26 x 18 cm, black cloth, white lettering to cover and spine, pictorial DJ, pp. [1-4] 5-207 [208 colophon], 233 b/w illustrations; essay by Wilhelm M. Busch.
Pictorial title by von Bayros: Die | Bohème. | Scenen aus dem Pariser | Künstlerleben | von | Henri Murger | Leipzig im | InselVerlag | 1906. | F. Bayros ||
Pagination: [2] – pictorial frontispiece, [2] – pictorial t.p., 1-280 [2] – inhalt, [2] – colophon, [2] – blank, + 4 plates drawn by Franz von Bayros and reproduced as photogravure, with guards.
Binding: 23.5 x 15.5 cm, cream parchment, raised bands, gilt-lettered orange morocco label to spine; text printed on laid paper (Linden Paper watermark), untrimmed, illustrations on wove paper as photogravure. Bookplate: “Ex libris Walter Schniewind” engraved by C. L. Becker.
Original title: Henry Murger. Scenes De La Vie De Boheme. — Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1851.
Tirage: 50 copies on laid paper, of which this is № 14 (per Sarkowski: 50 numerierte Ex. auf Bütten. Pergament mit Goldschnitt).
Author: Murger, Henri [Murger, Louis-Henri, Henry] (French, 1822 – 1861).
Translator: Grove, Frederick Philip [Greve, Felix Paul] (German-Canadian, 1879 – 1948).
Illustrator: Bayros, Franz von (Austrian, 1866 – 1924).
Printer: Drugulin, Wilhelm Eduard (German, 1822 – 1879); Offizin W. Drugulin (Leipzig).
Provenance: Schniewind, Walter (German, 1870 – 1927).
Catalogue raisonné: Heinz Sarkowski (1999): № 1175 VA, p. 195; Bayros Zeichnungen, pp. 43-46.
Title page: PHROSINE | ET | MELIDORE, | POËME | EN QUATRE CHANTS. | A MESSINE, | Et se trouve A Paris, | Chez Le Jay, Libraire, au Grand Corneille, | rue S. Jacques. | M. DCC. LXXII. ||
Pagination : ffl, [2] – h.t. / blank, [2] t.p. / blank, [1] 2-55 [56 blank], bfl ; 4 copperplate engravings by Nicolas Ponce (French, 1746 – 1831) after Charles Eisen (French, 1720 – 1778), one before each chant.
Collation: 8vo; π2 (h.t., t.p. ) A-C8 D4.
Binding: 20.5 x 14 cm, full mottled calf, gilt-ruled with triple fillet, flat spine, gilt in compartments, black label with gilt lettering, printed on laid paper, all edges red.
Catalogue raisonné: Cohen de Ricci p. 132; J. Lewine: p. 53.
Contributors:
Nicolas Ponce (French, 1746 – 1831)
Jean Charles Baquoy (French, 1721–1777)
Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (French, 1720 – 1778)
Pierre-Joseph Bernard [Gentil-Bernard] (French, 1708 – 1775).
Front wrapper and t.p.: THE | INTERNATIONAL | JEW | The Truth About | "The Protocols of Zion" | By ERIC D. BUTLER | ∞ | Hitler’s Views on “The Protocols”: | “I SAW AT ONCE WE MUST COPY IT.” | “The question of the Jews and their influence on the world, past and present, cuts to the root of all things and should be discussed by every honest thinker” | — Dr. Oscar Levy, Famous Jewish Writer. | Price — 2/6 || (T.p.: same with the full stop (.) after 2/6.
Stamp to t.p.: Women’s Voice | 537 SO. DEARBORN ST. | ROOM 800 | CHICAGO 5. ILL. ||
[2] 3-167 [168].
Binding: Lettered publisher’s wrappers, 18 x 12 cm.
Butler, Eric Dudley (Australian, 1916 – 2006)
Osborne, Robert Martin (British-Australian, 1862 – 1931) — Australian printer and publisher.
Levy, Oscar (German-Jewish, 1867 – 1946)
Hitler, Adolf (German, 1889 – 1945)
Title page (in Gothic script): Peter Schlemihl's | wundersame Geschichte | mitgetheilt | von | Adelbert von Chamisso. | {vignette} | Nach des Dichters Tode neu herausgegeben | von Julius Eduard Hitzig. | Stereotypausgabe mit Holzschnitten. | Nürnberg, | Johann Leonhard Schrag. ||
Pagination: [i-iii] iv-xvi, [1] 2-82 [2], 15 woodcut vignettes by Unzelmann after Menzel.
Collation: 8vo; π8 1-58 62.
Binding: 21.5 x 13.5 cm, blind olive wrappers.
Year of publication inferred from the foreword. This is the first posthumous edition of Chamisso's novel.
Personae:
Chamisso, Adelbert von (German, 1781 – 1838). — Author of the text.
Hitzig, Julius Eduard [Itzig, Isaac Elias] (German-Jewish, 1780 – 1849). — Author of the foreword.
Menzel, Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von (German, 1815 – 1905). — Artist of the vignettes.
Unzelmann, Friedrich Ludwig (German, 1797 – 1854). — Engraver of the woodcuts.
Schrag, Johann Leonhard (Germany, 1783 – 1858). — Publisher.
Cover and title page: Н. Л. | ФРАН-МАСОНСТВО | И | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ИЗМѢНА. | Изданiе В. П. | С.-ПЕТЕРБУРГЪ | Типографиiя газеты «Россiя». Бассейная, 3. | 1906 г. ||
Pagination: [1-3] 4-77 [3]; collation: [1]8 2-58; 23 x 15.5 cm, in publisher’s lettered wrappers, library and bookstore stamps.
A reprint of an article published in № 4 of the magazine "Море и его Жизнь", January 1905. Allegedly a translation and a brief exposition of La franc-maçonnerie et la Révolution française by Maurice Talmeyr [Marie-Justin-Maurice Coste] (French, –
Title page: ТОРКВАТО ТАССО | ОСВОБОЖДЕННЫЙ | ИЕРУСАЛИМ | ПЕРЕВОД С ИТАЛЬЯНСКОГО | РОМАНА ДУБРОВКИНА | {publisher’s device} | САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГ | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ИВАНА ЛИМБАХА | 2020 ||
Frontispiece recto: Torquato Tasso portrait by Aegidius Sadeler; verso: TARQUATO TASSO | GERUSALEMME | LIBERATA ||
Pagination: [1-4] 5-607 [608], il. in text by Charles-Nicolas Cochin, the Younger (French, 1715 – 1790).
Hardcover, pictorial paper board, lettering to spine, 25 x 15.5 cm. Print run: 1,000 copies.
Original: Torquato Tasso. La Gerusalemme liberata (it.)
Translation from the Italian and a foreword by Roman Doubrovkine [Роман Дубровкин] (Russian-Swiss, b. 1953).
Published in 2020 by Издательство Ивана Лимбаха in St. Petersburg.
In this collection: LIB-2639.2021 with illustrations by Hubert François Gravelot (French, 1699–1773); LIB-2636.2021 with illustrations by Bernardo Castello (Italian, 1557–1629), and another translation into Russian by В. С. ЛИХАЧЕВ LIB-2654.2021.
A contemporary reprint in publisher's wrappers, 22.8 x 14.4 cm, untrimmed, stapled, with title on the outer cover and similar to t.p.:
The Truth About | "The Protocols" | A LITERARY FORGERY | From The Times of | August 16, 17, and 18, 1921 | LONDON: | PRINTING HOUSE SQUARE, E.C.4. | ONE SHILLING NET. ||
Pagination: [2] – t.p. / colophon, 3-24.
Collation: [A]2 B10.
Title page: THE | ADVENTURES | OF | TELEMACHUS, | THE | SON OF ULYSSES. | FROM THE FRENCH OF | SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE–FENELON, | ARCHBISHOP OF CAMBRAY. | BY THE LATE | JOHN HAWKESWORTH, LL. D. | CORRECTED AND REVISED BY | G. GREGORY, D. D. | JOINT EVENING PREACHER AT THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, AND AUTHOR OF | ESSAYS, HISTORICAL AND MORAL, &C. | WITH | A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND A COMPLETE INDEX, HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL. | EMBELLISHED WITH TWELVE ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS. | IN TWO VOLUMES. | VOL. I. [VOL. II] | — | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR C. AND G. KEARSLEY, FLEET-STREET. | 1795. ||
Vol. 1: collation: 2 blank leaves, π6, a-d4, B-Z4 Aa-Ff4, 2 blank leaves, 7 coloured engravings; pagination: [i-v] vi-xxxv [xxxvi], [1] 2-223 [224 blank].
Vol. 2: collation: 2 blank leaves, π4, Gg-Zz4, 3A-3K4 [a]4 b2, 2 blank leaves, 5 coloured engravings; pagination: [i-iii] iv-vii [viii], [225] 226-439, [440-452].
Exterior: 2-volume set, uniformly bound in full crimson linen morocco, key fret inside, gilt-ruled with a floral pattern between fillets to boards, flat spine decorated in gilt, with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, AEG, 4to, 28 x 22.5 cm; printed on wove paper with watermark “WS”. Blind stamp to ffl by previous owner: "B. J. WIJNVELDT".
Engravings: 12 tinted stipple engravingsà la poupée: one by James Neagle (British, 1760? – 1822), four by William Bromley (British, 1769 – 1842), four by William Skelton (British, 1763 – 1848), one by John Ogborne (British, 1755 – 1837), and two by James Parker (1750 – 1805) after Thomas Stothard (British, 1755 – 1834).
Ref.: Lewine (1898), p. 183: "The 1795 edition, 2 vols., 4to., with 12 engravings after Stothard, has a nominal value." Not in Cohen De Ricci, 1912.
Original: François Fénelon. Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d’Ulysse. See №№ LIB-2522-2020 and LIB-2683.2021 in this collection.
John Hawkesworth (British, c. 1715 – 1773).
George Gregory (British, 1754 – 1808).
Titlepage: Луи-Себастьен | МЕРСЬЕ | ГОД | ДВЕ ТЫСЯЧИ | ЧЕТЫРЕСТА СОРОКОВОЙ | СОН, КОТОРОГО, ВОЗМОЖНО, И НЕ БЫЛО | {device} | ИЗДАНИЕ ПОДГОТОВИЛИ | А. Л. АНДРЕС, П. Р. ЗАБОРОВ | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «НАУКА» | ЛЕНИНГРАДСКОЕ ОТДЕЛЕНИЕ | ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1977 ||
Frontispiece: Louis-Sébastien | MERCIER | L'AN | DEUX MILLE | QUATRE CENT QUARANTE | RÊVE, S'IL EN FUT JAMAIS | {device} ||
Pagination: [1-5] 6-240, 3 leaves of plates extraneous to collation.
Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-158.
Binding: Hardcover, serial design green buckram with gilt lettering on an embossed scroll to front cover, gilt lettering to spine. 23 x 18 cm.
Series: АН СССР, Литературные памятники.
Autor: Louis-Sébastien Mercier (French, 1740 – 1814). See: LIB-2695.2021
Translator: Александра Львовна [Лейбовна] Андрес (Russian, 1907 – 1991).
Title page (black and red): ГУГО ГРОЦИЙ | О ПРАВЕ | ВОЙНЫ | И МИРА | ß ТРИ КНИГИ ß | В КОТОРЫХ ОБЪЯСНЯЮТСЯ | ЕСТЕСТВЕННОЕ ПРАВО | И | ПРАВО НАРОДОВ, | А ТАКЖЕ ПРИНЦИПЫ | ПУБЛИЧНОГО ПРАВА | {device} | Перевод с латинского | А. Л. САККЕТТИ | Государственное издательство | ЮРИДИЧЕСКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | МОСКВА 1956 ||
Verso t.p.: Под общей редакцией профессора С. Б. КРЫЛОВА
Pagination: [1, 2] – t.p. / editor, [3] 4-867 [868] – contents, errata slip, 4 plates extraneous to collation: frontis. portrait, t.p. Amsterdam edition of 1646, t.p. Russian edition of c. 1710, Lovensteyn castle.
Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-548 552.
Binding: Publisher’s brown cloth, blind-stamped lettering to front board, elements of design in black and gilt lettering to spine.
Вступительная статья А. А. Желудкова.
Author: Hugo Grotius [Huig or Hugo de Groot] (Dutch, 1583 – 1645).
Originally published by Nicolas Buon in Paris in 1625 in Latin under the title: De iure belli ac pacis (English: On the Law of War and Peace).
Editor: Сергей Борисович Крылов (Russian, 1888 – 1958).
Translator: Александр Ливериевич Саккетти (Russian, 1881 – 1966).
Front wrapper, t.p.: Общедоступная философiя | ВЪ ИЗЛОЖЕНИИ | АРКАДIЯ ПРЕССА | — | ГРОЦIЙ. | О ПРАВѢ ВОЙНЫ И МИРА. | Цена 40 коп. | [two medals] С.-Петербург | Изданiе П. П. Сойкина [two medals] | Книжный Складъ / Стремянная, 12 | Книжный Магазинъ / Невский, 96 ||
Verso to front wrapper: publisher's advert.; verso to back wrapper: publisher's advert.; back wrapper: Series advert.
Series: Общедоступная философия в изложении Аркадия Пресса
Pagination: [1, 2] – t.p. /censor's approval dated September 30, 1902 г., imprint, [3] 4-50 [2] – publisher's advert.
Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-38 42.
Inscriptions: Handwriting to front wrapper "1902"; to title page "1902" and in Russian: "Ензику от Тышки 19/III-26г."
Size: 19.5 x 12.3 cm.
Binding: original publisher's wrappers, lettering, pp. 35-46 loose.
Author: Hugo Grotius [Huig or Hugo de Groot] (Dutch, 1583 – 1645).
Originally published by Nicolas Buon in Paris in 1625 in Latin under the title: De iure belli ac pacis (English: On the Law of War and Peace).
Compiler/translator: Аркадий Германович Пресс [Аркадиус Пресас or Arkadius Presas] (Russian-Finish, 1870 – 1952).
Title: COSTUMES ET MODES | D’AUTREFOIS | HORACE VERNET | Incroyables | et | Merveilleuses | Paris | 1810–1818 | TEXTE PAR | ROGER–ARMAND WEIGERT | Conservateur au Cabinet des Estampes | de la Bibliothèque Nationale | ÉDITIONS ROMBALDI | PARIS ||
Content: 24 photomechanical reproductions of the images from Bibliothèque nationale de France, printed on vélin paper from Papeteries Aussedat by Papeteries de la Moselle printing presses and stencil-coloured by Edmond Vairel. Text printed by Imprimerie Kapp on October 20, 1955. A print run of 4,000 copies, of which this is №122.
Exterior: Pink lettered dust jacket over wrappers.
Pagination: loose double leaves, [4 blanks] [4 h.t. and t.p.], i-xi [xii], 24 unnumbered plates, [4 blanks].
20 x 14.5 cm, owner’s burgundy buckram, upper original pictorial wrapper preserved, in black and yellow.
Title: ДЖОЗЕФ КОНРАД | ТАЙНЫЙАГЕНТ | (The secret agent) | Перевод с английского | М. МАТВЕЕВОЙ | под редакцией | В. А. АЗОВА | {device} | Издательство “ПЕТРОГРАД” | ЛЕНИНГРАД — МОСКВА | 1925.
Pagination: ffl, [2] orig. wrapper/blank, [1, 2] t.p./imprint, 3-245 [3 advert.]
Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-158 164.
Print run: 5.000 copies.
Редактор перевода: В. А. АзовContributors:
Joseph Conrad (Polish-British, 1857 – 1924) – author.
Владимир Александрович Ашкинази [Азов] (Russian-French, 1873 – 1941) – translator/editor.
Марианна Николаевна Матвеева (Russian, 20th century) – translator.
Original title: [LIB-2762.2021] Joseph Conrad. The secret agent: a simple tale. — London: Methuen & Co., [1907]; [LIB-3213.2023] Joseph Conrad. The secret agent: A drama in three acts. — London, T. Werner Laurie., 1923.
Title: ДЖОЗЕФ КОНРАД |{device} | ТАЙНЫЙ АГЕНТ | • | НА ВЗГЛЯД ЗАПАДА | • | Издание подготовил | В.М. ТОЛМАЧЕВ | Научно-издательский центр | «Ладомир» | «Наука» | Москва ||
Frontispiece: JOSEPH CONRAD |{device} | THE SECRET AGENT | • | UNDER WESTERN EYES ||
Pagination: [1-9] 10-595 [3] [2 advert.].
Binding: serial green cloth blind-stamped with a scroll adorned with gold lettering to board and spine, 22.5 x 17 cm.
Original titles: [LIB-2762.2021] Joseph Conrad. The secret agent: a simple tale. — London: Methuen & Co., [1907]; [LIB-3213.2023] Joseph Conrad. The secret agent: A drama in three acts. — London, T. Werner Laurie, 1923.
Title (black and red): ПЕСНЬ | О КРЕСТОВОМ | ПОХОДЕ ПРОТИВ | АЛЬБИГОЙЦЕВ | {device} | Издание подготовили | И.О. БЕЛАВИН, Е.В. МОРОЗОВА | Научно-издательский центр | «Ладомир» | «Наука» | Москва ||
Frontispiece (black and red): LA CHANSON DE | LA CROISADE | ALBIGEOISE | {device} ||
Pagination : [1-9] 10-437 [3] ; 79 illustr. on 20 leaves of colour plates between pp. 224/225, inset: folding double-sided map of the Albigensian Crusade43 x 64 cm; print run 2,000 copies.
Binding: serial green buckram blind-stamped with a scroll adorned with gold lettering to board and spine.
Отв. ред. М. Л. Андреев. Ред. изд-ва Л. А. Сифурова.
Title (black and red): ЦИЦЕРОН | ДИАЛОГИ | О ГОСУДАРСТВЕ 〜 О ЗАКОНАХ | ИЗДАНИЕ ПОДГОТОВИЛИ | И. Н. ВЕСЕЛОВСКИЙ, В. О. ГОРЕНШТЕЙН | и С. Л. УТЧЕНКО | {device} | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО • НАУКА | МОСКВА • 1966 ||
Frontispiece (black and red): M. TVLLI CICERONIS | DIALOGI | DE REPUBLICA 〜 DE LEGIBUS| {device} ||
Pagination: [1-7] 8-223 [224], insert errata slip, 2 plates.
Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-148.
Binding: 22 x 17.3 cm; hardbound: original serial green cloth, blind-stamped with scrolls and gilt lettering to board and spine, lacking DJ.
Веселовский, Иван Николаевич (Russian, 1892 – 1977); Горенштейн, Виктор Осипович (Russian, 20th century); Утченко, Сергей Львович (Russian, 1908 – 1976).
THE | ADVENTURES | OF | TELEMACHUS, | THE SON OF ULYSSES. | Translated from the French of | Messire François Salignac de la Mothe–Fenelon, | Archbishop of Cambray. | BY | JOHN HAWKESWORTH, L. L. D. | — | LONDON: | Printed for the AUTHOR, by W. and W. Strahan, | M DCC LXVIII. ||
Binding: half polished brown calf over marbled boards, wave ruled blind, gilt fillet ruled compartments, black label with gilt lettering to spine; 29.5 x 24.5 cm; marbled endpapers.
Pagination: 2 blank leaves (wove paper), [I, ii] – t.p. / blank, [iii] iv – dedication, [v] vi-xv – subscribers, [xvi] blank, [xvii] xviii-xix – preface, [xx] xxi-xxxv – contents, [xxxvi] – errata, subscribers omitted, [1] 2-462, printed on laid paper, 2 blank leaves (wove paper).
Collation: 4to; A4, a-c4 d2, B-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Mmm4 Nnn3; 24 head- and 24 tailpieces engraved by Charles Grignion the Elder (British, 1721 – 1810) after Samuel Waly (British, 1720 – 1786).
Original: François Fénelon. Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d’Ulysse. See № LIB-2522-2020 in this collection.
Not in Lewine, 1898; Not in Cohen De Ricci, 1912.
Hardcover, green publisher's paper boards, gilt lettering in the figural frame, black label with gilt lettering and gilt in compartments to spine. 21 x 13.5 cm, print run 2,500. pp.: [4] 5-714 [715/6] [4].
Title: ТОРКВАТО ТАССО | Освобожденный | Иерусалим | Перевод с итальянского | В. С. ЛИХАЧЕВА | Подготовка текста, предисловие, комментарии | А. О. ДЁМИНА | {publisher's device} | Санкт-Петербург | «НАУКА» | 2007 ||
ISBN 978-5-02-026954-5
Original: Torquato Tasso. La Gierusalemme Liberata.
Hardcover, 21.5 x 13.5 cm, pictorial boards, [1-4] 5-412 [2] [2]. Print run 3,000. Translation from German of the original {Siegfried Krakauer. Jacques Offenbach und das Paris seiner Zeit. — Amsterdam: Allert de Lange, 1937} by Serafima Shlapoberskaya – Шлапоберская, Серафима Евгеньевна (Russian, 1921 – 2007).
Hardcover, publisher's white cloth with a black imprint to cover, red and black lettering to spine, pictorial DJ, pp.: [1-4] 5-398 [2]. Послесловие В. Столбова, художник В. Юрлов.
Russian translation of Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez.
Of the limited edition of 1150 copies, this is №54 (on Japan paper, signed by Bartsch and by von Bayros).
Owner's binding imitating quarter-morocco, a red label with gilt lettering to spine (possibly by Ms Hunt, who was an amateur bookbinder). Bookplate on front pastedown: "Ex libris Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt | S. B. Hill Dec 1913 | A.J. Downey Sc." Alfred James Downey (1882-1944). Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt (1882-1963). Sarah B. Hill had done lettering for Ms Hunt. On back pastedown: Stamp "Hunt Libraries CMU" and sticker "Gotham Book Mart | 128 West 45th street | New York".
This is from an edition of Carcassonne:
Title: GESCHICHTEN | AUS | ARETINO | MIT FÜNFZEHN BILDERN | VON | CHOISI-NÉRAC | NICHT IM HANDEL | GEDRUCKT FÜR HEINRICH CONRAD | UND SEINE FREUNDE | SIENA 1907 ||
Collation: 8vo; 1-128 137; frontispiece, t.p. and 14 plates, extraneous to collation.
Pagination: [2] f.t. / blank, 3-203 [2], il.
Binding: Full cream vellum, ruled with gilt double-fillet, grey label with gilt lettering to spine. Bookplate by von Bayros Par Avi Cigno to front pastedown.
Note: Private edition of Aretino'sRagionamenti in German as Geschichten aus Aretino by translater and publisher Heinrich Conrad (German, 1866 – 1918), whose real name was Hugo Storm, this copy №394, illustrated by Franz von Bayros (Austrian, 1866 – 1924) under the pen-name of Choisi-Nérac.
Title: НАУЧНО-ПОПУЛЯРНАЯ БИБЛИОТЕКА СОЛДАТА | [—] | ЛАУРЕАТ СТАЛИНСКОЙ ПРЕМИИ, ДЕЙСТВИТЕЛЬНЫЙ ЧЛЕН АКАДЕМИИ МЕДИЦИНСКИХ НАУК СССР О. Б. Лепешинская. | ПРОИСХОЖДЕНИЕ КЛЕТОК | ИЗ ЖИВОГО ВЕЩЕСТВА | [—•—] | ВОЕННОЕ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | ВОЕННОГО МИНИСТЕРСТВА СОЮЗА ССР | Москва — 1952 ||
Pagination: original pictorial wrappers with portrait in a frame, [1-4] – t.p. / contents, b/w portrait /blank, 5-75 [76] ; in-text illustrations.
Title: О. Б. ЛЕПЕШИНСКАЯ, | действительный член Академии медицинских наук, | лауреат Сталинской премии. | Происхождение клеток | из живого вещества | [blank] | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ЦК ВЛКСМ | "МОЛОДАЯ ГВАРДИЯ" | 1951 ||
Pagination: original pictorial wrappers with portrait in frame, [1-2] – t.p. / imprint., 3-37 [38] [2] – blank / colophon.
Vol. 1: THE | WORKS | OF THE | RIGHT HONOURABLE | EDMUND BURKE, | COLLECTED IN THREE VOLUMES. | VOL. I. | DUBLIN: | PRINTED FOR R. CROSS, W. WILSON, P. WO-| GAN, L. WHITE, P. BYRNE, A. GRUEBER, J. MOORE, | W. JONES, W. M’KENZIE, H. WATTS, J. RICE, | AND G. FOLINGSBY. | 1792.||
Pagination: 2 blank leaves, [2] - t.p. /blank, [2] - contents / blank, [2] - f.t. / blank, [3] 4-61 [62] - blank, [2] - f.t / blank, [4] contents, 65-580, 1 blank leaf.
Collation: 8vo; π2 B-Z8 Aa-Oo8 Pp4.
Vol. 2: THE | WORKS | OF THE | RIGHT HONOURABLE | EDMUND BURKE, | COLLECTED IN THREE VOLUMES. | VOL. II. | DUBLIN: | Printed by William Porter, | For R. Cross, W. Wilson, P. Wogan, L. White, P. Byrne, W. M’kenzie, J. Moore, A. Grueber, W. Jones, H. Watts, J. Rice, And G. Folingsby. | M.DCC.XCIII.||
Pagination: 2 blank leaves, [2] - t.p. /blank, [2] - contents / cont., [2] - f.t. / blank, [3] 4-655 [656 blank], 2 blank leaves.
Collation: 8vo; π2 B-Z8 Aa-Tt8.
Vol. 3: THE | WORKS | OF THE | RIGHT HONOURABLE | EDMUND BURKE, | COLLECTED IN THREE VOLUMES. | VOL. III. | DUBLIN: | PRINTED FOR R. CROSS, W. WILSON, P. WO-| GAN, L. WHITE, P. BYRNE, A. GRUEBER, J. MOORE, | W. JONES, W. M’KENZIE, H. WATTS, J. RICE, | AND G. FOLINGSBY. | 1792.||
Pagination: 2 blank leaves, [2] - t.p. /blank, [2] - contents / blank, [2] - f.t. / blank, 3-602, 3 blank leaves.
Collation: 8vo; A-Z8 Aa-Pp8.
Binding: Full contemporary calf ruled in gilt, leather spine labels gilt, gilt scrollwork in compartments framed in Greek–key rolls, marbled endpapers, hinges cracked, central vertical split to spine panel to vol. 1 and 3, early ownership signature to titles.
Title: LA | GERUSALEMME | LIBERATA | DI | TORQUATO TASSO | Tomo Primo | {vignette} | IN PARIGI | M.DCC.LXXI | Appreßo { Agostino Delalain. | Pietro Durand. | Gio: Claudio Molini. | Droüet ∫crip.
Pagination: ffl [1] 2-331 [332] bfl; illustrations after Gravelot: frontis. by Henriquez, t.p. vignette by Patas, engraved dedication by Le Roy, 10 head- and 7 tailpieces by Le Roy, 5 full-page vignettes by Le Roy, and 10 plates by: Baquoy, Duclos (3), Le Roy, Lingée, Née, Rousseau, and Simonet (2).
Collation: 8vo; A-V8 X6.
Vol. 2: Title: LA | GERUSALEMME | LIBERATA | DI | TORQUATO TASSO | Tomo Secondo | {vignette} | IN PARIGI | M.DCC.LXXI | Appreßo { Agostino Delalain. | Pietro Durand. | Gio: Claudio Molini. | Droüet ∫crip.
Pagination: ffl [1] 2-340 bfl; illustrations after Gravelot: frontis. by Henriquez, t.p. vignette by Mesnil, 10 head- and 6 tailpieces by Le Roy, 4 full-page vignettes by Le Roy, tailpiece by Ponce, and 10 plates by: Duclos, Henriquez, Leveau, Lingée, Massard, Née, Patas, Ponce, Rousseau, and Simonet.
Collation: 8vo; A-X8 Y2.
Size: 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Size of the copy sold at Sotheby's in 2015: 23.3 x 14.0 cm; Christie's in 2008: 23.2 x 14.4 cm
Page size: 21 x 13.5 cm. In referenced sources, the page size is bigger than that. N. Ray gives 11 ½ x 8 7⁄8 inches or 9 x 5½ inches. Cohen and De Ricci do not bother to give sizes, considering that octavo is octavo. MFA: 30.3 x 23.1 x 4 cm (11 15/16 x 9 1/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
Binding: Two volumes uniformly bound in full marbled calf, ruled in gilt, flat spine with gilt decorations and monogram, cream lettered label. Geoffrey Lord Cross of Chelsea [Geoffrey Cross, Baron Cross of Chelsea] (British, 1904 – 1989) bookplate to front pastedown.
Catalogue raisonné: N. Ray №22, p. 48; Cohen De Ricci 974-975
According to MFA printing by: François-Augustin Quillau (French, 1743–1804).
This edition was illustrated by Hubert François Gravelot (French, 1699–1773) and engraved by the following engravers:
Jean Charles Baquoy (French, 1721–1777)
Antoine Jean Duclos (French, 1742–1795)
Benoît Louis Henriquez (French, 1732–1806)
Jean Jacques André Le Veau (French, 1729–1785)
Charles Louis Lingée (French, 1748–1819)
Jacques Le Roy (French, born in 1739)
Jean Massard (1740–1822)
Elie du Mesnil (French, born about 1728)
François Denis Née (French, 1735–1818)
Charles Emmanuel Jean Baptiste Patas (French, 1744–1802)
Nicholas Ponce (French, 1746–1831)
Jean François Rousseau (French, born in 1740)
Jean Baptiste Simonet (French, 1742–1813)
Droüet (French, 18th century)
Title: L'ADAM | LASCIF | OU | LETTRES A LA MARQUISE |{fleuron}| AVEC | des figures finement gravées | pour animer par ces billets | fort galamment troussés | AU CARQUOIS D’ARGENT ||
Edition: Limited numbered edition of 252 copies, artist’s copy on Marais paper with watermark, final state.
Pagination: [2] blanks, [2] h.t./tirage, [2] blank / exemplaire, [2] t.p. / blank, i-iii [iv], f.t. / blank; 13-183 [184] [2] blanks, [2] ex-libris / blank; frontispiece, 9 vignettes and 9 plates by Gaston Barret, dry point, sanguine; woodcut vignettes at the faux-title of each chapter.
Binding: Unbound, in publisher's blue velour paper folder with gilt device to front cover, original wrappers with blue silhouette and grey medallions, in publisher's grey slipcase.
Ref: (1) Jean-Pierre Dutel, Bibliographie des ouvrages érotiques publiés clandestinement en français entre 1920 et 1970, № 951, Inconnu à Pia. (2) Curiosa: An exhibition of illustrated erotic books 1987 — London: Hobart & Maclean, 1987, № 8. (3) Honesterotica (793).
Note: Most sources reference black prints, not sanguine. The publishing year was established by Jean-Pierre Dutel; in any case, it was published before the jury hearings at Cour d'Assises in Paris on May 29, 1956. The fact of hearings was not independently confirmed.
Softcover, 242 x 165 mm, French flapped wrappers with black and red lettering to front and spine, top edge trimmed, pages uncut, printed on wove paper watermarked BFK Rives in italic script; illustrations in colour.
Title: JEAN DE LA FONTAINE | LES AMOURS | DE | PSYCHÉ ET DE CUPIDON | ÉDITION CONFORME AUX TEXTES ORIGINAUX | ÉTABLIE PAR | LOUIS PERCEAU | ET ORNÉE D’ILLUSTRATIONS EN COULEURS | PAR | CARLÈGLE | LE LIVRE DU BIBLIOPHILE | GEORGES BRIFFAUT, ÉDITEUR | 4, RUE DE FURSTENBERG, PARIS | 1932 ||
Limited edition: 1230 copies of which this ic copy № 247.
Collated 8vo: π4 1-24 3-48 58 *58 6-168 χ2, total 134 leaves, incl. frontispiece.
Pagination: [8] 1-253 [254] [6].
Colophon: Le volume des Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon de La Fontaine a été achevé d'imprimer le quinze juin mil neuf cent trente-deux sur les presses du maitre imprimeur Coulouma, a Argenteul, H. Barthélemy étant directeur. Coloris de E. Charpentier, Paris.
Title (black and red in pictorial frame): The Fairy Tales | of the | Brothers Grimm | Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. | Translated by | Mrs. Edgar Lucas | Doubleday, Page & Co | New York 1909.
Pagination: [i-iv] – h.t., t.p., frontis., v-xv [xvi], 1-325 [326] colophon., [1 blank sheet], bfl; 40 tipped-in color plates (offset chromolithograph) with lettered guards, numerous in-text woodcuts.
Collation: 4to; a-b4, A-2S4.
Edition: 1st deluxe American large-paper edition, limited to 50 copies, Rackham’s facsimile signature to h.t. verso.
Binding: Original full limp suede binding with yapp edges, gilt-ornamented and lettered spine. Top edge gilt, other uncut. Moiré endpapers. Printed on laid paper. Marbled endpapers.
Казанова Д. Истрия моей жизни. — М.: Моск. рабочий, 1991. — 734 с.
Составление, вступительная статья, комментарии А. Ф. Строева.
Перевод И. К. Стаф, А. Ф. Строева, 1990.
ISBN: 5—239—00590—7
Original title: Giacomo Casanova. Histoire de ma vie.
Front board: CASANOVA | Erinnerungen aus | galanter Zeit | Illustriert von | F.v. Bayros | {gigniette} | BERLIN | Verlegt bei Wilhelm Borngräber ||
Title: Giacomo Casanova | Erinnerungen aus galanter Zeit | Mit Bildern von F.v. Bayros | Eingeleitet von | Hanns Heinz Ewers | 66. Bis 70 Tausend | — | Wilhelm Borngräber Verlag | Berlin ||
Pagination: [2] , [1-4] 5-557 [558] [2] + frontispice + 5 plates (photogravures).
Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-358.
Size: 18.8 x 13 x 4.3 cm
Binding: hardcover, quarter cloth, paper boards with vignette and lettering, gilt lettering to spine.
Note: the year and the edition were not stated and could not be inferred so far, probably one of the early editions between 1911 and 1925.
Title: CONTES FANTASTIQUES | DE | HOFFMANN | TRADUCTION NOUVELLE ; PRÉCÉDÉS | DE SOUVENIRS INTIMES SUR LA VIE DE L’AUTEUR | PAR P. CHRISTIAN. | ILLUSTRÉS PAR GAVARNI. | {Publisher’s device} | — PARIS, | LAVIGNE, LIBRAIRE-ÉDITEUR, | 1 RUE DU PAON SAINT-ANDRÉ. | MDCCCXLIII. ||
Pagination: ffl, [i-vi] –h.t. / colopon, t.p. /blank, dedication /blank, [vii] viii-xix [xx][1,-3] 4-522, bfl, + woodcut illustrations by Brévière et Novionafter Gavarni: 10 full page plates, initials, tail pieces, and in text.
Collation: [a]-b4 c2, 1-654 661.
Binding: Quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, raised bands with gilt double fillets, gilt arabesque in compartments, title lettering.
Catalogue raisonné: L. Carteret (1927), p. 295.