- Minerva’s head with a lock of hair on the temple in an irregular octagonal frame; Paris from 1838 to 1919.
- E (rabbit) S in a diamond of Etienne Henri Sanoner, 79 rue Quincampoix, 75003 Paris.
- Grasshopper (la sauterelle) with chevron
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NEWSet 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: -
NEWHardcover, 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 -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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, 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 -
NEWThe 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 -
NEWTwo 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.- 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) ||
- 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) ||
- Le costume sous le Consulat et l'Empire: Caractères généraux. Costume masculin. Costume militaire.
- Le costume féminin sous le premier Empire : Éléments caractéristiques. Spencers et canezous. Robes de cour. Redingotes. Witz-chouras.
- Les coiffures sous le premier Empire : Coiffures masculines et féminines.
- La Restauration : Caractères généraux. Costume masculin. Costume féminin. Coiffures féminines.
- 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.
- Deuxième République et Napoléon III: Costume masculin. Costume féminin. Crinolines et tournures. Coiffures.
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NEWConvolute: Pélagie la sainte. Quarter red buckram over marbled papers with brown gilt-lettered calf label to spine, 399 x 290 mm. Consists of: One blank leaf- Gérard de Nerval. Mémoires d'un parisien: Sainte-Pélagie, en. 1832. Published in L'Artiste : journal de la littérature et des beaux-arts 1841 (SER2,T7). L'ARTISTE, | JOURNAL DE LA LITTÉRATURE ET DES BEAUX-ARTS. | 2° Série. – Tome 6 (ms pencil 7 et 8) | {vignette signed M. ALOPHE} | PARIS. | AUX BUREAUX DE L'ARTISTE, RUE DE SEINE-SAINT-GERMAIN, 39 | 1840. (crossed out, ms pencil 1841) || Engraved title, h.t./imprint, t.p., pp. 251-256 (six leaves); p. 252-5:
- Talon / Maison de Sainte-Pélagie November 18, 1822 (One leaf)
- Maxime du Camp. Les prisons de Paris. Published in: Revue de deux mondes, 83, № 3 (1eroctobre 1869), pp. [598]-634 (17 leaves).
- Philibert Audebrand. La Gazette de Sainte-Pélagie. Published in: L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux, № 518, 10 Dec 1889, p. 711. (Newspaper clip).
- Pélagie la Sainte 1889. Numero unique. Edité par les soins du Journal « la France » | SOUS LA DIRECTION DE M. PILLARD D'ARKAÏ || Title engraved on wood and hand-painted. Texts by Paul Adam, Paul Bonnetain, Simon Boubée, Léon Cladel, Camille Dreyfus, Ch. Gilbert-Martin, Victor Hugo, Camille Lemonnier, Maurice Mac-Nab, Louise Michel, Félix Pyat, Rachilde, Xavier Raspail, Jean Richepin, Henri Rochefort, Laurent Tailhade, Émile Zola, etc. Illustrations by Ch. Clérice, Ch. Gilbert-Martin, Alfred Le Petit, Eugène Rapp. Pp. 1-24 (12 leaves). Gallica: Pélagie la sainte, 1889 / [signé Pillard d'Arkaï]
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NEWHardcover, 175 x 125 mm, red cloth, blind/gilt floral design to front, same and gilt lettering to spine, pictorial endpapers, collated 8vo: 1-228 232, i.e. 178 leaves, pp.: [1-6] 7-354 [2], plus 12 b/w photomechanical plates, extraneous to collations; faux-title, initials, tail-pieces, and dust jacket engraved after Sarra Shor. Missing dust jacket. Title-page (red and black): ПОДЖО | БРАЧЧОЛИНИ | ФАЦЕТИИ | {fleuron} | ПЕРЕВОД С ЛАТИНСКОГО, | КОММЕНТАРИЙ | И | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНЫЯ СТАТЬЯ | А. К. ДЖИВЕЛЕГОВА | ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ | А. В. ЛУНАЧАРСКОГО (post-mortem frame) | ACADEMIA | MCMXXXIV || Opposite t.p. (red and black): ИТАЛЬЯНСКАЯ | ЛИТЕРАТУРА | ПОД ОБЩЕЙ РЕДАКЦИЕЙ | А. К. ДЖИВЕЛЕГОВА | {vignette} | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА-ЛЕНИНГРАД || Title verso (imprint) : Poggius Florentinus | Facctiarum liber | Инициалы, рисунки, титул, форзац, | переплет и супер-обложка | Сарры Шор || Printer: Красный пролетарий (М). Print run: 5,300 copies. Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 614, p. 244. Contributors: Браччолини, Поджо – Bracciolini, Poggio (Italian, 1380 – 1459) – author Дживелегов, Алексей Карпович (Russian-Armenian, 1875 – 1952) – translator/editor Луначарский, Анатолий Васильевич (Russian, 1875 – 1933) – foreword Шор, Сарра Марковна (Soviet-Jewish, 1897 – 1981) – artist -
NEWHardcover, 253 x 190 mm, pink cloth, gilt monogram inside gilt-ruled borders, fleurons in corners, pictorial endpapers, collated 8vo: 1-118, i.e. 88 leaves, pp.: [1-7] 8-171 [5], plus 20 lithographic plates by Vladimir Konashevich, incl. frontispiece, extraneous to collations; pictorial dust jacket. Engraved title in red and black: Аббат | Прево | — | Манон | Леско | — | С РИСУНКАМИ | Вл. Конашевича | ПЕРЕВОД | М. А. Петровского | ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ | А. К. Виноградова | Academia | Москва-Ленинград | 1932 || Engraved half-title in red and black: СОКРОВИЩА | МИРОВОЙ | ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | Аббат | Прево | — | Манон | Леско | ▤ | Academia | Москва-Ленинград | 1932 || Title verso (imprint, red and black) : Antoine François | Prévost d'Exiles | MANON | LESCAUT | Lithographies | de V. Konachevitch || Printer : Типография им. Ивана Федорова (Л). Print run: 5,250 copies. Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 505, p. 226. Contributors: Прево, Антуан Франсуа [Аббат Прево] Antoine François Prévost [l’abbé Prévost] (French, 1697 – 1763) Петровский, Михаил Александрович (Russian, 1887 – 1937) – translator Виноградов, Анатолий Корнелиевич (Russian, 1888 – 1946) – preface Конашевич, Владимир Михайлович [Konashevich, Vladimir] (Russian, 1888 – 1963) – artist Рерберг, Иван Фёдорович (Russian, 1892 – 1957) – artist/binding -
NEWHardcover, 245 x 180 mm, olive cloth with an embossed vignette in centre and fleurons in corners to front, lettering to spine, cream dust jacket with lettering and vignettes; collated 8vo: 1-268 +1 278 χ3, i.e. 220 leaves, pp.: [1-6] 7-434 [6] plus frontispiece portrait and five engravings (all collotype reproductions) extraneous to collation, all in the second section «Безумный день, или женитьба Фигаро». Five original illustrations after Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint-Quentin were executed by Louis Michel Halbou, Jean-Baptiste Liénard, and Charles-Louis Lingée, printed by Société littéraire typographique de Kehl, and published by Nicolas Ruault in 1785 (Cohen 125). The frontispiece portrait of Beaumarchais is a collotype reproduction from an etching by Augustin de Saint-Aubin after Charles-Nicolas Cochin, executed in 1773; it was not included in the Kehl edition but taken from Mémoires de M. Caron de Beaumarchais published in 1774. Title-page (red and black): БОМАРШЕ | ТРИЛОГИЯ | ПЕРЕВОД В. Д. МОРИЦА | ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ А. ДЖИВЕЛЕГОВА | ПРИМЕЧАНИЯ Д. Е. МИХАЛЬЧИ | И Л. М. ГАЛИЦКОГО | ACADEMIA | 1934 || Opposite t.p. (red and black): ФРАНЦУЗСКАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | Под общей редакцией | А. М. Эфроса | БОМАРШЕ | (1732 – 1799) | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА – ЛЕНИНГРАД || T.p. verso (imprint): BEAUMARCHAIS | I. LE BARBIER DE SEVILLE, II. LE MARIAGE DE FIGARO, | III. LA MERE COUPABLE | Суперобложка и переплет по рисункам | Д. И. Митрохина || Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 612, p. 243. Original titles: Le Barbier de Séville, ou la Précaution inutile; La Folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro; L'Autre Tartuffe, ou la Mère coupable. Print run: 5,300 copies. Contents: Севильский цирюльник, или тщетная предосторожность Безумный день, или женитьба Фигаро Преступная мать, или новый Тартюф Contributors: [Бомарше, Пьер] Beaumarchais, Pierre (French, 1732 – 1799) – author (Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais) Мориц, Владимир Эмильевич (Russian, 1890 – 1972) (In this publication, he named В. Д. Мориц by mistake; the correct spelling is В. Э. Мориц) – translator Дживелегов, Алексей Карпович (Russian-Armenian, 1875 – 1952) – preface Михальчи, Дмитрий Евгеньевич (Russian,1900 – 1973) – commentary Галицкий, Лев Николаевич (In this publication, he named Л. М. Галицкий by mistake; the correct spelling is Л. Н. Галицкий; dates unknown) – commentary Эфрос, Абрам Маркович (Russian-Jewish, 1888 – 1954) – editor/series Митрохин, Дмитрий Исидорович (Russian, 1883 – 1973) – artist -
NEWHardcover, 150 x 112 mm, quarter cloth over pictorial cardboard, gilt lettering to spine, collated 8vo: 1-88 96, i.e. 70 leaves, pp. [1-6] 7-137 [3], cover, t.p. vignette, head- and tailpieces woodcuts by Aleksei Kravchenko; QC slip laid in. Half-title: ЛИТЕРАТУРА | СРЕДНЕВЕКОВЬЯ | Под общей | редакцией | Р. Шор | Academia || Title-page (red and black): ОКАСЕН | И | НИКОЛЕТ | Старофранцузская | песня-сказка | Перевод М. Ливеровской | Под редакцией А. А. Смирнова | Вводная статья и примечания | А. А. Смирнова | {vignette} | Academia | 1935 || Imprint: Гравюры А. И. Кравченко Print run: 5,300 copies Printer: Красный пролетарий (М) Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 752, p. 266. Contributors: Шор, Розалия Осиповна (Soviet-Jewish, 1894 – 1939) – editor Ливеровская, Мария Исидоровна (Russian, 1879 – 1923) – translator Кравченко, Алексей Ильич [Kravchenko, Aleksei] (Russian, 1889 – 1940) – artist -
NEWSoftcover, 193 x 252 mm, pictorial wrappers, lettered, 24 leaves numbered on recto 2-23 with 23 photogravures after Charles Castellani and advertisement to verso. Front wrapper: (ribbon) EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE 1889 | ESPLANADE • DES • INVALIDES • | — | PANORAMA | LE | ”TOVT – PARIS” | peint par | Ch. Castellani | — || Title-page: (in frame) PANORAMA | LE | “TOUT – PARIS” | PEINT PAR | CH. CASTELLANI || Ref: BNF, département Estampes et photographie, 4-NA-62; Getty Research Institute Accession Number 2623-796. Contributors: Charles Castellani (French, 1838 – 1913) Arents, Pierre-Marie (Belgian, 1842 – 1916) Characters: Fouquier, Henry (French, 1838 – 1901) Bernhardt, Sarah [Bernard, Henriette-Rosine] (French, 1844 – 1923) Lesseps, Ferdinand Marie, Comte de (French, 1805 – 1894) Clemenceau, Georges (French, 1841 – 1929) Troubetzkoy, Pyotr Petrovich, Prince (French, 1822 – 1892) Shah Qajar, Naser al-Din (Persian, 1831 – 1896) Floquet, Charles (French, 1828 – 1896) Marinoni, Hippolyte Auguste (French, 1823 – 1904) Charcot, Jean-Martin (French, 1825 – 1893) Poupart-Davyl Louis (French, 1835 – 1890) Eiffel, Gustave (French, 1832 – 1923) Grévy, Jules (French, 1807 – 1891) Zola, Émile (French, 1840 – 1902) Granier de Cassagnac, Paul (French, 1843 – 1904) Claretie, Jules Arsène Arnaud (French, 1840 – 1913) Rochefort, Victor Henri, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (French, 1831 – 1913) Pasteur, Louis (French, 1822 – 1895) Broglie, Albert, duc de (French, 1821 – 1901) Gounod, Charles (French, 1818 – 1893) Dumas fils, Alexandre (French, 1824 – 1895) Ferry, Jules (French, 1932 – 1893) Pyat, Félix (French, 1810 – 1889) Loti, Pierre (French, 1850 – 1923) Michel, Louise (French, 1830 – 1905) Péan, Jules-Émile (French, 1830 – 1898) among others. -
NEWHardcover, 175 x 128 mm, red cloth with gilt arabesque, lettered label and arabesque to spine, collated 8vo: 1-198, i.e. 152 leaves, incl. seven illustrations., pp. [1-9] 10-302 [2], plus frontispiece author’s portrait (reproduction), guard tissue; grey and black dust jacket with lettering in arabesque framework. Title-page (blue and black): СИРАНО ДЕ БЕРЖЕРАК | ИНОЙ СВЕТ | ИЛИ | ГОСУДАРСТВА | И ИМПЕРИИ | ЛУНЫ | РЕДАКЦИЯ | И ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ СТАТЬЯ | В. И. НЕВСКОГО | {fleuron} | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА – ЛЕНИНГРАД | — | M. CM. XXXI. || Half-title (blue and black): СОКРОВИЩА | МИРОВОЙ | ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | ~ | СИРАНО ДЕ БЕРЖЕРАК | ИНОЙ СВЕТ | ИЛИ | ГОСУДАРСТВА | И ИМПЕРИИ | ЛУНЫ | ~ || Title verso (imprint): Saviniens de Cyrano de Bergerac's (sic) L'autre Monde on les Etats et les Empires de la Lune (1669). Орнаментация книги худ. И. Ф. Редберга. Иллюстрации из старинных изданий. Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 467, p. 220. Original title: Histoire comique des États et Empires de la Lune. Print run: 5000 copies. Another translation by Гунст, Евгений Анатольевич (Russian, 1901 – 1983) was published in 1971 at Библиотека всемирной литературы, серия первая, том 34: LIB-0903.2015 under title "Иной свет, или государства и империи Луны". Contributors: Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien de (French, 1619 – 1655) – author. Невский, Владимир Иванович [Кривобоков; Кривобок, Феодосий Иванович] (Russian, 1876 – 1937) – author/preface, editor of translation. Оксман, Юлиан Григорьевич (Russian-Jewish, 1894 – 1970) – author/preface. Рерберг, Иван Фёдорович (Russian, 1892 – 1957) – artist. -
NEWHardcover, 175 x 128 mm, embossed black vignette and lettering to front, lettering to spine, collated 8vo: 1-118 126, i.e. 94 leaves, incl. additional pictorial t.p., pp. [1-7] 8-183 [5], plus frontispiece woodcut after V. Favorsky, errata slip laid in. Title-page (red and black): ПРОСПЕР МЕРИМЕ | КАРМЕН | ПЕРЕВОД | М. ЛОЗИНСКОГО | ACADEMIA | Москва — Ленинград || Title-opposite: PROSPER MÉRIMÉE | ACADEMIA | 1936 || (missing title!) Imprint: Иллюстрации — гравюры на дереве В. Л. Фаворского; по его же рисункам переплет. Original title: Carmen, 1st edition at Revue des deux Mondes in 1845; 1st edition in book form Michel Lévy Frères in 1846. Print run: 10,300 copies. Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 837, p. 280. Contributors: Mérimée, Prosper [Мериме, Проспер] (French, 1803 – 1870) – author Лозинский, Михаил Леонидович [Lozinsky, Mikhail] (Russian, 1886 – 1955) – translator Фаворский, Владимир Андреевич [Favorsky, Vladimir] (Russian, 1886 – 1964) – artist -
NEWHardcover, 220 x 180 mm, green buckram with gilt lettering on an embossed scroll to front cover and faded gilt lettering to spine (serial design), collated 8vo: 1-208 2110 228 (i.e. 178 leaves), pp. [1-4] 5-354 [2], errata slip laid in before back ffl. Title-page (red and black): ШОДЕРЛО де ЛАКЛО | ~ | ОПАСНЫЕ | СВЯЗИ | ~ | ПЕРЕВОД С ФРАНЦУЗСКОГО, | СТАТЬЯ И ПРИМЕЧАНИЯ | Н. Я. РЫКОВОЙ | ~ | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «НАУКА» | МОСКВА • ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1965 || Opposite t.p. (red and black): CHODERLOS de LACLOS | ~ | LES LIAISONS | DANGEREUSES | OU | LETTRES RECUEILLIES | DANS UNE SOCIÉTÉ | ET PUBLIÉES POUR L’INSTRUCTION | DE QUELQUES AUTRES | ~ || Series: АН СССР, Литературные памятники. Contributors: Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre Ambroise François (French, 1741 – 1803) – author. Рыкова, Надежда Януарьевна (Russian, 1901 – 1996) – translator Молок, Александр Иванович (Russian, 1898 – 1977) : Дворянство во Франции накануне буржуазной революции XVII века (pp. 317-335). -
NEWSoftcover, 155 x 118 mm, publisher’s wrappers, lettering and vignette to front, lettering to spine; collated 8vo: 1-148 (i.e. 112 leaves), pp.: [1-4] 7-218 [6 advert], frontispiece. Inscription to t.p. Г(Т?). Тараманян. Woodcuts to front wrapper and frontispiece after Vladimir Favorsky. Front wrapper: ПРОСПЕР | МЕРИМЕ | СОБРАНИЕ СОЧИНЕНИЙ | КОЛОМБА | {vignette} | — | ACADEMIA || Title-page: ПРОСПЕР МЕРИМЕ | КОЛОМБА | Colomba | РОМАН | Перевод | В. М. Гаршина | — | «ACADEMIA» | ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1927 || Contra-title: СОБРАНИЕ СОЧИНЕНИЙ | ПРОСПЕР МЕРИМЕ | ПЕРЕВОД С ФРАНЦУЗСКОГО | ПОД ОБЩЕЙ РЕДАКЦИЕЙ | М. КУЗЬМИНА, М. ЛОЗИНСКОГО | И А. А. СМИРНОВА | V | — | «ACADEMIA» | ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1927 || Imprint: Обложка и иллюстрации в тексте — оригинальная | гравюра на дереве В. А. Фаворского | Ленинградский Гублит № 44048. Тираж 5.100 экз. | — | 2-я типография Транспечати НКПС Ленинград, ул. Правды, 15. || Print run: 5100 copies. Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): №249, p. 190. Original title: Colomba first appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes on 1 July 1840. Magen et Comon published it as a single volume in 1841. Contributors: Mérimée, Prosper [Мериме, Проспер] (French, 1803 – 1870) – author Кузмин, Михаил Алексеевич [Kuzmin, Mikhail] (Russian, 1872 – 1936) – editor Лозинский, Михаил Леонидович [Lozinsky, Mikhail] (Russian, 1886 – 1955) – editor Смирнов, Александр Александрович (Russian, 1883 – 1962) – editor Гаршин, Всеволод Михайлович [Garshin, Vsevolod] (Russian, 1855 – 1888) – translator Фаворский, Владимир Андреевич [Favorsky, Vladimir] (Russian, 1886 – 1964) – artist -
NEWHardcover, 153 x 110 mm, in blue cloth with embossed brown vignette to front, lettering and design elements to spine, no dust jacket, collated 8vo: 1-68 (i.e. 48 leaves), pp.: [1-8] 9-91 [5], plus 10 tonal lithography plates extraneous to collation. Title-page (red and black): ПАЙЕН ИЗ МЕЗЬЕРА | Мул без узды | Москва ~ Ленинград || Contra-title (red and black): PAIENS DE MAISIERES | La mule sanz | frain | Academia ~ 1934 || Serial title: ЛИТЕРАТУРА СРЕДНЕВЕКОВЬЯ | Под общей редакцией | Р. О. Шор и Б. И. Ярхо || Half-title: ПАЙЕН ИЗ МЕЗЬЕРА. МУЛ БЕЗ УЗДЫ | (ДЕВУШКА НА МУЛЕ) | Перевод со старофранцузского | Е. Васильевой | Редакция, статья и комментарии | А. А. Смирнова || Imprint: Иллюстрации (автолитографии) и | орнаментации книги Е. Д. Белухи Print run: 5300 copies. Printer: Печатный Двор / Полиграфкнига (Л) Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): №658, p. 251. Contributors: Пайен из Мезьера [Paien de Maisieres] (French, Late 12th – early 13th century) – author Шор, Розалия Осиповна (Soviet-Jewish, 1894 – 1939) – editor Ярхо, Борис Исаакович (Soviet-Jewish, 1889 – 1942) – editor Васильева [Дмитриева], Елизавета Ивановна [Черубина де Габриак] (Russian, 1887 – 1928) – translator Смирнов, Александр Александрович (Russian, 1883 – 1962) – preface, commentary Белуха, Евгений Дмитриевич (Russian, 1889 – 1943) – artist -
NEWHardcover, 244 x 205 mm, red quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettering and raised bands to spine, marbled endpapers, original wrappers 235 x 190 mm preserved. Collated 4to: 3 ffl, front wrapper2, blank4, h.t./imprint6, frontis.8, t.p.10, 1-234, blank196, back wrapper198, 3ffl; pp.: [1-11] 12-186 [12], plates and wrappers within collation. Total number of leaves from wrapper to wrapper 198 (190 per Vokaer). Title-page (brown and black): Tableaux Contemporains – no 6 | TABLEAU | de | LA MODE | par | GEORGES-ARMAND MASSON | illustré | de vingt et une gravures à l'eau-forte | et de onze lithographies en couleurs | par | MARCEL VERTÈS | PARIS | ÉDITIONS DE LA NOUVELLE REVUE FRANÇAISE | 3, rue de Grenelle || Front wrapper: same as t.p., framed. Back wrapper: advert. dans la même collection, framed. Imprint: Un exemplaire sur japon impérial (A), 6 exemplaires sur japon impérial (B-E), 15 exemplaires sur japon impérial (F-T), 320 exemplaires sur vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre (dont 20 exemplaires hors commerce), numérotés de 1 a 300 et de I a XX. Exemplaire no 238. Tous droits de reproduction el de traduction réserves pour tous les pays, y compris la Russie. Copyright by Librairie Gallimard, 1926. Colophon: CE VOLUME, | LE SIXIEME DE LA COLLECTION DES | TABLEAUX CONTEMPORAINS, | A ÉTE ACHEVE D’IMPRIMER | LE DIX MAI MIL NEUF CENT VINGT-SIX : | POUR LE TEXTE, | PAR LE MAITRE IMPRIMEUR COULOUMA, A ARGENTEUIL, | H. BARTHELEMY ETANT DIRECTEUR, | ET POUR LES GRAVURES, | PAR CLOT, LITHOGRAPHE | ET HAASEN, IMPRIMEUR EN TAILLE-DOUCE | A PARIS || Limited Edition: 22 copies printed on Japon Impérial paper marked letters A to T enriched with suites of plates and original drawings; 20 copies marked I to XX on Vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre paper not for sale, and 300 commercial copies on the same paper, numbered 1 to 300, of which this is copy № 238. Total number of copies 342. Catalogue Raisonné: Vokaer № 14, p. 10. Contributors: Masson, Georges-Armand (French, 1892 – 1977) – author Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist Clot, Auguste (French, 1858 – 1936) – lithography Haasen, Paul (French, d. 1944) – etchings -
NEWHardcover, black cloth, 175 x 135 mm, red lettering to spine, red Phrygian cap and white weapons and tools to front cover, collated 8vo: 1-508 516, i.e. 406 leaves, pp. [1-7] 8-808 [4] incl. errata and illustrations, plus photo frontispiece; cream dust jacket with a vignette, red and black lettering to front and spine, black lettering to flaps. Title-page (red and black): ПЕСНИ | ПЕРВОЙ | ФРАНЦУЗСКОЙ | РЕВОЛЮЦИИ | {vignette} | ПОДБОР ТЕКСТОВ, | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ СТАТЬЯ И КОММЕНТАРИИ | А•ОЛЬШЕВСКОГО | • РЕДАКЦИЯ | М•ЗЕНКЕВИЧА И АБРАМА ЭФРОСА | ВВЕДЕНИЕ | Ц. ФРИДЛЯНДА | ACADEMIA | 1934 || Contra-title (red and black): ФРАНЦУЗСКАЯ | ЛИТЕРАТУРА | ПОД ОБЩЕЙ РЕДАКЦИЕЙ | А•М•ЭФРОСА | ПЕСНИ | ПЕРВОЙ ФРАНЦУЗСКОЙ | РЕВОЛЮЦИИ | {vignette} | / 1789-1799 / | МОСКВА – ЛЕНИНГРАД | ACADEMIA | 1934 || Imprint: Суперобложка, переплет, | титул, шмуц-титула, | заставки и концовки | М. В. Маторина || Print run 5300 copies. Printer: Красный пролетарий (Moscow) Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): №661, p. 251-2. Contributors: Ольшевский [Овсянников], Александр Александрович [Russian, 1878 – 1951) – compiler Зенкевич, Михаил Александрович (Russian, 1886 – 1973) – editor Эфрос, Абрам Маркович (Russian-Jewish, 1888 – 1954) – editor Фридланд [Фридлянд], Цви (Russian-Israeli, 1898 – 1967) – preface Маторин, Михаил Владимирович (Russian, 1901 – 1976) – artist -
NEWHardcover, stapled, dark olive cloth, 200 x 140 mm, black lettering to spine, portrait of the author pasted to front cover, collated 8vo: 1-348 352, i.e. 274 leaves, pp. [1-7] 8-547 [1], plus errata leaf before back ffl and 12 plates incl. frontispiece, extraneous to collation; Black dust jacket with olive lettering and vignette to front and olive lettering to spine, black lettering to flaps, barbarically restored. Title-page (green and black): ВОЛЬТЕР | ОРЛЕАНСКАЯ | ДЕВСТВЕННИЦА | ПОЭМА | В ДВАДЦАТИ ОДНОЙ ПЕСНЕ | Перевод под редакцией | М. Лозинского | Вступительная статья | С. Мокульского | Комментарии | Л. Н. Галицкого | и Д. Е. Михальчи | ACADEMIA | 1935 || Contra-title (green and black): ФРАНЦУЗСКАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | Под общей редакцией А. М. Эфроса | ВОЛЬТЕР | (1694—1778) | ACADEMIA | Москва – Ленинград || Imprint: VOLTAIRE | LA PUCELLE D’ORLEANS | Иллюстрации, заставки, | концовки, переплет и супер- | обложка М. К. Соколова || Print run 5300 copies. Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): №707, p. 259. Contributors: Arouet, François-Marie [Voltaire] (French, 1694 – 1778)– author. Михаил Леонидович Лозинский [Mikhail Lozinsky] (Russian, 1886 – 1955) – translator. Стефан Стефанович Мокульский (Russian, 1896 – 1960) – preface Лев Николаевич Галицкий – commentary Дмитрий Евгеньевич Михальчи (Russian, 1900 – 1973) – commentary Михаил Ксенофонтович Соколов [Mikhail Sokolov] (Russian, 1885 – 1947) – artist Абрам Маркович Эфрос (Russian-Jewish, 1888 – 1954) – series editor -
NEWHardcover volume, 175 x 130 mm, in grey cloth with blue lettering in blind border with volutes to corners, blue lettering to spine; collated 8vo: [1]8, 1-258 262, i.e. 210 leaves plus 8 plates, incl. frontispiece portrait of the author, extraneous to collation, pp.: [i-iv] v-xiv [2] [2] 3-401 [3], errata slip tipped in. Print run 5,300 copies. Title-page: ШАРЛЬ МОНТЕСКЬЁ | ПЕРСИДСКИЕ | ПИСЬМА | Вступительная статья | Л. Е. Гальперина | ACADEMIA | 1936 || Title verso: CHARLES MONTESQUIEU | Lettres persianes | Переплет П. Г. Пастухова || Catalogue Raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова 840 (p. 280). Contributors: Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de (French, 1689–1755) Гальперин, Лев Ефимович (Russian-Jewish, 1872 – 1951) Пастухов, Павел Георгиевич (Russian, 1889 – 1960) -
NEWHardcover volume, 17 x 14 cm; bound in red buckram with gilt lettering in geometrical frame, black label with gilt lettering and fillets to flat spine. Print run 150,000 copies. Collation: 18 2-1316, i.e. 200 leaves plus 8 plates incl. frontispiece portrait of the author, pp. [2] 3-397 [3]. Title-page (red and black): МОНТЕСКЬЁ | ПЕРСИДСКИЕ | ПИСЬМА | {fleuron} | — | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | МОСКВА • 1956 || Title verso: MONTESQUIEU | LETTRES PERSIANES | 1721 | Перевод с французского | под редакцией | Е. А. ГУНСТА | Вступительная статья | С. Д. АРТАМОНОВА || Contributors: Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de (French, 1689–1755) – author Артамонов, Сергей Дмитриевич (Russian, 1915 – 1989) – author preface Гунст, Евгений Анатольевич (Russian, 1901 – 1983) – translator -
NEWHardcover volume, 8vo, 200 x 140 mm, bound in light blue cloth with vignette to front, cream printed label and lettering to flat spine; pictorial dust jacket, black lettering to spine, publisher’s device to back, and black lettering to flaps. Print-run 5,000 copies. Faux frontispieces, binding, and dust jacket designed by Н. В. Кузьмин. Collation: 1-388 394, i.e. 308 leaves plus 12 plates extraneous to collation, incl. frontispiece portrait of the author [1-7] 8-611 [5], errata slip tipped in. Title-page (blue and black): АЛЬФРЕД ДЕ МЮССЕ | ТЕАТР | Перевод, вступительная | статья и комментарии | А. В. Федорова | ACADEMIA | 1934 || Contre-title (blue and black): ФРАНЦУЗСКАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | Под общей редакцией | А. М. Эфроса | АЛЬФРЕД ДЕ МЮССЕ | (1810 – 1857) | СОЧИНЕНИЯ | ACADEMIA | Москва – Ленинград || Title verso: ALFRED DE MUSSET | THÉÂTRE | Фронтисписы титулов, | переплет и супер-обложка | Н. В. Кузьмина || Catalogue Raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова 653 (p. 250). Contents: Венецианская ночь, или Свадьба Лауретты; Андреа дель Сарто; Фантазио; Любовью не шутят; Лоренцаччо; Подсвечник; Не надо биться об заклад; Молча за дело; Всего не предусмотришь; Беттина (пер. Е. Геркена) Contributors: Musset, Alfred de (French, 1810–1857) – author Фёдоров, Андрей Венедиктович (Russian, 1906 – 1997) – translator Геркен, Евгений Георгиевич (Russian, 1886 – 1962) – translator Кузьмин, Николай Васильевич (Russian, 1890 – 1987) – artist Эфрос, Абрам Маркович (Russian-Jewish, 1888 – 1954) – editor -
NEWAnonymous manuscript half bound in green sheepskin, gilt lettering to spine, 382 x 325 x 65 mm, 424 pp. with pp. 368-400 blank, thick graph paper, tissue samples pasted throughout. According to the seller: “Important treatise on weaving decorated with numerous drawings, sketches, diagrams and samples of laminated fabrics (satin, silk, damask, velvet, etc.). Elegant work, beautiful writing in italics, all pages in a framing net. It contains chapters on the history of silk, the silkworm (hatching, transformation, etc.), silk spinning, dyeing, warping, folding, heddles, different types of mesh, satin, satin drifts, damask for dresses, royal damask for furnishings, velvet, etc. etc.” -
Unbound, unpaginated volume in illustrated French flapped wrappers, 360 x 270 mm, printed on mother-of-pearl Japanese paper, collated 154 + 142, 60+28, 44 leaves in-folio, folded in half, profusely illustrated with original colour lithograph, in a grey cloth clamshell box (390 x 290 x 90 mm) with inside pocket for CD (lacking), embossed vignette to front; limited edition of 284 copies, signed copy № 59 of 50 copies printed on Japon Nacré paper numbered 30-80. Includes 13 double-page colour plates signed by the artist, enriched with an original watercolour drawing on the back of the title-page, with autograph dedication "A Monsieur et Madame Kuhn Amicalement A Bonnefoit". Title-page (black and sanguine): GEORGES BRASSENS | VÉNUS | CALLIPYGE | Préface de Pierre Louki | Lithographies originales de | Alain BONNEFOIT | ÉDITIONS LATOUR – MARTIGNY || Colophon : Achevé d'imprimer | le 8 novembre 1993 | sur les presses de Pierre Jean Mathan | Boulogne-sur-Seine. | Les lithographies ont été tirées | dans les ateliers de Jean-Claude Perrin | Arts-Litho à Paris. | L'emboitage est de Piero Dallai | à Forence. || Deluxe edition of a collection of 13 songs by Brassens, illustrated with more than thirty original lithographs by Alain Bonnefoit, Contributors: Alain Bonnefoit (French, b. 1937) – artist Georges Brassens (French, 1821 – 1981) – author poetry Louki, Pierre (French, 1920 – 2006) – author preface Éditions Latour (Martigny) – publisher Pierre Jean Mathan (Boulogne-sur-Seine) – printer Jean-Claude Perrin, Arts-Litho (Paris) – lithorgapher Piero Dallai (Forence) – slipcase -
Hardcover, 20.4 x 14 cm, quarter burgundy cloth over paper boards with red and beige lettering and vignette to front and beige lettering to spine; pp.: [1-4] 5-182 [2], collation 8vo: 1-118 124, total 92 leaves. Design of binding and t.p. by В. Телепнев. Library pocket, stamps, and inscriptions. Title-page (red and black): Д. ГРАНИН | ЯРОСЛАВ | ДОМБРОВСКИЙ | ~ | ✸ | Издательство ЦК ВЛКСМ | “Молодая гвардия” | 1951 || Print run: 15,000 copies. Contributors: Даниил Александрович Гранин (Russian, 1919 – 2017) – author. Владимир Иванович Телепнев (Russian, 1906 – 1985) – artist. Jaroslaw Dombrowski [Jarosław Dąbrowski] (Polish-French, 1836 – 1871) – character. -
Hardcover, 17 x 13.4 cm, black buckram with red and silver vignette, lettering to front and spine, price and publisher's name embossed to back, pictorial endpapers with white lettering to red strips; pp.: [1-4] 5-268 [4], ils., collation: 16mo: 116 28 3-616 7-88 9-1016, total 136 leaves plus 3 photo plates after p. 32, 48, and 208. Frontispiece and in-text woodcuts after И. И. Старосельский. Title-page (red and black): ДАНИИЛ ГРАНИН | ГЕНЕРАЛ КОММУНЫ | (ЯРОСЛАВ ДОМБРОВСКИЙ) | — | Издательство | «СОВЕТСКАЯ РОССИЯ» | Москва — 1965 || Print run: 50,000 copies. Contributors: Даниил Александрович Гранин (Russian, 1919 – 2017) – author. Илья Израилевич Старосельский (Russian-Jewish, 1918 – 1968) – artist. Jaroslaw Dombrowski [Jarosław Dąbrowski] (Polish-French, 1836 – 1871) – character. -
Owner’s hardcover, 182 x 120 mm, yellow buckram, crimson morocco label to spine with gilt lettering; publisher’s pink wrappers preserved, round engraved bookplate to front pastedown “DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE JULES RICHARD” cut to the border (“Imp. r. C. Motteroz” cut out); Pp.: [4] [1-5] 6-83 [84], various mss and printed clippings, 2 extra ffls to front and back. Title-page: 1871-1873 | — | GORGES VEYSSET | — | UN ÉPISODE DE LA COMMUNE | ET DU | GOUVERNEMENT DE M. THIERS | PAR | Mme DE FORSANS-YEYSSET | — | BRUXELLES | LANDSBERGER & C°, LIBRAIRES ÉDITEURS | 2, RUE DE NAMUR, 2 | 1873 || Provenance: Jules Richard (French, 1848 – 1930). Ref: BNF. -
Hardcover, 242 x 168 mm, quarter burgundy cloth over blue paper boards, outer edge untrimmed; pp.: [6] [1-4] 5-516 [2 colophon/blank] [6 blanks]. First published in France in 2000 as “Haussmann” by Librairie Arthème Fayard. Title-page: HAUSSMANN | ~ | His Life and Times, | and the Making of Modern Paris | MICHEL CARMONA | TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY PATRICK CAMILER | {publisher’s device} | Ivan • R • Dee | Chicago 2002 || Michel Carmona (French, b. 1940) Georges-Eugène Haussmann [Baron Haussmann] (French, 1809 – 1891) -
Iron pliers painted black and outlined in gilt lacquer, with wooden handle and bronze seals, "Ex Libris Comte Tony de Vibraye", L17.1 x W6.9 x H7.5 cm. Provenance: Antoine Henri Gaston Hurault de Vibraye [Comte Tony de Vibraye] (French, 1893 – 1951). The book with such a stamp in this library: [LIB-3243.2023] Crébillon fils. La Nuit et le moment ou Les Matinées de Cythère / Illustrations de Sylvain Sauvage. — Paris: Au dépens d’un amateur, 1924. -
Hardcover, 20.2 x 15.5 cm, owner’s half blue morocco binding over marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, extracts from La Revue Blanche, numbers 91 and 92 of March 15 and April 1 of 1897 (année VII, tome XII), publisher’s pink wrappers preserved, pp. [2] [1-5] 6-160. Ref.: Bridget Alsdorf. Vallotton, Fénéon, and the Legacy of the Commune in Fin-de-siècle France. Portraits: François [Quico] Merlin Colonel Merlin (French, 1814 – 1900) Adolphe Thiers (French, 1797 – 1877) Commandant Gaveau Fortuné Henry (French, 1821 – 1882) Otto von Bismarck (German, 1815 – 1898) Henri, comte de Chambord (French, 1820 – 1883) Louis Rossel (French, 1844 – 1871) François Huet Tranquille (French, 1842 – after 1879) Joseph Vinoy (French, 1803 – 1880) Raoul Rigault (French, 1846 – 1871) Eugène Varlin (French, 1839 – 1871) Théophile Ferré (French, 1845 – 1871) Georges Darboy (French, 1813 – 1871) Auguste Vermorel (French, 1841 – 1871) Jaroslaw Dombrowski [Jarosław Dąbrowski] (Polish-French, 1836 – 1871) Contributors: Félix Fénéon (French, 1861 – 1944) Félix Vallotton (French, 1865 – 1925) La Revue Blanche (Paris) Imprimerie Alcan-Lévy -
Hardcover volume, 25.3 x 19.6 cm, bound in blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket, crimson endpapers, pp.: [1-4] 5-160, ils. Title-page: THE MAN WHO MADE PARIS | PARIS | THE ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY OF | GEORGES-EUGENE HAUSSMANN | WILLET WEEKS | Photographer of | scenes of Paris today | JEAN-CLAUDE MARTIN | (in frame) LONDON / HOUSE || Contributors: Willet Weeks (American)– author. Jean-Claude Martin (French-American) – photographer. Georges Eugène Haussmann (French, 1809 – 1891) – character. -
Hardcover volume 28.5 x 20.8 cm, quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt, spine with raised bands, gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, top margin gilt, original lithographic wrappers designed by A. Willette preserved; pp.: [4] h.t., t.p., [1] 2-350 [2], 300 b/w ils in-text and 12 coloured photomechanical reproductions extraneous to collation; collated in-4o: π2 1-444; Title-page: L'ART DU RIRE | ET DE | LA CARICATURE | PAR ARSÈNE ALEXANDRE | 300 FAC-SIMILÉS EN NOIR ET 12 PLANCHES EN COULEURS | D’APRÈS LES ORIGINAUX | {vignette} | PARIS | ANCIENNE MAISON QUANIN | LIBRAIRIES-IMPRIMERIES RÉUNIES | 7, RUE ST-BENOIT | MAY & MOTTEROZ, DIRECTEURS || Contributors : Librairie-Imprimerie réunies (Paris, 1880-1908) – publisher. Arsène Alexandre (French, 1859 – 1937) – author. Adolphe Willette (French, 1857 – 1926) – artist (wrapper) -
![[Hippolyte Prosper Olivier LISSAGARAY]. History of the Commune of 1871 / Translated from the French of Lissagaray by Eleanor Marx Aveling. London: Reeved and Turner, 1886. pp.: [i-v] vi-xv [1] 2-500.](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-1110.2016-d-500x500.jpeg)
Hardcover volume, collated in-8o, 21.9 c 14.6 cm, bound in half red morocco over red buckram by Palmer, Hove & Co. (Manchester), ruled in gilt, marbled end-papers, top edge gilt, spine with raised bands, ruled in gilt, gilt lettering; bookplate "Ex libris William John Robertson" with black ink ms dated 1922 to front pastedown. Insert paper clipping “In Memoriam” marked “D.W. 25.1.61.” Graphite ms to t.p.: “[assisted by Karl Marx]”. Pp.: [i-v] vi-xv [xvi blank], [1] 2-500; collation: ffl blank first and last, π8 A-2H8 2I2. Title-page: HISTORY | OF | THE COMMUNE OF 1871. | Translated from the French of | LISSAGARAY, | BY | ELEANOR MARX AVELING. | LONDON: | REEVES AND TURNER, 196 STRAND. | 1886.|| Contributors: Hippolyte Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray (French, 1838 – 1901) – author. Eleanor Marx [Aveling] (British, 1855 – 1898) – translator. William John Robertson (Canadian, 1846 – 1894) – provenance. The Russian translation of the same title: [LIB-1158.2016] Э. Лиссагарэ. История Парижской Коммуны в 1871 г. (Дешевая библиотека, № 274) / Пер. под ред. В. Базарова. — С.-Петербург: Знание, 1906. -
![Э. Лиссагарэ. История Парижской Коммуны в 1871 году / С французского. Полный перевод под редакцией В. Базарова. — С.-Петербург. 1906. (Дешевая библиотека товарищества "Знание", № 274). — pp.:[4] [1] 2-524. [Проспер Оливье Лиссагарэ].](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-1158.2016-d-500x500.jpeg)
Hardcover volume, collated in-8o, 21.1 x 14.9 cm, bound in half black polished morocco over green buckram boards, gilt lettering in rules to flat spine, brown diaper over cream endpapers, red ink oval library stamp in Estonian to t.p. «AJALOOMUUSEUM RAAMATUKOGU» (history museum library); pp.: [4] [1] 2-524, total 528 pages; collation π2 1-328 336, total 264 leaves. Title-page: ДЕШЕВАЯ БИБЛIОТЕКА ТОВАРИЩЕСТВА "ЗНАНIЕ". | № 274. | Э. Лиссагарэ. | ИСТОРIЯ ПАРИЖСКОЙ КОММУНЫ | въ 1871 г. | Съ французскаго. Полный переводъ | подъ редакцiей В. Базарова.| С.-ПЕТЕРБУРГЪ | 1906. || Original title: Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray. Histoire de la Commune de 1871. — Paris: E. Dentu, 1876. English translation by Eleanor Marx Aveling: [LIB-1110.2016] Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray. History of the Commune of 1871. — London: Reeves and Turner, 1886. Contributors: Hippolyte Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray (French, 1838 – 1901) – author. Владимир Александрович Базаров [Руднев, Vladimir Bazarov] (Russian, 1874 – 1939) – translator. -
Coin purse, or porte-monnaie, made of patinated copper alloy, full-grain brown leather outside and purple inside, with a clutch and a hinge, and an oval miniature bust portrait on each side, painted in colour with gold and silver, by an anonymous artist after Franz Xaver Winterhalter, inscribed NAPOLÉON III and L'IMPCE DES FRANÇAIS, respectively, under glass. Dimensions: 97 x 67 x 18 mm. Contributors: Napoleon III [Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte] (French, 1808 – 1873) – character/sitter. Eugénie de Montijo [María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick] (Spanish-French, 1826 – 1920) – character/sitter. Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805 – 1873) – artist.
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Hardcover volume, 18.2 x 11.8 cm, bound in quarter black polished calf with gilt lettering “cartonnage romantique” design to spine, marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers, blue margins. Title-page: SCÈNES | DE LA BOHÊME | PAR | HENRY MURGER | {publisher’s device ML} | PARIS | MICHEL LÉVY FRÈRES, LIBRAIRES-ÉDITEURS | RUE VIVIENNE, 2 bis. | 1851 || Half-title: ŒUVRES | D’HENRY MURGER || Advertisement: Chez le même Éditeurs. | BIBLIOTHEQUE CONTEMPORAINE | (page of text) || Collation: π2 (h.t/advert., t.p. / blank), 1-33 (17)12, χ6; total 212 leaves without ffls (3 front, 2 back). Pagination: [2] – h.t. / blank, [2] – t.p. / blank, [i] ii-xiii [xiv blank], [1] 2-406; total 424 pages. Scènes de la bohême, in later editions Scènes de la vie de bohème. Translations: Into English: LIB-2719.2021. Henri Murger. The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter. (Scènes de la vie de Bohême) / Translated from the French. — London: Vizetelly & Co., 1883. Into German: LIB-2686.2021. Henri Murger. Die Bohème : Szenen aus dem Pariser Künstlerleben. — Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1906. Into Russian: LIB-3182.2023. А. Мюрже. Сцены из жизни богемы / Пер. с франц. и прим. Е. А. Гунста; вст. ст. С. И. Великовского; художник Н. А. Кравченко. — М.: Художественная литература, 1963. Contributors: Murger, Henri [Henry] (French, 1822 – 1861) – author. -
Hardcover volume, 17.2 x 13.6 cm, bound in grey cloth with colour design elements and black and gilt lettering to front cover and spine, pp: [1-4] 5-455 [456]; collated 8vo: 1-228, 23-2410, 25-288; total 228 leaves. Frontispiece and headpieces – woodcuts by Н. А. Кравченко. Bookplate “EX LIBRIS | Д. И. Ривкиной” to front pastedown. Half-title: ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОЙ | ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | Москва 1963 || Title-page: А. МЮРЖЕ | СЦЕНЫ | ИЗ | ЖИЗНИ | БОГЕМЫ | {lyre} | Перевод с французского | Е. А. ГУНСТА || Title-page verso: HENRY MURGER | SCÈNES | de la | VIE DE BOHÈME | 1851 | Редактор перевода | Е. Н. БИРУКОВА | Вступительная статья | С. И. ВЕЛИКОВСКОГО | Примечания | Е. А. ГУНСТА | Художник | Н. А. КРАВЧЕНКО || Print run: 50,000 copies. Сцены из жизни богемы [Scènes de la vie de bohème]; First edition: Henry Murger. Scènes de la bohême. — Paris: M. Lévy frères, 1851 [LIB-2732.2021]. Contributors: Murger, Henri [Henry] (French, 1822 – 1861) – original text (French). Евгений Анатольевич Гунст (Russian, 1901 – 1983) – translation, commentary. Самарий Израилевич Великовский (Russian, 1931 – 1990) – foreword. Наталья Алексеевна Кравченко (Russian, 1916 – 2017) – atrist. Д. И. Ривкина – provenance. -
Hardcover volume, 20.7 x 13.5 cm, modern half morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettering and ornament to spine, pp.: [i-vii] viii-xvi [17] 18-255 [256], collated 8vo: 1-168, 128 leaves. Title-page: HIÉROLOGIES | OU | DISCOURS | HISTORIQUES ET DOGMATIQUES | Sur les Superfétations | APPORTÉES A LA RÉVÉLATION DU CHRIST, | PRONONCÉS AU TEMPLE DES CHRÉTIENS PRIMITIFS, | DEPUIS LE 15 AOUT JUSQU’AU 1er DÉCEMBRE 1833, ET DEPUIS LE 2 FÉVRIER | JUSQU’AU 25 MAI 1834, | SUIVIS DU DISCOURS | SUR LES TROIS VERSIONS DE LA BIBLE, | PRONONCÉ LE 20 JUILLET 1834 ; | Par M. le C. Marie de Venise, | VICAIRE PRIMATIAL DE L’EGLISE DE France. | {1 line citation} | — | Paris. | AU BUREAU CENTRAL D’IMPRIMERIE ET DE LIBRAIRE, | Rue Saint-Marc, No 21; | ET AU TEMPLE DES CHRÉTIENS PRIMITIFS, | RUE ET COUR DAMIETTE, PRÈS LA PLACE DU KAIRE. | — | 1834 || Contributors : Félix Ragon (French, 1795 – 1872) – author. Seller's description: [RAGON (Félix) : Hiérologies ou Discours historiques et dogmatiques sur les Superfétations apportées à la révélation du Christ suivis du Discours sur les trois versions de la Bible. Paris, au Bureau central et au Temple des Chrétiens Primitifs, 1834 ; in 8°, demi-basane brune à coins. Reliure pastiche moderne. Edition originale extrêmement rare, dont le tirage est estimé à 50 ex. -
Title page: DIALOGUE AUX ENFERS | ENTRE | MACHIAVEL | ET MONTESQUIEU | OU LA POLITIQUE DE MACHIAVEL | AU XIXe SIÈCLE, | PAR UN CONTEMPORAIN. | {6 lines of citations} | ~ | BRUXELLES, | IMPRIMERIE DE A. MERTENS ET FILS, | RUE DE L’ESCALIER, 22. | – | 1864 || Description: 19 x 12.7 cm, quarter green morocco over blue marbled boards, spine with raised bands ruled in gilt, gilt fleurons in compartments, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers; three paper clippings laid in. Collation: 12mo; π5 1-2712 292; total 175 leaves. Pagination: [2] blank, [2] h.t, [2] t.p. [i] ii-iii [iv] [1] 2-337 [338] blank [2] errata]; total 350 pages. Contributors: Maurice Joly (French, 1829 – 1878) – author. Characters: Niccolò Machiavelli (Italian, 1469 – 1527) Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (French, 1689 – 1755) The publication was funded by the author and smuggled into France. See other copies: LIB-2913.2021, LIB-1034.2016 and LIB-0460.2015. Other related objects: SVVP-0062.2021. Seller's description: [JOLY (Maurice)]: Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu. Bruxelles, Mertens et fils, 1864 ; un volume in 12, demi-chagrin vert orné de l'époque. C'est dans ce livre que Joly écrit, au prétexte d'une discussion philosophique et politique, comment Napoléon III, selon lui, a manipulé les milieux économiques, la presse, l'opinion publique, les syndicats, les milieux ouvriers, le peuple, etc., pour établir un pouvoir politique fort, ce qui lui valut un séjour de 15 mois à la prison Sainte-Pélagie à Paris. -
Hardcover volume 20 x 14 cm, bound in burgundy half faux chagrin over brown faux chagrin boards, gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, all margins sprinkled blue. Convolute: 1) SPIRITOMANES ET SPIRITOPHOBES |— | ÉTUDE | SUR LE | SPIRITISME | PAR LE | DOCTEUR HUGUET | De la Faculté de Paris | {« ED » publsiher’s device} | PARIS | E. DENTU, LIBRAIRE-ÉDUTEUR | Palais-Royal, 17-19, Galerie d’Orléans | – | 1875 | Tous droits réservés ||; pp. [1-7] 8-48, with Dr Huguet signature to h.t. verso. Contents: Introduction. I. Le procès du 16 juin 1875; MM. Firman, Buguet, Leymarie. II. Le Spiritisme dans ses rapports avec le dogme, l’histoire, la science. Conclusion. 2) Same, pp. [1-7] 8-48, with Dr Huguet signature to h.t. verso. 3) FÉDÉRATION SPIRITE BELGE | — | Étude critique | DU LIVRE INTITULÉ | L'Hypnotisme | et le Spiritisme | du Docteur Joseph LAPPONI | Médecin de L. L. S. S. LÉON XIII et PIE X. | * | CONFÉRENCE | PAR | J. FRAIKIN | Président de la Fédération Spirite de Liége, | Vice-Président de la Fédération Spirite Belge. | * | Imp. Emile Dumon | Rue Haute-Marexhe, 27, Herstal-Liége. ||; pp. [1-3] 4-50 [51] errata/blank. 4) BUREAU PERMANENT D’ÉTUDE | DES | PHÉNOMÈNES SPIRITES | ANVERS | * | Cours De Doctrine Spirite | — | Imprimerie et Publicité « LA GÉNÉRALE » (SOC. AN.) Anvers. ||; 6 leaves, pagination trimmed out with partly visible numbers 13 and 18 ; includes Deuxième leçon « Du passage de la vie… », t.p., 7 pp. of text, last three pages blank. 5) LA PSYCHOLOGIE EXPERIMENTALE || Manifeste adresse par le « Syndicat de la Presse spiritualiste de France » | au Congres spiritualiste de Londres (Juin 1898); pp. [1] 2-31 [32]. Contents: I. Prolégomènes. II. Télépathie. III. Médiumnité. Conclusion. 6) LE FLUIDE HUMAIN | Son existence/ | Ses lois * Ses propriétés | — | CONFÉRENCE | DONNÉE PAR LE | Sous-Lieutenant DE BACKERE | — ||; pp. [1-3] 4-28. Contributors: Hilarion Huguet (French, ? – ?) Alfred-Henri Firman (American, ? – ?) Édouard Isidore Buguet (1840 – 1901) Pierre-Gaëtan Leymarie (1827 – 1901) Giuseppe Lapponi (Italian, 1851 – 1906) Jacques Fraikin (Belgian, ? – ?) Franz de Backere (Belgian, ? – ?) -
Title-page: GOUVERNEMENTS | MINISTÈRES ET CONSTITUTIONS | DE LA FRANCE | DE 1789 A 1895 | Précis historique des révolutions, des crises ministérielles et gouvernementales | et des changements de Constitutions | Suivi de listes chronologiques, d’un index et d’un tableau synoptique | D’après les documents officiels | PAR | LÉON MUEL | ATTACHÉ AU SÉNAT, OFFICIER D’ACADÉMIE | Avec une Préface de M. ERNEST BOULANGER | SÉNATEUR, ANCIEN MINISTRE DES COLONIES, PREMIER PRÉSIDENT DE LA COUR DES COMPTES | CINQUIÈME ÉDITION | Revue, corrigée et augmentée | Illustrée de 12 portraits hors texte | — | PARIS | LIBRAIRIE GUILLAUMIN ET Cie | ÉDITEURS DU JOURNAL DES ÉCONOMISTES, DE LA COLLECTION DES PRINCIPAUX ÉCONOMISTES | DU DICTIONNAIRE DE L’ÉCONOMIE POLITIQUE | DU DICTIONNAIRE UNIVERSEL DU COMMERCE ET DE LA NAVIGATION, ETC. | RUE RICHELIEU, 14 | 1895 | Tous droits réservés. || Binding: Hardcover, 22.1 x 16.6 cm x 5.0 cm, 8vo, quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, raised bands with gilt fillets and black label with gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers. Library stamps to t.p. and inside in blue ink: “VILLA St. JEAN | BIBLIOTHÈQUE | * FRIBOURG *”. Villa St. Jean International School, originally named Collège Villa St. Jean, was a private Catholic school in Fribourg, Switzerland, from 1903 to 1970 (see Wikipedia). Collation: ffl, π4, [1] 2-348, χ6, Suppl.: [1] 2-98, χ2, ffl; total within the flyleaves 282+76 leaves, some uncut; plus twelve plates (photographs) with tissue guards and two folding tables. Pagination: [i-v] vi-x, [2] [1] 2-4, (lacks 4: 5-8) [9] 10-535 [536] (lacks 2: 537, 538) [539] 540-557 [558 blank]; Supplément [1] 2-144, [145-6 table alphabét./blank], [147-8 table des matières/blank]; total within the flyleaves 564+148 pages, ils., plates. Provenance: Library of Villa St. Jean, Fribourg, Switzerland. Contributors: Muel, Léon (French, 1850 – 19..?) – author. Boulanger, Ernest-Théophile (French, 1831 – 1907) – author of preface. Librairie de Guillaumin et Cie – publisher. Table of contents:AVANT-PROPOSLETTRE-PRÉFACEPREMIÈRE PARTIEI. – MONARCHIE FRANÇAISE – BOURBONSLouis XVI, roi de France et de Navarre (10 MAI 1774 – 21 SEPTEMBRE 1792)II. – RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE (21 SEPTEMBRE 1792 – 18 MAI 1804)Convention nationale (20 SEPTEMBRE 1792 – 26 OCTOBRE 1795)Directoire exécutif (2 NOVEMBRE 1795 – 10 NOVEMBRE 1799)Consulat (19 BRUMAIRE AN VIII – 28 FLORÉAL AN XII) (10 NOVEMBRE 1799-18 MAI 1804);III. – EMPIRE FRANÇAIS (18 MAI 1804 – 31 MARS 1814)Napoléon Ier, Empereur des Français (18 MAI 1804 – 31 MARS 1814)Gouvernement provisoire (1er 14 AVRIL 1814)IV. – RESTAURATION – BOURBONS (14 AVRIL 1814 – 29 JUILLET 1830)Lieutenance générale du Royaume (14 AVRIL – 2 MAI 1814)Louis XVIII, roi de France et de Navarre (2 MAI 1814 – 20 MARS 1815)Cent Jours (20 MARS – 22 JUIN 1815)Commission de Gouvernement (22 JUIN – 7 JUILLET 1815)Louis XVIII, roi de France et de Navarre (8 JUILLET 1815 – 16 SEPTEMBRE 1824)Charles X, roi de France et de Navarre (16 SEPTEMBRE 1824 – 29 JUILLET 1830)Révolution de 1830Chute de Charles X et du ministère Polignac (29 JUILLET 1830). Gouvernement provisoire (29 – 31 JUILLET 1830)V. – MONARCHIE CONSTITUTIONNELLE – BRANCHE D'ORLÉANS (31 JUILLET 1830 – 24 FÉVRIER 1848)Lieutenance générale du Royaume (31 JUILLET – 9 AOUT 1830)Louis-Philippe Ier, roi des Français (9 AOUT 1830 – 24 FÉVRIER 1848)Révolution de 1848Chute du ministère Guizot (23 février) et du roi Louis-Philippe (24 février 1848)VI. – DEUXIÈME RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE (24 FÉVRIER 1848 – 2 DÉCEMBRE 1852)Gouvernement provisoire (24 FÉVRIER – 9 MAI 1848)Assemblée Nationale Constituante (4 MAI 1848 – 26 MAI 1849)Commission exécutive (9 MAI – 24 JUIN 1848)Le général Cavaignac chef du Pouvoir exécutif Président du Conseil des Ministres (28 JUIN – 20 DÉCEMBRE 1848)Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte Président de la République Française (20 DÉCEMBRE 1848 – 2 DÉCEMBRE 1852)VII. – SECOND EMPIRE FRANÇAIS (2 DÉCEMBRE 1852 – 4 SEPTEMBRE 1870)Napoléon III, empereur des Français (2 DÉCEMBRE 1852 – 4 SEPTEMBRE 1870)Révolution du 4 septembre 1870 Chute du second Empire et du ministère PalikaoVIII. – TROISIÈME RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE (4 SEPTEMBRE 1870)Gouvernement de la Défense nationale (4 SEPTEMBRE 1870 – 17 FÉVRIER 1871)Assemblée Nationale Constituante (13 FÉVRIER 1871 – 8 MARS 1876)M. Thiers Chef du Pouvoir exécutif (17 FÉVRIER – 31 AOUT 1871)M. Thiers Président de la République Française (31 AOUT 1871 – 24 MAI 1873)M. le Maréchal de Mac-Mahon, duc de Magenta Président de la République Française (24 MAI 1873 – 30 JANVIER 1879)M. Jules Grévy Président de la République Française (30 JANVIER 1879 – 2 DÉCEMBRE 1887)M. Carnot Président de la République française (3 DÉCEMBRE 1887 – 25 JUIN 1894)SECONDE PARTIE.Listes chronologiques, par ministère, de tous les ministres, depuis le 5 mai 1789 jusqu'en 1890 -
Hardcover, 28 x 20 cm, quarter sheepskin over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, gilt lettering to flat spine with gilt fillet bands, clipping pasted to front fep verso. Title-page: GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC — PAUL DE CASSAGNAC | ~ | HISTOIRE POPULAIRE | ILLUSTRÉE | DE | L'EMPEREUR NAPOLEON III | TOME I (II) | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | E. LACHAUD ET Cie, LIBRAIRES-ÉDITEURS | 4, PLACE DU THÉATRE-FRANÇAIS, 4 | – | Tous droits réservés || Collation: (v.1) π2 [1]-504, (v.2) π2 1-494; total 400 leaves plus albumen photograph pasted to frontispiece and 96 full-page woodcuts within collation. Pagination: [4] [1] 2-398 [2], [4] [1] 2-390 [2], ils.; total 800 pp. Contributors: Bernard Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac (French, 1806 – 1880) – father. Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac (French, 1843 – 1904) – son. -
Brown cloth 24 x 15.5 cm, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, 'Cowles Library - Drake University' stamps inside and to edges, library card pocket to the pastedown, removed sticker to spine, top edge red, pictorial endpapers, pp.: [i-iv] v-xv [xvi], 1-372, total 388 pages; collated in-16mo: [1]-916 1018 11-1216, total 194 leaves plus four leaves of plates before gathering 6, four leaves of plates before gathering 9, and a folding map at the end, gathering 8 unsigned. Half-title: STUDIES IN URBAN HISTORY I | General Editor: H. J. Dyos | Reader in Urban History at the | University of Leicester || Title-page: The Autumn | of Central Paris | The Defeat of Town Planning 1850-1970 | Anthony Sutcliffe | Research Fellow in Modern History at the | University of Birmingham | {blank} | {publisher’s device} | Edward Arnold || ISBN: 9780713155495; 0713155493. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 1035744553. Contents: Introduction -- The Grand Design -- The Struggle to Complete the Imperial Plan -- The Period of Distractions -- Building in the Right Bank Centre, 1850 -- 1914 -- The Indian Summer of Central Paris -- The Battle for Preservation, 1850-1914 -- The Abandonment of the Grand Design -- The Approach of Obsolescence -- Victory for Preservation -- Conclusion -- Appendix I : Sources -- Appendix 2 : Graphs and Diagrams Anthony Sutcliffe (British, 1942 – 2011) – author. Harold James Dyos (British, 1921–1978) – general editor of the series. -
Hardcover volume, 28.5 x 25.5 cm, green lettered boards, pictorial dust jacket, pp.: [1-13] 14-143 [144], ils., inset: double-sheet 29.7 x 21 cm, “Exposition du 4 novembre 2006 au 4 février 2007”. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Gabriel Laurin d'Aix (1901-1973)" held at the Musée Ziem, Martigues, Nov. 3, 2006 — Feb. 4, 2007. Title-page: GABRIEL LAURIN | un monde en couleurs | 1901-1973 | Sous la direction de Gérard Fabre | Texte de Jeanine Warnod | {publishers devices} || Contributors: Gabriel Laurin (French, 1901 – 1973) Jeanine Warnod (French, b. 1921) Gérard Fabre (French, b. 1963) -
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. -
Title-page: CURIOSITÉS | DE L’HISTOIRE | DU VIEUX PARIS | PAR | P. L. JACOB | BIBLIOPHILE | { LES NOMS DES RUES | LES RUES DE CITÉ | LES RUES HONTEUSES AU MOYEN AGE. | PROMENADES DANS LE VIEUX PARIS EN 1834. | PHYSIOLOGIE DU PONT NEUF. | BICÊTRE } | PARIS | ADOLPHE DELAHAYS, LIBRAIRE-ÉDITEUR | 4-6, RUE VOLTAIRE, 4-6 | – | 1858 || Description: Hardcover, in-16o, 17 x 11 cm, quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering, gilt fleurons, marbled endpapers, original wrappers with red and black lettering within red frame bound in, some pages uncut. Collation: 8vo; π2 14, 2-238 244, total 186 leaves between original wrappers. Pagination: [4] [1] 2-364 [4], total 372 pages. Catalogue raisonné: Vicar: I, 770. Contributors: Printer: Simon Raçon et Comp. (Paris). Author: Paul Lacroix [P. L. Jacob] (French, 1806 – 1884). Publisher: Adolphe Delahays (French, mid-19th century). -
Title-page: E. CRESSON |—| CENT JOURS DE SIÈGE | A LA | PRÉFECTURE DE POLICE | 2 NOVEMBRE 1870 — 11 FÉVRIER 1871 | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | LIBRAIRIE PLON | PLON-NOURRIT ET Cie, IMPRIMEURS-ÉDITEURS | RUE GARANCIÈRE, 8 | 1901 | Tous droits réservés || Description: 8vo, 22 x 14.5 cm, quarter brown calf over marbled boards, flat spine with gilt fillets, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers; inscriptions to t.p.: 2117 A | Ba V –1 1bis 3; ink stamps to t.p.: (1) « LÉGION DE LA GARDE REPUBLICAINE | BIBLIOTÈQUE | des Sous-Officiers | Brigadiers et Gardes | DE L’INFANTERIA | NAPOLEON » ; (2) « LÉGION DE LA GARDE REPUBLICAINE | BIBLIOTÈQUE | DE LA CASERNE | DU | PRINCE-EUGÈNE | (hand) XIII | XX—86 » Collation: 8vo; π6 1-248 252, total 200 leaves. Pagination: [2] [i-v] vi-x, [1] 2-385 [3], total 400 pages. BNF: ark:/12148/bpt6k4936n Author: Ernest Cresson (French, 1824 – 1902) -
Exterior: 4to, 27.3 x 18 cm, quarter black morocco over marbled boards, double gilt fillet border, spine with raised bands, compartments framed in gilt with gilt fleurons, black label lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers. Inscription to half-title in the bottom: no 411. Bookplate to front pastedown. Title-page: LES | PRISONS DE PARIS | HISTOIRE, TYPES, MŒURS, MYSTÈRES | PAR | MAURICE ALHOY ET LOUIS LURINE | ÉDITION ILLUSTRÉE. | {vignette} | PARIS — 1846 | PUBLIÉ PAR GUSTAVE HAVARD | 24, RUE DES MATHURINS-SAINT-JACQUES. || Printer: Lacrampe et Comp. Collation: 4to; π2 a4 1-684 χ2; total 280 leaves and 34 leaves of plates. Pagination: first and last leaves blank; [2 -h.t./imprint.] [2 - t.p./blank] [2 dedication/blank] [i intro] ii-vi, [1] 2-544 [2 - list of plates/advert.] [2 - contents/blank]; total 560 pages, plus 34 wood-engraved plates, incl. a frontispiece by Laisne after Bertall, and numerous in-text woodcuts. Provenance: Bookplate of Selim Hippolyte Ansart (French, 1829 – 1897), commissar of police in the Second Empire and shortly after (chef de la police municipaie ; chevalier du 13 août 1867; vingt-trois ans de service effectif). Authors: Philadelphe-Maurice Alhoy (French, 1802 – 1856) Louis Lurine (French, 1812 – 1860) Artists: Bertall [ Bertal; Charles Albert d’Arnoux (French, 1820 – 1882) Jules [Jean-Baptiste] David (French, 1808–1892) Charles-François Pinot (French, 1817 – 1879) Eustache Lorsay [French, Eugène Lampsonius] (1822 – 1871) Pierre Édouard Frère (French, 1819 – 1886) Charles-Édouard de Beaumont (French, 1819 – 1888) Engravers Laisné Adèle / Aglaé / Alfred (French, fl. 1835 – 1868) Louis Dujardin (French, 1808 – 1859) François Rouget (Belgian, c. 1825 – ?) Janet-Lange [Ange-Louis Janet] (French, 1815 – 1872) Jacques Adrien Lavieille (French, 1818 – 1862) Timms (French, fl. c. 1839 – 1865) Félix Leblanc (French, 1823 – ?) Émile Montigneul (French, fl. 1840 – 1850) -
Gustave Macé. La Police parisienne. Le vilain monde. Les dépeceurs de cadavres. Gibier de Saint-Lazare — Paris: Librairie illustrée, [1889]. Title-page: LA | POLICE PARISIENNE |—| LE VILAIN MONDE |—| LES DEPECEURS DE CADAVRES |—| GIBIER DE SAINT-LAZARE |—| Par | G. MACE | ANCIEN CHEF DE LA POLICE DE SURETÉ | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | LIBRAIRIE ILLUSTRÉE | 8, RUE SAINT-JOSEPH, 8 || Description: Hardcover, 4to, 28 x 20 cm, quarter green calf over green marbled boards, raised bands, gilt lettering and gilt fillets to spine, marbled endpapers. Collation:1st bank, [π2 h.t., t.p.], [1]-1074 [108]2 table, last blank; total 432 leaves; 107 woodcuts by Puyplat after E. Mas (on the recto of the first leaf of each complete gathering). Pagination: [4] [1-3] 4-859 [860]; total 864 pp. Edition: Later edition, probably 1889; the 1st edition was published in 1885. Contributors: Gustave Macé (French, 1835 – 1904) – author. Émile Mas (French, 1866 – 1950) – artist. Jules Jacques Puyplat (French, fl. c. 1877 – 1893) – engraver. -
Description: Hardcover volume bound in red cloth with black lettering to front cover and spine, in a red dustjacket with black lettered, bookplate to front pastedown “ from the library of | DAVID. D. LEVINE | Militaria” in triple fillet frame, bookseller’s label to front fep “CHAS. E. LAURIAT CO. | IMPORTERS & BOOKSELLERS | 385 Wash’n St. Boston”. Title-page in red and black: MY DAYS OF ADVENTURE | THE FALL OF FRANCE, 1870-71 | BY ERNEST ALFRED VIZETELLY | LE PETIT HOMME ROUGE | AUTHOR OF “THE COURT OF THE TUILERIES 1852-70” ETC. | {publisher’s device} | WITH A FRONTISPIECE | LONDON | CHATTO & WINDUS | 1914 || Pagination: [2] advert., [i-vii] viii-xi [xii] [2] contents/blank, [1] 2-337 [338] [2], 340 pages total plus photo frontis. Collation: [A8] B-Y8 Z2, 170 leaves total plus one leaf of plates. Provenance: David D. Levine Contributors: Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (British, 1853 – 1922) – author. Charles E. Lauriat Company, Booksellers and Importers, Boston, Massachusetts. Charles Emelius Lauriat, Jr. (American, 1874 – 1937) – collector of rare books and prints Chatto & Windus (London) – publisher. David Daniel Levine (Australian, 1944 – 2020) – Australian judge and book collector
