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Russian translation of Louis-Sébastien Mercier. Tableau de Paris (1781). First edition, thus. Two volumes, 19.5 x 14 cm, uniformly bound in blue cloth with dark blue vignette to front cover and lettering to spine, in pictorial dust jacket; pp. vol. I: [I-VI] VII-LIII [LIV] [2] [2] 3-565 [566] [2]; collated 8vo: [I]-III8, IV4, [1]-358 364; total 312 leaves (624 pages) plus repro engraved frontispiece and 21 plates; vol 2: [1-10] 11-492 [4], collated 8vo: [1]-318; total 248 leaves (496 pages) plus 29 plates. Design by Н. В. Кузьмин. Title-page (black and red): ЛУИ-СЕБАСТЬЯН МЕРСЬЕ | КАРТИНЫ ПАРИЖА | Перевод В. А. Барбашевой | Редакция и комментарии | Е. А. Гунста | Статья Ц. Фридлянда | ТОМ ПЕРВЫЙ (ВТОРОЙ) | ACADEMIA | 1935(6) || Opposite t.p. (black and red): ФРАНЦУЗСКАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | ЛУИ-СЕБАСТЬЯН МЕРСЬЕ | 1740—1814 | ACADEMIA | Москва—Ленинград || T.p. verso: LOUIS-SÉBASTIEN MERCIER | TABLEAU DE PARIS | 1781 | Супер-обложка и переплет | Н. В. Кузьмина || Print run: 5,300 copies. Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова 747 (vol. 1), 838 (vol. 2). Contributors: Louis-Sébastien Mercier (French, 1740 – 1814) – author. Барбашева, Вера Александровна (Russian, 1875 – 1943) – translator. Гунст, Евгений Анатольевич (Russian, 1901 – 1983) – editor, comments. Фридлянд, Цви [Григорий Самойлович] (Russian-Jewish, 1897 – 1937) – author (preface). Kuzmin, Nikolai Vasilievich [Кузьмин, Николай Васильевич] (Russian, 1890 – 1987) – artist. -
Title-page (in red on pictorial background): ПОДВИГ | ЭРМИТАЖА | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «АВРОРА» • ЛЕНИНГРАД || Illustrated album in hardcover, 33 x 25 cm, bound in black cloth with gilt and red to front cover and spine, brown endpapers, pictorial dust jacket; pp.: [1-6] 7-273 [274] [30], total 304 pages with 388 b/w and colour illustrations. Text: Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980); B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980). Preface: Boris Piotrovsky [Борис Борисович Пиотровский] (Russian, 1908 – 1990). Layout by Liubov Rakhmilevich [Л. Рахмилевич]. Photography by Viktor Savik [В. Савик] and Leonid Bogdanov [Л. Богданов]. Design by Valery Ivanov [В. Иванов]. Russian twin edition to [LIB-3043.2022] S. Varshavsky, B. Rest. Saved for humanity: the Hermitage during the siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944. — Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1985 and [LIB-3042.2022] The ordeal of the Hermitage: The siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944 — Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1985. The text extracted from [LIB-3035.2022] С. Варшавский, Б. Рест. Подвиг Эрмитажа: Государственный Эрмитаж в годы Великой отечественной войны. — М.-Л.: Советский художник, 1965. -
© Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1985. Printed and bound in Finland. Title-page (in red on the pictorial background): SAVED FOR | HUMANITY | THE HERMITAGE DURING | THE SIEGE OF LENINGRAD | 1941-1944 | AURORA ART PUBLISHERS • LENINGRAD || Illustrated album in hardcover, 33 x 25 cm, bound in black cloth with gilt and red to front cover and spine, brown endpapers, pictorial dust jacket; pp.: [1-6] 7-270 [34], total 304 pages with 388 b/w and colour illustrations. Text: Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980); B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980). Preface: Boris Piotrovsky [Борис Борисович Пиотровский] (Russian, 1908 – 1990). Translated by Arthur Shkarovsky-Rafeé. Layout by Liubov Rakhmilevich. Photography by Viktor Savik and Leonid Bogdanov. Design by Valery Ivanov. A twin edition to [LIB-3042.2022] S. Varshavsky, B. Rest. The ordeal of the Hermitage: The siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944 — Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1985 and the Russian edition [LIB-3044.2022] C. Варшавский, Б. Рест. Подвиг Эрмитажа, 1941-1944 / Альбом. — Ленинград: Издательство «Аврора», 1987. The text extracted from [LIB-3035.2022] С. Варшавский, Б. Рест. Подвиг Эрмитажа: Государственный Эрмитаж в годы Великой отечественной войны. — М.-Л.: Советский художник, 1965. -
© Aurora Art Publishers: ISBN 0-8109-1406-9. Printed and bound in Finland. A pictorial album about the history and collections of The Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg during World War II. Title-page: in frame: THE ORDEAL | OF THE | THE SIEGE OF | LENINGRAD• | 1941 – 1944 | HERMITAGE; under the frame: Text by Sergei Varshavsky and Boris Rest | — | AURORA ART PUBLISHERS, LENINGRAD• | HARRY N. ABRAMS, INC., PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK || Description: Illustrated album in hardcover, 33 x 25 cm, bound in black cloth with gilt and purple lettering to spine, brown endpapers, pictorial dust jacket; pp.: [1-6] 7-270 [34], total 304 pages with b/w and colour illustrations. Text: Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980); B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980). Preface: Boris Piotrovsky [Борис Борисович Пиотровский] (Russian, 1908 – 1990). Translated by Arthur Shkarovsky-Rafeé. Layout by Liubov Rakhmilevich. Photography by Viktor Savik and Leonid Bogdanov. A twin edition to [LIB-3043.2022] S. Varshavsky, B. Rest. Saved for humanity: the Hermitage during the siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944. — Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1985 and the Russian edition [LIB-3044.2022] C. Варшавский, Б. Рест. Подвиг Эрмитажа, 1941-1944 / Альбом. — Ленинград: Издательство «Аврора», 1987. The text extracted from [LIB-3035.2022] С. Варшавский, Б. Рест. Подвиг Эрмитажа: Государственный Эрмитаж в годы Великой отечественной войны. — М.-Л.: Советский художник, 1965. -
Mikhail Uspensky. Netsuke. Title-page: М. В. Успенский | — | НЭЦКЭ | {blank} | «Искусство» | Ленинградской отделение | 1986 || Hardcover, pictorial glossy paper, 17.2 x 12.6 cm; pp.: [2] 3-231 [232], 160 in-text b/w illustrations plus 16 leaves with 36 colour plates (pp. 233-263 unpag.) [264 colophon]; total 264 pages. Print run: 25,000 copies. Contributors: Uspensky, Mikhail [Успенский, Михаил Владимирович] (Russian, 1953 – 1997) Sisauri, Vladislav [Сисаури, Владислав Ираклиевич] (Russian, b. 1944) -
Mikhail Uspensky, Elena Varshavskaya. The netsuke and Japanese woodblock prints from the collection of S. P. Varshavsky. Printed by demand of The Hermitage Museum. Title-page (vertical bottom to top): ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ОРДЕНА ЛЕНИНА | ЭРМИТАЖ | НЭЦКЭ | И ЯПОНСКАЯ | ГРАВЮРА | из собрания | С. П. Варшавского | КАТАЛОГ ВЫСТАВКИ | — | ЛЕНИНГРАД | “ИСКУССТВО” | ЛЕНИНГРАДСКОЕ ОТДЕЛЕНИЕ | 1983 | {vignette} || Description: Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 21.5 x 14.5 cm, pp.: [1-8] 9-42 [43-51] (b/w plates unpag.) [52] 53-76 [77-95] (b/w plates unpag.) [96] (colophon); total 96 pages plus four leaves of colour plates. Catalogue:137 entries of netsuke, 69 entries of Japanese woodblock prints. Print run: 3,000 copies. Contributors: Mikhail Uspensky [Михаил Владимирович Успенский] (Russian, 1953 – 1997) Elena Varshavsky [Елена Юрьевна Варшавская (Jewish-American, b. 1952) Vladislav Sisauri [Владислав Ираклиевич Сисаури] (Russian, b. 1944) Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980). -
French and English lithography of the first half of the 19th century: Selected sheets from the collection of Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980). New acquisitions at The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow). Выпущено по заказу ГМИИ им. А. С. Пушкина; вступ. статьи В. А. Мишина и Ю. С. Варшавского; составитель каталога В. А. Мишин. (Produced under order of The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow); introduction by V. A. Mishin and Yury Varshavsky). Softcover, glossy pictorial wrappers, 21.5 x 17 cm, 25 leaves, not paginated, frontispiece and 7 leaves of plates, 50 entries. Title-page: | — | ФРАНЦУЗСКАЯ И АНГЛИЙСКАЯ | ЛИТОГРАФИЯ | ПЕРВОЙ ПОЛОВИНЫ | XIX ВЕКА | ИЗБРАННЫЕ ЛИСТЫ ИЗ КОЛЛЕКЦИИ С.П. ВАРШАВСКОГО | — | НОВЫЕ ПОСТУПЛЕНИЯ | В ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ МУЗЕЙ | ИЗОБРАЗИТЕЛЬНЫХ | ИСКУССТВ | ИМЕНИ А. С. ПУШКИНА | {publisher’s device} | Москва | Советский художник | 1985 || -
Softcover, 21.5 x 17 cm, glossy pictorial wrappers, pp.: [2] 3-[52] [53-88] 89-90 [2]; total 92 pages, incl. 18 leaves of plates within collation, not paginated. -
An essay by Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980) about a poem Жди меня (Wait for Me, Zhdi menia) written by Konstantin Simonov [Константин Михайлович Симонов] (Russian, 1915 – 1979) in August 1941. Magazine, softcover, publisher’s wrappers, 20 x 12.5 cm, collated 16mo: [1]-916 (total 144 leaves), pp.: [2] 3-286 [2] (total 288 pages). Bimonthly (6 times a year) magazine "Вопросы литературы" (Questions of Literature, Voprosy literatury) published from 1957; circulation of 15,640 copies. Editor-in-Chief (1979-87): Мстислав Борисович Козьмин (Russian, 1920 – 1992). -
A book about the history and collections of The Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg during the October revolution of 1917. Hardcover, collated 16mo, 20,7 x 13.5 cm, grey cloth, black and blue lettering to front, blue lettering to spine, blue endpapers; collation: [1]8 2-1616 (total 248 leaves); pp.: [2] 3-493 [3] (total 496 pages) plus frontispiece. 1st edition (lifetime). Title-page: С. ВАРШАВСКИЙ | Б. РЕСТ | БИЛЕТ | НА ВСЮ | ВЕЧНОСТЬ | ПОВЕСТЬ | ОБ ЭРМИТАЖЕ | ЛЕНИЗДАТ • 1978 || Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980). B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980). Борис Борисович Пиотровский (Russian, 1908 – 1990). -
A book about the history and collections of The Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg during the October revolution of 1917. Paperback, 20 x 12.5 cm, 16mo, serial pictorial wrappers, blurb to rear; [1]-516 68( plates, not paginated) 7-816; pp.: [2] 3-204 [4]: 208 pages + 16 pages of plates, not paginated, 120 leaves, incl. plates. Title-page: «БМР» device // библиотека | молодого | рабочего | — | С. ВАРШАВСКИЙ | Б. РЕСТ | БИЛЕТ | НА ВСЮ | ВЕЧНОСТЬ | ПОВЕСТЬ ОБ ЭРМИТАЖЕ | В ТРЕХ ЧАСТЯХ | ЧАСТЬ ТРЕТЬЯ | ЛЕНИЗДАТ • 1986 || Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980). B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980). -
A book about the history and collections of The Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg during the October revolution of 1917. Paperback, 20 x 12.5 cm, 16mo, serial pictorial wrappers, blurb to rear; [1]-716 88( plates, not paginated) 9-1016; pp.: [2] 3-260 [4]: 264 pages + 16 pages of plates, not paginated, 152 leaves, incl. plates. Library pocket and card to front wrapper verso. Ink stamp of the Hermitage museum library. Title-page: «БМР» device // библиотека | молодого | рабочего | — | С. ВАРШАВСКИЙ | Б. РЕСТ | БИЛЕТ | НА ВСЮ | ВЕЧНОСТЬ | ПОВЕСТЬ ОБ ЭРМИТАЖЕ | В ТРЕХ ЧАСТЯХ | ЧАСТИ ПЕРВАЯ И ВТОРАЯ | ЛЕНИЗДАТ • 1986 || Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980). B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980). Preface: Boris Piotrovsky [Борис Борисович Пиотровский] (Russian, 1908 – 1990). -
A book about the history and collections of The Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg during World War II; hardcover, 22.5 x 18 cm, in-8vo, grey cloth lettered black and red to front and spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Two similar copies of the 1st edition: LIB-3035.2022(1) and LIB-3035.2022(2). Title-page: (vertical black) С. ВАРШАВСКИЙ, Б. РЕСТ | (horizontal in red): ПОДВИГ | ЭРМИТАЖА || Opposite to t.p. (red on black): ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ | ЭРМИТАЖ | В ГОДЫ | ВЕЛИКОЙ | ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ | ВОЙНЫ || Pagination: [1-4] 5-190 [6], total 196 pages, multiple in-text b/w illustrations. Print run: 30,000 copies. Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980). B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980). -
A book about the history and collections of The Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg; hardcover, 22 x 17 cm, collated 8vo, cream buckram blind stamped and lettered in gilt to front cover and design elements and lettering to spine, profusely illustrated. Title-page (in brown rules): С. ВАРШАВСКИЙ • Б. РЕСТ | ЭРМИТАЖ | 1764 – 1939 | ОЧЕРКИ ИЗ ИСТОРИИ | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО ЭРМИТАЖА | под редакцией | академика | И. А. Орбели | {fleuron} || Collation: π2 [1]-158 166; total 128 leaves. Pagination: [2] [2] i-ii [1-4] 5-250 [2], total 256 pages, in-text b/w illustrations. Print run: 5,000 copies. Joseph Orbeli [Иосиф Абгарович Орбели] (Russian-Armenian, 1887 – 1961) – editor. Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980). B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980). -
Softcover, original wrappers, 16 x 11 cm, collated 8vo: 48, 54, total 36 leaves, pp.: [2] 3-71 [72]. Front wrapper (lettered in black and white): {photo} | Б. РЕСТ. | КНИГИ | И | ЛЮДИ | ГОСЛИТИЗДАТ || Title-page (black and red): Б. РЕСТ | КНИГИ И ЛЮДИ | ОЧЕРКИ ИЗ ИСТОРИИ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЙ | ПУБЛИЧНОЙ БИБЛИОТЕКИ | имени | М. Е. САЛТЫКОВА-ЩЕДРИНА | 1814 — 1939 | {vignette} | — | Государственное издательство | “ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА” | Ленинград 1939 || Print run: 7,500 copies. B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980). -
Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980). B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980). Monthly magazine Star ("Звезда", Zvezda) published from 1924; circulation of 60,000 copies. Editor-in-Chief: Валерий Павлович Друзин (Russian, 1903 – 1980). Softcover, original wrappers, 25.3 x 16.8 cm, pp.: [2] 3-190 [2], total 192 pages; collated 8vo: [1]-128, total 96 leaves. -
Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980): «Цусима» (Tsushima) [対馬沖海戦], pp. 89-132. Description: Propaganda collection of short stories, hardcover, collated 8vo, [1]-158, 18 x 13 cm, bound in grey cloth with blind stamped lettering to front and blue lettering to spine, pp.: [1-4] 5-239 [240], dark blue dust jacket lettered to front, rear and spine. Title-page (red and black): ПЕРЕД БОЯМИ | ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА НА ОБОРОНЕ СССР | СБОРНИК СТАТЕЙ | ПОД РЕД. Н. СВИРИНА. | Издательство писателей в Ленинграде || Print run: 5,500 copies. -
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).
