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Publisher’s wrappers, 21.3 x 14.8 cm, 10 four-leave gatherings, unsigned, pp.: [8] 1-70 [2]; total 40 leaves (80 pages), illustrated with 73 in-text woodcuts in sanguine after Feodor Rojankovsky drawings. [1]4 recto reproduces the author’s handwriting. Unbound. Some foxing to the wrappers, all pages clean. Title-page: Poésies Érotiques | de | Pierre Louys | {vignette} | ROME | 1937 || Print run limited to 311 copies, 230 copies (№№ 71-300) on BFK Rives wove paper (watermarked); of which this is copy № 93. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III 2230. Contributors: Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) – author. Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan, Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970). -
Description: one volume 28.5 x 23 cm in publisher’s French flapped wrappers, with lettering to front “Pierre Louÿs”, in glassine dust jacket, in tan cardboard double slipcase 29.7 x 24 cm with ticket “Haeusgen | 8 München 90 | Reinekestrasse 36”; 13 gatherings in-4to (52 leaves), unbound, with 20 drypoint illustrations by Louis Berthomme Saint-André, 15 of them full-page plates, with tissue guards, printed on wove paper watermarked “Lana 15‡90”, unpaginated. Title-page (black and purple): PIERRE LOUŸS | POÉSIES | ÉROTIQUES | ILLUSTRÉES DE VINGT POINTES | SÈCHES PAR ARTISTE | INCONNU | AUX DÉPENS D’UN AMATEUR | CHIHUAHUA ~ MEXIQUE | L’AN I DE LA IVe RÉPUBLIQUE || Limitation (colophon): total print run of 350 copies on Lana paper, of which 20 copies marked A-T with an original drawing, etc. enriched; 30 copies numbered I-XXX, and 300 numbered 1-300. This is copy № 295. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (1920-1970) № 2231, p. 324; Nordmann-Christie’s (2): № 322, p. 157. Contributors: Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) – author. Louis Berthomme Saint-André (French, 1905 – 1977) – artist. -
Description: Hardcover, 19.3 x 15 cm, printed on thick wove paper watermarked “J. PERRIGOT MBM ARCHES (France)”, bound by Thomas Boichot (signed 'BOICHOT' on front pastedown) in silver buckram with a white floral diaper, original front wrapper preserved, top margin gilt; engraved bookplate of Roger Peyrefitte by Pierre-Yves Trémois, 1972, to front pastedown lettered “SEX | LIBRIS | ROGER | PEYREFITTE | {vignette} | Trémois | 72”; bookplate of J.-P. Dutel to binder’s flyleaf. Description by the seller: Plein papier à la Bradel, tête dorée, non rogné, premier plat de couverture conservé. (Boichot). Édition originale publiée en 1927 par René Bonnel ornée dans le titre d’une vignette gravée par Foujita. Tirage : 5 ex. sur Japon ancien. 100 ex. sur vélin d’Arches. EXEMPLAIRE UNIQUE. UN DES 100 SUR VÉLIN D’ARCHES (N°97), ENRICHI DE 8 AQUARELLES LIBRES. Provenance: Roger Peyrefitte (Ex-libris érotique gravé par Trémois). Collation: Pink front wrapper, lettered in frame “P. L. |—| PYBRAC |—| 1927”, 2 blank leaves, [1] h.t., [1] t.p. in red and black with engraved vignette by Foujita, [2] (Sur la chemise…), [2] f.t. / blank, [5] 6-98 [2 colophon/blank], 2 blank leaves, total 52 leaves plus four blanks and a wrapper. Title-page (red and black): PIERRE LOUŸS | PYBRAC | POESIES | {vignette} | CYTHÈRE | AU COQ HARDI || Edition: Limited edition of 105 copies of which this is copy № 97 on Arches paper, enhanced with eight in-text colour drawings by an anonymous artist (unique copy). Another unique copy of the same edition illustrated by an anonymous artist in this collection LIB-3130.2023. Contributors: Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) – author. Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (Japanese-French, 1886 – 1968) – artist (t.p. vignette). Roger Peyrefitte (French, 1907 – 2000) – provenance. Pierre-Yves Trémois (French, 1921 – 2020) – artist (bookplate) René Bonnel (French, 1884 – 1975) – publisher. Thomas Boichot – bookbinder. -
Description: Softcover, French flapped wrappers, 19.7 x 14.5 cm, printed on thick wove paper watermarked “J. PERRIGOT ARCHES MBM”; engraved vignette by Foujita to t.p.; some pages towards the end uncut. Illustrated by ten original watercolours, unsigned. Collation: Pink wrappers, lettered to front, in frame: “P. L. |—| PYBRAC |—| 1927”, 2 blank leaves (one in wrapper), [2] h.t./blank, [2] t.p. in red and black with engraved vignette by Foujita / blank, [2] (Sur la chemise...), [2] f.t. / watercolour on reverse, [5] 6-98 [2 colophon/blank], 2 blank leaves (one in wrapper). Title-page (red and black): PIERRE LOUŸS | PYBRAC | POESIES | {vignette} | CYTHÈRE | AU COQ HARDI || Edition: Limited edition of 105 copies, of which this is copy № 28 on Arches paper, unique as enhanced with 10 colour drawings by an anonymous artist, presumably by Feodor Rojankovsky (dit Rojan), a unique copy. Cat. raisonné: Dutel III № 2278 p. 334; Dutel describes two unique copies of the edition, one with 6 and another with 24 original watercolours by Rojan. Contributors: Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) – author. Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (Japanese-French, 1886 – 1968) – artist (t.p. vignette). Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan, Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970). René Bonnel (French, 1884 – 1975) – publisher. Another unique copy of the same edition illustrated by an anonymous artist in this collection LIB-3061.2022. -
Description: Softcover, original blue-grey wrappers, maroon fleuron to front wrapper « P.L. {copulating couple} 1897. », 28.5 x 23 cm, in a grey double slipcase. Pp.: [1-10] 11-192 [2] [6 blanks], total 200 pages, 50 folio leaves folded in half collated in 4to, unbound, plus 16 coloured lithographs by Jean Berque; all printed on wove paper watermarked “LANA”. This is № 207 of an undisclosed number of copies. Edition enriched with a suite of 12 hand-coloured etchings after Éduard Chimot for publication in the late 1940s (Dutel 2524) on BFK Rives paper. Title-page (maroon and black): P. L. | TROIS | FILLES | DE LEUR | MÈRE | {fleuron} | A L'ENSEIGNE DU CHAT POUR CHAT | M DCCC XCVII || Catalogue raisonné: Dutel 2523, Pia 1340. Contributors: Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) – author. Jean Berque (French, 1896 – 1954) – artist. Édouard Chimot (French, 1880 – 1959) – artist. -
Description: One volume in-4to, 28.7 x 23 cm, in a grey double slipcase 29.6 x 24 cm, lettered paper label to spine, in publisher’s original French flapped blue wrappers, lettered on front, unbound, printed on thick wove paper watermarked "PUR FIL MARAIS". Illustrated with coloured two full-page plates and numerous in-text images, head- and tailpieces engraved by F. Nourisson after André Dignimont. Title-page (blue and black): PIERRE MAC ORLAN | LE QUAI | DES BRUMES | ILLUSTRATIONS DE | DIGNIMONT | ÉDITIONS ARC-EN-CIEL | M CM XLVIII || Pagination: [1-4] (h.t./frontis., t.p./copyright, 5-157 [158] [8] (plate, limit., colophon, blank); total 166 pages. Limitation: Printed in December 1948, engravings on Padovani press and text by Vibert. The edition is limited to 250 copies, № 1 unique on Japon nacré + original drawings and one suite, 28 copies (№ 2-29) on Vélin d’Arches + one drawing and one suite, 51 copies (№ 30-80) on Vélin de Lana + one suite, 170 copies (№ 81-250) on Vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, 10 copies (№ I-X) on different papers for collaborators. This copy is № 115. Ref: WorldCat. Pierre Mac-Orlan (French, 1882 – 1970) – author. André Dignimont (French, 1891 – 1965) – artist. -
Binding: Pink French flapped wrappers 38.5 x 29 cm, in a frame: LES JEUX | DU DEMI-JOUR | PAR | PIERRE MAC ORLAN | {vignette} | AVEC | DOUZE LITHOGRAPHIES DE | VERTÈS | LES ARTS ET LE LIVRE || Title-page (turquoise and black): LES JEUX | DU DEMI-JOUR | PAR | PIERRE MAC ORLAN | {vignette} | AVEC | DOUZE LITHOGRAPHIES DE | VERTÈS | LES ARTS ET LE LIVRE | 47, RUE LAFFITTE, PARIS | — | 1926 || Pagination: [2] blank, [2] h.t. / limitation, [2] t.p. / blank, i-iii [iv] 1-45 [46 blank] [2] table / colophon, [2] blank; total 60 pages, plus 12 plates extraneous to collation, by Marcel Vertès. Edition: text printed by Robert Coulouma in Argenteuil (director H. Barthélemy), lithographs printed by Edouard Duchâtel in Paris, print run of 600 copies, 500 on vélin pur fil Lafuma, this copy on that paper, though unnumbered (№ blank). Contributors: Pierre Mac-Orlan (French, 1882 – 1970) – author. Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist. Other names: Marcel Vertès, Marcel Vertes, Marcell Vértes -
Softcover, 19 x 12 cm, publisher’s yellow wrappers with lettering to front, rear and spine, pp. [i-v] vi-xix [xx] [1] 2-474 [6], including index pp. 465-71 and contents pp.473-74. Bookseller’s label to front wrapper in the bottom: « LIBRAIRIE CLASSIQUE | ET | MILITAIRE | S. MILON FILS | SAUMUR | FOURNITURES DE BUREAU » Title-page: Pierre Vésinier | ANCIEN MEMBRE DE LA COMMUNE | — | COMMENT A PÉRI | LA COMMUNE | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | NOUVELLE LIBRAIRIE PARISIENNE | ALBERT SAVINE, ÉDITEUR | 12, RUE DES PYRAMIDES, 12 | – | Tous droits réservés. || Contributors: Pierre Vésinier (French, 1824 – 1902) – author. Albert Savine (French, 1859 – 1927) – publisher. Imprimerie de Saint-Denis, H. Bouillant (Paris) – printer. -
Cover (in red and black): BÉRANGER | CHANSONS | GALANTES | {vignette} || Title page (in red and black): BÉRANGER | CHANSONS | GALANTES | ORNEES DE 16 AQUARELLES | PAR | ROJAN | {vignette} | ÉDITIONS DE LA BELLE ÉTOILE | PARIS || Pagination: [2] – front wrapper, [2] – blank, [1-4] 5-157 [3] [2] blank, [2] – back wrapper; the total number of pages 168 + 16 plates, numerous in-text head- and tailpieces in black. Collation: 4to; [1] 2-214, wrapped leaves included in collation; the total number of leaves 84 + 16 plates. Colour illustrations: 16 full-page colour plates and 4 colour headpieces are produced by the so-called Duval-Beaufumé process (collotype and stencil) of reproductions after Rojan’s watercolours. Tirage: Limited edition of 1500 copies, of which this is № 1434. Binding: Publisher's French flapped cream wrappers with red and black lettering to front wrapper and black lettering to spine, wove paper (vélin Navarre), uncut. Size: 243 x 195 mm. Contributors: Béranger, Pierre-Jean de (French, 1780 – 1857) – author. Rojankovsky, Feodor [Rojan; Рожанковский, Фёдор Степанович] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970) – artist. NOTE on technique: Micro-photography reveals that this is not a collotype but some sort of photochemical reproduction method, such as a halftone screen. The colour was applied with a stencil, indeed.
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Title: L'ART | D'AIMER, | ET | POÉSIES DIVERSES | DE M. BERNARD. Pagination: [2] – t.p. / stanza by Voltaire; engraved t. p., frontispiece, [1] 2-170; pp. 1-61 – L'art d'aimer; pp. 62-111 – Phrosine et Mélidore; pp. 112-170 – Poésies diverses; illustrations. Collation: 8vo; π1 (letterpress t.p.), A-K8 L5; + 8 plates: (1)* engraved title page facing the stanza by Ch. Baquoy; (2) plate as a frontispiece by Ponce after Ch. Eisen, inscribed Chant I above the image, dated 1772, facing p. [1], chant 1er of l’art; (3)* Ch. Baquoy after P. Martini, inscribed Chant II below the image, facing p. 22, chant 2nd of l’art; (4) Ch. Baquoy after Eisen, inscribed Chant III above the image, facing p. 44, chant 3rd of l’art; (5)* Patas after P. Martini, inscribed Chant Ier below the image, dated 1775, facing p. 62, chant 1er of Phrosine; (6) Ch. Baquoy after Eisen, inscribed Chant II above the image, facing p. 74, chant 2nd of Phrosine; (7)* C. Gaucher after P. Martini, facing p. 84, chant 3rd of Phrosine; (8) Ch. Baquoy after Eisen, inscribed Chant IV above the image, facing p. 97, chant 4th of Phrosine; * – images additional to 1772 edition by Le Jay [LIB-2706.2021] (i.e. plates 1, 3, 5, and 7 are new). A counterfeit edition by an anonymous publisher. Binding: brown pebbled morocco, triple fillet gilt-ruled boards, raised bands, gilt in compartments, gilt label lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, AMG; printed on laid paper, with tall 's'. Catalogue raisonné: Cohen, De Richi (1912): p. 132: describes a counterfeit edition with 170 pages and 3 additional plates plus an engraved title. This seems to be a combination of Lejan [sic] Paris 1775 edition, which normally has 134 pages, 8vo, title engraved by Baquoy and three plates after Martini by Patas, Baquoy and Gaucher. Contributors: Nicolas Ponce (French, 1746 – 1831) – engraver. Jean Charles Baquoy (French, 1721 – 1777) – engraver. Jean-Baptiste Patas (French, 1748 – 1817) – engraver. Charles-Étienne Gaucher (French, 1740 – 1804) – engraver. Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (French, 1720 – 1778) – artist. Pietro Antonio Martini (Italian, 1738 – 1797) – artist. Pierre-Joseph Bernard [Gentil-Bernard] (French, 1708 – 1775) – author of the text. -
Softcover volume, 25.9 x 16.7 cm, in French flapped wrappers lettered "PIETRO ARETINO | SONNETS | LUXURIEUX | {garland}" unbound, 6 gatherings in 4to (24 leaves, incl. those in wrappers), a few sheets of guard tissue laid in, unpaginated, lower margin untrimmed; in a burgundy double slipcase 26.3 x 17.3 cm. Illustrated with title-page vignette, red initials and tailpieces and 16 half-page engravings by Jean Baptiste Tavy Notton. Text in Italian and French. Title-page (red and black): SONNETS | LUXURIEUX | de | PIETRO ARETINO | dit L'ARÉTIN | avec accompagnement | de gravures au burin | d'après la description des gravures | de GIULIO PIPPI DE GIANNUZZI dit JULES ROMAIN | {vignette} | AUX DÉPENS | DE QUELQUES AMATEURS | 1948 || Clandestine limited edition, print run of 250 copies, of which this is copy № 20, printed on thick wove paper without watermarks. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 2421. Original edition: Sonetti lussuriosi by Pietro Aretino, illustrated by Giulio Romano and engraved by Marcantonio Raimondi, published clandestinely in Venice in c.1527. Contributors: Pietro Aretino (Italian, 1492 – 1556) – author. Jean Baptiste Tavy Notton (French, 1914 – 1971) – artist. Antoine-Isidore Liseux (French, 1835 – 1894) – translator/comments. Giulio Romano [Giulio Pippi, Giulio Giannuzzi] (Italian, c.1499 – 1546) – artist. Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian c. 1470/82 – c. 1534) – engraver. -
Plan de la ville et citadelle de Cambray : place forte du pays bas capitalle du Comté Cambresis situé sur la riviere de l'Escaut a trois lieues de Bouchain, a cinq du Quesnoy, a six et demy de Landrecy, a six de Valenciene, a cinq de Douay, a huit d'Arras, et a six de Perone, l'Archeveque de Cambray est Duc de Cambray, Comté du Cambresis et Prince du S. Empire, elle fut prix sur les espagnoles par Louis XIV, le 5.me d'April 1677; A AMSTERDAM Chez Covens & Mortier, Avec Privilege.
Date of publication: [between 1721 and 1778].
Dimensions: Sheet: 48 x 58.3 cm; Image: 38.2 x 47.7 cm. Earlier editions of the same were by Pierre Husson in the Hague (ca. 1715) and by Eugene Henry Fricx in Brussels (1710). -
Above the frame: PLAN DE PARIS EN MDCCCLIII. Below the frame: Gravé par F. DELAMARE […] PARIS. TYP. DE FIRMIN DIDOT FRÈRES, 56, RUE JACOB. […] PANICONOGRAPHIE DE GILLOT. Q. ST. MICHEL 23. Dimensions: Sheet: 37 x 52.5 cm: Image: 33 x 50 cm. Technique: Photozincography Contributors: Ferdinand Théodore Delamare (French, fl. 1850 – 1889) – engraver. Firmin Didot Frères ; Firmin Didot (French, 1764 – 1836) – publisher. Firmin Gillot (French, 1819 – 1872) – printer. -
Illustrated sales catalogue of 23-25 September 2022, paperback, 21 x 15 cm, pictorial wrappers, white lettering on a black background to the front, back, and spine, 24 leaves, unpaginated, 109 items listed, print run of 50 copies, this copy signed by hand to Monsieur Serge Varshavsky on the last page. Title-page: POULET-MALASSIS | & ses amis | Une sélection d’ouvrages entre 1860 et 1880, | la plupart clandestins et quelques manuscrits | À monsieur Bernard Peyrat, bibliophile |{vignette} | LES LARMES D'ÉROS | 58, rue Amelot 75011 Paris | sur rendez-vous | les-larmes-d-eros@wanadoo.fr | 06 09 81 65 57 - 01 43 38 33 43 || -
Hand-coloured woodcut on wove paper, 268 x 381 mm, vertical centerfold. On reverse: black ink stamp “5324”. Top centre: "PRISE DE SAARBRUCK"; left: "PELLERIN & Cie, imp. -édit."; right: "IMAGERIE D'EPINAL, № 134." Under the frame text starts with « La cri de guerre a retenti. La France a été forcée de tirer l’épée pour arrêter… ».[...] Prise de Saarbruck. | Depuis quelques jours, l’armée française occupait la frontière française en face de la Prusse.... Jean Charles Pellerin (French, 1756 – 1836) – publisher/printer. The Battle of Saarbrücken (2 August 1870). -
Cover: QUELQUES MÉMOIRES | DE | CASANOVA | Aquarelles originales de Rojankowski (pasted) | {fleuron} | PARIS | — | Javal et Bourdeaux | 1932 || Title: QUELQUES | MÉMOIRES | de | CASANOVA | DE SEINGALT | ÉCRITS PAR LUI-MÊME | — | {fleuron} | PARIS | — | Javal et Bourdeaux | 44 bis, Rue de Villejust || Pagination: ffl [4] – t.p. / blank, h.t. with pasted crayon illustr. / Exemplaire № 660, [1] 2-307 [308 blank] bfl, 10 original watercolours (with glassine paper guards) by Feodor Rojankovsky, extraneous to collation. Binding: Softcover, publisher’s grey wrappers with black and red lettering to front cover and spine; in grey canvas over cardboard folder with purple cloth gilt-lettered spine; grey canvas over cardboard slipcase. Catalogue Raisonné: Not in J.-P. Dutel (his catalogue contains only clandestine editions). Comment by J.-P. Dutel: In this copy of the edition, 20 illustrations by Auguste Leroux were cancelled and replaced with 10 original watercolours by Feodor Rojankovsky. Only one such copy exists. -
Quinze poèmes d'Emile Verhaeren. Illustrés de 57 gravures sur bois dessinées et gravées par Frans Masereel et suivis d'un 'Souvenir à Verhaeren' par Octave Uzanne. — Paris: Éditions Georges Crès, 1917. Authors: Emile Verhaeren (text), Frans Masereel (illustrations), Octave Uzanne (text). Publisher: Éditions Georges Crès. [Georges-Célestin Crès (1875 - 1935) was a French publisher and bookseller. Address: 116 boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris]. Printer: Sonor S.A. - Geneve, under the direction of Auguste Jordanis. The number of copies printed: 1555 of which 15 (1-15) on Japan paper, 190 (16-205) on Fabriano paper, and 1350 (206-1555) on English paper (1506-1555 not for trade). This copy № 1312. Pagination: [i] - front cover, [ii] - half-title, [iii] - title, [iv] - printrun justification, [v] - table of contents, [vi] - blank, [i-vii] viii-ciii, [civ] - printer statement, [cv] - back cover; one-side (recto) printing and pagination. Owner's contemporary red half-Morocco with marbled boards; spine with four raised bands, gilt lettering and design elements. Original printed paper wrappers preserved. Marbled endpapers. Trimmed unevenly. -
Unbound, unpaginated album (28.5 x 19.5 cm) with 22 leaves (11 folded sheets 28 x 38 cm each), printed on thick wove paper watermarked Arches with text and 27 vignettes, in a 29 x 20 cm slightly beige slipcase. Publisher’s original flapped cream wrappers, lettering to front over the vignette: VERS LIBRES | par | RAYMOND RADIGUET | Champigny | Au Panier Fleuri || Half-title: VERS LIBRES over a ribbon covering a stick, garland, and flute. Title: VERS LIBRES | par | RAYMOND RADIGUET || {vignette} | Champigny | Au Panier Fleuri || Section title: VERS LIBRES over a vignette of a girl in a hat and with an umbrella on a beach. Illustrations: Cover vignette, frontispiece, tail- and a headpiece for the Note, and vignettes (total 27 illustrations) attributed Rojan (Feodor Rojankovsky). Poems: Chat perché; Champigny, Usée, Les fiancés de treize ans, Saison, Le petit journal, Ébauches, II Cinématographe. Edition: 1st; Limitation on the last page: the total print run of 125 copies, this copy is № 18. Illustrations printed in black and stencil-coloured (au pochoir). Catalogue raisonné: Dutel 2592; Nordmann (2): 450. Dutel counts vignettes as 27, Christie's (Nordmann) as 28. Dutel writes it is printed on vergé de Hollande (laid paper), our copy is as per Nordmann, on wove Arches. No one mentions the slipcase. The number of leaves: 20 per Dutel, 22 per Nordmann. Why Cinématographe numbered II is unclear. Contributors: Raymond Radiguet (French, 1903 – 1923) – author. Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan; Рожанковский, Фёдор Степанович] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970) – artist. Comparison of 1935 and 1937 editions reveals that, as usual, the earlier the better.1935 1937 
