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Description: Softcover, 8vo, 22 x 14.5 cm, tan wrappers, lettered in terra-cotta to spine and front wrapper: “Cергей Варшавский | УПАДОЧНОЕ | ИСКУССТВО ЗАПАДА | ПЕРЕД СУДОМ РУССКИХ | ХУДОЖНИКОВ- | РЕАЛИСТОВ | Искусство”, title in brown in a frame, blue ink autograph inscription: “Дорогому Толе | на память и на рецензию | с нежностью и любовью | 25.XII. 49. Сергей” (probably to his son Anatoly). Collation: 8vo, [1]-98 105; pp.: [2] 3-151 [3], total 154 pages, plus 4 plates extraneous to collation. Title-page: Cергей Варшавский | УПАДОЧНОЕ | ИСКУССТВО ЗАПАДА | ПЕРЕД СУДОМ | РУССКИХ ХУДОЖНИКОВ- | РЕАЛИСТОВ | Государственное издательство | «ИСКУССТВО» | Ленинград 1949 • Москва || T.p. verso: ОБЩАЯ РЕДАКЦИЯ | В. Я. БРОДСКОГО || Colophon: Редактор Н. Р. Мервольф, Художник И. С. Серов, и т.д. Тираж 10 000. Типография имени Володарского. Print run: 10,000 copies. Comment: the book was written and published to survive during the so-called “Anti-cosmopolitan campaign (Борьба с космополитизмом, Bor'ba s kosmopolitizmom) in 1948-53 in USSR during the Stalin’s rule. The author was later ashamed of writing it and never mentioned this book in his list of works. Contributors: Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980). -
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. -
Hardcover volume, 35.2 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 28 cm, pp.: [4] [1] 2-104 (plates with photographs of 206 items), [2] 107-138 [4]. Kakiemon [柿右衛門] – book title. 日本の陶磁 – Japanese ceramics, series 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. -
Catalogue raisonné of Pascin's erotic drawings. Softcover, 21 x 15 cm, burgundy gloss pictorial paperback with lettering and vignettes, pp.: [1-3] 4-102 [2], illustrated throughout. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Title-page: Pascin érotique | {round vignette} | éditions Astarté - Paris || Contributors: Alexandre Dupouy (French) Pascin, Jules [Pincas, Julius Mordecai] (French-Jewish, 1885 – 1930) -
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. -
![George Cruikshank's omnibus / edited by Laman Blanchard. – London : Tilt and Bogue, 1842. – [2], vi, [2], [2] 300 p., [22] leaves of plates : ill's.](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-2558.2020-6-500x500.jpeg)
Title: GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S | OMNIBUS. | ILLUSTRATED WITH ONE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL | AND WOOD. | "De omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis." | EDITED BY LAMAN BLANCHARD, ESQ. | LONDON : | TILT AND BOGUE, FLEET STREET. | MDCCCXLII. Pagination: ffl, [2] – blanks [i, ii] – blank / engraved t.p. w/guard, [iii, iv] – t.p., colophon] [v], vi – contents, [vii, viii] – h.t. / blank, [ix] – list of etchings on steel, [x] – list of wood-cuts, [2] – blank, frontis. engraves portrait of G. Cruikshank; [1] 2-300 [2] – blanks, bfl; 22 full-page steel engravings (three not by Cruikshank) and 78 woodcuts. As per A. M. Cohn: i-ii+i-viii+1-2+1-300. Binding: 24 x 14 cm, later full red morocco by Kelly and Sons with gilt and embossed designs to covers, designs, title and year lettering to spine, facsimile in gilt of Cruikshank's signature to front cover, gilt line to inner edges, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Harold A. Wernher of Luton Hoo to front pastedown. Major-General Sir Harold Augustus Wernher (1893 – 1973) – British military officer. Originally bound in green, then red cloth, this binding by Kelly and Sons (Packer, Maurice. Bookbinders of Victorian London. London: British Library, 1991 page 84). A. M. Cohn № 190, p. 65-66. Motto translation: (About all things and something more besides). -
Pictorial cloth boards, spiral-bound, pp.: 3 leaves: h.t., frontis., t.p., 1-326; 123 black & white plates within the pagination.
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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). -
Cover: LA | NOUVELLE PHÈDRE | ET | LE DIRECTEUR DE L'ODEON | PAR | PAGES (DU TARN) | PRIX : 50 CENTIMES | PARIS | GUSTAVE HAVARD, LIBRAIRE–ÉDITEUR | BOULEVARD SÉBASTOPOL (RIVE GAUCHE) et rue de la Harpe. | 1858 || Pagination: [1-3] 4-48. Collation: 8vp; [1]-38 (total 24 leaves) Binding: publisher’s wrappers. Printer: Imprimerie Bonaventure et Ducessois (Paris); Ducessois, Théodore (French, 1804 – after 1864.) Bonaventure, Jules-Frédéric (French, ca. 1816 – 1891) Pagès (du Tarn) (French, fl. 1838 – 1872) – known absolutely nothing. Other works: La France, ode (M. Papailhiau, 1840); Aux Électeurs ... du Tarn (Soupe, 1848) ; Les Funérailles de Napoléon, ode (Pilout, 1840) ; Mazagran, 4, 5 et 6 février 1840, chant héroïque (M. Papailhiau, 1840) ; Herminie, ou l'Amour et l'honneur, tragédie en 5 actes, en vers (Moquet, 1872) ; Lettre à S.E. le ministre de l'Intérieur sur la nouvelle Phèdre et le Théâtre français (Moquet, 1856), etc. There is also a humorous book by Antony de Menou, which does not contain anything of substance: Un contemporain: biographie de Pagès (du Tarn). — Paris: Masgana, 1857. Antony de Menou is an obscure figure in his own right. An article about him can be found at Les derniers bohêmes by Firmin Maillard (1833 – 1901) [LIB-2652.2021]. -
Front cover: LONDON | Highlights from | the Erotica Library | of Tony Fekete | Tuesday 18 November 2014 | {vignette in colour} | CHRISTIE'S || Pagination: [2] 3-134 [2], total 136 pages, 221 lot. Binding: 16.7 x 21 cm, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, red spine with white lettering. -
Description: One volume 32.5 x 25.5 cm, in crimson cloth, blind lettering to front cover and spine, pictorial DJ, lettered (similar to t.p.) in the back. Pagination: [2 blank] [1-9] 10-337 [338] [4] [4 notes], total 174 leaves, 137 entries. Title-page (in red and black): Eros invaincu | LA BIBLIOTHÉQUE GÉRARD NORDMANN | Florilège | établi sous la direction de Monique Nordmann | commente par Laurent Adert • Saba Bahar • Françoise Bléchet • Arto Clerc | (5 more lines of names) | & | édité par Rainer Michael Mason | FONDATION MARTIN BODMER | EDITIONS CERCLE D'ART | GENÈVE • MMIV • PARIS || Gérard Nordmann (Swiss, 1930 – 1992) Bibliothèque érotique: Gérard Nordmann; Livres, manuscrits, dessins, photographies du XVIe au XXe siècle / Catalogues de ventes (two parts) — Paris: Christie’s, 2006, see LIB-2828.2021 and [LIB-2810.2021]. -
Hardcover, 17.2 x 12.5 cm, brown cloth-backed pictorial paper boards, lettering to front and spine, pictorial endpapers, pp.: [1-4] 5-430 [2], total 432 pages; collated in-16mo: [1]-1216 138 1416, total 216 leaves. Print run: 65,000 copies. A real history-based fiction about doctor Nikolai Sudzilovsky [Nicholas Russel] (Belarusian, 1850 – 1930). Title-page (pictorial): АЛЕКСАНДРА | БОГДАНОВА | ЖИЗНЬ | ПОСЛЕ | СМЕРТИ | Роман || Imprint: Рецензент доктор филилогических наук Н. Г. Жулинский. Редактор В. А. Лигостов. Богданова А. И. Жизнь после смерти: Роман. — К.: Рад. письменник, 1990. — 431 с. ISBN 5-333-00201-0. Colophon: Литературно-художественное издание. БОГДАНОВА АЛЕКСАНДРА ИВАНОВНА | Жизнь после смерти. Роман. Киев, издательство «Радяньский пысьмэннык». Author: Богданова, Александра Ивановна (b. c. 1950). -
Hardcover volume, 22.2 x 17.5 cm, bound in green cloth, black lettering to spine, in a pictorial dust jacket, pp.: [1-4] 5-151 [152], ils. Title-page: С. ВАРШАВСКИЙ • Б. РЕСТ | РЯДОМ С ЗИМНИМ | «СОВЕТСКИЙ ХУДОЖНИК» | ЛЕНИНГРАД • 1969 || Half-title: Из истории Государственного Эрмитажа | ЭРМИТАЖ ПЕРЕД ОКТЯБРЕМ || Print run: 25,000 copies. Contributors: Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980) – author. B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980) – author. -
Hardcover volume, 31 x 23.8 cm, bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine, in pictorial dust jacket, pp.: [1-9] 10-255 [256], ils. 1st edition. Title-page: RENDERING | IN PEN | AND INK | BY ARTHUR L. GUPTILL | EDITED BY SUSAN E. MEYER | WATSON- GUPTILL PUBLICATIONS, NEW YORK || Contributors: Arthur L. Guptill (American, 1891 – 1956) – author. Susan E. Meyer (American, b. 1940) – editor. Printed by Halliday Lithograph Corp. – printer. -
The edition consists of two albums:
1) Skizzenbuch: Hundert Federzeichnungen von Heinrich Kley. — München: Albert Langen, [1909]. — pp.: [1-4] 5-63 [64], illustr. Printed by Hesse & Becker in Leipzig. Bound in the original brown moire covered boards, with a paste-down drawing on the front, gilt cover titles, original patterned endpapers.
2) Skizzenbuch II. Hundert Federzeichnungen von Heinrich Kley. — München: Albert Langen, [1910]. — pp.: [1-4] 5-64, illustr. Printed by Hesse & Becker in Leipzig; paper by Bohnenberger & Cie.; binding by E. A. Enders, Leipzig. Bound in the original bluish-gray moire covered boards, with a paste-down drawing on the front, gilt cover titles, original patterned endpapers.
The number of printed copies unknown. Reproduction of ink drawings by Heinrich Kley, 1st edition.
Dimensions of each album: 32 x 24.5 cm; Quarto. Heinrich Kley (April 15, 1863 in Karlsruhe – 1945? in Munich) was a German illustrator, editorial illustrator and painter. -
![Адарюковъ В.Я. Добавленiя и исправленiя къ подробномусловарю русскихъ гравированныхъ портретовъ Д.А.Ровинскаго, СПб. 1889. — Издание журнала "Старые годы", 1911. — 89 стр. [Владимир Яковлевич Адарюков (1863 -1932). Добавления и исправления к подробному словарю русских гравированных портретов Д.А.Ровинскаго].](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-1612-a-scaled-500x500.jpg)
Title: В. Я. АДАРЮКОВЪ. | ДОБАВЛЕНIЯ И ИСПРАВЛЕНIЯ КЪ ПОДРОБНОМУ СЛОВАРЮ | РУССКИХЪ | ГРАВИРОВАННЫХЪ ПОРТРЕТОВЪ Д. А. РОВИНСКАГО | СПБ. 1889 г. | ИЗДАНИЕ ЖУРНАЛА «СТАРЫЕ ГОДЫ» | 1911. Pagination: [1-4] – incl. orig. wrappers with engraved vignette, 5-89 [90 blank], illustr. Size: 27 x 18.7 cm. Binding: Hardcover; owner's half brown buckram over cloth, original wrappers bound in. Printed on laid paper. Edition: 1st edition, limited: №91 of 150. Inscription to t.p.: Крамарев, 27.5.39. Errata inserts on p. 29 and 77 -
Title: Some English Books | with Coloured Plates | Their Points Collations & Values | Art Sport Caricature | Topography & Travel | First half of the Nineteenth Century | by R. V. Tooley | […] | LONDON | INGPEN & GRANT | 1935 || Pagination: [i-vi] vii-viii, [1] 2-288, Collation: 8vo, π3 A-S8. Size: 26.3 x 20.3 cm Binding: Hardcover, brown polished cloth, bevelled boards, gilt lettering to spine, TMG, other untrimmed. -
Cover: CH. VIRMAÎTRE | PARIS OUBLIÉ — PARIS | E. DENTU, ÉDITEUR || Title page: CHARLES VIRMAÎTRE | PARIS OUBLIÉ | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | E. DENTU, ÉDITEUR | LIBRAIRE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES GENTES DE LETTRES | PALAIS-ROYAL, 15-17-19, GALERIE D’ORLÉANS | 1886 | Tous droits réservés. || Pagination: publisher’s pictorial wrapper, ffl, [2] – t.p. / blank, 1-327 [328 blank], bfl, publisher’s advert. to back wrapper.
