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A two-volume edition. 1st vol. Title (in black and red): МИШЕЛЬ | МОНТЕНЬ | ОПЫТЫ | В ТРЕХ КНИГАХ | КНИГИ | ПЕРВАЯ И ВТОРАЯ | Издание подготовили | А. С. БОБОВИЧ | Ф. А. КОГАН-БЕРНШТЕЙН | Н. Я. РЫКОВА, А. А. СМИРНОВ | Второе издание | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО "НАУКА | МОСКВА | 1979 || Opposite title: MICHEL |de | MONTAIGNE | LES ESSAIS || Pagination: [1-5] 6-703 [1], errata slip. Collation: 16mo, [1]-2216, + frontispiece portrait and 2 plates extraneous to collation. 2nd vol. Title (2) (in black and red): МИШЕЛЬ | МОНТЕНЬ | ОПЫТЫ | В ТРЕХ КНИГАХ | КНИГА ТРЕТЬЯ | Издание подготовили | А. С. БОБОВИЧ | Ф. А. КОГАН-БЕРНШТЕЙН | Н. Я. РЫКОВА, А. А. СМИРНОВ | Второе издание | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО "НАУКА | МОСКВА | 1979 || Opposite title: MICHEL |de | MONTAIGNE | LES ESSAIS || Pagination: [1-5] 6-534 [2]. Collation: 8vo, [1]-348, + frontispiece portrait. Binding: Uniformly bound in serial design green cloth with gilt lettering on an embossed scroll to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, 22 x 18 cm. Print run: 200,000 copies each volume. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (French, 1533 – 1592) Ананий [Анатолий] Самуилович Бобович (Russian-Jewish, 1904 – 1988) Надежда Януарьевна Рыкова (Russian, 1901 – 1996) Александр Александрович Смирнов (Russian, 1883– 1962) Фаина Абрамовна Коган-Бернштейн [b. Аронгауз] (Russian-Jewish, 1899 – 1976) -
Жан де Лабрюйер | ХАРАКТЕРЫ, | ИЛИ | НРАВЫ | НЫНЕШНЕГО | ВЕКА | Перевод с французского | Э. ЛИНЕЦКОЙ И Ю. КОРНЕЕВА | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | «ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА» | МОСКВА • ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1964 || Pagination: frontis., [2] 3-413 [414-416]; print run 50,000 copies. Collation : 8vo, [1]-268. Binding: 21 x 13.5 cm, olive buckram, lettering to cover and spine. Jean de La Bruyère (French, 1645 – 1696). Юрий Борисович Корнеев (Russian, 1921—1995). Эльга Львовна (Лейбовна) Линецкая [b. Фельдман] (Russian-Jewish, 1909 — 1997) -
Title: АННА КОМНИНА | АЛЕКСИАДА | Перевод, комментарий и статьи | Я. Н. Любарского | Издание третье, исправленное и дополненное | Санкт-Петербург | АЛЕТЕЙЯ | 2010 || Series: Византийская библиотека. Источники. Pagination: [i-v] vi-lxvi [1] 2-682 [4]. Binding: 21.5 x 15 cm; hardcover, crimson buckram, gilt lettering, border and serial device on black. Edition: 3rd edition. Print run: 1,000 copies. ISBN: 978-5-91419-301-7. Anna Komnene [Άννα Κομνηνή; Anna Comnena] (Byzantine, 1083 – 1150s). Любарский, Яков Николаевич (Russian, 1929 – 2003) -
Title: МИХАИЛ ПСЕЛЛ | ХРОНОГРАФИЯ |Перевод, статья и примечания | Я. Н. Любарского | КРАТКАЯ ИСТОРИЯ | Перевод | Д. А. Черноглазова и Д. Р. Абдрахмановой | «АЛЕТЕЙЯ» | Санкт-Петербург | 2003 || Series: Византийская библиотека. Источники. Pagination: [1-8] 9-396 [4], frontis. Binding: 21.5 x 15 cm; hardcover, crimson buckram, gilt lettering in the border, gilt serial device on black, map endpapers. Print run: 1,000 copies. ISBN: 5-89329-594-3. Михаи́л Пселл [Μιχαήλ Ψελλός; Michael Psellos] (Byzantine, 1018 – c. 1078). Любарский, Яков Николаевич (Russian, 1929 – 2003). -
Title: К 550-летию великой трагедии | ВИЗАНТИЙСКИЕ | ИСТОРИКИ | О ПАДЕНИИ | КОНСТАНТИНОПОЛЯ | в 1453 году | Под редакцией | Я. Н. Любарского, | Т. И. Соболь | Санкт-Петербург | АЛЕТЕЙЯ | 2006 || Series: Византийская библиотека. Источники. Pagination: [1-5] 6-189 [3]. Binding: 21.5 x 15 cm; hardcover, crimson buckram, gilt lettering in the border, gilt serial device on black, map endpapers. Print run: 1,000 copies. ISBN: 5-89329-766-0. Michael Critobulus [Μιχαήλ Κριτόβουλος; Михаил Критовул] (Greek, c. 1410 – c. 1470). Doukas [Dukas; Дука; Δούκας] (Greek, c. 1400 – after 1462). Laonikos Chalkokondyles [Laonicus Chalcocondyles; Λαόνικος Χαλκοκονδύλης; Лаоник Халкокондил] (Greek, c. 1430 – c. 1470). Любарский, Яков Николаевич (Russian, 1929 – 2003). -
Title: ПРОДОЛЖАТЕЛЬ ФЕОФАНА | ЖИЗНЕОПИСАНИЯ | ВИЗАНТИЙСКИХ ЦАРЕЙ | Издание второе, исправленное и дополненное | Санкт-Петербург | АЛЕТЕЙЯ | 2009 || Pagination: [108] 9-398 [2]. Binding: 21.5 x 15 cm; hardcover, crimson buckram, gilt lettering in the border, gilt serial device on black, pictorial endpapers. Print run: 1,000 copies. ISBN: 978-5-91419-146-4. Theophanes Continuatus [Продолжатель Феофана; συνεχισταί Θεοφάνους] (Byzantine, 9th century). Любарский, Яков Николаевич (Russian, 1929 – 2003). -
Title: П. В. БЕЗОБРАЗОВ | Я. Н. ЛЮБАРСКИЙ | ВИЗАНТИЙСКИЙ ПИСАТЕЛЬ | И ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬ | МИХАИЛ ПСЕЛЛ | МИХАИЛ ПСЕЛЛ: | ЛИЧНОСТЬ И ТВОРЧЕСТВО | Научное издание | Издательство | «АЛЕТЕЙЯ» | Санкт-Петербург | 2001 || Pagination: [1-5] 6-542 [2]. Binding: 21.5 x 15 cm; hardcover, crimson buckram, gilt lettering in the border, gilt serial device on black, pictorial endpapers. Print run: 1,300 copies. ISBN: 5-89329-401-7 Безобразов, Павел Владимирович (Russian, 1859 – 1918). Любарский, Яков Николаевич (Russian, 1929 – 2003). -
Title: Я. Н. ЛЮБАРСКИЙ | ВИЗАНТИЙСКИЕ | ИСТОРИКИ | И ПИСАТЕЛИ| Издание второе, дополненное | Санкт-Петербург | АЛЕТЕЙЯ | 2012 || Pagination: [2] – serial h.t., [1-5] 6-502 [2] +frontispiece portrait. Binding: 21.5 x 15 cm; hardcover, crimson buckram, gilt lettering in the border, gilt serial device on black, pictorial endpapers. Print run: 1,000 copies. ISBN: 978-5-91419-682-7. Любарский, Яков Николаевич (Russian, 1929 – 2003). -
Title: THE BOHEMIANS | OF | THE LATIN QUARTER. | (SCÈNES DE LA VIE DE BOHÊME.) | By HENRI MURGER. | ILLUSTRATED WITH 10 ETCHINGS FROM DESIGNS BY MONTADER. |{publisher’s device}| LONDON: | VIZETELLY & CO., 16, HENRIETTA STREET, | COVENT GARDEN. | 1888. || Pagination: [i-v] vi-xxxiv, [1] 2-317 [318 blank]; collation: 8vo, π1 (h.t.), [a]-b8, B-U8 X7 + 10 etchings by Charles Courtry after Alfred Montader (incl. frontispiece and portrait of Henri Murger). Binding: 23 x 14.5 cm, olive cloth, black lettering to cover and gilt lettering to spine. Contributors: Murger, Henri [Henry] (French, 1822 – 1861) – original text (French). Montader, Pierre Marie Alfred (French, fl. c. 1881 – 1925) – artist. Courtry, Charles Jean Louis (French, 1846 – 1897) – engraver. Vizetelly, Henry Richard (British, 1820 – 1894) – publisher. -
Title: THE | FABLES OF ÆSOP, | AND OTHERS, | WITH DESIGNS ON WOOD, | BY | THOMAS BEWICK. | “The wisest of the Ancients delivered their Conceptions of the Deity, and their Lessons of Morality, in Fables and Parables.” | {vignette} | NEWCASTLE: | PRINTED BY E. WALKER, FOR T. BEWICK AND SON. | SOLD BY THEM, LONGMAN AND CO. LONDON, AND ALL BOOKSELLERS. | 1818. || Pagination: [2] – blank / receipt with thumbprint, [i, ii] – t.p. / blank, [iii] iv-xvi – introduction with “Auld Clouty” vignette, [xvii] xviii-xxiv – table of contents, [1] 2-376; 188 wood-engraved head-pieces to the fables and 136 other vignettes, tail-pieces, etc. Collation: demy 8vo( octavo in fours); π1 (receipt), a-c4, B-3B4; A and 2P2 unsigned. Binding: Original blue boards, rebacked, original spine laid down, with original paper spine label ("Demy Paper/Price 15 s."); wove paper, top edge trimmed, the others are not; round book-plate to front paste-down “TWM, The Whitehead Library”; in a clamshell case, also book-plated inside. Size: case: 24.2 x 16.2 cm; boards: 22.8 x 14.2 cm; 22 x 14 cm. Note from seller: First copy in boards to ever appear at auction. Edition: First edition (one of 1,000 copies printed in demy 8vo), with Bewick's thumbprint and signature in facsimile, “Demy” and “15” in manuscript on receipt (page facing title-page), variant A (with "Auld Clouty" wood-engraving at bottom of p. XVI, and with the last line in p. 248 reading "road of honour and honesty"). "According to Roscoe, demy 8vo copies were apparently the first to be issued". There is 1 copy at the University Library, Cambridge and 1 at Liverpool public libraries. Catalogue raisonné: Roscoe: pp. 155-165, 45c for Variant A [see LIB-2714.2021]; Hugo (I vol.): p. 261; Ray: p. 35; Steedman: №№ 99-104, pp. 34-35 (№ 103 for Variant A). -
Title: A COMPLETE | COURSE OF LITHOGRAPHY: | CONTAINING | Clear and Explicit Instructions | IN ALL THE | DIFFERENT BRANCHES AND MANNERS OF THAT ART | ACCOMPANIED BY | ILLUSTRATIVE SPECIMENS OF DRAWINGS. | TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A | HISTORY OF LITHOGRAPHY, | FROM ITS ORIGIN TO THE PRESENT TIME. | By ALOIS SENEFELDER, | INVENTOR OF THE ART OF LITHOGRAPHY AND CHEMICAL PRINTING. | WITH | A PREFACE | By FREDERIC VON SCHLICHTEGROLL, |Director of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Munich. | TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GERMAN, BY A.S. | London: | PRINTED FOR R. ACKERMANN, 101 STRAND. | 1819. || Pagination: [i-iii] iv-xxviii, [4] [1] 2-342. Collation: 4to; [a]-d4, B-2U4 2X2, +14 lithographed plates by Ackermann (incl. 1 folding, 1 colour frontispiece and 1 portrait of A. Senefelder); plates opposite to pp. [i], [1], 193, 198, 203, 228, 232 (fold.), 256, 258, 264, 269, 290, 302, and 305. Binding: By Anne Krawitz (Philadelphia, PA), 27.5 x 21 cm, modern full mottled calf, boards ruled in gilt, flat spine, compartments ruled in gilt, crimson label with gilt lettering to spine, printed on wove paper; round book-plate to front paste-down “TWM, The Whitehead Library”. Edition: 1st in English. Ref.: MET: Accession Number: Ref.20; RCT: RCIN 1195886; Contributors: Alois Senefelder (German, 1771 – 1834) – author of the original and translator. Friedrich Schlichtegroll (German, 1765 – 1822) – author of preface. William Clowes (British, 1779 – 1847) – printer. Rudolph Ackermann (German-British, 1764 – 1834) – publisher and lithographer. Samuel Prout (British, 1783 – 1852) Maximilian Joseph, King of Bavaria (German, 1756 –1825) – dedicatee. -
Hardcover in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket, 25.5 x 19.5 cm, pp.: [1-4] 5-452, +12 colour plates; 576 b/w plates within the pagination. -
Title: S. ROSCOE | THOMAS BEWICK | A BIBLIOGRAPHY RAISONNÉ | OF EDITIONS OF THE | GENERAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS | THE HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS | AND THE | FABLES OF AESOP | ISSUED IN HIS LIFETIME | GEOFFREY CUMBERLEGE | OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS | LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO | 1953 || Pagination: [2], [i-iv] v-xxx, 1-198 [2]; collation: 8vo, [a]-b8, B-N8, O4, all plates within collation. Binding: 25.5 x 16.5 cm, tan cloth, black babel with gilt lettering, letterpress dust jacket. Contributors: Roscoe, Sydney – author. Cumberlege, Geoffrey Fenwick Jocelyn (British, 1891 – 1979) – publisher. Batey, Charles – printer -
Volume 1: Land birds – 7th edition; Supplement: 1st edition. Title: A | HISTORY | OF | BRITISH BIRDS. | THE FIGURES ENGRAVED ON WOOD BY T. BEWICK. | VOL. I. | CONTAINING THE | HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF LAND BIRDS | — | AND | A SUPPLEMENT, WITH ADDITIONAL FIGURES. | — | NEWCASTLE: | PRINTED BY EDWARD WALKER, PILGRIM STREET, | FOR T. BEWICK : SOLD BY HIM, AND E. CHARNLEY, NEWCASTLE ; | AND LONGMAN AND CO. LONDON. | 1821. || Pagination: [2 blanks], [i, ii] – t.p. / blank, [iii] iv-xl, [43] 44-330, [2] – suppl. t.p. / blank, [1] 2-46 [47] – contents, [48] – advert., [2 blanks]. Collation: 8vo in fours; π1 A-C4 E3 F-2S4 π1 B-G4; I2, N2, and 2A2 unsigned. Woodcuts: 157 descriptions of birds, 140 figures of birds, 127 vignettes, tail-pieces, figures in text, etc. Volume 2: Water birds – 5th edition; Supplement: 1st edition. Title: A | HISTORY | OF | BRITISH BIRDS. | THE FIGURES ENGRAVED ON WOOD BY T. BEWICK. | VOL. II. | CONTAINING THE | HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF WATER BIRDS | — | AND | A SUPPLEMENT, WITH ADDITIONAL FIGURES. | — | NEWCASTLE: | PRINTED BY EDWARD WALKER, PILGRIM STREET, | FOR T. BEWICK : SOLD BY HIM, AND E. CHARNLEY, NEWCASTLE ; | AND LONGMAN AND CO. LONDON. | 1821. || Pagination: [2 blanks], [i, ii] – t.p. / blank, [iii] iv-xxii, [19] 20-360, [2] – suppl. t.p. / blank, [1] 2-43 [44] – contents, [1] 2-7 – addenda., [8] – imprint, [2 blanks]. Collation: 8vo in fours; π1 A-B4 *B2 C-2X4 2Y3 π1 B-F4 G2 [H]4; E2, F2, G2, 2G2, 2T2 and Suppl. G2 and Addenda unsigned. Woodcuts: 162 descriptions of birds, 125 figures of birds, 137 vignettes, tail-pieces, figures in text, etc. Both volumes: Size: 21.3 x 14 cm; page: 20.7 x 13.1 cm, demy. Binding: Green half-calf over marbled boards, blind-ruled raised bands with gilt ornament, crimson gilt-ruled and lettered labels to spine. For the first edition see: LIB-2614.2021 Catalogue raisonné: Hugo (1866): № (99) 94 –120 (108) / pp. 40-58; Roscoe (1953): № 24 a-c, 25 a-c, 26 a-c, 27 a-c, 28 / pp. 104 - 114. -
Title: OLD DUTCH | POTTERY AND TILES | BY ELISABETH | NEURDENBURG | LITT. D., READER IN THE HISTORY OF ART AT | THE UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN. TRANSLATED | WITH ANNOTATIONS BY | Bernard Rackham | DEPUTY KEEPER, DEPARTMENT | OF CERAMICS, VICTORIA AND | ALBERT MUSEUM | […] | WITH ONE HUNDRED AND TWELVE | ILLUSTRATIONS OF WHICH NINE | ARE IN COLOUR | LONDON: BENN BROTHERS, LIMITED | 8 BOUVERIE STREET, E.C. 4 | 1923 || Verso to half-title: Of this book 100 copies only for sale have been printed on English | hand-made paper, bound in pigskin and signed by the Authoress | and Translator. These copies also contain an extra colour plate. | This in Number “7” (in manuscript) | Two signatures (ink, manuscript) || Pagination: [i, ii] – h.t. / tirage, [iii, iv] – t.p. / imprint, [v, vi] – dedication to Dr. A. Pit / blank, vii-xv [xvi blank] [1, 2] 3-155 [156 blank], frontispiece (colour) and 59 leaves of plates (9 colour) with 112 figures, with lettered protective sheets. Collation: 4to in 8th; [A]8 [B]8 C-K8 L6; frontis., +59 leaves of plates. Binding: 30 x 24 cm, Full dark brown pigskin with gilt ornament to front board and gilt lettering to spine; printed on thick wove paper, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Contributors: Neurdenburg, Elisabeth (Dutch, 1882 – 1957) – author [autograph]. Rackham, Bernard (British, 1876 – 1964) – translator [autograph]. Brendon, William (British, 1845 – 1928) – printer. Mayflower Press (Plymouth), William Brendon & Son, Ltd. – printer Benn Brothers Ltd. (British company, 1880 – 1987) Benn, Sir John, 1st Baronet (British, 1850 – 1922) -
Title: DER INSEL VERLAG | EINE BIBLIOGRAPHIE | 1899-1969 | […] Bearbeitet und herausgegeben | von Heinz Sarkowski | INSEL VERLAG || Pagination: [i-vi] vii-xiii [xiv] [2] 1-452. Binding: Blue cloth, black label with gilt lettering to spine, lettered and blind-stamped DJ. -
Title: LUCRETIA BORGIA | THE CHRONICLE OF TEBALDEO TEBALDEI | – RENAISSANCE PERIOD – | BY ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE | Commentary and Notes by | RANDOLPH HUGHES | Engravings by | REYNOLDS STONE | {vignette} | Printed and Published for the first time, by | The Golden Cockerel Press | 1942 || Pagination: ffl, [1, 2] – blank, [3, 4] – t.p. / dedication, [5, 6] – contents / stanza; 7-191 [192] – blank, [4], bfl. Collation: 4to in eights; [A]-M4 [L]2; 6 woodcut headpieces before each chapter, one repeated (7 total); two leaves in each sig., [A1] unsigned, M1 one leaf, the following two leaves signed M2, then follows signed M3 and the last two leaves (L2) unsigned. Edition (as per colophon): Numbered limited edition of 350, of which this is copy № 33. Binding: cream canvas, gilt-stamped with portrait in an oval ornamental frame to cover, gilt lettering and publisher’s device to spine, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed; by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (marked). Description: Printed and Published for the first time, by The Golden Cockerel Press, 1942, Numbered Limited Edition in full cream cloth binding bound by S. & S. [Sangorski and Sutcliffe] London, with gilt decoration to the centre of the front board. Copy No. 33. Commentary and notes by Randolph Hughes. Engravings by Reynolds Stone. Text partially in double columns, untrimmed edges. Printed by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter in Poliphilus Type (Based on the type used for the text of the 'Hypnerotomachia Poliphili' published in 1499 by Aldus Manutius) on specially water-marked Golden Cockerel paper made by Arnold & Foster. Preparation of the Edition was begun in January 1940 and finished in October 1942. 350 copies have been printed and the type has been distributed. Nos 1-30 are bound in full-bound white morocco and include a facsimile reproduction of the manuscript of one chapter of the text. Nos 31-350 are bound in canvas. Contributors: Swinburne, Algernon Charles (British, 1837 – 1909) – author Hughes, Randolph William (Australian, 1889 – 1955) – author Stone, Alan Reynolds (British, 1909 – 1979) – engraver The Golden Cockerel Press (Company, London, 1920 – 1961) – publisher/printer. Rutter, Edward Owen (British, 1889 – 1944) – printer. Sandford, Christopher (British, 1902 – 1983) – printer. Taylor, Harold (Hal) Midgley (1893 – 1925) – publisher/printer. Tebaldeo, Antonio (Italian, 1463–1537) – prototype. Borgia, Lucrezia (Spanish-Italian, 1480 – 1519) – heroine. Wilson, Sir Arnold Talbot (1884 – 1940) – dedicatee. Sangorski & Sutcliffe (Company, London, est. 1901) Sangorski, Francis (British, 1875 – 1912) Sutcliffe, George (British, 1878 – 1943). -
Cover: Ch. Virmaitre | LES | VIRTUOSES | DU | TROTTOIR | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | P. LEBIGRE-DUQUESNE, ÉDITEUR | 16, RUE HAUTEFEUILLE, 16 | 1868 || Title: Similar. Imprint: De Rouge Frères, Dunon et Fresné (Paris). Pagination: [1-7] 8-161 [162], [2] – table, [2] – advert., [14]; 90 leaves total; publisher’s cream wrappers with red lettering in double frame. Collation: 12mo in 6th; [1]-136, 1412. Charles Virmaître (French, 1835 – 1903).
