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    Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 235 x 165 mm, pp. [1-9] 10-176, 120 illustrations, incl. 109 in full colour, 3 maps, glossary, and timeline. An enveloped postcard to E. Varshavsky laid in. Text profusely marked with coloured highlighters. Title-page (pictorial): Art of Edo Japan | The Artist and the City 1615-1868 | Christine Guth | PERSPECTIVES | HARRY N. ABRAMS, INC. PUBLISHERS || Contents: NOTE TO THE READER Map: Japan during the Edo period INTRODUCTION: Mapping the Artistic Landscape
    1. The Artist and the City
    The Castle Town; Urban Culture; The Urban Artist
    1. Kyoto Artists
    Map: Kyoto; The Kano and Tosa Schools; Köetsu, Sotatsu, and Rinpa Design; Taiga, Buson, and the Literati Movement; The Maruyama-Shijo School; Individualists: Jakuchü, Shöhaku, and Rosetsu; The Yamatoe Revival
    1. Edo Artists
    Map: Edo; The Kano School and the Realm of the Official Artist; Developments in Woodblock Prints: 1660-1760; Developments in Polychrome Prints: 1765-1801; Further Developments in Woodblock Prints: 1801-68; Sakai Höitsu and Tani Buncho: Edo Ripa and Bunjinga
    1. Osaka and Nagasaki Artists
    Kimura Kenkadö and his Circle; Osaka Books and Prints; Nagasaki: Window on the World; Monk-Artists of the Öbaku Sect; Visiting Chinese Artists and their Pupils; Painters in the Western Manner
    1. Itinerant, Provincial, and Rural Artists; Itinerant Monk-Artists and Pilgrimage Art; Poet and Literati Painters; Provincial and Rural Artists
    GLOSSARY TIMELINE BIBLIOGRAPHY PICTURE CREDITS INDEX
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    Hardcover miniature book, 150 x 85 x 30 mm, brown buckram with gilt lettering to front and spine, embossed black admiralty boat (crest of Sankt-Peterburg) to front cover, yellow dust jacket with vignette and lettering; pp.: [1-4] 5-454 [2], woodcut frontispiece, plates pp. 211-434. Title-page: Л. М. СОСКИН | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСКИЕ | МАРКИ | ПЕТРОГРАДА – | ЛЕНИНГРАДА | MOCKBA | «НОВЫЙ СВЕТ» | «КНИГА» | 1995 || Contributors: Соскин, Леонид Маркович (Soviet, ? – ?) – коллекционер-библиофил, чл. Ленингр. о-ва книголюбов, первый председатель секции миниатюрных изданий. Баренбаум, Иосиф Евсеевич (Soviet-Jewish, 1921 – 2006)
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    Hardcover, 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
    Gold; The sources of gold: Egypt and Nubia, Africa to the South of Nubia. Arabia, Russia, India and Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe; The composition of ancient gold items; Impurities; Changes in gold with time; Silver; The sources of silver: North Africa and Arabia, Western Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe; The composition of ancient silver.
    • Metals other than gold and silver
    Copper and copper alloys; Iron; Lead; Antimony; Tin; Platinum group metals.
    • Goldsmithing techniques
    Sheet metal; Raised sheet work; Cutting and pierced work decoration; Engraving; Wire; Ornamental wires; Chains; Soldering and granulation: Gold and silver, Base metals; Mechanical joining; Casting.
    • The gemstones
    Apatite; Azurite; Beryl: Emerald, Aquamarine; Breccia; Calcite; Chrysoberyl; Cordierite; Corundum: Sapphire, Ruby; Diamond; Dioptase; Feldspar; Fluorspar; Garnet; Gypsum; Hematite; Jade; Lapis lazuli; Lazulite; Malachite; Mica; Obsidian; Olivine; Opal; Porphyry; Pyrites; Quartz: Amethyst, Citrine, Rock crystal, Rose quartz, Smoky quartz, Bloodstone, Chalcedony, Chrysoprase, Cornelian and Sard, Jasper, Plasma, Banded Agates, Onyx; Serpentine, Steatite, Chlorite and related materials; Sodalite; Spinel; Topaz; Tourmaline; Turquoise; Zircon.
    • Organic gem materials
    Amber; Coral; Ivory and bone; Jet and lignite; Pearls; Shells; Tortoise shell; Threading materials for beads.
    • Glass, enamel and faience
    Glazed stone and faience; Glass: Glass beads, Glass inlays, Glass intaglios, Other glass jewellery; Enamel; The aging of glass; Egyptian blue; Etched Cornelian beads.
    • Ancient imitation and altered gemstones
    Man-made imitation gemstones; Altered or improved stones.
    • Stone working
    Chipping; Cutting; Abrasion.
    • Forgeries
    The materials; The techniques: Wire, Sheet metal work, Cutting, Solder joins; Style; Ageing fake jewellery; Glass; Distribution; Forgeries of engraved gems and seals.
    • The jeweller
    Supply and demand; The growth of the industry; The shop; The jeweller; The Guild.
    • Bibliography & references
    • Index to illustrations
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    Two 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.
    1. 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) ||
    2. 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) ||
    Contents of Vol. 5.
    1. Le costume sous le Consulat et l'Empire: Caractères généraux. Costume masculin. Costume militaire.
    2. Le costume féminin sous le premier Empire : Éléments caractéristiques. Spencers et canezous. Robes de cour. Redingotes. Witz-chouras.
    3. Les coiffures sous le premier Empire : Coiffures masculines et féminines.
    4. La Restauration : Caractères généraux. Costume masculin. Costume féminin. Coiffures féminines.
    5. 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.
    6. Deuxième République et Napoléon III: Costume masculin. Costume féminin. Crinolines et tournures. Coiffures.
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    Softcover, 170 x 120 mm, in white publisher’s wrappers, vignette to front by A.-M. Carmant, red and black lettering to both covers, red lettering to spine, pp.: [1-3 4-109 [3]. ISBN 2-911314-02-6. Title-page: Maurice Joly | Le Plébiscite | Épilogue | du Dialogue aux Enfers | entre Machiavel et Montesquieu | précédé de | César | paris-zanzibar || Front cover (red and black): maurice joly | le plébiscite | épilogue du dialogue aux enfers | entre machiavel et montesquieu | {vignette par A.-M. Carmant | paris-zanzibar || Contents: Préface : F. Leclercq. Maurice Joly, un suicidé de la démocratie César Épilogue au Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu. Premier dialogue. L' arsenal de Machiavel II. L'appel au peuple III. Le plébiscite IV. La noyade parlementaire V. Le oui et le non VI. Comment Montesquieu votera-t-il VIIe et dernier dialogue. Non Annexe La Cloche, dimanche 19 juin 1870 Maurice Joly, son passé, son programme par lui-même (extrait)
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    Hardcover convolute 186 x 120 mm of two volumes of the French periodical La Revue hebdomadaire, bound in quarter red faux-chagrin over marbled boards, vol. 11, pp. [3-5] 6-506 [2], vol. 12 pp. [3-5] 6-634, plus Le supplément illustré №№ 45-53, 3 leaves of b/w photo reproductions each. Ref.: http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34350607j Author: Lambelin, Roger (French, 1857 – 1929)
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    Paperback, 210 x 140 mm, light brown wrappers with lettering, vignette to front and author’s photo portrait to back, pp. [1-6] 7-349 [3]; ISBN 5-7358-0002-7. Print run 100.000 copies. Title-page: С. ДОВЛАТОВ | — | ЗОНА | записки | надзирателя | — | КОМПРОМИСС | — | ЗАПОВЕДНИК | ПИК | Независимое издательство | — | МОСКВА | 1991 || Contributors: Author: Довлатов, Сергей Донатович [Dovlatov, Sergei] (Soviet-American, 1941 – 1990) Artist: Перевезенцев, Пётр Юльевич (Russian, b. 1962) Chief editor: Мориц, Юнна Петровна [Morits, Yunna] (Ukrainian-Jewish, b. 1937)

    Portrait of Sergei Dovlatov by Mikhail Lemkhin / c. 1980s. [SVMC-0025.2022]

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    Publisher’s tea green French flapped wrappers with double bordered vignette embossed to front, 298 x 295 mm, 18 gatherings in 4to (i.e. 72 leaves), 280 x 190 mm leaves plus one gathering in the wrappers, outer and lower margins untrimmed; pagination: [2] [1-15] 16-136 [4] [2], not counting leaves in the wrappers; paper watermarked “Lana” (grand vélin de Lana a la forme); 16 pictorial etchings and two fac-simile ms etchings within collation, tissue guards; in a double slipcase 306 x 204 mm with a vignette “capital C in ribbons” to spine of the inner chemise. Title-page (lilac and black) PIERRE LOUŸS | CYDALISE | AVEC DES ILLUSTRATIONS ORIGINALES | GRAVES A L'EAU-FORTE | {woodcut vignette} | LES AMIS DE L'ÉCRIVAIN | | PARIS | M C M X L I X || Limitation: JUSTIFICATION DU TIRAGE | CETTE ÉDITION ORIGINALE | DU LIVRE DE CYDALISE A ETÉ, POUR SON TIRAGE, LIMITÉE | A DEUX CENT SOIXANTE CINQ EXEMPLAIRES | DONT LA DISTRIBUTION S'EFFECTUE DE LA | FAÇON SUIVANTE. […] DEUX CENTS EXEMPLAIRES SUR GRAND VELIN DE LANA A LA FORME NUMÉROTÉS DE 51 A 250. […] EXEMPLAIRE N° 91 || Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 1333, p. 116; Nordmann II № 309, 151. Ref: honesterotica.com Contributors: Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) – author. Jean Traynier (French, fl. 1942 – 1957) – artist (attributed)
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    Softcover, 290 x 205 mm, publisher’s flapped pictorial wrappers, pp.: [1-7] 8-205 [3], text in English, French, and German, profusely illustrated. First edition published in 2011. Title-page: Edited by Dian Hanson | LA | PETITE | MORT | § | PHOTOGRAPHS BY SANTILLO | TASCHEN || Hanson, Dian (American, b. 1951) – editor/text Santillo, William (American) – photographer
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    Two-volume edition, uniform pictorial glossy oblong 215 x 263 mm hardcover, catalogue of the sales exhibition from May 25 to July 17, 1993, held at the former rooms of the Galerie Wimmer & Co. in Munich. Vol. 1: The Nude in Art: From Romanticism to the Present; pp.: [2] 3-109, 86 colour plates and 16 b/w illustrations. Artists represented: Otto Müller, Paul Paede, Max Liebermann, Rudolf Nissl, Hans Licht, Leopold Schmutzler, Julius Schlegel, Paul Peel, Karl Truppe, Otto Herbig, Mozart Rottmann, Karl Schlageter, Wilhelm Hempfing, Jean Gabriel Domergue, Franz von Stuck, Marcel Herrfeldt, Jörg Trübner (Sohn des Wilhelm), Julius Hüther, Ludwig Bock, Ernst Fuchs, etc. Title-page: “Der Akt in der Kunst” | Von der Romantik bis zur Gegenwart | Gemälde, Aquarelle, Pastelle, Zeichnungen, Bronzen, Graphiken | — | Verkaufsausstellung vom 25. Mai bis 17. Juli 1993 | ~ |  DAS GEMÄLDE CABINETT UNGER | in den ehemaligen Räumen der Galerie Wimmer & Co. seit 1825 | 8000 München 2, Brienner Straße 7, Telefon (089) 22 75 15 u. 29 84 04 | Montag - Freitag 10 - 18 Uhr, Samstag 10 - 14 Uhr, langer Samstag 10 - 16 Uhr || Vol. 2: Eroticism in Art: From Eroticism to Perversion; pp.: [2] 3-100, 93 colour plates and 29 b/w illustrations. Artists represented: Otto Rudolf Schatz (28 watercolours), Fried Pal, Alois Harbeck, Jean Gabriel Domergue, Max Brüning, Max Schwimmer, Alfons Walde, Karl Heidelbach, Josef Werner Leben, etc. Two aquatints by Emil Sartori (Ranzenhofer) marked as Emil Sartou, and two others of him as Erotischer Meister des 19. Jahrhunderts; two aquatints by Frans von Bayros marked as Unbekannter Meister des 19. Jahrhunderts. Title-page: Erotik in der Kunst | “Von der Erotik bis zur Perversion” | Gemälde, Aquarelle, Pastelle, | Zeichnungen, Bronzen, Graphiken | (ibid).
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    The good old days of naughty postcards: Softcover, 160 x 160 mm, blue flapped wrappers, front with a keyhole openwork showing the vignette in colour on the flap; pp. [1-9] 10-272 [4], colour illustrations throughout, topics from A to Z, historical erotic postcards from the author's collection. Title-page: LA BELLE ÉPOQUE | DES CARTES COQUINES | Christian DEFLANDRE | HORAY || Annotation (back wrapper): De A comme Adam, à Z comme Zizi, de lestes galanteries aux vertes gauloiseries témoignent de 'esprit facétieux de la vie amoureuse à la Belle Époque. Qualifies de « grivoises » par les amateurs de nudités, « licencieuses » par les moralistes, ces cartes au charme désuet dévoilent la sensualité et 'érotisme de nos arrière-grands-parents. ISBN 978-2-7058-0466-4
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    Hardcover, 226 x 226 mm, pictorial cardboard, pp.: [1-7] 8-205 [3], illustrated in colour throughout. Title-page (crimson and black): PRÉFACE | MARIE-HÉLÈNE LAFON | DIRECTION | MARIE-PAULE CAIRE-JABINET | De la séduction… | CARTES POSTALES | DE LA BELLE ÉPOOUE | ET DES ANNÉES FOLLES | TEXTES DE | CORINNE LEGOY | LAIN QUELLA-VILLÉGER | JULIETTE RENNES | MARIANNE RÖTIG | ATCHA SALMON | CHRISTELLE TARAUD | SYLVAIN VENAYRE | Bleu autour || ISBN: 9782358480727
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    Hardcover, 310 x 230 mm, red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, brown endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, pp.: [1-5] 6-256, 348 illustrations, incl. 195 plates in full colour. Title-page: Edited by Lesley Hoskins | THE | PAPERED WALL | HISTORY • PATTERN • TECHNIQUE | {vignette} | Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers || Imprint: Copyright @ 1994 Thames and Hudson Ltd, London | Published in 1994 by Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, New York | A Times Mirror Company || ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0810937301 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0810937307 Contributor: Lesley Hoskins, editor, former Secretary of the UK's Wallpaper History Society, Specialist Curator at MoDA (The Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Middlesex University).
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    Hardcover, 306 x 283 mm, pictorial cardboard, white lettering to front and spine, pictorial dust jacket, pictorial endpapers, pp.: [1-14] 15-224, illustrated in colour throughout. The 1st edition in 2000, published by The Pepin Press in Amsterdam. Title-page (white on black): Erotic Art of the Early Nineteenth Century | Romantique | {publisher’s device} | Bearsville, New York || ISBN 1-59020-000-4. Contents: Daydreams of the Juste Milieu: On the Historico-cultural Milieu of Erotic Lithographs The New Order of Love: Charles Fourier, the Unwavering Dreamer of Liberated Passions Achille Devéria and His School The Trader and the Policeman: Catalogues of Nineteenth Century Erotic Art The Blue Sofa On the Beginning and End of our Sexuality Soloists Duets Trios Quartets The Noble Orgy
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    Softcover, 210 x 136 mm, in publisher’s wrappers, black and red lettering to front and spine; pp.: [4] i-xi [xii], [2] 1-607 [608], i.e. 313 leaves. Printed from microfiches smuggled from the USSR to the West. English title Life and Fate. Front wrapper: ВАСИЛИЙ ГРОССМАН | ЖИЗНЬ | И СУДЬБА | РОМАН | L’AGE D’HOMME || Title-page: ВАСИЛИЙ ГРОССМАН | ЖИЗНЬ И СУДЬБА | РОМАН | ИЗДАНИЕ ПОДГОТОВИЛИ | С. МАРКИШ И Е. ЭТКИНД | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ СТАТЬЯ Е. ЭТКИНДА | L’AGE D’HOMME || Contributors: Гроссман, Василий Семёнович [Grossman, Vasily] (Soviet-Jewish, 1905 – 1964) Маркиш, Симон Перецович [Markish, Shimon] (Soviet-Jewish-Swiss, 1931 – 2003) Эткинд, Ефим Григорьевич [Etkind, Efim] (Soviet-Jewish-French, 1918 – 1999)
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    Hardcover, 231 x 165 mm, half brown cloth over cardboard, lettering in a frame to front, similar to t.p., pp.: [4] [1] 2-151 [152], collated 4to: π2 1-194, i.e. 78 leaves. Entries are in alphabetic order by name. Title-page (and front cover): Bibliotheca Germanorum | erotica. | Verzeichniss der gesammten | deutschen erotischen Literatur | mit Einschluss der Uebersetzungen. | Nachschlagebuch für Literaturhistoriker, | Antiquare und Bibliothekare. | Nach den zuverlässigsten Quellen | bearbeitet von | H. Nay. | — •— | Leipzig, 1875. || [Bibliotheca Germanorum erotica. List of all German erotic literature, including translations. Reference book for literary historians, antiquarians and librarians. Based on the most reliable sources edited by H. Nay]. Imprint: Druck von E. Rupfer in Stuttgart. Ref: Worldcat. Author: Hugo Hayn [Nay, H.] (German, 1843 – 1923)
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    Softcover comics book, oblong flapped wrappers, 186 x 280 mm, pink border in black rules, black lettering to front, 45 unpaginated leaves (pp. 90) with text and pictorial story, some in-text woodcuts and a tail-piece. No title-page. Catalogue Raisonné: Dutel III, 2424, pp. 368-9. The publication was prosecuted per the French Law of December 20, 1965. Sophie is a re-written version of Puberté. Journal d’une escolière [by Maria Luz],pyblished in 1933 by Éditions Raoul Saillard, Paris. Publisher: Éric Losfeld (Belgian-French, 1922 – 1979)
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    A cardboard file 298 x 225 mm made of quarter red cloth over marbled paper, with laces, contains 18 loose chromolithographs approx.190 x 130 mm, 8 vertical and 10 horizontal) in a passepartout 275 x 220 mm (matted) of laid paper with an armorial watermark, with lewd humorous captions on glassine guard tissue attached to each sheet, upper and outer margins uncut. Images signed “–Santippa–36”.Label to front cover lettered Variations Amoureuses | avec 18 gravures en couleurs ||. No title page. It is quite likely that the set exists in only one copy. Description by seller: Album in-folio, 272 x 218 cm. En feuilles, sous chemise cartonnée à lacets de l'éditeur. Les lithographies sont respectivement intitulées : Branlade; Plaisir Champêtre; Justice; Entre Marins ; Cocher; Suce-moi bien ; Encore; Les Joies; Un Marin; On raconte ; Plaisir Divin ; Le Marin; Quand un Gendarme ; soixante et Neuf; Tous les Moyens ; Le Plus Cochon; Le Fantassin; Coup Double. Le peintre Gaston Hoffmann (1883-1977), consacra la majeure partie de son œuvre à l'érotisme et la caricature, en signant ses sujets trop libres sous le pseudonyme de Santippa. Contributor: Gaston Hoffmann [Santippa] (French, 1883 – 1977). Ref: Honesterotica.com provides only 8 images of 18. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III: № 2581:    
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    Paperback, 240 x 155 mm, publisher’s wrappers, series red label of Cahiers des Annales Publiés avec le concours du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, red vertical rule and black lettering to front, black lettering to spine, and red and black lettering to back; collated 8vo: 1-158 χ2, i.e. 122 leaves, pp.: [i-vi] vii-viii, 1-234 [2]. Autograph dedication signed by Maurice Dommanget to Pierre Dumayet, blue ballpen ms at the top of ffl « À Pierre Dumayet | En Souvenir et bien cordialement | Dommanget ». Title-page: CAHIERS DES ANNALES | 14 | MAURICE DOMMANGET | BLANQUI | ET L'OPPOSITION | RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE | à la fin | du Second Empire | {publisher’s device « economies – sociétés – civilisation » } | LIBRAIRIE ARMAND COLIN | 103, boulevard Saint-Michel, PARIS - 5e | 1960 || Contents: De Belle-Île à la Conciergerie. Vues et action politiques à Sainte-Pélagie. L'action à l'hôpital Necker. Le séjour à Bruxelles et l'action des étudiants blanquistes. L'action blanquiste, de décembre 1867 à la grève du Creusot. Le Blanquisme et l'Internationale. Contributors: Dommanget, Maurice (French, 1888 – 1976) Dumayet, Pierre (French, 1923 – 2011) Blanqui, Auguste (French, 1805 – 1881)
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    Hardcover, 250 x 310 mm, black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, grey end papers, pictorial dust jacket; pp.: [1-8] 9-237 [3], illustrated in colour throughout. ISBN 0.8457.3150-5 Title-page (pictorial): The Beinecke Library OF YALE UNIVERSITY | Edited by Stephen Parks Architectural photography by Richard Cheek | Dedication photography by Ezra Stoller Collection photography by Stan Godlewski | With contributions by | Robert G. Babcock  Vincent Giroud  George A. Miles  Stephen Parks  Patrick L. Pinnell  Christa Sammons  Barbara A. Shailor  Patricia C. Willis  Marjorie G. Wynne  Timothy G. Young | Published by | The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library | Yale University | Distributed by | University Press of New England || Contents: Introduction The Building Ezra Stoller Dedication Portfolio Crossing Wall Early Manuscripts and Books Modern Books and Manuscripts The Collection of American Literature The Osborn Collection: English Manuscripts German Literature Collection Western Americana Collection Music in the Beinecke
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    Three volumes, hardcover in-folio, 495 x 350 mm, 1st edition, uniformly bound in red faux-chagrin with gilt coat of arms of the city of Paris in the centre of gild-decorated panel, gilt decorated spine with lettering, marbled endpapers, 3 vol. (122 p.-[46] pl., 76-44-24-22-36-26...); vol. 1 – 340 pp, vol. 2 – 296 pp, vol. 3 – 268 pp ; total 100 leaves of plates. Title-page (red and black): PARIS | DANS SA SPLENDEUR | MONUMENTS, VUES, SCÉNES HISTORIQUES, DESCRIPTIONS ET HISTOIRE | DESSINS ET LITHOGRAPHIES | […] | VIGNETTES DE FÉLIX BENOIST ET CATENACCI, EXÉCUTÉES SUR BOIS PAR LES PREMIERS GRAVURS | TEXTE | […] | Premier Volume (Deuxième Volume, Troisième Volume) | PREMIERE PARTIE. — DESCRIPTION DE PARIS | {vignette} | Publié par | HENRI CHARPENTIER, IMPRIMEUR-ÉDITEUR | PARIS, QUAI DES GRANDS-AUGUSTINS, 55. — ÉTABLESSEMENT A NANTES, RUE DE LA FOSSE. | M. DCCC. LXI. || Contributors: Mérimée, Prosper (French, 1803 – 1870) – text Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène (French, 1814 – 1879) – text Audiganne, Armand (French, 1814 – 1875) – text Philippe Benoist (French, 1813 – 1896) – lithography Benoist, Félix (French, 1818 – 1896) – woodcuts Catenacci, Hercule Louis (French, 1816 – 1884) – woodcuts Charpentier, Henri-Désiré (French, 1806 – 1882) Henri Charpentier imprimeur (Nantes) – printer Henri Charpentier éditeur (Paris) –publisher
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    Hardcover, 188 x 118 mm, brown half-morocco over burgundy faux-chagrin, spine with raised bands and burgundy label with gilt lettering, gilt fleurons in compartments, floral diaper endpapers, collated 8vo:ffl, π2 1-138, ffl, pp. [4] 1-207 [208], plus frontispiece portrait and 8 unnumbered leaves of plates, etchings, one of them hand-coloured; limitation to half-title verso: "Tirage a 300 exemplaires". The title page is loose. Each gathering has 4 'tall' pages (1, 2, 7, 8 - 181 mm) and 4 'short' (3, 4, 5, 6 - 165 mm). Two parts are in one vol., signed and paged continuously; the second part has its own half-title and title pages. "Fin de première partie" at p. 107 (76), part 2 h.t. at 77, part 2 t.p. similar to the main t.p. but in black only at 78. The portrait of Étienne de Jouy was possibly engraved by Charles Monselet (French, 1825 – 1888) after Julien-Léopold Boilly (French, 1796 – 1874). Title-page (red and black): LA GALERIE | DES | FEMMES | COLLECTION INCOMPLÈTE DE HUIT TABLEAUX | RECUEILLIS PAR UN AMATEUR |  L'amour est le roman du cœur | Et le plaisir en est l'histoire. | BEAUMARCHAIS. Folle journ. | — | A HAMBOURG | – | 1799 Compare to Dutel: 8 plates instead of 9; no two-page text “Nous espérions joinder à ce livre une notice…” before Deux mots de préface, the word FIN on p. 207 instead of 203, no table of contents at the end; no imprint Bruxelles. — Imp. de J. H. Briard, rue des Minimes, 51, on the same page as Table, signed 15. Dutel: № A-456, p.148:
    • In-8 (18,4 x 11) de (2 ff.), II, 203 pp., 1 ff. de table, couv. jaune imp. en rouge.
    • Édition publiée à Bruxelles en 1869 par J.-P. Blanche. Elle est ornée de 9 gravures et d'un facsimilé de l'écriture de Monselet, qui n'est pour rien dans ce volume.
    In fine, mention de l'imprimeur Briard.
    • Tirage : 300 exemplaires.
    Pia № 511/2, p.278: pagination 208 as per our copy. Contributors: Étienne de Jouy (French, 1764 – 1846) - author Auguste Brancart (Belgian, 1851 – after 1909) – publisher
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    Hardcover, 220 x 175 mm, cloth spine over blue floral paper boards, pp.: [1-6] 7-69 [3], 21 leaves of plates. Title-page: Михаил | ГЕРМАН | В. ДВОРАКОВСКИЙ | «ХУДОЖНИК РСФСР» | Ленинград | 1970 || Print run: 3,000 copies. Герман, Михаил Юрьевич (Russian, 1933 – 2018) Двораковский, Валериан Дмитриевич (Russian, 1904 – 1979)
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    Two hardcover volumes, 222 x 148 mm, uniformly bound in grey cloth with red and black lettering to front board and spine. 1: В. С. НЕЧАЕВА | Журнал | М. М. и Ф. М. Достоевских | «ВРЕМЯ» | 1861–1863 | {publisher’s device} | — | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «НАУКА» | МОСКВА | 1972 ||; pp. [1-4] 5-316 [4], errata slip tipped in. Print run 4,900 copies. 2: В. С. НЕЧАЕВА | Журнал | М. М. и Ф. М. Достоевских | «ЭПОХА» | 1864–1865 | {publisher’s device} | — | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «НАУКА» | МОСКВА | 1975 ||; pp. [1-4] 5-301 [3], errata slip tipped in. Print run 8,000 copies. Blue ink stamp "Из книг А. Б. Муратова" to ffl. Достоевский, Михаил Михайлович [Dostoevsky, Mikhail] (Russian, 1820 – 1864) Достоевский, Фёдор Михайлович [Dostoevsky, Fyodor] (Russian, 1821 – 1881) Нечаева, Вера Степановна (Russian, 1895 – 1979) Муратов Аскольд Борисович (Russian, 1937 – 2005)  
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    Red cloth portfolio 313 x 250 mm, with gilt lettering in frame to front, contains an in-folio brochure (4 sheets folded in-half), unbound, pp. [2] 3-15 [1], plus 24 leaves of loose plates 300 x 239 mm; title page, full-length photo portrait of Pilotell by Charles Reutlinger (German-French, 1816 – 1881), autograph of the former, and a copy of his birth certificate. Printed by l'Imprimerie Union in Paris in 1970 (2nd edition). Portfolio title: AVANT | PENDANT ET APRÈS | LA | COMMUNE || Title-page: PILOTELL | Dessinateur et Communard | PAR | CHARLES FELD | LIVRE-CLUB DIDEROT – PARIS || Contributors: Pilotell [Pilotelle, Georges Raoul Eugène] (French, 1845 – 1918) Feld, Charles Léon Salomon (Jewish-French, 1919 – 1995) Imprimerie Union (Paris, 1910 – 1995)
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    Cardboard clamshell box of red buckram over marbled paper 360 x 260 mm, contains 13 drawings (watercolour and pen on paper), wove paper sheets approx. 220 x 190 mm, title page mounted on a blank sheet and monogrammed 'ORS", others in passe-partout 350 x 250 mm, unsigned. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961).
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    Hardcover, 150 x 108 mm, blue cloth red embossed vignette to front, red lettering to spine; pp. [2] 5-97 [3], collated 8vo: 17, 2-68 72, i.e. 49 leaves plus four plates, incl. frontispiece, extraneous to collation, leaf 11 missing or published without it. No dust jacket. Title-page (red and black): ЭСХИЛ | ПРИКОВАННЫЙ | ПРОМЕТЕЙ | Перевод, статья | и комментарии | Адр. Пиотровского | ACADEMIA | 1935 || Imprint: Фронтиспис и рисунки – фототипии с офортов М. А. Доброва. Супер и переплет по его же рисункам. Заставки и концовки выполнены автоцинкографией. Print run: 5300 copies. Printer: Красный пролетарий (М). Catalogue raisonné:  Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 789, p. 272. Contributors: Aeschylus [Эсхил, Αἰσχύλος] (Greek, 525 – 456 BC) – author. Пиотровский, Адриан Иванович [Piotrovsky, Adrian] (Russian, 1898 – 1937) – translator, killed by the Soviet State on November 21, 1937. Добров, Матвей Алексеевич (Russian, 1877 – 1958) – artist.
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    Hardcover, 150 x 110 mm, greyish brown cloth with brown embossed vignette to front, brown lettering to spine, top margin brown, pp.: [1-8] 9-241 [3], collated 8vo: 1-158, 162, i.e. 122 leaves, plus six woodcut plates, extraneous to collation; woodcut head- and tailpieces, vignettes. No dust jacket. Title-page (red and black): ЛИРИКА | ДРЕВНЕЙ ЭЛЛАДЫ | В ПЕРЕВОДАХ РУССКИХ ПОЭТОВ | Собрал и комментировал | Я. Голосовкер | ACADEMIA | 1935 || Contra-title (red and black): АНТИЧНАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | под общей редакцией | Д. А. Горбова, В. О. Нилендера | и П. Ф. Преображенского | ЛИРИКА | ДРЕВНЕЙ ЭЛЛАДЫ | ACADEMIA | Москва – Ленинград || Title verso: Гравюры на дереве художника | М. И. Пикова | Переплет по его же рисунку || Print run: 5300 copies. Printer: Печатный двор (Л.) / Полиграфкнига Catalogue raisonné:  Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 743, p. 265. Contributors: Голосовкер, Яков Эммануилович [Яків Еммануїлович] (Ukrainian-Jewish, 1890 – 1967) – compiler/foreword/comments Пиков, Михаил Иванович (Russian, 1903 – 1973) – artist, wood engraver
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    French weekly periodical, full set for the year 1893 (53 issues), 4 leaves (8 pages) each issue, bound in green half sheepskin over green shagreen, ruled with blind dentelle, raised bands, gilt floral diamonds and gilt lettering in compartments, marbled endpapers, blank flyleaves; size 405 x 280 mm. Illustrated mainly by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (French, 1859 – 1923), Paul Balluriau [Jean-Baptiste Balluriau] (French, 1860 – 1917) and Albert Guillaume (French, 1873 – 1942).
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    French weekly periodical, full set for the year 1896 (52 issues), 4 leaves (8 pages) each issue, bound in green half sheepskin over green shagreen, ruled with blind dentelle, raised bands, gilt floral diamonds and gilt lettering in compartments, marbled endpapers, blank flyleaves; size 405 x 280 mm. Illustrated mainly by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (French, 1859 – 1923), Paul Balluriau [Jean-Baptiste Balluriau] (French, 1860 – 1917) and Albert Guillaume (French, 1873 – 1942).