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  • Softcover, 228 x 180 mm, tan French flapped wrappers with red lettering to front[1-4, owner’s glassine dustcover, top edge trimmed, printed on thick wove paper without a watermark; pp.: ffl [1-4 h.t., t.p.] 5-154 [2 blanks] colophon to back ffl recto, plus 12 plates with hand-coloured lithographs, extraneous to collation. Pencil and pigment drawing to h.t. signed “J. D’A” with gift manual inscription “A Monsieur et Madame Chalamel [sic] ce tardif mais sincère souvenir de sympathie”, signed “J et Y D’A.” Etching bookplate to front ffl recto: “EX LIBRIS PIERRE CHALLAMEL | JE FONCE DANS LE BROUILLARD”, signed “J A M” (Jean-Adrien Mercier). The signature J. D’A stands for Jean d’Angers, while Y D’A stands for Jean-Adrien’s wife Yvonne (1902—1999), nicknamed Zizi; they married in 1927. According to J.-P. Dutel, the stated illustrator of this edition, Jean d’Angers is indeed Jean-Adrien Mercier. The text belongs to Gustav Droz and, possibly, Auguste Poulet-Malassis. Limitation: the book was printed for subscribers in 30 copies on Japon Impériale paper (№№ 1-30) and 250 copies on vélin du Marais paper (№№ 31-280). This copy bears № 123 and was presented as a gift by the artist and his wife to Pierre Challamel. Title-page (red and black): POUR SERVIR | A L'HISTOIRE | DE NOS MŒURS | UN ÉTÉ | A LA CAMPAGNE | CORRESPONDANCE DE DEUX JEUNES PARISIENNES | RECUEILLIE PAR UN AUTEUR A LA MODE | MDCCCLXVIII || Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 2546; honesterotica. Provenance: Pierre Challamel (French, 20th century) Contributors: Gustave Droz (French, 1832 – 1895) – author (presumable). Auguste Poulet-Malassis (French, 1825 – 1878) – author (presumable). Jean-Adrien Mercier (French, 1899 – 1995) – artist. Micro photo of the lithography:
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  • Softcover volume, 19.5 x 14.3 cm, olive French flapped wrappers, glassine dust cover, printed on laid paper (Hollande), outer and bottom margins untrimmed, some pages uncut; pagination: [2] blank, [i-iv] h.t./limit., t.p./blank, v-viii, 1-196 [197] [5], total 212 pages plus frontispiece; head- and tailpieces and in-text stencil-coloured etchings after Chéripoulos. Title-page (olive and black): LE ROMAN | DE | VIOLETTE | {vignette} | A LA ROYNE DE CYTHÈRE | SODOME | 1920 || Limitation: Cet ouvrage, achevé d'imprimer le cinq Janvier Mil Neuf Cent Vingt à trois cents exemplaires dont vingt-cinq exemplaires sur Japon Impérial contenant chacun un dessin original de Chéripoulos, numérotés de un à vingt-cinq; deux cent soixante-quinze exemplaires sur papier de Hollande, numérotés de vingt-six à trois cents; en plus cinq exemplaires de collaborateurs marqués de A à E. Le présent exemplaire porte le numéro 72. Edition: Printed on the 5th of January 1920 in 305 copies (№№ 1-25 on Japon Impérial, №№ 26-300 on Hollande, A–E for collaborators). Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 2339, p. 350. Contributors: Henriette de Mannoury d'Ectot [Henriette Nicolas Le Blanc] (French 1815 – 1899) Charles Auguste Edelmann [Chéripoulos] (French, 1879 – 1950).  
  • Hardcover, light grey cloth with brown lettering and two-colour vignette in the central panel, lettering to spine, 15 woodcut headpieces to each book and 5 full-page two-colour woodcuts by Leonid Feinberg (1896-1980). Size: 25.5 x 18.5 cm; collation: 8vo. Frontispiece (grey and black): P. OVIDII NASONIS | METAMORPHOSEON | LIBRI | {XV in frame} | ACADEMIA || Title-page (grey and black): П. ОВИДИЙ HAЗOH | МЕТАМОРФОЗЫ | ПЕРЕВОД | С. В. ШЕРВИНСКОГО | СТАТЬЯ О ТВОРЧЕСТВЕ ОВИДИЯ | А. И. БЕЛЕЦКОГО | РЕДАКЦИЯ И КОММЕНТАРИИ | Ф. А. ПЕТРОВСКОГО | {vignette / 1937} | ACADEMIA || Imprint: Переплет, иллюстрации, заставки | и титульные страницы по рисункам | Л. Е. Фейнберга || Published: II-1937; print-run: 5,300 copies. Pp.: [i-vi] vii-xxix [xxx] [2] 3-358 [8], total 396 pp: i/ii publisher’s device/blank, iii/iv blank/frontis., v/vi t.p./imprint, vii-xxx text preface, 1/2 h.t./blank, 3-330 text,331/2 h.t./blank, 333/59 commentary, 360 summary, 361/2 table of contents/blank, 363/4 errata/blank, 365/6 colophon/blank. Collation: ffl, i8 ii7 1-228 237, ffl, total 198 leaves plus 5 full-page two-colour woodcuts extraneous to collation. Publius Ovidius Naso [Ovid] (Roman, 43 BC – AD 17/18) – Author. Белецкий, Александр Иванович (Ukrainian, 1884 – 1961) – Author (foreword) Петровский, Фёдор Александрович (Russian,1890 – 1978) – Author (editor) Шервинский, Сергей Васильевич (Russian, 1892 – 1991) – Translator Фейнберг, Леонид Евгеньевич (Jewish-Russian, 1896 – 1980) – Artist References: [LIB-2679.2021] Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books / Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. — London: Jacob Tonson, 1717. [LIB-2586.2020] Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Latin and English (2 vols.) — Amsterdam: Wetstein & Smith, 1732.  
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    A softcover volume 18.7 x 12.1 cm, in publisher’s cream wrappers, red lettering in red and green frames to front cover, in glassine dustwrapper, uncut, untrimmed, collated in 8vo: 1-98 104, pp. [1-8] 9-151 [152 blank], plus 6 illustrations reproduced in drypoint after Mario Tauzin's lithographs from the album 'Interdit aux adultes' (see SVE-0547.2024). Front cover : BONNE | A | TOUT | FAIRE Title-page : BONNE | A | TOUT | FAIRE Stated limited edition of 900, strictly for subscribers. According to J.-P. Dutel III 1108 (p.66): published by Éric Losfeld in the late 1950s. Bonne à tout faire is a French idiom = maid-of-all-work Éric Losfeld (Belgian-French, 1922 – 1979) — publisher Mario Tauzin (French, 1909 – 1979) — artist
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    Softcover volume 200 x 145 mm, in a slipcase, unbound, in French wrappers, sanguine lettering on cream paper, block printed on wove paper with watermark “Marais”, collated 8vo, pp.: [1-6] 7-114 [6], 60 leaves, first and last leaves blank; illustrated with 20 etchings, incl. vignette on front wrapper, two head- and two tailpieces, printed in sanguine; etching on t.p., similar to the one on the front wrapper, printed in black. Limited edition of 250 copies, this is copy № 24. Front wrapper and title-page: in a double frame A de M. | GAMIANI | {vignette} || Colophon: CE LIVRE | IMPRIMÉ AUX DÉPENS | D'UN GROUP D'AMATEURS | SUR PAPIER CHIFFON | A ÉTÉ TIRE | A DEUX CENT CINQUANTE EXEMPLAIRES | LA VENTE AU PUBLIC | EN EST RIGOUREUSEMENT INTERDITE | EXEMPLAIRE N°24 || [This book is printed at the expense of a group of amateurs on rag paper in two hundred and fifty copies; sale to the public is strictly prohibited]. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 1649. Alfred de Musset (French, 1810 – 1857) – author.
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    Softcover, cream French flapped wrappers, 242 x 192 mm, glassine dust jacket, lower and outer margins untrimmed, red lettering to front wrapper CONTES LIBERTINS | DU | DIX-HUITIÈME SIÈCLE; in a double slipcase; 10 full-page colour intaglio prints, incl. frontispiece, and 10 half-page coloured prints after Antoine Calbet; pp.: [1-8] 9-223 [224] [6], total 115 leaves plus ten plates with tissue guards extraneous to collation. Copy enhanced with a full suite of 32 uncoloured intaglio prints, and 12 refused plates: Title-page (red and black): CONTES LIBERTINS | DU DIX-HUITIÈME SIÈCLE | PRÉSENTÉS PAR EDMOND PILON | TRENTE-DEUX ILLUSTRATIONS EN COULEURS | DE | A. CALBET | {fleuron} | PARIS  | LE VASSEUR & Cie, ÉDITEURS | 33, Rue de Fleurus || Limitation: 587 copies, of which 32 on Japon Impérial (№№ 1-32), 65 on Hollande Van Gilder (№№ 33-97), 490 on Velin a la forme de Rives (№№ 98-587). 25 copies were printed on top of this print run for collaborators, numbered in Roman letters. This copy is № 77 on watermarked Van Gilder Zonnen paper. Colophon: LE TEXTE DE CET OUVRAGE A | ÉTÉ IMPRIMÉ SUR LES PRESSES | DE CL. JACOUB ET Cie. |  LES ILLUSTRATIONS, GRAVÉES PAR L. MACCARD, ONT ÉTÉ | TIRÉES EN TAILLE-DOUCE | PAR A. PORCABEUF ET Cie. | ACHEVÉ D'IMPRIMER, A | PARIS, LE 12 OCTOBRE 1936. Table of contents: Histoire de madame Allain – Notice sur le comte de Caylus. Histoire de Cidal Acmet – Notice sur l'abbé Prevost Aline, reine de Golconde – Notice sur le chevalier de Boufflers Cosi-Sancta – notice sur Voltaire. Cécile, Marine et Bellino – Notice sur Casanova de Seingalt Histoire de Babet – Notice sur l'abbé Du Laurens Histoire de Fanny Hill – Notice sur John Cleland. Louise et Thérèse – Notice sur Rétif de La Bretonne Contributors: Pilon, Edmond (French, 1874 – 1945) – compiler Le Vasseur & Cie – publisher Calbet, Antoine (French, 1860 – 1942) – artist Cl. Jacoub et Cie – printer/text Maccard, Louis (French) – engraver Porcabeuf, Alfred (French, 1867 – 1952) – printer/plates Authors: Caylus, Anne Claude de [comte de Caylus] (French, 1692 – 1765) Prévost d'Exiles, Antoine François [Abbé Prévost] (French, 1697 – 1763) Boufflers, Stanislas Jean, chevalier de (French, 1738 – 1815) Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (French, 1694 – 1778) Casanova, Giacomo Girolamo (Italian, 1725 – 1798) Laurent, Henri-Joseph [Abbé Du Laurens] (French, 1719 – 1793) Cleland, John (British, c. 1709 – 1789) Restif [Retif] de la Bretonne, Nicolas Edmé (French, 1734 – 1806)
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    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