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Hardcover volume, 27.8 x 21.4 cm, bound in tan buckram with pictorial paper pasted to front and back boards, brown lettering to spine; pp: fep, [1-6] 7-67 [68] [2] ffl, fep, total 37 leaves; 5 full-page plates, incl. frontispiece (within pagination), covers’ and t.p. vignettes, headpieces, in-text illustrations (eleven in total) chromolithographs after Rojankovsky; the tailpieces are photomechanically reproduced. Title-page (in colour): НАТАЛЬЯ КОДРЯНСКАЯ | ГЛОБУСНЫЙ | ЧЕЛОВЕЧЕК | {vignette} | ИЛЛЮСТРАЦИИ ФЕДОРА РОЖАНКОВСКОГО || Colophon: CET OUVRAGE | A ÉTÉ IMPRIMÉ A PARIS | LA LITHOGRAPHIE | PAR MOURLOT FRÈRES | LA TYPOGRAPHIE | PAR L’IMPRIMERIE UNION | {blank}] | TOUS DROITS RÉSERVÉS POUR PAYS | COPYRIGHT 1954 BY NATALIE CODRAY | Printed in France || Contributors: Наталья Владимировна Кодрянская [Natalie Codray] (Russian-American, 1901 – 1983) – author. Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan, Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970) – artist. Mourlot Frères – printer/lithographs. L’imprimerie Union – printer/text. -
Hardcover volume, 18 x 13 cm, bound in purple cloth with stamped design to boards and spine, lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket, pictorial endpapers, pp.: [1-9] 10-491 [5], collated in 8vo: [1]-[31]8, 248 leaves (496 pages); covers, endpapers, DJ, head- and tailpieces, vignettes on the frontispiece, title-page, and faux-titles after Dmitry Mitrohin; text in Russian. Frontispiece (black and grey): СОКРОВИЩА | МИРОВОЙ | ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | ГЕЛИОДОР | ЭФИОПИКА | {vignette} | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1932 || Title-page: ГЕЛИОДОР | ЭФИОПИКА | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ | СТАТЬЯ | РЕДАКЦИЯ | ПЕРЕВОДА | И | ПРИМЕЧАНИЯ | А. ЕГУНОВА | {vignette} | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1932 || Title verso: ΗΛΙΟΔΩΡΟΥ | ΑΙΘΙΟΠΙΚΩΝ | ΒΙΒΛΙΑ | ΔΕΚΑ | Орнаментация книги | Д. И. Митрохина || Contributors: Heliodorus Emesenus [Ηλιόδωρος ο Εμεσηνός] (Greek, 3-4 century AD) – author. Андрей Николаевич Егунов (Russian, 1895 – 1968) – editor, author. Дмитрий Исидорович Митрохин [Dmitry Mitrohin] (Russian, 1883 – 1973) – artist. For French translation, see LIB-3027.2022. -
Paperback brochure, 22.6 x 16 cm, brown wrappers, lettered in red and black: И. С. ТУРГЕНЕВЪ. | КАЗНЬ | ТРОПМАНА | ИЗЪ ЛИТЕРАТУРНЫХЪ | И ЖИТЕЙСКИХЪ ВОСПОМИНАНIЙ. | РИСУНКИ | Марселя Слодкаго | {fleuron} | КНИГОИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | «ГЕЛИКОНЪ» | МОСКВА - БЕРЛИНЪ | MCMXXII ||; 8 full-page, incl. frontispiece, and 5 smaller vignettes after Marcel Slodki, within pagination. Title-page: И. С. ТУРГЕНЕВЪ. | КАЗНЬ | ТРОПМАНА | ИЗЪ ЛИТЕРАТУРНЫХЪ | И ЖИТЕЙСКИХЪ ВОСПОМИНАНIЙ | Рисунки | МАРСЕЛЯ СЛОДКАГО. | Книгоиздательство | “ГЕЛИКОНЪ” | МОСКВА - БЕРЛИНЪ | MCMXXII || Imprint: Эта книга отпечатана въ типографiи Sinaburg & Co., G.m.b.H. | Berlin для книгоиздательства “Геликонъ” в декабрѣ | 1921 г. Клише работы Römmler & Jonas, Dresden. || Pagination: [4] blanks, [2] publisher’s device / imprint, [2] blank / frontis. (Turgenev’s portrait), [2] t.p. / blank, [2] f.t. / blank, 11-57 [58] text, [4] blanks. Contributors: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev] (Russian, 1818 – 1883) – author. Марсель Слодкий [Marcel Slodki] (Jewish-Ukrainian, 1892 – 1944) – artist Jean-Baptiste Troppmann (French, 1849 – 1870) – character. -
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, 22.8 x 15.5 cm, bound in green buckram with blind stamped designs and gilt lettering to front cover and spine, blind lettering to back, pp.: [2] 3-354 [2], photo portrait frontispiece; collated in 8vo: 1-218 2210, 178 leaves (356 pp.) Title-page (green and black): УОЛТ УИТМЕН | ЛИСТЬЯ ТРАВЫ | {vignette} | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | МОСКВА 1955 || Original: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass see LIB-3111.2022. Contributors: Walter [Walt] Whitman (American, 1819 – 1892) – author/poetry. Korney Chukovsky [Корней Иванович Чуковский, Николай Корнейчуков] (Russian, 1882 – 1969) – translator, author/foreword. Морис Осипович Мендельсон (Jewish-Russian, 1904 – 1982) – author/foreword. Translators: Николай Васильевич Банников (Russian, 1918 – 1996) Михаил Александрович Зенкевич (Russian, 1886 – 1973) Иван Александрович Кашкин (Russian, 1899 – 1963) Анатолий Васильевич Старостин (Russian, 1919 – 1980) Дмитрий Александрович Горбов (Russian, 1894 – 1967) Мария Фёдоровна Лорие (Russian, 1904 – 1992) Вильгельм Вениаминович Левик (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1982) -
Hardcover volume, 20.7 x 13.2 cm, in glossy paper pictorial boards, blurb to back, lettering to spine, pp.: [1-4] 5-221 [3]. Title-page: {meander} {banner: crawn} | ИСТОРИЯ | В РОМАНАХ {meander} | Э. Сю | ТАЙНЫ НАРОДА | {device МИР КНИГИ} {device Литература} | {meander} || Faux-title: {meander} | ТАЙНЫ НАРОДА | История одного семейства | {meander} || Print run: 3,500 copies. Contributors: Eugène Sue [Эжен Сю] (French, 1804 – 1857) – author О. Иванова, О. Григорьева, Л. Белевич – translators. Original:Eugène Sue. Les mystères du peuple ou Histoire d’une famille de prolétaires à travers les âges. — Paris Administration de librairie, 1849-1857 (16 vol.), according to Worldcat 68 editions published between 1850 and 2003. -
Hardcover volume, 22 x 15.5 cm, pictorial paper boards with black and white lettering to front and spine, a blurb in black on orange to back, pp.: [2] 3-437 [3], 3 ils. Title-page: ПОСЛЕДНИЙ | ПРИЮТ | МАРКО | ВОВЧОК | device {ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | М. И В. КОТЛЯРОВЫХ} | Нальчик 2021 || Print run: 400 copies. Contributors: Марко Вовчок [Марія Олександрівна Вілінська, Marko Vovtchok] (Ukrainian, 1833 – 1907). Лобач-Жученко, Борис Борисович (Russian, 1899 – 1995). Collective: Мария и Виктор Котляровы, Александр Шепелев, Оксана Иваненко, Евгения Тютюнина, Наталья Смирнова, С. Л. Ращенко, Марина Лобач-Жученко. -
Hardcover volume, 22.2 x 15 cm, bound in blind-stamped blue buckram with gilt lettering to front cover and spine, pp.: [1-4] h.t., t.p., 5-507 [508] [4] contents/colophon, advert.; collated in 16mo (1-1616), 256 leaves, 512 pages. Title-page: Б. И. НИКОЛАЕВСКИЙ | ТАЙНЫЕ | СТРАНИЦЫ | ИСТОРИИ | ЛЕНИН И ДЕНЬГИ / БОЛЬШЕВИСТСКОЙ ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ | БИОГРАФИЯ МАЛЕНКОВА | ГЕРМАНИЯ / И РУССКИЕ РЕВОЛЮЦИОНЕРЫ / В ГОДЫ ПЕРВОЙ МИРОВОЙ / ВОЙНЫ | ПРОТОКОЛЫ ПОЛИТБЮРО / И ДОКУМЕНТЫ ОСОБОГО ОТДЕЛА / НКИД СССР, 1934 | Москва | Издательство | гуманитарной литературы | 1995 || Print run: 2,000 copies. Contributors: Борис Иванович Николаевский [Boris Nicolaevsky] (Russian-American, 1887 – 1966) – author. Юрий Георгиевич Фельштинский [Yuri Felshtinsky] (Jewish-Russian-American, b. 1956) – editor/compiler. ISBN: 5-87121-007-4. History's secret pages. -
Hardcover volume, 26.6 x 21.3 cm, ¾ blue crushed morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, original wrappers preserved, raised bands; wove paper, watermarked Van Gelder Zonen, unpaginated, 2 ffl, 1 front cover, 2 blanks, 1 h.t., 1 t.p., 46 leaves of text and plates (18 full-page and 14 half-page lithographs by Marcel Vertès), 1 colophon, 1 blank, 1 back cover, 2 ffl; 52 leaves within the original covers, as per Dutel. Title-page: POÉSIES | ÉROTIQUES | D' | UN | AUTE | UR CÉ | LÈBRE, | ILLUSTRÉ | ES DE TR | ENTE-DEUX | LITHOGRAPHIES | ORIGINALES | DESSINÉES | PAR UN | ARTISTE | INCON | NU | ★ | BARCELONE | ATARAZANAS (BARRIO CHINO) | L'AN I DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE | CATALANE || Limitation: A print run of 165 numbered copies, of which this is copy № 148, and 5 additional presentation copies. The text was printed by Massol, and plates were produced by Mme Duchatel. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 2228 ; Nordmann II (Christie’s) № 321; Éros invaincu № 92, p. 222; Vokaer № 36, p. 16. Contributors: Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) – author. Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist. René Bonnel (French, 1884 – 1975) – publisher. -
Two softcover volumes bound in one, 28.7 x 20.5 cm, quarter blue morocco over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, top margin gilt, other untrimmed, marbled endpapers, original covers and spines preserved; 20 full-page etchings by Louis Berthommé Saint-André, incl. 2 frontispieces; vignettes, initials, head- and tailpieces in pink after André Collot. Title-page: TROIS FILLES | DE | LEUR MÈRE | {vignette} | TOME PREMIER (SECOND) | AUX DÉPENS D'UN AMATEUR | ET POUR SES AMIS || Collation: v.1 2ffl, front cover, [1-8] 2 blanks, h.t., t.p., pp. 9-94 [95, 96]; v.2 back cover, spine, front cover, 2 blanks, h.t., t.p., 97-201 [202-4] back cover, spine, 2ffl; plus 20 plates extraneous to collation. Limitation: A print run of 150 copies, of which this is copy № 76. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 2521. As per Dutel, pp: 96+106 (conforms), and the year of 2 vol. publication 1933; however, the etchings are dated to 1926 by many. Contributors: Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) – author. Louis Berthommé Saint-André (French, 1905 – 1977) – artist. André Collot (French, 1897 – 1976) – artist. -
Description: An unbound softcover volume 23 x 18 cm, collated as 17 gatherings in 4to, text in fac-simile manuscript printed on Japon Nacre wove paper with untrimmed outer and bottom margins, with engraved title-page and 11 laid-in hand-coloured etchings after André Collot; in red quarter morocco over marbled boards folder with gilt lettering to spine “P. L. | ~ | PETITES | SCÈNES | AMOUREUSES”, in a matching slipcase 25 x 20 cm. Complete copy with all the pages, incl. the limitation page. Title-page: {vignette in colour} | Douze douzains de Dialogues | ou | Petites scènes amoureuses | * || (text in fac-simile ms). Limitation: Cet ouvrage a été tiré | sure Japn supernacré | à 100 exemplaire | numerotés de I à C | EXEMPLAIRE № LII. Content: (97 dialogues, not 144), similar to Pia: Premier douzain : Dialogues des Filles nues (1, 3, 4, 5, 6) – 5 dialogues; Deuxième douzain : Dialogue[s] des Masturbées (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, [21]) – 9 dialogues; Troisième douzain : Dialogues des Masturbées (25, 26, 27, [28], 29, 30, 31, 32, 33) – 9 dialogues; Quatrième douzain : Dialogues des Lécheuses (37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44) – 7 dialogues; Cinquième douzain : Dialogues des Phallophores (49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54) – 6 dialogues; Sixième douzain : Dialogues des Goules (61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 65 (i.e. 66), 67, 68, 69, 70, 71) – 11 dialogues; Septième douzain : Dialogues des Amoureuses (73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, [80]) – 8 dialogues; Huitième douzain : Dialogues des Enculées (85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, [95]) – 11 dialogues; Neuvième douzain : Dialogues des Chieuses (97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 104) – 7 dialogues; Dixième douzain : Dialogues des Pisseuses (109, 110, 111, 112, 114) – 5 dialogues; Onzième douzain : Dialogues des Mères (121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132) – 12 dialogues; Douzième douzain : Dialogues des Enfants (134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, [140]) – 7 dialogues. Collation: [1]-[17]4; total 68 leaves plus 11 plates. See another copy of the same book in this collection [LIB-2819.2021], where 13 (blank/limitation) is missing. Edition: This copy of "calligraphié" Douze douzains de dialogues ou petites scènes amoureuses was most probably published in Paris by Libraire Robert Télin in 1927, 100 copies on Japon Nacre as per Dutel (1920-1970) № 1427. This is a complete copy with all 68 leaves; LIB-2819.2021 has 67 leaves. Another "calligraphié" edition published in c. 1940 (Dutel 1429) is bound and has 80 leaves. Dutel unequivocally attributes the drawings to André Collot. Plates in this copy are similar to the ones in a pirated copy of Scènes de péripatéticiennes / Douze douzains de dialogues [LIB-2961.2022] (Dutel № 2366). According to Pia (1978) № 358, this is a 1927 edition published in Paris by libraire Robert Télin: « 1 f. blanc, 1 f. (justification), 1 f. (titre) et 65 ff. n. ch., plus 11 gravures à l’eau-forte rehaussées de couleurs ». Edition limited to 100 copies numbered I – C; this copy is № LII (52). Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (1920-1970) №№ 1427 and 1429, p. 137 and № 2366, p. 356 ; Pia (1978) 358-9, p. 199-200. Contributors: Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) – author. André Collot (French, 1897 – 1976) – artist. -
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. -
Softcover volume, 24.7 x 19.7 cm, red felt with gilt embossing to front, pages framed in red, watermarked Arches wove paper, lower and outer margins untrimmed; matted original drawing (watercolour, India ink, graphite on Arches wove paper), signed André Collot and dated 36 laid in. Title-page (red and black): ANDREA DE NERCIAT | LE DOCTORAT | IMPROMPTU | ILLUSTRÉ | D’EAUX-FORTES ORIGINALES | PAR | ANDRÉ COLLOT | {publisher’s device} | LA TRADITION | PARIS || Pagination: [2] blank, [1, 2] h.t./limitation, [3, 4] frontis., [5, 6] t.p./blank, 7-125 [126] blank, [2] colophon/blank, [2] blank; 7 full-page (incl. frontispiece) and 9 half-page plates, 2 tailpieces and 2 initials (etching and au pochoir colouring after André Collot); total 132 pages (66 leaves, incl. plates within collation). Limitation: A print run of 500 copies; this is № 268. Colophon: Paul Durupt supervision, text at Coulouma / H. Barthélemy, plates at La Tradition (Paris); date of printing: 30-APR-1935 Contributors: André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat (French, 1739 – 1800) – author. André Collot (French, 1897 – 1976) – artist. -
Softcover volume, 22.8 x 17 cm, French flapped wrapper simulating unprimed canvas with crimson lettering to front; pp.: ffl, [5/6] h.t., [7/8] t.p., 9-109 [110], [111/112] limitation/blank, ffl; plus 12 colour lithographs by Schem (Raoul Serres), incl. frontispiece; printed on wove paper. Title-page (red and black): L'ÉCOLE | DES | BICHES | OU | MŒURS DES | PETITES DAMES DE CE TEMPS | [blank] | M. CM. XXXIX. || Limitation: printed 99 copies of which this is № 27; date of printing July 10, 1939. Catalog raisonné: Dutel III № 1447. As per J.-P. Dutel (II № 231 pp 119-20), the text was published in Brussels in 1868 by Jean-Pierre Blanche. Presumed authors are Alfred Bégis, Frederick Hankey and Edmund Duponchel. [BEGIS, Alfred, with DUPONCHEL, Edmond, and HANKEY, Frederick, attributed to.] L'École des Biches ou Mœurs des petites dames de ce temps. Paris [but Brussels]: [Jean-Pierre Blanche,] 1863 [1868] sold at Christie’s for GBP 1,000 on November 18, 2014. For details, see [LIB-2812.2021] Highlights from the Erotica Library of Tony Fekete / Auction catalogue, Tuesday 18 November 2014. — London: Christie's, 2014. — Lot 36. Contributors: Alfred Bégis (French, 1829 – 1904) – author. Frederick Hankey (British, 1823 – 1882) – author. Edmund Duponchel (French, c. 1795 – 1868) – author. Jean-Pierre Blanche (Beligian, second half of the 19th century) – publisher. Schem [real name Raoul Serres] (French, 1881– 1971) – artist. -
Description: Suite of 16 hand-coloured drypoints, in 39 x 29 cm, in cream French flapped wrappers with lavender lettering “SYMPHONIES AMOUREUSES” and a sanguine drypoint vignette (platemark 15 x 13 cm) to front, 17 leaves plus 2 leaves in the wrappers, 38.5 x 57 cm vertically folded once, lettering to one page, plate to another page, unbound, only the top margin trimmed, unpaginated, wove paper watermarked "BFK Rives", in a faux chagrin double slipcase 39.8 x 30 cm. Title-page (in lavender and black): SYMPHONIES AMOUREUSES | Suite de seize gravures | à la pointe sèche | rehaussées | {blank} | imprimé aux dépens | de Bibliophiles et non mis dans le commerce || Titles of the plates : 1. Ouverture. 2. Gamme. 3. Rêverie. 4. Pas redoublé. 5 Fantasia. 6. Pastorale. 7. Estudiantina. 8. Presto. 9. Arpège. 10. Menuet. 11 .Symphonie médiévale. 12. Jeux d’eau. 13. Galop. 14. Impromptu. 15. Variation. 16. Ariette. Limitation: Print run of 100 copies, 5 copies on Japon Manchou, numbered №№ 1-5, enriched; 11 copies on vélin à la forme de Rives, numbered №№ 6-16, enriched; 84 copies on vélin à la forme de Rives, numbered №№ 17-100, of which this is copy № 32. Cat. raisonné: Dutel III, № 2478. Contributors: André Collot (French, 1897 – 1976) – artist, engraver. -
Title-page: 30 | et quelques… | attitudes. | {vignette} | LITHOGRAPHIES | ORIGINALES DE | JEAN DE L’ÉTANG || Colophon: ACHEVÉ | D’IMPRIMER | EN | M C MLII || Description: Cream French flapped wrappers enforced with cardboard, in a double slipcase, 30.2 x 24 x 4.5 cm, with a lithograph to front and back depicting the female crotch, front and back, respectively. Printed on wove paper watermarked ‘Johannot’ (produced by Arches, France). Unbound; margins untrimmed. Collation: 2 leaves on the front and 2 on the back with two within the wrappers, incl. colophon, 2 leaves: one blank and one t.p. / limitation, 12 loose gatherings of 4 leaves each (48) with glassine interleaving. Pagination: [1-8] 9-102 [2], total 104 pp (leaves in wrappers not counted). Illustrated with 25 full-page lithographs (incl. covers) and 29 smaller images. Artist’s name Jean de l’Étang is most probably a pseudonym attributed by both J.-P. Dutel and Gérard Nordmann to Jean Dulac (French, 1902 – 1968). Limitation: A print run of 200 copies, of which this is copy № 186 (Nordmann's collection had №184). Cat. raisonné: Dutel III №2511, p. 388; Nordmann II №181, p. 89; Honesterotica. -
Hardcover volume 20 x 14 cm, bound in burgundy half faux chagrin over brown faux chagrin boards, gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, all margins sprinkled blue. Convolute: 1) SPIRITOMANES ET SPIRITOPHOBES |— | ÉTUDE | SUR LE | SPIRITISME | PAR LE | DOCTEUR HUGUET | De la Faculté de Paris | {« ED » publsiher’s device} | PARIS | E. DENTU, LIBRAIRE-ÉDUTEUR | Palais-Royal, 17-19, Galerie d’Orléans | – | 1875 | Tous droits réservés ||; pp. [1-7] 8-48, with Dr Huguet signature to h.t. verso. Contents: Introduction. I. Le procès du 16 juin 1875; MM. Firman, Buguet, Leymarie. II. Le Spiritisme dans ses rapports avec le dogme, l’histoire, la science. Conclusion. 2) Same, pp. [1-7] 8-48, with Dr Huguet signature to h.t. verso. 3) FÉDÉRATION SPIRITE BELGE | — | Étude critique | DU LIVRE INTITULÉ | L'Hypnotisme | et le Spiritisme | du Docteur Joseph LAPPONI | Médecin de L. L. S. S. LÉON XIII et PIE X. | * | CONFÉRENCE | PAR | J. FRAIKIN | Président de la Fédération Spirite de Liége, | Vice-Président de la Fédération Spirite Belge. | * | Imp. Emile Dumon | Rue Haute-Marexhe, 27, Herstal-Liége. ||; pp. [1-3] 4-50 [51] errata/blank. 4) BUREAU PERMANENT D’ÉTUDE | DES | PHÉNOMÈNES SPIRITES | ANVERS | * | Cours De Doctrine Spirite | — | Imprimerie et Publicité « LA GÉNÉRALE » (SOC. AN.) Anvers. ||; 6 leaves, pagination trimmed out with partly visible numbers 13 and 18 ; includes Deuxième leçon « Du passage de la vie… », t.p., 7 pp. of text, last three pages blank. 5) LA PSYCHOLOGIE EXPERIMENTALE || Manifeste adresse par le « Syndicat de la Presse spiritualiste de France » | au Congres spiritualiste de Londres (Juin 1898); pp. [1] 2-31 [32]. Contents: I. Prolégomènes. II. Télépathie. III. Médiumnité. Conclusion. 6) LE FLUIDE HUMAIN | Son existence/ | Ses lois * Ses propriétés | — | CONFÉRENCE | DONNÉE PAR LE | Sous-Lieutenant DE BACKERE | — ||; pp. [1-3] 4-28. Contributors: Hilarion Huguet (French, ? – ?) Alfred-Henri Firman (American, ? – ?) Édouard Isidore Buguet (1840 – 1901) Pierre-Gaëtan Leymarie (1827 – 1901) Giuseppe Lapponi (Italian, 1851 – 1906) Jacques Fraikin (Belgian, ? – ?) Franz de Backere (Belgian, ? – ?) -
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.
