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    Léon Muel. Gouvernements, ministères et constitutions de la France de 1789 à 1895 / préface de M. Ernest Boulanger (5e édition revue, corrigée et augmentée). — Paris: Guillaumin, 1895.

    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-PROPOS
    LETTRE-PRÉFACE
    PREMIÈRE PARTIE
    I. – MONARCHIE FRANÇAISE – BOURBONS
       Louis 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 1830
       Chute 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 1848
       Chute 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 Palikao
    VIII. – 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
     
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  • Harold G. Henderson, Louis V. Ledoux. The surviving works of Sharaku. — NY: E. Weyne, Society for Japanese Studies, 1939.

    Hardcover volume, 31 x 23.5 cm, bound in full crimson canvas, reproduction colour print with black border pasted to embossed panel, ivory paper label with black lettering to spine, pp.: ffl, [1-4] (t.p./imprint, dedication/blank, 5-337 [338] colophon, 146 b/w woodblock prints by Sharaku photomechanically reproduced, within the pagination. Title-page: THE SURVIVING WORKS OF | SHARAKU | By HAROLD G. HENDERSON | and LOUIS V. LEDOUX | {device} | {blank} | PUBLISHED BY E. WEYNE • NEW YORK | ON BEHALF OF THE | SOCIETY OF THE JAPANESE STUDIES | 1939 || Colophon: PRINTED BY PETER BEILENSON AT THE WALPOLE PRINTING OFFICE | MOUNT VERNON • NEW YORK || Contributors: Harold Gould Henderson (American, 1889 – 1974)– author. Louis Vernon Ledoux (American, 1880 – 1948) – author. Tōshūsai Sharaku [東洲斎 写楽] (Japanese, fl. 1794 – 1795) – artist. Peter Beilenson (American, 1905 – 1962) – printer. Society for Japanese Studies – publisher. Walpole Printing Office (Mount Vernon, NY) – printer
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  • Old imari (Japanese ceramics 8) [古伊万里 日本の陶磁 (8) 中央公論社]. — Tokyo: Chūōkōron-sha, 1975.

    Hardcover volume, 35.1 x 27 cm, bound in grey cloth, blind stamped characters to front, brown characters to spine, in a glassine dust jacket, in a double slipcase, the outer case pictorial paper over cardboard, 36 x 27.8 cm, pp.: [4] [1] 2-108 (plates with photographs of 217 items), [2] [111] 112-150 [3]. Imari ware [伊万里焼] (Imari-yaki) – ceramics produced in and around the area of Arita, in the former Hizen Province, northwestern Kyūshū. 日本の陶磁 – Japanese ceramics, series title. Old imari [古伊万里] (koimari) – book title. Contributors: Yasunari Kawabata [川端 康成] (Japanese, 1924 – 1972) – author. Tetsuzo Tanikawa [谷川 徹三] (Japanese, 1895 – 1989) – author. Seizo Hayashiya [林屋晴三] (Japanese, 1928 – 2017) – editor. Chūōkōron-sha [中央公論社] – publisher.
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  • Ленинград: архитектурно-планировочный обзор развития города. — М.-Л.: Искусство, 1943.

    Hardcover volume 36 x 27.5 cm, bound in grey cloth, gilt lettering ЛЕНИНГРАД to front board, red and black labels with gilt lettering, gilt compartments to flat spine, red endpapers with black and white border, pp.: [1-6] 7-402 [2], total 202 leaves with numerous b/w illustrations, plus frontispiece with pasted in b/w plate. Bookplate of Feodor Rojankovsky to front pastedown, ms inscription: “Дорогой Федя, дарю Вам на Ваше рождение эту книгу” signed “Ф. Рожанковский” Half-title (red on tan): ИЗДАНО В ЛЕНИНГРАДЕ | В ДНИ ВЕЛИКОЙ | ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ВОЙНЫ || Half-title verso (red on tan): ЛЕНИНГРАДСКИЙ ГОРОДСКОЙ  СОВЕТ | ДЕПУТАТОВ ТРУДЯЩИХСЯ | ИСПОЛНИТЕЛЬНЫЙ КОМИТЕТ  | {vignette «plan»} | АРХИТЕКТУРНО-ПЛАНИРОВОЧНОЕ | УПРАВЛЕНИЕ | 1943 || Title-page (red on tan) ЛЕНИНГРАД | {vignette «Admiralty»} | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | «ИСКУССТВО» | ЛЕНИНГРАД – 1943 –  МОСКВА || Blue ink stamp to bottom right: Printed in Soviet Union. Title-page verso: РЕДАКЦИОННАЯ | КОЛЛЕГИЯ | Ответственный редактор | БАРАНОВ Н. В. | КАМЕНСКИЙ В. А. | МОРОЗОВ М. В. | РУБАНЕНКО Б. Р. | ФОМИН И. И. | Художник издания | КАМЕНСКИЙ В. А. | Технический редактор | АНИСИМОВ М. Н. Contents (red on tan): АРХИТЕКТУРНО-ПЛАНИРОВОЧНЫЙ | ОБЗОР РАЗВИТИЯ ГОРОДА | РАЗВИТИЕ ГОРОДА В XVIII ВЕКЕ | С. М. ЗЕМЦОВ | РАЗВИТИЕ ГОРОДА В XIX ВЕКЕ  | А. Г. ЯЦЕВИЧ | РАЗВИТИЕ ГОРОДА С 1917 ПО 1935 г. | Б. Р. РУБАНЕНКО | ГЕНЕРАЛЬНЫЙ ПЛАН РАЗВИТИЯ | ЛЕНИНГРАДА  | Н. В. БАРАНОВ | ИЛЛЮСТРАЦИИ | ГОРОДА || verso: {vignette} | ГЕНЕРАЛЬНЫЙ ПЛАН ГОРОДА ЛЕНИНГРАДА. || Print run: 2,500 copies. Provenance: Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan, Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970). Contributors: Каменский, Валентин Александрович (Russian, 1907 – 1975) Земцов, Станислав [Исай] Маркович (1906 – ?) Яцевич, Андрей Григорьевич (Russian, 1887 – 1942) Рубаненко, Борис Рафаилович (Russian-Jewish, 1910 – 1985) Баранов, Николай Варфоломеевич (Russian, 1909 – 1989) Фомин, Игорь Иванович (Russian, 1904 ­– 1989)
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  • Fornicon by Tomi Ungerer. — NY: Grove Press, 1969©.

    Hardcover, 333 x 247 mm, black cloth with gilt facsimile to front board and gilt lettering to spine, aubergine dust jacket with white lettering and red facsimile over black panel to front and back, crimson endpapers, laid paper, unpaginated; pp.: [4] h.t./blank, t.p./imprint, [2] text by John Hollander, 61 leaves of plates; originally published in 1969 by Rhinoceros Press, New York, as a limited-edition portfolio with slipcase. Title-page: Fornicon | (in frame) BY TOMI UNGERER | GROVE PRESS  NEW YORK || Jean-Thomas [Tomi] Ungerer (French,1931 – 2019) John Hollander (American, 1929 – 2013)
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  • De Chertablon & de Hooghe. La maniere de se bien preparer a la Mort. – Antwerp: George Gallet, 1700.

    M. de Chertablon. La maniere de se bien preparer a la Mort par des Considerations sur la Cene, la Passion, et la Mort de Jesu-Christ. – Antwerp: George Gallet, 1700. Pagination: ff, [2 - blanks] [2 - t.p., blank] [3 - advert.] 4-63 [64]; 42 copper etched plates by Romeyn de Hooghe: A, B, C, 1-39; [20 - Dutch plate description of the David de la Vigne's Miroir de la bonne mort], bf. Full title: La maniere de se bien preparer a la Mort par des Considerations sur la Cene, la Passion, et la Mort de Jesu-Christ, Avec de très-belles Estampes Emblematiques, Expliquées par Mr. de Chertablon, Piêtre & Licentié en Theologie. Vivere totâ vitâ discendum est; & quòd mage fortasse miraberis, tôtâ vitâ discendum est mori. Seneca de brevit. vitæ. Cap. VII. A Anvers, Chez George Gallet. M DCC, Avec Approbation. / David de La Vigne. Spiegel om wel te sterven, annwyzende met beeltenissen van het lyden onses zaligmaakers Jesu Christi. Verzierd met 42 fyne Geërste Kopere Platen, Door Romain de Hooghe; Te Amsterdam, Voor dezen gedrukt by J. Stigter. Size: 4to, 27.2 x 21.6 cm. Binding: Late 19th century brown calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering, raised bands, double fillet blind panels in compartments; marbled end-papers; bookplate of Samuel Ashton Thompson Yates library, AD 1894. Book illustrated with 42 copperplate etched engravings by Romeyn de Hooghe (Dutch, Amsterdam 1645–1708 Haarlem). According to Bonhams: the plates were "first printed for David de la Vigne's Miroir de la bonne mort. Each of the plates depicts a man contemplating a religious image in order to ease the passing of death, accompanied by commentary and an appropriate verse of scripture for each plate. The present French edition is bound with, as issued, the Dutch translation of David de La Vigne's aforementioned work."  
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  • Лунин М. С. Письма из Сибири. / Изд. подг. И. А. Желвакова, Н. Я. Эйдельман.- М.: Наука, 1987. (АН СССР, Литературные памятники).

    М. С. Лунин. Письма из Сибири. / Изд. подг. И. А. Желвакова, Н. Я. Эйдельман; (Литературные памятники). — М.: Наука, 1987.

    Title (black and red): М. С. ЛУНИН | — | ПИСЬМА ИЗ СИБИРИ | — | Издание подготовили | И. А. Желвакова и Н. Я Эйдельман | МОСКВА | «НАУКА» | 1987 || Pagination: [1, 2] Serial h.t. / blank, [3, 4] t.p. / imprint, [5] 6-492 [4], 1 portrait and 8 leaves of plates. Collation: 16mo; [1]16 216 38 (plates), 4-1716. Binding: serial green buckram blind-stamped with a scroll adorned with gold lettering to board and spine.
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  • Указатель имен и предметов упомянутых в подробном словаре русских граверов Д. А. Ровинского. Составил Евг. Ник. Тевяшов. (Доложено на заседании Историко-филологического отделения 13 января 1899 г.) Санкт-Петербург, 1899. Напечатоно по распоряжению Императорской академии наук.

    Е. Н. Тевяшов. Указатель имен и предметов упомянутых в подробном словаре русских граверов Д. А. Ровинского. — СПб.: Императорская академия наук, 1899.

    УКАЗАТЕЛЬ | ИМЕНЪ И ПРЕДМЕТОВЪ | УПОМЯНУТЫХЪ ВЪ | ПОДРОБНОМЪ СЛОВАРЕѢ РУССКИХЪ ГРАВЕРОВЪ  Д. А. РОВИНСКАГО. | СОСТАВИЛЪ | ЕВГ. НИК. ТЕВЯШОВЪ. | (Доложено въ заседанiи Историко-филологическаго отделенiя 13 января 1899 г.) |  САНКТЪ-ПЕТЕРБУРГЪ, 1899. | ПРОДАЕТСЯ У КОМИССIОНЕРОВЪ ИМПЕРАТОРСКОЙ АКАДЕМИИ НАУКЪ: | И. И. Глазунова, М. Эггерса и Комп., К. Л. Риккера въ Санктъ-Петербургѣ‎; Н. П. Карбасникова въ Санктъ-Пе- | тербургѣ‎, Москвѣ и Варшавѣ; | М. В. Клюкина въ Москве; Н. Киммеля въ Ригѣ; Н. Я. Оглоблина въ Санктъ- | Петербургѣ и Кiевѣ; у Фоссъ (Г. Гэссель) въ Лейпцигѣ, а также въ Книжномъ складѣ Императорской | академiи наукъ. | Цена: 1 р. 20 к. = 3 Mark. Pagination: original wrapper bound in, [2] t.p. / colophon, [1, 2] 3-208 (numbered half-pages, 52 leaves). Collation: 4to; 1-134. Binding: Owner's later 3/4 grey cloth over buckram boards. original front wrapper preserved, upper-right corner cut out.
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  • Thomas F. Dibdin. Bibliomania or book madness: a bibliographical romance. – London, 1811.

    Thomas F. Dibdin. Bibliomania or book madness: a bibliographical romance. – London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811.

    Title: BIBLIOMANIA; | OR | Book Madness: | A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ROMANCE, | IN SIX PARTS. | Illustrated with Cuts. | BY THE REV. | THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN. | {vignette} | INTERIOR OF THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY | I pity all our great ones and rich men that know not this happiness. HEINSIUS. | LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, | By J. McCreery, Blackhorse-court, Fleet-street; | AND SOLD BY MESSRS. LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, | AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. | 1811.|| Pagination: ffl, [i, ii] - ht, frontis., [iii, iv] - t.p., blank, [v]vi-ix - to the reader, [x] - blank, [2] - contents, [1, 2] - part 1 fl. t.p., blank, [3] - woodcut frame and capital I, 4-782 (imprint to p. 782) [2] - errata, blank, bfl; 1 plate op. p. 158. Collation: [A]6 B-Z8 2A-2Z8, 3A-3B8, 3C-3F4. Binding: 8vo, 23 x 14 cm, modern full dark brown calf by Period Binders (Bath, England), gilt fillet border to boards, raised bands with gilt ornaments and lettering to spine, pp. 685-688 an open tear in upper 1/8 of lateral margin, all margins marbled. Substantially revised 1st edition ("so much altered and enlarged, as to assume the character of a new work"). Author: Thomas Frognall Dibdin (British, 1776 – 1847).
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  • Almanach Iconologique, ou des arts pour l’année 1764, orné de figures avec leurs explications par M. Gravelot. — Paris: Lattré, 1764.

    Engraved title:

    Upper frame: ALMANACH | ICONOLOGIQUE, | OU | DES ARTS | pour l'année | 1764. | Orné de Figures | avec leurs explications | par | M. GRAVELOT. | avec Priv. du Roy | A PARIS

    Lower frame: Chez Lattré Graveur rue S. Jacq. | à la Ville de Bordeaux.

    Under the frame: H. Gravelot del. — L. Legrand sc.

    28 leaves, of them: engraved t.p., engraved frontis., and 12 plates, text engraved. Pages numbered 1-12, and I-XII (incorrectly marked XVI), other unpaginated, unbound tissue guards. Size: 10.6 x 7.2 cm, full polished crimson calf w/veins, triple-ruled in gilt with florets in corners, flat spine, double-ruled in gilt, all edges gilt. Florets in compartments, black title label with gilt lettering “ALM | ICON ||”, peacock marbled endpapers, blue silk ribbon. Approbation dated 15 November 1763, as some plates.

    Catalogue raisonné: Cohen, De Ricci 454.

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  • John Windle, Karma Pippin. Thomas Frognall Dibdin, 1776-1847: A Bibliography. — New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1999.

    Title: THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN | 1776-1847 | A Bibliography | By John Windle and Karma Pippin | Oak Knoll Press | New Castle Delaware | 1999 || Pagination: [2 blanks] [i, ii] – standing silhouette / frontis. with buste portrait 1821 (misspelled "Didbin"), [iii, iv] – t.p. / colophon, [v, vi] – dedication / blank, [vii, viii] – contents / blank, [ix, x] – illustr. / portrait 1816, [xi] xii-xxiii [xxiv] [1] 2-284 [2]. Binding: 23.5 x 16 cm, hardcover, publisher’s blue cloth gilt-stamped with a standing silhouette of T. F. Dibdin to cover, gilt lettering to spine.  
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  • Дезидерата русского библиофила : Desiderata of the Russian bibliophile. Редчайшие книги и их современная расценка. Сост. П.П.Шибанов. К докладу в Русском обществе друзей книги 15 апреля 1927 г. — М.: Mezhdunarodnaya kniga - Antiquarian Departament, 1927. — 15 стр. Гриф: "Не для продажи". Тираж 200 нум.экз. Экз. № 121.

    Дезидерата русского библиофила: Редчайшие книги и их современная расценка / Сост. П. П. Шибанов. — М.: Международная книга, 1927.

    Cover: Акц. О-во “МЕЖДУНАРОДНАЯ КНИГА” | МОСКВА, Кузнецкий Мост, 12. Тел. 1-20-21. | АНТИКВАРНЫЙ КНИЖНЫЙ МАГАЗИН | ДЕЗИДЕРАТА | РУССКОГО БИБЛИОФИЛА | DESIDERATA OF A RUSSIAN BIBLIOPHILE | MEZHDUNARODNAYA KNIGA | Antiquarian Departament | Moscow — Kuznetski Most, 12. || Title: DESIDERATA | РУССКОГО БИБЛИОФИЛА | РЕДЧАЙШИЕ КНИГИ И ИХ | СОВРЕМЕННАЯ РАСЦЕНКА | СОСТАВИЛ П. П. ШИБАНОВ | (К ДОКЛАДУ В РУССКОМ ОБЩЕСТВЕ | ДРУЗЕЙ КНИГИ 15 АПРЕЛЯ 1927 Г.) | МОСКВА — 1927 || Title verso: Корректурное издание в количестве 200 нумерованных экземпляров, из которых №№ 1–100 для членов Русского Общества Друзей Книгию Отпечатано в 13-й типографии Мосполиграф «Мысль Печатника» Главлит №85566. № 121. Back cover: "Не для продажи". Publisher’s lettered wrappers, 21.5 x 15 cm, pagination: [1-4] 5-15 [16 blank]; stamps and inscriptions to covers, markings inside. Limited edition of 200 copies, of which this copy is № 121. Шибанов, Павел Петрович (Russian, 1864 – 1935).
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  • Две книги о Михаиле Пселле: П. В. Безобразов. Византийский писатель и государственный деятель Михаил Пселл; Я. Н. Любарский. Михаил Пселл. Личность и творчество / Изд. 2-е, исправленное и дополненное. (Византийская библиотека. Исследования). — СПб.: Алетейя, 2001.

    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).
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  • Морис Доманже. Бланки. Пер. с франц. — Л.: Прибой, 1925.

    Cover: МОРИС ДОМАНЖЕ | БЛАНКИ | РАБОЧЕЕ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО “ПРИБОЙ” | ЛЕНИНГРАД 1925 || Title page: МОРИС ДОМАНЖЕ | БЛАНКИ | Пер. с французского | Рабочее Издательство “ПРИБОЙ” | Ленинград 1925 || Pagination: [2] 3-97 [3]. Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-68 [7]2, total 50 leaves. Binding: Publisher’s wrappers, lettering to covers and spine, uncut. Contributor: Maurice Dommanget (French, 1888 – 1976) – author. Translation of: Blanqui par Maurice Dommanget. — Paris: Librairie de l'Humanité, 1924.
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  • Christie’s New York. Masterpieces of Modern Literature: The Library of Roger Rechler / October 11, 2002. — New York: Christie’s, 2002.

    Publisher’s pictorial wrappers: CHRISTIE'S | NEW YORK | {three book covers} | Masterpieces of Modern Literature: | The Library of Roger Rechler | FRIDAY 11 OCTOBER 2002 || Red spine with white lettering from top to bottom, multiple illustrations in colour, 26.8 x 21 x 3 cm. Pagination: [1-4] 5-451 [452]. 375 lots, prices realized handwritten next to each lot and on 6 loose leaves inserted.
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  • A catalogue of works by or relating to John Milton / Catalogue 620: Library of Hugh C. H. Candy. — London: Maggs Bros., 1936.

    Cover: John Milton | A Catalogue of Works by or Relating to | John Milton | {vignette portrait} | Catalogue 620 | Issued by | MAGGS BROS. Ltd. | 34 & 35 Conduit Street, New Bond Street | LONDON, W.I. | and at Paris | 1936 || Title page: top left: Catalogue 620; top right: 1936, middle: JOHN MILTON | A CATALOGUE OF WORKS BY OR | RELATING TO JOHN MILTON | Largely comprising the Library of the well-known Milton Scholar, the late | prof. Hugh C. H. Candy, B.A., B Sc. | {coat of arms: by appointment to his majesty King George V} | MAGGS BROS. Ltd. | BOOKSELLERS BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE V | AND H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES | 34 & 35 CONDUIT STREET, LONDON, W.I. | TELEGRAPHIC & CABLE ADDRESS: “BIBLIOLITE, LONDON.” […] TEL.: REGENT 1337 | At Paris: Maggs Bros., 93 & 95 Rue La Boëtie. || Printed: Courier Press Leamington SPA and London. Pagination: [1-4] 5-56 [6], wrappers incl. in pagination, the total number of leaves is 31. Binding: 24 x 18.5 cm, publisher’s tan wrappers, front wrapper detached, browned.
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  • Alfred de Musset. La Nuit Vénitienne; Fantasio; Les Caprices de Marianne / illustrations de Umberto Brunelleschi. — Paris: L’Edition d’art H. Piazza, [1913].

    Collation: Prelims (pp.1-6): Blank leaf, front wrapper (ornamental, gilt and colour): LA NUIT VENITIENNE | FANTASIO | LES CAPRICES DE | MARIANNE | ALFRED DE MUSSET ||, blank leaf, [2] – h.t.: LA | NUIT VENITIENNE ||, [2] – t.p. (ornamental frame, marigold and reseda green): ALFRED DE MUSSET | LA NUIT | VENITIENNE | FANTASIA | LES CAPRICES | DE MARIANNE | ILLUSTRATIONS | DE | U. BRUNELLESCHI | L’EDITION D’ART H.PIAZZA | PARIS ||, [2] – ornamental divisional title: LA NUIT VENITIENNE ||, 7-138 [139/40] – contents / list of ills., [141-2] – limitation / colophon, blank leaf, back wrapper, blank leaf; plus 20 stencil-coloured (au pochoir) plates after gouaches by Umberto Brunelleschi, incl. frontispiece with red-lettered tissue guards; two more divisional titles, three headpieces in black; text printed on heavy wove paper, in an ornamental frame. Edition: 1st; limited to 500 copies on laid paper (papier du Japon) signed by the artist; this copy on wove paper without signatures, without limitation. Printed in Paris on the 10th of November 1913. Binding: 30 x 24 cm, owner’s green bead-grain buckram with a gilt-lettered black label to spine LA NUIT | VENITIENNE, publisher’s wrappers bound in, green and gilt endpapers. Alfred de Musset (French, 1810 – 1857) – author. Umberto Brunelleschi (Italian, 1879 – 1949) – artist. L’Edition d’art H. Piazza; Henri Jules Piazza (Italian, 1861 – 1929) – publisher, printer.
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  • Francis Carco. Rue Pigalle / Lithographies en couleurs de Vertès. — Paris: B. Grasset, 1927.

    Title-page: FRANCIS CARCO | RUE PIGALLE | LITHOGRAPHIES EN COULEURS | DE | VERTÈS | PARIS | BERNARD GRASSET | Éditeur | 1927 || Description: 25.7 x 19.5 cm, French flapped cream wrappers with black lettering similar to title, lettering to spine, [2] 1st blank leaf, [2] h.t. / blank, plate / blank, [2] t.p. /blank, dedication “A | FRED ANTOINE ANGERMAYER” / blank, [1-2] d.t.p. “CHAPITRE | PREMIER” / blank, [3] 4-124, [2] limitation / blank, [2] last blank leaf; collation: 4to; π4 1-164; total 68 leaves and 14 plates printed by Frères Mourlot after watercolours by Marcel Vertès. Printing : September 15, 1927 by Coulouma in Argenteuil (H. Barthélemy, director); plates printed by Frères Mourlot in Paris; Edition: print run limited to 338 copies of which 22 on Japon Impérial (numbered Japon 1-15 and I-VII) enriched with one original watercolour drawing, one suite in black and one in colour, etc.; 43 copies on Hollande van Gelder (Hollande 1-33 and I-X) with additional suites in black and in colour; 270 copies on Vélin d’Arches (Arches 1-250 and I-XX); and 3 “special” copies. This copy is numbered Arches № 162. Contributors: Francis Carco [François Carcopino-Tusoli] (French, 1886 – 1958) – author. Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist. Frères Mourlot – lithographer. Robert Coulouma (French, 1887 – 1976) – printer. Bernard Grasset (French, 1881 – 1955) – publisher. Fred Antoine Angermayer (German, 1889 –1951) – dedicatee. Other names: Marcel Vertès, Marcel Vertes, Marcell Vértes
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