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One volume, 22.8 x 15.5 cm, bound in full mottled calf, gilt floral frames to covers, raised bands and gilt fleurons to spine, printed on laid paper. Regarding Pygmalion, scène lyrique see: Wekipedia. Collation: Free endpaper and two blank flyleaves, [2] engraved title, [2] préface, 1-18 (Pygmalion), [2] f.t.p., [1] 2-8 (Idylle), two blank flyleaves and free endpaper; 20 leaves total, adorned with 7 headpieces and 1 tailpiece engraved by Nicolas de Launay, Nicolas Ponce and Charles Etienne Gaucher after Jean Michel Moreau the Younger and Clément Pierre Marillier; text engraved by Droüet. Title-page: PYGMALION, | SCENE LYRIQUE | DE MR. J. J. ROUSSEAU, | Mise en Vers | par MR. Berquin. | Le Text Gravé par Droüet | PARIS | 1775. || (on a column under two kissing doves and sculptor’s tools). Faux t.p.: IDYLLE | Par MR. Berquin. | — | Eructavit cor meum verbum bonum ; | dico ego opera mea regi. | Psalm. 44. | — || (in rules). Catalogue raisonné: Cohen-DeRicci 141 ; Lewine 55. Ref.: MFA (Boston); MET (NY); Yale University Library. Contributors: Artists: Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune (French, 1741–1814) Clément Pierre Marillier (French, 1740–1808) Engravers: Nicolas Delaunay (French, 1739–1792) Charles-Étienne Gaucher (French, 1741–1804) Nicholas Ponce (French, 1746–1831) Droüet (French, 18th century) Authors: Arnaud Berquin (French, 1747–1791) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French, 1712–1778)
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Description: Three volumes, in brown cloth, gilt-lettered to front and spine, in pictorial dust jacket, 34 x 25 cm each, T.E.G., in a slipcase 35 x 25.5 x 13.5 cm. Pagination: Vol. 1: [i-vi] vii-xix [xx] 1-349 [1 blank], ils. №№ 1-382; Vol. 2: [7] 350-673 [1], ils. №№ 383-667 ; Vol. 3: [7] 674-1034, ils. №№ 668-973. Edition: Limited edition of 2,000 copies of which this is copy № 935. Title-page: JACK HILLIER | Japanese Prints | & Drawings from | the Vever Collection | Volume One (Two; Three) | Rizzoli International | Sotheby Parke Bernet | 1976 || Contributors: Jack Ronald Hillier (British, 1912 – 1995) Henri Vever (French, 1854 – 1942)
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Title: JACK KAHANE | ★ | Memoirs of a | Booklegger | [space] | {publisher’s device} | MICHAEL JOSEPH LTD. | 26, Bloomsbury Street, London, W.C.I || Pagination: [1-6] 7-287 [288 blank]; total 288 pages. Collation: 8vo; [A]8 B-S8; total 144 leaves. Binding: 21.5 x 15 cm, by James Burn, publisher’s blue cloth, silver lettering to spine, yellow endpapers; cream dust-jacket with black and red lettering and reproduced photo portrait of the author. Contributors: Jack Kahane (British, 1887 – 1939) – author. Michael Joseph (British, 1897 – 1958); Michael Joseph Ltd. (London) – publisher. William Brendon & Son, Ltd.; Mayflower Press (Plymouth) – printer. John Dickinson & Co.; John Dickinson (British, 1782 – 1869) – paper maker. Frederick E. Kahane – dedicatee (brother of Jack).
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NEWHardcover, 252 x 260 mm, grey buckram with gilt lettering to spine, in a black pictorial dust jacket with white lettering; pp. [6] 1-185 [1] profusely illustrated in b/w plus 16 leaves of colour plates extraneous to collation, .e. total 112 leaves. Title-page (pictorial): JEWELLERY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD | Jack Ogden | RIZZOLI / NEW YORK || Imprint: Published in the United States of America by Rizzoli International Publications Inc. 712, Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10019 First published by Trefoil Books Ltd, 1982 ISBN 0 8478 0444 5 Contents Jewellery and the archaeologist
- Gold and silver
- Metals other than gold and silver
- Goldsmithing techniques
- The gemstones
- Organic gem materials
- Glass, enamel and faience
- Ancient imitation and altered gemstones
- Stone working
- Forgeries
- The jeweller
- Bibliography & references
- Index to illustrations
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Description: Hardcover volume, 35 x 25.1 cm, ochre cloth with gilt lettering and vignette to spine; pp.: [1-6] 7-389 [3 blank], total 196 leaves, 16 illustrations in colour, 1067 in b/w; in a pictorial slipcase 36 x 26 cm. Title-page: The | Japanese | Pillar | Print | Hashira-e | — | Jacob Pins | Foreword by Roger Keyes | {publisher’s device} | Robert G. Sawers Publishing | 5 SOUTH VILLAS | LONDON NW I 9 BS || Edition: Limited edition of 1000 copies, this is copy № 520. Contributors: Jacob Otto Pins (German-Israeli, 1917 – 2005) Roger Keyes (American, 1942 – 2020)
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NEWTwo softcover volumes, 4th and 5th of the series Les arts décoratifs, collated 8vo, in uniform brown wrappers with red and black lettering to the front cover and black lettering to the spine and back cover, 215 x 152 mm, published by Librairie d'art R. Ducher, overtaken by Flammarion.
- Vol. 4: 1-48, pp. [1-5] 6-63 [64]; LES ARTS DÉCORATIFS (in rules) | JACQUES RUPPERT | LE COSTUME | IV | LOUIS XVI – DIRECTOIRE | = 150 ILLUSTRATIONS = | | {vignette } | PARIS | Flammarion (pasted over) ||
- Vol. 5: 1-48, pp. [1-5] 6-63 [64]; LES ARTS DÉCORATIFS (in rules) | JACQUES RUPPERT | LE COSTUME | V | CONSULAT - PREMIER EMPIRE -LOUIS-PHILIPPE - NAPOLÉON III | = 145 ILLUSTRATIONS = | {vignette } | PARIS | Flammarion (pasted over) ||
- Le costume sous le Consulat et l'Empire: Caractères généraux. Costume masculin. Costume militaire.
- Le costume féminin sous le premier Empire : Éléments caractéristiques. Spencers et canezous. Robes de cour. Redingotes. Witz-chouras.
- Les coiffures sous le premier Empire : Coiffures masculines et féminines.
- La Restauration : Caractères généraux. Costume masculin. Costume féminin. Coiffures féminines.
- Louis-Philippe: Caractères généraux. Costume masculin. Costume féminin. Robes de bal. Robes à pèlerine. Faux et vrai canezous. Mantelets. Robes à corsage plat et crinolines. Coiffures féminines. Chapeaux et bonnets.
- Deuxième République et Napoléon III: Costume masculin. Costume féminin. Crinolines et tournures. Coiffures.
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Title page: Juries and the | Transformation of | Criminal Justice | in France | in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries | James M. Donovan | The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill || Frontispiece: STUDIES IN LEGAL HISTORY | Published by the University of North Carolina Press | in association with the American Society for Legal History | Daniel Ernst & Thomas A. Green, editors || Pagination: [i-viii] ix [x] 1-262. Binding: black cloth, silver lettering to spine, pictorial DJ.
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HUMAN PHYSIOGNOMY | EXPLAIN'D: | IN THE | Crounian LECTURES | ON MUSCULAR MOTION. | For the Year MDCCXLVI. | Read before the | ROYAL SOCIETY: | By James Parsons, M.D. and F.R.S. | Being a SUPPLEMENT to the Philosophical | Transactions for that Year. | {Citation in the Greek from Aristotle, 6 lines} | LONDON: | Printed for C. Davis, over against Gray's Inn Gate | in Holbourn; Printer to the Royal Society. | M. DCC. XLVII. || Pagination: [4] i-viii [8] 1-82 [4]; collation: 4to; [a]4 b4 c2 <inset> B-L4 M3, wanting 1 leaf with An Index For the Lectures of the Years 1744, and 1745; Inset: 5 folding plates engraved by J. Mynde after J. Parsons ('I. Ps. MD del.'). Page 22.5 x 16.5 cm; plates 22.5 x 34 cm. Printed on laid paper, with tall "s". Binding: 23 x 17 cm, modern hardcover in marbled paper, modern endpapers, white paper label with black lettering to spine. Crounian Lectures (i.e. Croonian Lectures), named after William Croone (British, 1633 – 1684). Contributors: James Parsons (British, 1705 – 1770). James Mynde (British, 1702 – 1771). Davis, Printer to the Royal Society of London (British, 1665 – 1775). Ref.: Royal Academy, The Royal Society, Wellcome Collection.
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Title: Japanese Art Signatures | A Handbook and Practical Guide | James Self and Nobiko Hirose | {publisher’s device} FLOATING | WORLD | EDITIONS || Pp.: [2] 3-399 [400]. 1st Floating World edition, 2003, 3rd printing, 2011. 1st edition in 1987 by Bamboo Publishing, Ltd. by Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland and Tokyo. Binding: Original blue wrappers with white lettering to both covers and spine, in yellow frames.
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Softcover, in flapped pictorial wrappers, 28 x 21.6 cm, 35 entries, with colour illustrations. Catalogue # 6 of the sales exhibition on March 19-24, 2002 in NY; pagination: [1-3] 4-82 [2], ils., some folding. Contributor: Sebastian Izzard
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Softcover, in pictorial flapped wrappers, 28 x 21.8 cm, 16 entries, with colour illustrations. Catalogue # 8 of the sales exhibition on March 23-30 2004 in NY; pagination: [1-3] 4-50 [2], ils., some folding. Contributor: Sebastian Izzard
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Softcover, in pictorial wrappers, 28 x 21.8 cm, 18 entries, with colour illustrations, some folding. Catalogue of the sales exhibition on September 15-18, 1998 in NY; pagination: [2] 3-43 [1], ils. Contributor: Sebastian Izzard
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Softcover, in pictorial wrappers, 28 x 21.7 cm, 70 entries, with colour illustrations. Catalogue of the sales exhibition on March 17-24, 2023 in NY; pagination: [1-3] 4-142 [2], ils. Invitation card laid in. Contributor: Sebastian Izzard
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Softcover, in flapped pictorial wrappers, 28 x 21.7 cm, 35 entries, with colour illustrations. Catalogue # 2 of the sales exhibition on September 14-18, 1999 in NY; pagination: [1-3] 4-89 [1], ils., some folding. Contributor: Sebastian Izzard
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Softcover, in flapped pictorial wrappers, 28 x 21.6 cm, 35 entries, with colour illustrations. Catalogue # 4 of the sales exhibition on September 19-22, 2000 in NY; pagination: [1-3] 4-61 [1], ils., some folding. Contributor: Sebastian Izzard
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Softcover, in flapped pictorial wrappers, 28 x 21.7 cm, 16 entries, with colour illustrations. Catalogue # 5 of the sales exhibition on September 17-22, 2001 in NY; pagination: [1-3] 4-33 [3], ils. Contributor: Sebastian Izzard
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Softcover, in pictorial wrappers, 28 x 21.7 cm, 43 entries, with colour illustrations. Catalogue of the sales exhibition on September 16-23, 2022 in NY; pagination: [1-3] 4-97 [98] [2 blank], ils. Contributor: Sebastian Izzard
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Softcover, in black pictorial flapped wrappers, 28 x 21.8 cm, 16 entries, with colour illustrations. Catalogue # 8 of the sales exhibition on March 23-30 2004 in NY; pagination: [1-3] 4-50 [2], ils., some folding. Front cover: gilt on a black background: Japanese Sword Fittings | from the | Alexander G. Moslé | Collection | {vignette ‘tsuba with shishi lion} || Contributor: Sebastian Izzard