исаак Эммануилович Бабель [Isaac Babel] (Russian-Jewish, 1894 – 1940) – translation editor. Натан Исаевич Альтман [Nathan Altman] (Russian-Jewish, 1889 – 1970) – artist. Александра Николаевна Чеботаревская (Russian, 1869 – 1925) – translator. Инна Гермогеновна Смидович (Russian, 1870 – 1940/42) – translator. Валентина Александровна Дынник-Соколова (Russian, 1898 – 1979) – translator. Александр Самойлович Элиасберг [Alexander Eliasberg] (Russian-Jewish, 1878 – 1924) – translator. Александра Михайловна Моисеева [А. Мирэ] (Russian, 1874 – 1913) – translator. -
Description: 4to, 26 x 21 cm, hardcover ¾ brown percaline over marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, publisher’s original wrappers preserved (bound-in), engraved bookplate “EX LIBRIS | Rodolfo …“ to verso of the 1st blank leaf. Printed in 1905 by Imprimerie Humbert Allegretti (Milan). Collation: 4to; front wrapper, π3 (blank, h.t., t.p.), 1-684, back wrapper; total 275 leaves within the wrappers. Pagination: [6] [1] 2-542 [2], total 550 pages. Contributors: Alessandro Baudi di Vesme [Alexandre de Vesme] (Italian, 1854 – 1923) Adam Bartsch (Austrian, 1757 – 1821) Ulrico Hoepli [Johannes Ulrich Höpli] (Swiss-Italian, 1846 – 1935) U. Hoepli (Milan) -
Description: Publisher’s wrappers 24 x 17 cm, pp. [1-6] 7-125 [3], total 64 leaves, edition limited to 150 copies. Includes “Errata & Addenda”, published in 2022. Cover and title-page: JEAN-PIERRE DUTEL | – | BIBLIOGRAPHIE | DES | OUVRAGES ÉROTIQUES | PUBLIÉS CLANDESTINEMENT EN FRANÇAIS | ENTRE 1650 ET 1970 (SUPPLÉMENT) | {publisher’s device} | J-P DUTEL, LIBRAIRE-ÉDITEUR | 16, RUE JACQUES-CALLOT 75006 PARIS | MMXXI || -
Description: Softcover, 22 x 17 cm, in a blue-grey double slipcase 23.3 x 17.8 cm, publisher’s French flapped wrappers with a pink burning heart pierced with arrow diaper pattern, 15 unbound gatherings in 4to, and a suite of 12 stencil-coloured photogravures (au pochoir) after Shem, printed on wove pur fil paper; numerous tailpieces and in-text vignettes in blue. Half-title: Petites Cousines || Title-page: Alice • Simonne | Marcelle • Andrée | — | Souvenirs érotiques d’un homme | de qualité touchant les petites | cousines... les femmes du monde | et les belles filles de province | AUX DÉPENS D'UN AMATEUR ET | ~~ POUR SES AMIS ~~ || Pagination: [4] [1-4] 5-111 [112] [4], total 120 pages, incl. those in wrappers; 12 unnumbered suite of plates laid-in. Limitation: An edition of 255 copies of which 5 copies on Arches paper, enriched with one suite in b/w and one coloured plus one original drawing and two sketches (№№ 1-5); 15 copies on Arches paper, enriched with one suite in b/w plus one original drawing and one sketch (№№ 6-20); 235 copies on Pur Fil paper (№№ 21-255). This copy is № 85, with a suite of plates in colour. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel № 965, pp. 31-2. Note: Title-page per Dutel ALICE • SIMONNE | MARCELLE • ANDRÉE | — | Souvenirs érotiques d’un homme | de qualité touchant les petites | cousines... les femmes du monde | et les belles filles de Province | AUX DÉPENS D'UN AMATEUR ET | ~~ POUR SES AMIS ~~ || Contributors: Pierre Mac Orlan (born Pierre Dumarchey] (French, 1882 – 1970) – author. Schem [real name Raoul Serres] (French, 1881– 1971) – artist. -
Description: Softcover, 23 x 14.5 cm, original flapped wrappers, spine and front cover lettered in blue «WANDA DE S…. | FRANÇOISE | OU | LES PLAISIRS DU MARIAGE | AUX ALLÉES DES ROSES», leaves untrimmed. Title-page: WANDA DE S…. | FRANÇOISE | OU | LES PLAISIRS DU MARIAGE | {vignette} | AUX ALLÉES DES ROSES || Collation: [1]8 (1 blank in wrapper, 1 blank, h.t., t.p., f.t.p., 3 leaves of text), 2-148 154 (uncut), 116 leaves total plus 10 hand-coloured photogravures by anonymous, extraneous to collation. Pagination: [1-10] 11-224 [8], ils.; 232 pages total. Limitation: edition under subscription, limited to 600 copies of which 100 copies (№ 1-100) on pur fil and 500 copies (№ 101-600) on Vélin, this is № 142. Edition: 1st edition thus, printed by Maurice Darantiere, illustrated with 10 full-page coloured photogravures after an anonymous artist, attributed by some to Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan] and by some to Louis Berthomme Saint-André. According to J.-P. Dutel, the original watercolours in his collection signed Véronique. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (1920-1970): 1605, p. 176; honesterotica.com. -
Description: Hardcover, 19 x 13 cm, contemporary binding, ¾ carrot morocco with raised bands over patterned cloth, similarly patterned endpapers, original pink wrappers preserved, gilt lettering to spine, Japanese previous owner’s stamp フィリップ (Firippu or Philippe) to verso front endpaper. Title-page: EXAMEN | DE | FLORA | à l’effet d’obtenir | son diplôme de putain | PARIS || Collation/pagination: blank flyleaf, original front wrapper with vignette, [1] blank, original watercolour 13.5 x 11 cm bound in, [2] blank, [3] h.t. / frontispiece, [4] t.p., 5-45 [46] [2] limitation / blank, back wrapper, blank flyleaf, with 14 stencil-coloured photogravures (au pochoir), two of them full-page, incl. frontispiece, after Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan]. Limitation: 15 copies on Japon and 300 copies on Vélin, this is copy № 7. Edition: 1st edition thus, illustrated with 14 coloured photogravures, 2 of them full-page after Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan], enriched with an original watercolour by the same artist. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (1920-1970): 1532, p. 160 (same copy); honesterotica.com Provenance: J.-P. Dutel Note: J.-P. Dutel dates the edition as “vers 1935”; however, based on the edition of Le théâtre érotique de la rue de la Santé / [illustré par Rojan]. — Paris: s.n., 1932 [LIB-2816.2021] in this collection, which contains some of the same illustrations, we attribute it to 1932. Contributors: Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan, Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970) – artist. Louis Protat (French, 1819 – 1881) – author. Illustrations:
Le théâtre érotique / Original
Examen de Flora / Original
Le théâtre érotique / Original
Le théâtre érotique / Original
Examen de Flora / Print
Examen de Flora / Print
Examen de Flora / Print
Examen de Flora / Print
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Description: Hardcover small 4to, 20.3 x 15.8 cm, contemporary binding, quarter carrot morocco with raised bands over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, original wrappers preserved, gilt lettering to spine. Content: Scapin Maquereau, drame en un acte par M. Albert Glatigny; La grisette et l’étudiant, pièce en un acte par M. Henry Monnier; Le bout de l’an de la noce, parodie du bout de l’an de l’amour de M. Théodore Barrière par MM. Lemercier de Neuville et J. du Boys; Un caprice par Lemercier de Neuville; Les jeux de l’amour et du bazar, comédie de mœurs en un acte par Lemercier de Neuville. Title-page: LE THÉATRE ÉROTIQUE | DE LA RUE DE LA SANTE | {vignette} | PARIS | — | 1932 || Collation: 3 blanks, original front wrapper with black lettering «LE THÉATRE ÉROTIQUE | DE LA RUE DE LA SANTE», [1]4 (2 blanks, frontis., h.t. / limitation), [2]4 (t.p., f.t.p., 2 leaves of text), 3-184 (incl. 2 blanks), original back wrapper, original spine, 3 blanks; 5 full-page illustrations within collation, 3 original watercolours extraneous to collation bound in between 11 and 12 blank leaves. Pagination: [4] [1-8] 9-135 [136] [4], ils. Limitation: 20 copies on Japon and 250 copies on Vélin, this is copy № 201. Edition: 1st edition thus, illustrated with 20 coloured photogravures, 5 of them full-page after Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan], enriched with 3 full-page original watercolours by him. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (1920-1970): 2498, p. 385; Nordmann/Christie’s (2) 515, p. 251 Contributors: Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan, Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970) – artist. Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny (French, 1839 – 1873) – author. Henry-Bonaventure Monnier (French, 1799 – 1877) – author. Théodore Barrière (French, 1823 – 1877) – author. Louis Lemercier de Neuville [La Haudussière, Louis Lemercier] (French, 1830 – 1918) – author. Jean Charles Duboys [Du Boys] (French, 1836 – 1873) – author. Original watercolours:
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Description: Hardcover, 20.5 x 16 cm, contemporary binding, ¾ calf with raised bands over marbled boards in a marbled slipcase, marbled endpapers, original wrappers preserved, t.e.g., gilt lettering to spine. Content: Scapin Maquereau, drame en un acte par M. Albert Glatigny; La grisette et l’étudiant, pièce en un acte par M. Henry Monnier; Le bout de l’an de la noce, parodie du bout de l’an de l’amour de M. Théodore Barrière par MM. Lemercier de Neuville et J. du Boys; Un caprice par Lemercier de Neuville; Les jeux de l’amour et du bazar, comédie de mœurs en un acte par Lemercier de Neuville. Title-page: LE THÉATRE ÉROTIQUE | DE LA RUE DE LA SANTE | {vignette} | PARIS | — | 1932 || Collation: 2 blanks, original front wrapper with blue lettering «LE THÉATRE ÉROTIQUE | DE LA RUE DE LA SANTE», [1]4 (2 blanks, frontis., h.t. / limitation), [2]4 (t.p., f.t.p., 2 leaves of text), 3-184 (incl. 2 blanks), original back wrapper, original spine, 2 blanks; 5 full-page illustrations within collation, 5 original drawings extraneous to collation. Pagination: [4] [1-8] 9-135 [136] [4], ils. Limitation: 20 copies on Japon and 250 copies on Vélin, this is copy № 12. Edition: 1st edition thus, illustrated with 20 stencil-coloured (au pochoir) photogravures, 5 of them full-page after Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan], enriched with 5 full-page original crayon drawings by the same artist. Provenance: Stamp with J.-P. Dutel device to 1st blank leaf. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (1920-1970): 2498, p. 385; Nordmann/Christie’s (2) 515, p. 251 Contributors: Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan, Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970) – artist. Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny (French, 1839 – 1873) – author. Henry-Bonaventure Monnier (French, 1799 – 1877) – author. Théodore Barrière (French, 1823 – 1877) – author. Louis Lemercier de Neuville [La Haudussière, Louis Lemercier] (French, 1830 – 1918) – author. Jean Charles Duboys [Du Boys] (French, 1836 – 1873) – author. Original crayon drawings by Rojan:
Colour prints after Rojan's drawings:
