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    Vita B. Ioannis Chisii a Maciaretto, ord. ermit. s. p. Augustini. — Antverpiæ, Henricum Aertssens, 1641.

    [Michael Hoyer]. Vita B. Ioannis Chisii a Maciaretto, ord. ermit. s. p. Augustini. — Antverpiæ, Apud Henricum Aertssens, Anno MDCXLI [1641]. Pagination: [2] *3+recto unpag. *4+recto unpag., [10], 5-135 [3]. Illustrations: Frontispiece missing, 4 copperplate engravings (pp. 22, 64, 90, and 120) by Pieter de Jode the Younger (1606–1674, Flemish printmaker, draughtsman, painter and art dealer) after Erasmus Quellinus the Younger (1607–1678, Flemish painter, engraver, draughtsman and tapestry designer). Size: Pott 8vo (15.5 x 10 cm), vellum binding. Expanded title: Vita Beati Ioannis Chisii, a Maciaretto, Ordinis Eremitarum Sancti Patris Augustini. [Translation: Life of Blessed Giovanni Chigi from Maciaretto, Order of Hermits of St. Augustine]. Blessed Giovanni Chigi (1300 - 1363) [1] was a lay brother of the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine. The Chigi family is a Roman princely family of Sienese extraction descended from the counts of Ardenghesca. The earliest authentic mention of them is in the 13th century, with one Alemanno, counsellor of the Republic of Siena. The Wikipedia article does not mention Giovanni Chigi, however, it states that one of the Chigi, Cardinal Fabio Chigi, was elected pope as Alexander VII at the Conclave of 1655. The book was published in 1641 with a dedication to the said Cardinal Fabio Chigi before he was elected pope. The town, Maciaretto, where Giovanni Chigi was from, is unclear because there is no such place in modern Italy, and there are two places called Macereto: (1) Macereto Alta/Basso in Perugia province and (2) Macereto in the municipality of Visso, in the province of Macerata, region Marche. I assume that our Giovanni Chigi was from the one that is closer to Siena, i.e. Macereto in Perugia province. Regarding the author. There is no author's name in the book. However, in various sources, the book is mentioned as written by Michel Hoyer, who was born in Hesdin, Flanders in 1593 and died in 1650. He pursued an ecclesiastical career and professed rhetoric at the College of Saint Pierre in Lille. He later joined the Order of Saint Augustine, in the convent of Ypres, and settled in various schools in the Netherlands. His reputation attracted many students, among them Albert Rubens (1614–1657), the eldest son of Peter Paul Rubens and Isabella Brant. Michel Hoyer wrote several books, the most known is Flammulae amoris, S.P. Augustini versibus et iconibus exornatae: Surprisingly, there is only limited information about Michel Hoyer in Spanish Wikipedia; other language versions of his biography do not exist. Another author mentioned in the book is some anonymous Augustinian from Cologne. Regarding the illustrations. In our copy, the frontispiece is missing. It was probably ripped off by some unscrupulous seller of antique prints. The image on the missing frontispiece is this: The names of the artists engraved in the bottom of the stone: E. Quellinus, delin. to the left and P. de Jode, fecit. to the right. We can infer that the other illustrations in that book are produced by the same duo. The image represents three cherubs: one with Athena's serpent in his left hand and a cardinal's hat in his right hand; another in Athen's helmet on his head and her owl beside his feet, with the staff of Mercurius (serpent-twined staff adorned with a winged hat) in his left hand, and the House of Chigi - Della Rovere coat of arms in his right hand; the third cherub depicted with the Hercules attributes - lion pelt and a  club. Regarding the publisher. Henricum Aertssens or Hendrik Aertssen, 1586-1658. Besides the other books, he published PIA DESIDERIA by Herman Hugo in 1636 [1621 french edition by Jean Cnobbartin in Antwerp in his collection LIB-1657.2018]. According to Nina Lamal [2], nothing is known about career of this publisher, besides what's said in Adresboek van zeventiende-eeuwse drukkers, uitgevers en boekverkopers in Vlaanderen / Directory of seventeenth-century Printers, Publishers and Booksellers in Flanders / Vlieger-De Wilde, Koen De (editor). The list of his publications can be seen here. Other artists who turned to the figure of Blessed Giovanni Chigi were Abraham van Diepenbeeck (painter) and Conrad Lauwers (engraver). The print is in Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam. Here we see a more complex composition but with a clear reference to the work of Quellinus and de Jode: The cherub in Athena's helmet takes away the old coat of arms of the Chigi, and the other cherub points out to the new one, with papal symbols of St. Peter's keys, another cherub carries the papal tiara. Rijksmuseum dates the image as 1642 - 1685; most probably it is ca. 1655, when Fabio Chigi became Pope Alexander VII, and propaganda was focused on promoting his outstanding ancestor Giovanni, who died 300 years before. Giovanni Chigi is depicted here resurrected, accompanied by the archangel, and receiving the blessing from Jesus on the cross. 1 - Michael J. Walsh. A New Dictionary of Saints: East and West, p. 308. 2 - Nina Lamal. Publishing military books in the Low Countries and in Italy in the early seventeenth century in 'Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World', ed. Richard Kirwan, Sophia Mullins, Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 2015, pp. 232-233.
     
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  • Thomas Bewick. A general history of quadrupeds / 5th edition. — Newcastle upon Tyne: Edward Walker, for T. Bewick and S. Hodgson, 1807.

    Title: A | GENERAL HISTORY | OF | QUADRUPEDS. | – | THE FIGURES ENGRAVED ON WOOD | BY | THOMAS BEWICK. | — | THE FIFTH EDITION | {vignette} | NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE: | PRINTED BY EDWARD WALKER, FOR  T. BEWICK AND S. HODGSON: | SOLD BY THEM, AND ALL BOOKSELLERS. | 1807. Pagination: [2 blanks], [i, ii] – t.p. / blank], [iii, iv] – advertisement, [v] vi-x – index, [1] 2-525 [526 advert. of British Birds] [2 blanks]. Collation: Royal 8vo in fours; π (engraved title), a4 A-3T4 χ3T3. F2 signed 2F, 2E2 unsigned, p. 131 numbered correctly, p. 257 numbered 572. Size: 26 x 17 cm; page 24.5 x 16 cm (royal). Woodcuts: 302 descriptions of quadrupeds, 225 figures and 112 vignettes, tail-pieces, etc. Binding: Full diced brown calf, embossed blind corner fleurons, gilt-tooled border inside and outside, AEG, spine with raised bands, gilt in compartments, lettering; binding restored; armorial bookplate "Thorpe" to front pastedown. Likely to be Thomas Thorpe (1791 – 1851), a prominent bookseller in London: Bedford Street, Covent Garden; started in 1818, went bankrupt on Dec. 31, 1825. Thorpe's family coat of arms: stag standing on a crown and a lion rampant. Catalogue raisonné: S. Roscoe (1953): pp. 23-27. Hugo (1866): pp. 22-24.
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  • Grimms' Popular Stories. Popular stories collected by the brothers Grimm / A reprint of the first English edition with twenty-two illustrations by George Cruicshank. Oxford Edition. — London, Edinburgh, Glosgow, New York and Toronto: Henry Frowde, 1905. -— pp. xvii + 403.

    Popular stories collected by the brothers Grimm / A reprint of the first English edition. — London: Henry Frowde, 1905.

    Title: OXFORD EDITION | POPULAR STORIES | COLLECTED BY | THE BROTHERS GRIMM | A REPRINT OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION | WITH TWENTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS | BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK | {publisher’s device} | HENRY FROWDE | LONDON, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW | NEW YORK AND TORONTO | 1905 || Pagination: [i, ii] – frontis., [iii-iv]– t.p. / imprint. [v] – preface, vi-xvii [xviii blank], [2] [1] 2-403 [404], plates included in pagination, pp. 379-403 – notes. Collation: a8 b2 B-Z8 Aa-Cc8 Dd2. Binding:1 9 x 13 cm, olive green cloth blind-stamped in art nouveau style and lettered in gilt to cover and spine: GRIMMS’ POPULAR STORIES. Aubergine pencil inscription to front pastedown: C. Grant Robertson | All Souls | 1905: Provenance: Sir Charles Grant Robertson CVO (British, 1869 – 1948) who was a British academic historian, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Vice-chancellor of the University of Birmingham.
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  • [Charles Octave Moget, Joseph Décembre]. Sempronius. Histoire de la Commune de Paris en 1871. Paris, Décembre-Alonnier, [1871]. – pp: [i, ii - ht, imprim.] iii, iv - t.p., blank] [v - table] vi-viii (viii numbered iii), [1] 2 [3] 4-267 [268 blank] [1] 2-12 advert. [Pseudonym of Charles Octave Moget and Joseph Décembre]. Charles Octave Moget, dit Octave Féré (1815-1875); Joseph Décembre, dit Décembre-Allonier (1836 – 1906).

    Sempronius. Histoire de la Commune de Paris en 1871. — Paris, Décembre-Alonnier, [1871].

    Front publisher’s yellow wrapper, in a double frame: SEMPRONIUS | HISTOIRE | DE LA | COMMUNE DE PARIS | EN 1871 | La période impériale. – La Révolution du 4 Septembre. – Le | gouvernement de la Défense nationale. – Le Parti républicain | et le Parti socialiste. – L'Association internationale des | travailleurs. – Menées du parti socialiste. – La Commune en 1793. – Le 31 octobre et le 22 janvier. – La Capitulation de | Paris. – Le 18 mars. – L'Assassinat des généraux Clément | Thomas et Lecomte. – Le Comité central de la Garde nationale. | – La Commune ; – Ses Agissement. – Son Budget. – La | Terreur. – Insolence des Fédérés. – Les journaux. – Les Otages. | – Les Opérations militaires. – Les Fusillades. – Les Vols. – Les | Barricades. – Les Incendies. – Documents officiels de la Commune. | TROISIÈME ÉDITION | PARIS, DECEMBRE - ALONNIER, LIBRAIRE-ÉDITEUR | 20 RUE SEGUR, 20 | PRÉS DE LA PLACE SAINT-ANDR -DES-ARTS || Title page: similar to the cover with no frame. Pagination: front wrapper, [2] – h.t. / imprint., [2] – t.p. / blank, [i] – table de matières, vi (i.e. ii), vii (i.e. iii), iii (i.e. iv), [1] 2-267 [268 blank], [1] 2-12 – publisher's advert., back wrapper. Collation : 18mo ; π4, 1-1518, ß6. Binding: 18.5 x 12 cm; softcover; original yellow wrappers, black lettering to covers and spine; almost disbound. Réferences: Le Quillec (1997): 2324; University of Sussex > Paris Commune Collection. Author of the book: "SEMPRONIUS" was in reality two men: Moget, Charles Octave [Féré, Octave] (French, 1815 – 1875) and Décembre, Joseph [Décembre-Allonier] (French, 1836 – 1906).
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  • John Allington. The grand conspiracy of the members against the minde, of Jewes against their King. — London: R. Royston, 1654.

    Title: THE | GRAND CONSPIRACY | OF THE | Members again∫t the Minde, | OF | Jewes again∫t their King. | As it hath beene delivered in the | foure following Sermons, | BY | John Allington, [A ∫eque∫tered Divine.] | — | {ornament} | — | LONDON, | Printed by J.G. for R. Royston, | at the Angel in Ivie-lane, 1654.|| Contents: Grand conspiracy of Jewes against their King. A sermon preached in August 1647; Grand conspiracy of Jewes against their King. A sermon preached in January 1649; Grand conspiracy of Jewes against their King. A demonstration of the highest insolencies proceed from men of the lowest and most base extractions Pagination: [2] – t.p. / blank; 1-214. Collation: 12mo; A-I12. Binding: Hardcover; 15 x 9.5 cm, later blind-stamped morocco, raised bands, gilt lettering in compartments. Inscription: Ink by hand by John Bartham, January 30, 1665, to t.p. verso; Pencil by hand to front pastedown: Wing A 1209A.
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  • Francois Le Goff. The Life of Louis Adolphe Thiers / translated from the unpublished manuscript by Theodore Stanton. — NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1879.

    Title: THE LIFE OF LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS | BY | FRANCOIS Le GOFF | DOCTEUR-ÈS-LETTRES | TRANSLATED FROM THE UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT | BY | THEODORE STANTON, A. M. | {motto: Patriam dilexit, veritatem coluit.} | NEW YORK | G. P Putnam's Sons, 1879 | 182 FIFTH AVENUE | 1879 || Pagination: 2 blank leaves, frontis.: portrait of A. Thiers engraved on wood by J.I. Pease w/ tissue guard, [2] fac-simile of Thiers’s handwriting / blank, [2] - t.p. / copyright, [2] – dedication / blank, [2] – translators note / blank, [2] contents / blank, [vii] viii-xi [xii], [1] 2-353 [354 blank], [4] advert., 2 blank leaves; ill.: frontis., 1 woodcut plate, 1 folding manuscript fac-simile. Binding: dark-green cloth with bevelled margins, a gilt fac-simile of Thiers’s handwriting to front board, gilt lettering to spine. Note: The motto on the title page (Patriam dilexit, veritatem coluit) is taken from A. Thiers tomb on Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris: "He cherished his homeland and worshipped the truth".  
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  • Charles Virmaitre. Paris-police. — Paris: E. Dentu, 1886. — pp.: [2 wrapper], [2 half-title], 2 title] 1-359 [1 blank], back wrapper.

    Charles Virmaître. Paris-police. — Paris: E. Dentu, 1886.

    Cover:  (black and red in red frame) PARIS POLICE | par | Ch. Virmaitre | PARIS | E. DENTU, ÉDITEUR | LIBRAIRE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES GENTES DE LETTRES | Palais-Royal, 15-17-19, Galerie d’Orléans | 1886 || Title page: CH. VIRMAITRE | PARIS–POLICE | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | E. DENTU, ÉDITEUR | LIBRAIRE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES GENTES DE LETTRES | PALAIS-ROYAL, 15-17-19, GALERIE D’ORLEANS | 1886 | Tous droits réservés. || Pagination : 3 blank leaves, original pictorial wrapper, [4], [1] 2-359 [360 blank], original back wrapper with publisher's advertisement, 3 blank leaves. Collation: 12mo; π2, 1-1912 206. Binding: owner's hardcover, quarter burgundy percaline, marbled boards, brown title label with gilt lettering, gilt double tail ruler, year, and fleuron to spine; original paper wrappers preserved.
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  • Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books / Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. — London: Jacob Tonson, 1717.

    Title: OVID'S | METAMORPHOSES | IN | FIFTEEN BOOKS. | Translated by the most Eminent Hands. | Adorn’d with Sculptures | London: | Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespeare’s–Head | over-against Katharine-Street in the Strand. | M DCC XVII. || Physical description: Folio, laid paper, engraved title as frontispiece, letterpress title-page, portrait of the dedicatee, the Princess of Wales, engraved by George Vertue (British, 1684 – 1756) after Sir Godfrey Kneller (German, 1646 – 1723), [4] – dedication with headpiece vignette engraved by Elisha Kirkall (British, 1682 – 1742) after Peter Berchet (French, 1659 – 1720 London), [i]-xx – preface, [4] – contents, 1-548; collation: π3 a-f2, B-Zzzzzz2, +15 full-paged engravings, one heading each book; bound in full contemporary tan English calf blind-tooled with a darker panel, raised bands, crimson label with gilt lettering, sprinkled compartments with blind tooling, rebacked, later endpapers, 15 1/4 x 9 1/2 in (39.5 x 26 x 5 cm). Contributors: Author: Ovid (Roman, 43 B.C. – A.D. 17) Translator: Sir Samuel Garth (British, 1661 – 1719) Translator: John Dryden (British, 1631 – 1700) Translator: Joseph Addison (British, 1672 – 1719) Translator: John Gay (British, 1685 – 1732) Dedicatee / Sitter: Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Princess of Wales, Queen of England (German-British, 1683 – 1737) Engraver: Elisha Kirkall (British, 1682 – 1742) Artist: Peter Berchet (French-British, 1659 – 1720) Artist:  Sir Godfrey Kneller (German, 1646 – 1723) Engraver: George Vertue (British, 1684 – 1756) Engraver: Louis Du Guernier, the younger (French, 1677 – 1716) Engraver: Michael Vandergucht (Flemish, 1660 – 1725) Engraver: Elisha Kirkall (British, 1682 – 1742) Engraver: R. Smith (British, fl. early 18th century) Engraver: Matthys Pool (Dutch, 1670 – c. 1732) Publisher: Jacob Tonson, the Elder (British, 1655 – 1736)  
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  • Вадим Скуратовский. Проблема авторства “Протоколов сионских мудрецов” // Серия: “Библиотека института иудаики”. — Киев: Дух и литера, 2001.

    Cover: Вадим Скуратовский | ПРОБЛЕМА АВТОРСТВА | "ПРОТОКОЛОВ | СИОНСКИХ МУДРЕЦОВ" | Дух і літера || Title page: Logo in the upper-left corner: «Ю» БIБЛIОТЕКА | IНСТИТУТУ | ЮДАЇКИ | text in the middle: Вадим Скуратовский | ПРОБЛЕМА АВТОРСТВА | "ПРОТОКОЛОВ | СИОНСКИХ МУДРЕЦОВ" | Киев | 2001 || Pagination: [1-3] 4-241 [242 advert.] Text in Russian. Ukrainian title: Вадим Скуратiвський. Проблема авторства "Протоколiв сiонських старшин" // Київ: "Дух і літера", 2001.
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  • Манцони Алессандро. Обрученные. Повесть из истории Милана XVII века. Пер.и комм. И.И.Штица. Вст.ст А.К.Дживелегова. Илл. Е.Д.Белухи // Серия: Итальянская лит-ра. — М.-Л.: Academia, 1936. — XXXVIII, 952 стр., 15 илл. Тираж: 5300 экз. [том выходил без супера].

    Алессандро Манцони. Обрученные. Повесть из истории Милана XVII века / Перевод И. И. Шитца. (Итальянская литература). — М.-Л.: Academia, 1936.

    Title page: АЛЕССАНДРО МАНЦОНИ | ОБРУЧЕННЫЕ | ПОВЕСТЬ ИЗ ИСТОРИИ | МИЛАНА XVII ВЕКА | ПЕРЕВОД И КОММЕНТАРИИ | И. И. ШИТЦА | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ СТАТЬЯ | А. К ДЖИВЕЛЕГОВА | ACADEMIA | 1936 || Frontispiece: ИТАЛЬЯНСКАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | ПОД ОБЩЕЙ РЕДАКЦИЕЙ А. К ДЖИВЕЛЕГОВА | АЛЕССАНДРО | МАНЦОНИ | 1785 — 1873 | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА ЛЕНИНГРАД || Title verso: ALESSANDRO MANZONI | I PROMESSI SPOSI | Иллюстрации — автолитография | Е. Д. Белухи | Титула и переплет | по его же рисунку || Pagination: [i-vii] viii-xxxviii [2] [2] 3-946 [8] + 15 leaves of  illustrations. Collation: [I]8 II8 III4 1-598 ⅛605 + 5 leaves of plates + 10 leaves of plates (lithography by Е. Д. Белуха). Binding: 19.5 x 14.5 cm; Publisher’s blue cloth, lettering and design to cover and spine (by Е. Д. Белуха). Print run: 5300 copies. Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): №832, p. 279. Contributors: Мандзони, Алессандро [Manzoni, Alessandro] (Italian, 1785 – 1873) – author of the original text. Шитц, Иван Иванович (Russian, 1874—1942) – translator from the Italian into Russian. Дживелегов, Алексей Карпович (Russian, 1875 – 1952) – editor. Белуха, Евгений Дмитриевич (Russian, 1889 – 1943) – artist. For the first English edition see: [LIB-1332.2017]: Alessandro Manzoni. The betrothed / (Standard novels). — London: R. Bentley, 1834.
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  • Graham Greene and Carol Reed. The third man / Film script. — New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.

    Title page: MODERN | FILM | SCRIPTS | THE THIRD MAN | a film by | Graham Greene | and Carol Reed | Simon and Schuster, New York. Pagination: [1-4] 5-134 [2] blank. Binding: publisher’s pictorial wrappers with the film still and lettering in blue and black to front, back, and spine. Size: 20.2 x 14 cm. The Third Man is a 1949 British film directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Contributors: Graham Greene (British, 1904 – 1991) – author. Carol Reed (British, 1906 – 1976) – film director. Simon & Schuster (NY) – publisher. Villiers Publications, Ltd. (London) – printer.
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  • Les Contes de Charles Perrault / Illustrations de Brunelleschi. — Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1946.

    Front wrapper and title page (in red and black): LES CONTES DE | CHARLES | PERRAULT | ILLUSTRATIONS | EN COULEURS | DE | BRUNELLESCHI | {vignette} | GIBERT JEUNE | LIBRAIRIE D'AMATEURS | 61, BOULEVARD SAINT-MICHEL, 61 | PARIS || Pagination: [2] – blanks, [2] – h.t. / limit., [2] – t.p. / blank, [4] – preface, [2] – d.t.p., 1-168 [169-70], [4] – table, [2] – imprint / blank; total 188 pages (94 leaves) with 55 in-text illustrations, plus 16 colour plates extraneous to collation, incl. frontispiece. Edition: Limited edition of 1,000 copies, this copy is № 1 (stamped in black). Printed on the 31st of October 1946 by J. Dumoulin (H. Barthélemy – director, Louis Malexis – mise en page); stencil-colouring (au pochoir) by E. Charpentier under direction of the artist. Binding: 26.7 x 20.3 cm, publisher’s flapped pictorial wrappers, vignettes and lettering to front wrapper and spine, publisher’s device to back wrapper, uncut. Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault (French, 1628 – 1703): Griselidis (Griselda) — Peau d'Asne (Donkeyskin) — Les Souhaits ridicules (The Ridiculous Wishes) — La Belle au Bois dormant (Sleeping Beauty) — Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood) — La Barbe-Bleue (Bluebeard) — Le Maistre Chat ou Le Chat Botté (Puss in Boots) — Les Fées (The Fairies) — Cendrillon ou La Petite Pantoufle de verre (Cinderella)— Riquet à la Houppe (Riquet with the Tuft) — Le Petit Poucet (Hop-o'-My-Thumb) Description of the stensil (au pochoir) technique.
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  • Graham Greene. Doctor Fischer of Geneva, or the bomb party. — London: The Bodley Head, 1980.

    Title-page: GRAHAM GREENE | DOCTOR FISCHER | OF GENEVA | or | THE BOMB | PARTY | {publisher’s device} | THE BODLEY HEAD | LONDON SYDNEY | TORONTO || Green publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering to spine, cream dust jacket, lettered on front, back and spine, unclipped (£4.50 NET | IN U.K. ONLY), [1-8] 9-139 [140] + 2 blank leaves. Printed by Clowes Ltd. (Beccles). © Graham Greene 1980. Dust jacket design by Michael Harvey. Graham Greene (British, 1904 – 1991).
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  • Choderlos de Laclos. Les Liaisons dangereuses, ou lettres recueillies dans une société et publiées pour l’instruction de quelques autres / Avec des figures de S. Sauvage (2 volumes) — Paris: chez l’artiste, 1930.

    Description: Two volumes 34 x 26.5 cm each,  each in a green/gilt marbled in a slipcase, bound in green morocco, spine with raised bands and two gilt-lettered brown labels, original wrappers bound in, marbled endpapers; printed on Montval watermarked wove paper, top margin gilt, outer and bottom margins untrimmed. Front wrapper (in oval red frame): CH. De LACLOS | LES | LIAISONS | DANGEREUSES | {fleuron} | TOME PREMIER (TOME SECOND) | — | CHEZ SYLVAIN SAUVAGE | 16 RUE CASSINI A PARIS | ANNO DOMINI | MCMXXX || Title-page (black and red): ~ CHODERLOS DE LACLOS ~ | LES | LIAISONS | DANGEREUSES | OU | LETTRES | RECUEILLIES DANS UNE SOCIETE ET | PUBLIEES POUR L’INSTRUCTION | DE QUELQUES AUTRES | {vignette} | TOME PREMIER (TOME SECOND) | AVEC DES FIGURES DE S. SAUVAGE | GRAVEES SUR CUIVRE AVEC LA COLLABORATION DE D.A.MAILLART | A PARIS EN L’AN GRACE | MCMXXX || Vol. 1: Collation: 2 blanks, 1 front wrapper, 1 blank/limitation, 1 h.t./frontis., 1 t.p., 3 advert., 1 d.t.p. première partie, 106 leaves, 1 blank, 1 back wrapper, 1 blank/spine, 1 blank; total within wrappers 114 leaves with woodcut fleurons and tailpieces, and 23 engraved and coloured plates, incl. frontispiece, full-page and in-text, some with tissue guards. Pagination: [14] [1] 2-211 [212] [2], ils. Vol. 2: 2 blanks, 1 front wrapper, 1 blank, 1 h.t./frontis., 1 t.p., 1 d.t.p., 109 leaves, 1 plate, 1 colophon, 1 back wrapper, 1 blank/spine, 1 blank; total within wrappers 115 leaves, with woodcut fleurons and tailpieces, and 25 engraved plates, engraved and coloured plates, incl. frontispiece, full-page and in-text, some with tissue guards. Pagination: [8] [1] 2-218 [4], ils. Limitation: Printed on September 29, 1930, 165 copies (1-165), the first four enriched with a suite of b/w plates and one original drawing; 10 copies for collaborators marked I-X. This is copy № 129. Contributors: Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre Ambroise François (French, 1741 – 1803) – author. Sylvain Sauvage [Félix Roy] (French, 1888 – 1948) – artist, publisher. Pierre Bouchet (text), Paul Haasen (plates) – printers.
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  • Utagawa Kunisada (1786 – 1865): His world revisited / Catalogue 17, Exhibition March 17-21, 2021. — NY: Sebastian Izzard, LLC., 2021.

    Softcover, in pictorial wrappers, 28 x 21.8 cm, 64 entries, with colour illustrations, some folding. Catalogue # 17 of the sales exhibition on March 17-21, 2021 in NY; pagination: [1-3] 4-182 [2], ils. Contributor: Sebastian Izzard Select illustrations (references in this collection):

    SVJP-0222.2016: A view of the dressing room of a Theater in Dōtonbori, Ōsaka.

    SVJP-0105.2014: Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII as the ghost of Seigen.

    SVJP-0360.2022: Ichikawa Danjūrō VII.

    SVJP-0361.2022: Beauty playing the shamisen beneath a mosquito net.

    SVJP-0359.2022: Young woman checks her makeup in a mirror.

    SVJP-0197-1.2015

    SVJP-0197.2015: Three Pleasures of Present-day Osaka (Tôsei Naniwa no sankô); left; centre, right.

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  • Israel Goldman. Japanese prints and paintings / Recent acquisitions; Catalogue 21, 2015.

    Softcover, pictorial wrappers, square 21 x 21 cm, 40 leaves, unpaginated, with illustrations in colour, 80 entries, with price list laid in; limited edition of 700 copies. Contributor: Israel Goldman In this collection:

    JPD-0008.2016: Mori Sosen. Ink and colour on silk.

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  • Эстетика раннего французского романтизма (История эстетики в памятниках и документах). — М.: Искусство, 1982.

    Description: Hardcover, 20.8 x 13.3 cm, green buckram with gilt lettering to spine, gilt serial design and lettering to front cover, pp.: [1-6] 7-479 [480]. Incl. Ф.-Р. де Шатобриан. «Гений христианства», пер. О. Э. Гринберг. Title-page : | — | ЭСТЕТИКА РАННЕГО ФРАНЦУЗСКОГО РОМАНТИЗМА |— | {publisher’s device} | МОСКВА | ИСКУССТВО | 1982 | 3 || François-René de Chateaubriand (French, 1768 – 1848) – author Ольга Эммануиловна Гринберг (Russian, 1950 – 2008) – translator Вера Аркадьевна Мильчина [Vera Miltchina] (Russian, b. 1953) – foreword, translator
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  • М. В. Успенский, Е. Ю. Варшавская. Нэцкэ и японская гравюра из собрания С. П. Варшавского: Каталог выставки / Науч. ред. В. И. Сисаури. — Л.: Искусство, 1983.

    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).
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  • Terence Emmons. Alleged sex and threatened violence: Doctor Russel, Bishop Vladimir, and the Russians in San Francisco, 1887-1892. — Stanford (CA): Stanford University Press, 1977.

    Hardcover volume, 22.5 x 15 cm, bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket; pp.: [i-v] vi-xiv, [1-5] 6-251 [252], total 268 pages. Title-page: Alleged sex and threatened violence | Doctor Russel, Bishop Vladimir, and the Russians in | San Francisco, 1887-1892 | TERENCE EMMONS | — | Stanford University Press | Stanford, California | 1977 || ISBN: 9780804727679, 9780804727686, 0804727678, 0804727686. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 35159156. Doctor Nikolai Sudzilovsky [Nicholas Russel] (Belarusian, 1850 – 1930). Bishop Vladimir (Sokolovsky-Avtonomov, Vasily Grigorievich) Архиепископ Владимир (Соколовский-Автономов, Василий Григорьевич) (Russian, 1852 – 1931) – Archbishop of the Aleutians and Alaska.    
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  • [Pierre Louÿs.] Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l’usage des maisons d’éducation. — Paris: [Simon Kra,] 1926 / accompagné de 6 dessins de Rojan.

    Softcover, collated 8vo, 19.5 x 14.2 cm, French flapped wrappers, lettering to front: MANUEL | DE | CIVILITÉ | POUR LES | PETITES FILLES | À L’USAGE DES | MAISONS D’ÉDUCATION | {checks} ||; printed on BFK Rives wove paper with watermark, with blue vertical and horizontal lines to imitate notebook checkered paper; pp.: [8] [1-15] 16-177 [7]; π4 1-118 124; total 96 leaves (192 pages), incl. those in wrappers. Cardboard double slipcase with vellum spine lettered in black: MANUEL | DE | CIVILITÉ | POUR | LES PETITES | FILLES ||. Title-page: similar to cover, within the frame: MANUEL | DE | CIVILITÉ | POUR LES | PETITES FILLES | À L’USAGE DES | MAISONS D’ÉDUCATION | {checks} || Edition: 1st clandestine limited edition of 600 copies of which 1 copy on papier de chine (№ 1), 15 copies on japon impérial (№№ 2-16), 20 copies on papier de Hollande (№№ 17-36), and 564 copies on vélin de Rives (№№ 37-600) ; this is copy № 473. Enrichment: Accompanied by 5 loose sheets of thin paper blind stamped in the upper-left corner “WHATMAN” with pencil and watercolour drawings, one on both sides, unsigned. Insert two printouts from the previous sellers. Catalogue raisonné: Pia 800/801; Dutel (III) 1916 (indicates 180 pp.). Nordmann II 315 describes copy № 246 illustrated with 86 compositions by Rojankovsky, all signed by Rojan. Later edition, see: LIB-2972.2022. Contributors: Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan, Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970).
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  • The complete works of O. Henry / Foreword by Harry Hansen (2 volumes). — Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1953.

    Two hardcover volumes, 22 x 15 cm each, uniformly bound in quarter orange cloth over blue cloth, red and blue lettering to spine, in a dust jacket lettered in yellow and white over red THE COMPLETE | WORKS OF | O. HENRY | THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION | OF AMERICA’S MASTER | OF THE SHORT STORY | { OH monogram} | WITH A FOREWORD BY | HARRY HANSEN || Title-page: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF O. HENRY | FOREWORD BY HARRY HANSEN | VOLUME I (II) | 1953 | DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC. GARDEN CITY, NY || Vol. 1: ffl, [i-v] vi-xiii [xiv] [2] [1] 2-810, ffl. Vol. 2: ffl, [i-v] vi-viii [2] [811] 812-1692, ffl. Contributors: O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (American, 1862 – 1910) – author. Harry Hansen (American, 1884 – 1977) – author/foreword.
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  • Muneshige Narazaki, Sadao Kikuchi. Utamaro [歌麿] / Translation by John Bester (Masterworks of ukiyo-e, №4). — Tokyo; Palo-Alto, CA: Kodansha International, ©1968.

    Hardcover volume from the series Masterworks of ukiyo-e, 26.5 x 19 cm, bound in unprimed canvas, red ms characters on black strip to front, red and black lettering to spine, tan embossed endpapers, in a pictorial slipcase with series design (black lettering on silver spine); pp: [1-6]: h.t./frontis. (colour plate pasted in), t.p./imprint, contents/acknowledgements), 7-31 text, [32] blank, 33-96 (76 plates w/captions). Title-page (in frame): MASTERWORKS OF UKIYO-E | UTAMARO | by Muneshige Narazaki and Sadao Kikuchi | Translated by John Bester | {publisher’s device} | KODANSHA INTERNATIONAL LTD. | Tokyo, Japan & Palo-Alto, Calif., U.S.A | {vertical, between rules 歌麿} || Series: Masterworks of ukiyo-e, № 4. Contributors: Muneshige Narazaki [楢崎 宗重] (Japanese, 1904 – 2001) – author. Sadao Kikuchi [菊地 貞雄] (Japanese, 1924 – 2017) – author. John Bester (British, 1927 – 2010) – translator. Kitagawa Utamaro [喜多川 歌麿] (Japanese, c. 1753 – 1806) – artist.
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  • Joseph Conrad. The secret agent: A drama in three acts. — London, T. Werner Laurie, 1923.

    Hardcover volume, 24 x 15 cm, bound in quarter parchment over pale blue cloth, paper label to spine, pale blue dust jacket with a paper label, another label bound in at the end, printed on thick laid paper, untrimmed, uncut, pp. [4] blank, [2] blank/advert., [2] h.t./blank, t.p./imprint (riverside press Ltd.), [2] limitation/blank, [2] persons/blank, [1] 2-185 [3], photogravure portrait frontispiece by Emery Walker with captioned tissue guard. Title-page: The SECRET AGENT | A DRAMA IN THREE ACTS | by | JOSEPH CONRAD | LONDON | Privately Printed for Subscribers ONLY BY | T. WERNER LAURIE LTD. | 1923 || Edition: Limited edition of 1,000 copies sighed by the author; this is copy № 12. Catalogue Raisonné: Keating № 79 / p. 169. Seller’s Description: one of 1000 copies signed by the author, photogravure portrait frontispiece by Emery Walker, endpapers lightly browned, original parchment-backed boards, dust-jacket, spine lightly browned with 2 small staining spots, ends a little creased, uncut and unopened, overall an excellent copy, 8vo, 1923. Contributors: Joseph Conrad (Polish-British, 1857 – 1924) – author. Thomas Werner Laurie (British, 1866 – 1944) – publisher. Emery Walker (British, 1851 – 1933) – artist. The Riverside Press Limited (Edinburgh) – printer. First edition: [LIB-2762.2021] Joseph Conrad. The secret agent: a simple tale. — London: Methuen & Co., [1907]
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  • Andrew Loomis. Drawing the head and hands & Figure drawing for all it’s worth (box set). — London: Titan Books, 2011.

    Cardboard box 32 x 23.7 cm with lettering and vignette to front, lettering to spine, and Loomis facsimile and Titan publisher's barcode label to back.
    1. Title-page: Drawing | THE HEAD AND HANDS | BY | ANDREW LOOMIS | {vignette} ||
    Hardcover volume, 31.2 x 23.3 cm, olive buckram with olive lettering on the green label, green lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket, text to flaps; pp.: [1-6] 7-154 [155 plate] [5 blanks], ils. (photomechanical reproductions). Imprint: Drawing The Head And Hands | ISBN: 9780857680976 | Published by | Titan Books | A division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd. | 144 Southwark St. | London | SE1 0UP | This edition: October 2011 | 15 16 17 18 19 20 | © 1943 Andrew Loomis, 2011 The Estate of Andrew Looms. All rights reserved. | […] | Printed and bound in China. ||
    1. Title-page: FIGURE DRAWING | FOR ALL IT'S WORTH | ANDREW LOOMIS ||
    Hardcover volume, 31.2 x 23.3 cm, blue buckram with orange square vignette, orange lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket, text to flaps; pp.: [1-6] 7-204 [4 blanks], ils. (photomechanical reproductions). Imprint: Figure Drawing For All It's Worth | ISBN: 9780857680983 | Published by | Titan Books | A division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd. | 144 Southwark St. | London | SE1 0UP | This edition: May 2011 | 16|  © 1943 Andrew Loomis, 2011 The Estate of Andrew Loomis. All rights reserved. | […] | Printed and bound in China. || Andrew Loomis (American, 1892 – 1959)
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  • Pierre Mac-Orlan. Les jeux du demi-jour / avec douze lithographies de Vertès. — Paris: Les arts et le livre, 1926.

    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
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  • Marcel Vertès. Dames seules / texte de Francis Carco — Paris: Louis Godefroy, 1932.

    1st edition, limited to 52 copies of which 7 copies on Japon paper (№ 1-7) and 45 copies on Rives paper (№ 8-52); printed by Maurice Daratiere; this copy is № 50. “Ladies only” – a pictorial album, unbound, printed by Maurice Darantiere, with 15 black and white lithographs by Edouard Duchâtel (French, 19th-20th century) after drawings by Marcel Vertès on cream wove paper 38 x 28 cm; French flapped wrappers, with the lithographed manuscript title “Dames seules” in a grey clamshell box 40 x 30 cm; printed by Maurice Darantiere,  title with vignette pasted to box cover, one image on a double sheet; all illustrations with tissue guards. Bookplate “From the Library of | Vance Gerry | The Weather Bird Press | pasted inside the box cover (see Vance Gerry and The Weather Bird Press). Provenance: Vance Bryden Gerry (American, 1929 – 2005) Contributors: Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist. Francis Carco [François Carcopino-Tusoli] (French, 1886 – 1958) – author. Edouard Duchâtel (French, 19th-20th century) – artist, lithographer. Maurice Darantiere (French, 1882 – 1962) – printer. Louis Godefroy (French, 1885 – 1934) – publisher. Other names: Marcel Vertès, Marcel Vertes, Marcell Vértes
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  • Вехи. Сборник статей о русской интеллигенции. 1909

    Вехи. Сборник статей о русской интеллигенции. Москва, 1909. Типография В. М. Саблина.

    Предисловие. М. О. Гершензон.  Н. А. Бердяев. Философская истина и интеллигентская правда. С. Н. Булгаков. Героизм и подвижничество. М. О. Гершензон. Творческое самосознание. Б. А. Кистяковский. В защиту права. П. Б. Струве. Интеллигенция и революция. С. Л. Франк. Этика нигилизма. А. С. Изгоев. Об интеллигентной молодежи.
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  • Philipp Franz von Siebold. Manners and Customs of the Japanese, in the Nineteenth Century. 1841.

    Philipp Franz von Siebold. Manners and Customs of the Japanese, in the Nineteenth Century. 1841.

    Manners and Customs of the Japanese, in the Nineteenth Century. From the Accounts of Recent Dutch Residents in Japan, and from the German Work of Dr. Ph. Fr. von Siebold.

    Author: Siebold, Philipp Franz von et al.

    Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York, 1841.

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  • François Fénelon. Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d’Ulysse. – Maastricht: J. E. Dufour & Ph. Roux, 1782.

    Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse, Par feu Messire François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Précepteur de Messeigneurs les Enfants de France, & depuis Archevêque - Duc de Chabray, Prince du Saint-Empire Romain, &c. / Nouvelle édition enrichie de figures en taille-douce. – À Maestricht, Chez J. E. Dufour & Ph. Roux, Imprimeurs-Libraires associés. M. DCC. LXXXII. Pagination: ffl, [i, ii - ht, explication] [2 - blank, frontis. portrait] [iii, iv - t.p., blank] [v - discours] vi-xxviii, [1] 2-484, bfl; 1 folding map and 24 plates engraved by Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Tardieu. Size: 8vo, 21 x 13 cm. Binding: full contemporary mottled calf, marbled end-papers, all margins red, raised bands, floral gilt elements in compartments, red title label, head- and tail-band absent. Point of issue: the vignette in Liv. 1 is upsidedown. Liv. 1 & 8 plates signed: Gravé par Tardieu résident à Malines. Jean Baptiste Pierre Tardieu (French, 1746 – 1816) - engraver and cartographer from a large family of artists and engravers. For English translation of this book see № LIB-2683-2021 in this collection.  
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  • Вс. Соловьев. Волхвы, Граф Калиостро (Роман). - Издание М. Дидковского. Рига, 1928.

    Вс. Соловьев. Волхвы (Граф Калиостро) / Роман. — Рига: Издание М. Дидковского, [1928].

    Title: ВСЕВОЛОДЪ СОЛОВЬЕВЪ | ВОЛХВЫ | (Граф Калиостро) | РОМАНЪ |[…]| ИЗДАНIЕ М. ДИДКОВСКАГО | Рига, Ткацкая 9 || Pagination: [1-2] 3-187 [188 blank], [4] advert., in original pictorial wrappers by Г. Дайберъ [Heinrich Deiber]. Size: 21 x 15 cm Allegedly, vol. 1st of 2 vol. edition.
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  • А.Ф.Кони. О праве необходимой обороны. Вступ. ст. А. Цориевой. — М.:Остожье, 1996. — 112 стр. Тираж 5000 экз.

    А. Ф. Кони. О праве необходимой обороны / Вступ. ст. А. Цориевой. — М.: Остожье, 1996.

    Hardcover volume, 20.8 x 13.8 cm, bound in black buckram with gilt lettering to front cover and spine; pp.: [2] 3-112. Portrait of young Anatoly Koni to fep verso. Print run: 5,000 copies. About the right of the defence of necessity – a reprint of the first work of distinguished Russian jurist Anatoly Koni, originally published in «Приложение к Университетским известиям» in 1865 and Кони А. О правѣ необходимой обороны. Рассужденiе. - М.: В Университетской Типографiи, 1866.
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  • Thomas F. Dibdin. Bibliomania or book madness: a bibliographical romance. – London, 1811.

    Thomas F. Dibdin. Bibliomania or book madness: a bibliographical romance. – London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811.

    Title: BIBLIOMANIA; | OR | Book Madness: | A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ROMANCE, | IN SIX PARTS. | Illustrated with Cuts. | BY THE REV. | THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN. | {vignette} | INTERIOR OF THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY | I pity all our great ones and rich men that know not this happiness. HEINSIUS. | LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, | By J. McCreery, Blackhorse-court, Fleet-street; | AND SOLD BY MESSRS. LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, | AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. | 1811.|| Pagination: ffl, [i, ii] - ht, frontis., [iii, iv] - t.p., blank, [v]vi-ix - to the reader, [x] - blank, [2] - contents, [1, 2] - part 1 fl. t.p., blank, [3] - woodcut frame and capital I, 4-782 (imprint to p. 782) [2] - errata, blank, bfl; 1 plate op. p. 158. Collation: [A]6 B-Z8 2A-2Z8, 3A-3B8, 3C-3F4. Binding: 8vo, 23 x 14 cm, modern full dark brown calf by Period Binders (Bath, England), gilt fillet border to boards, raised bands with gilt ornaments and lettering to spine, pp. 685-688 an open tear in upper 1/8 of lateral margin, all margins marbled. Substantially revised 1st edition ("so much altered and enlarged, as to assume the character of a new work"). Author: Thomas Frognall Dibdin (British, 1776 – 1847).
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  • Curiosa: An exhibition of illustrated erotic books 1987 — London: Hobart & Maclean, 1987.

    Title: CURIOSA | An | Exhibition | of | Illustrated | Erotic | Books | HOBART & MACLEAN || Pagination: 16 unpaginated pages with bibliography of 49 editions with prices and 51 images. Stapled softcover, original green wrappers with lettering to front and illustration to back. Size: 21 x 15 cm.
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  • Зигфрид Кракауэр. Жак Оффенбах и Париж его времени / Перевод С. Шлапоберской; (Волшебная флейта. Из кладовой истории). — М.: Аграф, 2000.

    Hardcover, 21.5 x 13.5 cm, pictorial boards, [1-4] 5-412 [2] [2]. Print run 3,000. Translation from German of the original {Siegfried Krakauer. Jacques Offenbach und das Paris seiner Zeit. — Amsterdam: Allert de Lange, 1937} by Serafima Shlapoberskaya – Шлапоберская, Серафима Евгеньевна (Russian, 1921 – 2007).
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  • Сводный каталог русской нелегальной и запрещенной печати XIX века. Книги и периодические издания : Часть 3. Приложения. Вспомогательные указатели. Список источников / 2-е издание. — М.: Гос. библиотека СССР им. В. И. Ленина, 1982.

    Front wrapper (in black and red in a red frame): ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ОРДЕНА ЛЕНИНА БИБЛИОТЕКА СССР | ИМЕНИ В. И. ЛЕНИНА — {СК} (white stylized letters on red background) | СВОДНЫЙ | КАТАЛОГ | РУССКОЙ | НЕЛЕГАЛЬНОЙ | И ЗАПРЕЩЕННОЙ | ПЕЧАТИ XIX ВЕКА | КНИГИ И ПЕРИОДИЧЕСКИЕ ИЗДАНИЯ | МОСКВА 1982 || Title page: ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ОРДЕНА ЛЕНИНА БИБЛИОТЕКА СССР| СВОДНЫЙ КАТАЛОГ | РУССКОЙ НЕЛЕГАЛЬНОЙ | И ЗАПРЕЩЕННОЙ  ПЕЧАТИ | XIX ВЕКА | КНИГИ И ПЕРИОДИЧЕСКИЕ ИЗДАНИЯ | 2-Е ДОПОЛНЕННОЕ И ПЕРЕРАБОТАННОЕ ИЗДАНИЕ | Часть 3. Приложения. | Вспомогательные указатели. Список источников | МОСКВА 1982 || Publisher’s wrappers, 21.5 x 14.5 cm, lettering to front and spine; pagination: [2] – t.p. / imprint, 3-242 [4] – incl. contents, imprint, and errata, [2] – blanks. Print run 1,250 copies. Науч. ред.: Итенберг, Борис Самуилович (Russian, 1921 – 2016). «Сводный каталог русской нелегальной и запрещенной печати XIX века. Книги и периодические издания» состоит из трех частей: Часть 1. Книги А–М. (№ 1–1158) [LIB-2648.2021] Часть 2. Книги Н–Я. Периодические издания (№ 1159–2576) [LIB-2660.2021] Часть 3-я. Приложения. Вспомогательные указатели. Список источников.
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  • Анна Комнина. Алексиада / Пер., комм. Я. Н. Любарского. (Византийская библиотека. Источники). — СПб.: Алетейя, 2010.

    Title: АННА КОМНИНА | АЛЕКСИАДА | Перевод, комментарий и статьи | Я. Н. Любарского | Издание третье, исправленное и дополненное | Санкт-Петербург | АЛЕТЕЙЯ | 2010 || Series: Византийская библиотека. Источники. Pagination: [i-v] vi-lxvi [1] 2-682 [4]. Binding: 21.5 x 15 cm; hardcover, crimson buckram, gilt lettering, border and serial device on black. Edition: 3rd edition. Print run: 1,000 copies. ISBN: 978-5-91419-301-7. Anna Komnene [Άννα Κομνηνή; Anna Comnena] (Byzantine, 1083 – 1150s). Любарский, Яков Николаевич (Russian, 1929 – 2003)
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  • [Pierre Jurieu]. The accomplishment of the prophecies, or the approaching deliverance of the church / Translated from the French. — London: [s.n.], 1687.

    Title page (with tall “s”): THE | ACCOMPLISHMENT | OF THE | PROPHECIES, | OR THE | Approaching Deliverance of | the CHURCH. | A work, wherein it is proved, that the Papism | is the Antichristian Empire; that that Empire is not far | from its ruin ; that the present persecution may end in | three years and a half. After which, the destruction | of Antichrist shall begin, which shall be finished in the | beginning of the next Age ; and lastly, the Kingdom | of Jesus Christ shall come on the Earth. | — | The second Edition Corrected and Enlarged by almost | a third part, and the explication of all the Visions of the Re- | velation, and of many Chapters concerning mystical Theology. | — | 2 vols. In 1, | — | Written in French by Mr. PETER JURIEU , the present | Minister of the French Church at Rotterdam. And from | this second Edition faithfully Englished. | — | LONDON , Printed in the Year 1687. || Pagination: ffl, [48] 1-271 [272 blank] + 3-99, 200-396, bfl. Note: part 2 starts with page 3, page 99 recto is paginated 200 on verso, instead of 100; total number of pages in part 2, thus, is 294. Collation is uninterrupted. Collation: *-**8 A-S8 + Aa7 Bb-Ss8 Tt4. Note: no leaf Aa1, leaf Tt4 unsigned; 307 leaves total. Binding: Full brown calf, boards ruled blind with double-fillet, flat spine stamped blind with a diaper, double-fillet ruled compartments, black label with gilt lettering. Printed on laid paper, with marginal notes. Yellow sticker to front pastedown G. Batenham, Bookseller, Northgate, Chester. Author: Pierre Jurieu (French, 1637 – 1713). Translator unknown. Publisher unknown.

    English translation of the book:Pierre Jurieu. L'accomplissement des Propheties ou la delivrance prochaine de l'Eglise. —Rotterdam: Acher, 1686.

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  • O. Liepiņš. Sigismunds Vidbergs / Monografija. — Rigā: K. Rasiņa apgāds, 1942.

    Publisher’s original wrappers, with VIDBERGS to front (bordered) and to spine, size 25 x 18 cm. Title page: O. LIEPIŅŠ | SIGISMUNDS | VIDBERGS | MONOGRAFIJA | K. RASIŅA APGĀDS | RIGĀ 1942 || Imprint: ATTĒLI MĀKSLINIEKA IZRAUDZĪTI UN SAKĀRTOTI (pictures selected and arranged by the artist) Pagination: [1-6] (incl. 1st blank leaf), 7-149 [150] [2] blank; 44 pages of text with in-text illustrations, pp. 47-149 – plates on odd pages, titles on even pages, 51 full-page illustrations. Circulation: 4,000 copies. Contributors: Liepiņš, Olģerts (Latvian, 1906 – 1983) – author. Sigismunds Vidbergs (Latvian-American, 1890 – 1970) – artist. Kārlis Rasiņš (Latvian, 1886 – 1974) – publisher.
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  • G. Legman. The art of Mahlon Blaine. — East Lansing: Peregrine Books, 1982.

    Title page: THE ART OF | MAHLON BLAINE | A Reminiscence | by G. Legman | with a Mahlon Blaine bibliography | compiled by Roland Trenary | {Blaine’s fac-simile} | Peregrine Books | 1982 || Pagination: [1-4] 5-26 + 84 pp. of illustrations, unpaginated. Collation: 13 leaves of text, 40 leaves of b/w plates, and 2 leaves of colour plates, 55 leaves total. Binding: 29 x 22.5 cm; publisher’s black cloth, silver lettering to spine, pictorial endpapers, pictorial dust jacket. Edition: Limited edition of 100 copies (this is №100), signed by Gelman, Trenary, and Arrington. Contributors: Blaine, Mahlon (American, 1894 – 1969) – illustrator. Legman, Gershon (American, 1917 – 1999) – author. Arrington, Robert L. (American, 1984 – 2015) – author, introduction. Trenary, Roland (American) – author, compiler. Peregrine Books (East Lansing, MI) – publisher.
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  • Thomas J. Wise. A bibliography of the writings of Joseph Conrad (1895-1920). — London: R. Clay & Sons, 1920.

    Title page: A | BIBLIOGRAPHY | OF | THE WRITINGS OF | JOSEPH CONRAD (1895–1920) | BY THOMAS J. WISE | ❦ | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY | By Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd. | 1920 || Pagination: [i-viii] ix-xiii [xiv-xvi], [1, 2] 3-105 [106-112], frontispiece with tissue guard in collation; 128 pages total. Collation: 8vo; [A]-H8, 64 leaves total. Binding: 22.5 x 18 cm; terracotta paper boards, black lettering to front and spine; uncut. The device on the recto of the last leaf inscribed: The Ashley library. Privately printed. 1920. Insert: ALS from Thomas J. Wise dated 22/3/21 on watermarked paper (King of Kent | Extra Fine) with letterhead “Kirkstead”, 25 Heath Drive, Hampstead, N.W.3. The letter is a response to a request for two copies of Volume II of Wise’s Swinburne bibliography, which Wise promises to supply the next day to Stevens & Brown (founded in 1864, Literary and Fine Arts Agents). Limitation: 150 copies, private printing. Contributors: Joseph Conrad [Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski] (British-Polish, 1857 – 1924) Wise, Thomas James (British, 1859 – 1937) – compiler, bibliographer. R. Clay & Sons Ltd. (London); Clay, Richard (British, 1789 – 1877) – publisher. The Ashley Library (London) – printer.
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  • Timothy Wilson. Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Highlights of the Collection). — NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016.

    Timothy Wilson. Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Highlights of the Collection). — NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016.

    Title page: HIGHLIGHTS of the COLLECTION | Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics | IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | Timothy Wilson | with an essay by Luke Syson | {publisher’s device}| The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | DISTRIBUTED BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS | NEW HAVEN AND LONDON || Pagination: [i-v] vi-xi [xii] [1, 2] 3-380. New/mint. Binding: 31 x 22.5 cm, blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, pictorial DJ.
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  • Claude Joseph Dorat. Fables nouvelles. —The Hague, Paris: Delalain, 1773-[75].

      Title-page: FABLES | NOUVELLES. | {vignette by Ponce after Marillier} | A LA HAYE, | Et se trouve a Paris, | Chez Delalain, rue de la Comédie Françoise. | — | M. DCC. LXXIII. || Collation: 2 volumes (4 livres) in one, 1st blank, engraved t.p. “FABLES | Par | Mr. Dorat.” signed C. P. Marillier, inv. – E. D. Ghendt Sculp. 1772; a-c4, A-Z4 2A-2Q4, last blank, plus engraved frontispiece before A1 by Nicolas Delaunay and engraved d.t.p. before Z1: “Fables | de M. Dorat | II. Volume” also by Ghendt after Marillier., 99 vignettes and 99 tailpieces, all after Marillier. Lacking Delaunay frontispiece for the second volume (similar to the 1st). Edition: This is a vol. 1 176 pp. copy (Ray, 43). 2nd edition after Fables ou allégories philosophiques, 1772, p. 162 corrected: “Je sais , même au sein des poisons / Puiser le suc qui m'est utile”. Page xxii numbered correctly; on top of p. iii, printed a chain instead of a triple fillet in later issues (Ray, 43A). Pagination: [i, ii] iii-xxii, [2 d.t.p. «Livre premier»] [1] 2-309 [3 table], 3 plates. Binding: Crimson crashed morocco (198 x 133 mm) ruled in gilt, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments with gilt-lettered cream calf label, gilt dentelle inside, marbled endpapers, Pauli Menso bookplate pasted to front pastedown, printed on laid paper, AEG. Catalogue raisonné: Cohen-DeRicci: 313-315; Ray (French): № 43, pp. 81-83. Provenance: Pauli Menso. We only present a sample of illustrations, as their total number is enormous. Contributors: Author: Claude Joseph Dorat (French, 1734–1780) Publisher: Delalain (firm) (18th century) Artist: Clément Pierre Marillier (French, 1740–1808) Engravers: Jean Charles Baquoy (French, 1721–1777) Nicolas Delaunay (French, 1739–1792) Pierre Duflos (French, born in 1751) Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de Ghendt (Flemish, worked in France, 1738–1815) Yves-Marie Le Gouaz (French, 1742–1816) Pierre Adrien Le Beau (French, 1748–after 1800) Jean-Jacques André Le Veau (French, 1729–1786) Charles Louis Lingée (French, 1748–1819) Joseph de Longueil (French, 1730–1792) Louis Legrand (French, 1723–1807) Jacques Le Roy (French, born in 1739) Louis Joseph Masquelier (French, 1741–1811) François Denis Née (French, 1735–1818) Nicholas Ponce (French, 1746–1831) Marguerite (Hémery) Ponce (French, born in 1745) Jean Baptiste Simonet (French, 1742–1813)
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  • Colette Verger Michael. Choderlos de Laclos, the man, his works, and his critics: an annotated bibliography. — New York, London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1982.

    One volume 22.3 x 14.4 cm, green buckram, gilt lettering to spine, Brooklyn public library copy with stamps and sticker; [i-iv] v-xi [xii blank], [1-2] 3-144 [4 blank], total 160 pages, 80 leaves; 620 entries + index. Title-page (vertical double-rule, left indent): CHODERLOS de LACLOS | The Man, His Works, and His Critics | An Annotated Bibliography | Colette Verger Michael | {publisher’s device} | GARLAND PUBLISHING INC. • NEW YORK & LONDON | 1982 || Contributors: Michael, Colette Verger (American, b. 1937) Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre Ambroise François (French, 1741 – 1803) – author. Ref.: WorldCat.
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  • Gian Carlo Calza, Stefania Piotti. Poem of the pillow and other stories by Utamaro, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi and other artists of the floating world. — London; New York: Phaidon Press, 2010.

    A pictorial album with almost no information (coffee-table book), hardcover, 28 x 21 x 4.8 cm, in pictorial paper boards, lettered all over, in transparent plastic dust jacket; pp.: [1-5] 6-463 [464 colophon], total 232 leaves, illustrated in colour throughout. Title-page: Poem of the Pillow and other stories | by Utamaro, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi | and other artists of the Floating World | Gian Carlo Calza | In collaboration with Stefania Piotti | {publisher’s device “Φ” in the bottom} || Contributors: Gian Carlo Calza (Italian, b. 1940); Stefania Piotti (Italian).
    "Poem of the Pillow and Other Stories examines the artistic developments of Japanese erotic art from the ukiyo-e period, dating from the mid-seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. Known by the delicate euphemism of Shunga or 'spring images', these pictures were hugely popular and admired, and are today highly collectable works of art. This book illustrates major Shunga works from important ukiyo-e masters such as Utamaro, Hokusai, Harunobu, Kunisada, Kuniyoshi and many others. World-renowned scholar Gian Carlo Calza defines these fascinating erotic works in their social, historical and artistic context, providing a broad overview of a subject that is extremely nuanced and intriguing. Beautifully illustrated with over 300 images, including woodblock prints, scrolls and paintings, this book is a perfect introduction to ukiyo-e erotic art."
    List of the artists: The Kanbun Master, Hishikawa Moronobu, Sugimura Jihei, Torii Kiyonobu I, Nishikawa Sukenobu, Miyagawa Chōshun, Okumura Masanobu, Tsukioka Settei, Suzuki Harunobu, Isoda Koryūsai, Katsukawa Shunshō, Katsukawa Shunchō, Kitao Masanobu, Torii Kiyonaga, Kitagawa Utamaro, Chōbunsai Eishi, Chōkyōsai Eiri, Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Toyokuni, Utagawa Kunisada, Kikugawa Eizan, Keisai Eisen, Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
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  • [Pierre Louÿs]. Douze douzains de dialogues ou petites scènes amoureuses / [Illustrée par André Collot]. — [Paris: Robert Télin, 1927].

    Description: An unbound softcover volume 23.5 x 18 cm collated in 4to, text in fac-simile manuscript printed on Japon Nacre wove paper with untrimmed outer and bottom margins, with 12 laid-in hand-coloured etchings, including the title-page, after André Collot; in red quarter morocco over marbled boards folder with gilt lettering to spine “P. L. | ~ | PETITES | SCÈNES | AMOUREUSES”, in a red faux ostrich leather clamshell box 26.7 x 21 cm. A copy without the limitation page. Title-page: {vignette in colour} | Douze douzains de Dialogues | ou | Petites scènes amoureuses | * || (text in fac-simile ms). 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: unpaginated, unbound [1]2 [16]4; total 66 leaves plus 12 plates, incl. t.p. In reality, when compared with another copy of the same book [LIB-3144.2023], the first gathering should have consisted of four leaves: 11 blanks, 12 engraved t.p. / blank, 13 blank / limitation, 14 faux t.p. Premier Douzain Dialogues des Filles nues. 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. However, per Dutel (1) the title-page lettering is all in capital letters, (2) the illustration printed on p. 545 differs from the one in my copy, (3) the number of leaves is 68, while in my copy it is 66. 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 ». Pia describes the folder and the box (chemise et étui) with lettering to spine almost as in my case: “P. L. | – | Petites | scènes | amoureuses” (lower case). Per Pia, illustrations are after André Collot (French, 1897 – 1976) or Louis Berthomme Saint-André (French, 1905 – 1977). Edition limited to 100 copies numbered I – C. There is no limitation statement in my copy, which may explain why my copy has fewer leaves than per Dutel and Pia. 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.
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  • Ogden Nash. You can’t get there from here / Drawings by Maurice Sendak. — Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Co., [1957].

    Description: In-8vo volume, 19.4 x 14 cm, bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine, in a pictorial dust jacket with a photo portrait of the author by Kay Bell to the rear, DJ and in-text illustrations by Maurice Sendak; pp. [i-x] xi-xvii [xviii] [2] 3-190, total 208 pages. Dust Jacket front: You Can't | Get There | From Here | {vignette} | OGDEN NASH || Title-page: OGDEN NASH | You Can't Get There | From Here | {vignettes} | DRAWINGS BY MAURICE SENDAK | Boston • LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY • Toronto || Edition: 1957, 8th printing; (1st edition in 1953) Contributors: Ogden Nash (American, 1902 – 1971) – author. Maurice Sendak (Jewish-American, 1928 – 2012) – artist. Kay Bell Reynal (American, 1905 – 1977) – photographer.
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  • Jean Berleux [i.e. Maurice Quentin-Bauchart]. La caricature politique en France pendant la guerre, le siège de Paris et la Commune (1870-1871). — Paris: Labitte, Ém. Paul et Cie, 1890.

    Hardcover, 25.2 x 17 cm, quarter burgundy shagreen with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine over turkish marbled boards and endpapers, publisher’s wrappers preserved. Title-page: JEAN BERLEUX | LA | CARICATURE POLITIQUE | EN FRANCE | PENDANT LA GUERRE, LE SIÈGE DE PARIS | ET LA COMMUNE | (1870–1871) | {vignette} | PARIS | LABITTE, ÉM. PAUL ET Cie | LIBRAIRES DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE | 4, RUE DE LILLE, 4 | – | 1890 || Collation: 4to; π8 1-274 282, plates within collation; total 118 leaves. Pagination: [i-ix] x-xvi, [1] 2-217 (printed 317) [3], total 236 pages, profusely illustrated, incl. in-text and full-page b/w ils, all within pagination. Condition: Good, scattering foxing, pencil marks. Contributors: Maurice Quentin-Bauchart [pseud. Jean Berleux] (French, 1857 – 1910) – author. Georges Chamerot (French, 1845 – 1922) – printer, president of the 'Chambre syndicale des imprimeurs typographes', married to Claudie Viardot (French, 1852 – 1914) in 1874 – printer. Labitte, Ém. Paul et Cie (Paris) – publisher, Adolphe Labitte (French, 1832 – 1882); Émile Paul (French, 1847 – ?). Another copy in poor condition: LIB-1653.2016, and another, a modern reprint: LIB-0814.2015.
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  • Jūzō Suzuki, Isaburō Oka. The decadents / Translated by John Bester (Masterworks of ukiyo-e, №8). — Tokyo; Palo-Alto, CA: Kodansha International, ©1969.

    Description: Hardcover 26.5 x 19 cm, grey cloth, red lettering in kanji over black stripe to front, lettering to spine, tan endpapers, pictorial slipcase 27 x 19.5 cm; pp.: [1-6] 7-95 [96], pasted frontispiece and 79 colour illustrations with captions, within a collation. Series Masterworks of ukiyo-e, №8. ISBN: 9780870110986; 0870110985. Ref.: Worldcat Title-page (in frame): MASTERWORKS OF UKIYO-E | "THE DECADENTS” | by Jūzō Suzuki and Isaburō Oka | translation by John Bester | {publisher’s device} | KODANSHA INTERNATIONAL LTD. | Tokyo, Japan & Palo-Alto, Calif., U.S.A. || (Vertical text in kanji to the right, between rules). Artists: Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese [歌川 国貞], 1786 – 1865); Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese [歌川 国芳], 1798 – 1861); Keisai Eisen [Japanese [渓斎 英泉], 1790 – 1848). Contributors: Jūzō Suzuki [鈴木重三] (Japanese, 1919 – 2010) – author. Isaburō Oka [岡畏三郎] (Japanese, 1914 –2010) – author. John Bester (British, 1927 – 2010) – translator Kunisada's fan print in this collection (exactly the same copy) [SVJP-0380.2022]:
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  • Alexis Piron. Œuvres badines précédées d’une notice sur sa vie. Nouvelle édition, ornée de 20 figures en taille-douce [par Paul Sellier]. — Neuchatel: Imprimé par les presses de la société [i.e. Turin: Jules Gay], 1872.

    Single volume, 17.1 x 11.2 cm, quarter black sheepskin over faux chagrin, gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, bottom and outer margin untrimmed, pp.: [i-v] vi- xxxvi, [1] 2-218 [2], collated 4to: π2, a-d4, 1-274 282, total 256 pages or 128 leaves, plus 20 engraved plates by Paul Sellier, including frontispiece portrait of Alexis Piron after bust by Caffieri. Vol. 8 of Bibliothèque Libre, Œuvres badines de Piron, printed on February 15, 1872. Text printed on dense wove paper watermarked P or M, plates printed on India wove paper. A reprint of an edition published in 1796 plus illustrations. Title-page: ŒUVRES | BADINES | D’ALEXIS PIRON | PRÉCÉDÉES | D’UNE NOTICE SUR SA VIE | Nouvelle édition, ornée de 20 figures en taille-douce | {vignette} | IMPRIMÉ PAR LES PRESSES DE LA SOCIÉTÉ | A NEUCHATEL | – | 1872 || Limitation: 100 numbered copies, of which this is № 75. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel I: A-788; Pia: 953-6; Kearney 377 (Patrick J. Kearney. A Catalogue of the publications of Jules Gay, Jean-Jules Gay & Gay et Doucé, revised & expanded. — Santa Rosa, CA Scissors & Paste Bibliographies, 2019) Catalogue Poulet-Malassis & ses amis description: № 81. Alexis PIRON. Œuvres badines précédées d’une notice sur sa vie. Nouvelle édition ornée de 20 figures en taille-douce. [ Jules Gay] Imprimé par les presses de la société, à Neufchatel, 1872. In-8, xxxvi, 218 pages et un feuillet d’achevé d’imprimer de table, demi-basane noire, dos à faux nerfs, tête et tranches naturelles. Illustré d’un portrait et de 20 figures par Paul Sellier. Tirage limité à 100 ex. numérotés. De la « Bibliothèque libre ou collection choisie d’ouvrages du genre libre, imprimés ou réimprimés par les soins de la Société des Bibliophiles Cosmopolites et pour les membres de cette société, à cent exemplaires numérotés ». Bibliographie : Pia 1030, Enfer 1274, Lem 3-454, Gay 5-339, PC 353, G* 38, Pey 203, Dutel A-788." Contributors: Alexis Piron (French, 1689 – 1773) – author. Paul Sellier (French, 1842 – 19..?) – artist. Jules Léopold Gay (French, 1807 – 1887) – publisher.
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  • Muneshige Narazaki. Hokusai: Sketches and paintings [漫画肉筆画] (Manga nikuhitsuga) / English adaptation by John Bester (Masterworks of ukiyo-e, №7). — Tokyo; Palo-Alto, CA: Kodansha International, ©1969.

    Hardcover volume from the series Masterworks of ukiyo-e, 26.1 x 19 cm, bound in canvas, red characters on black strip to front, red and black lettering to spine, tan embossed endpapers, in a pictorial slipcase with series design (black lettering on silver spine); pp: [1-6]: h.t./frontis. (colour plate pasted in), t.p./imprint, contents/acknowledgements), 7-16 text, 17-96 (79 plates w/captions). Title-page (in frame): MASTERWORKS OF UKIYO-E | HOKUSAI | SKETCHES AND PAINTINGS | by Muneshige Narazaki | English adaptation by John Bester | {publisher’s device} | KODANSHA INTERNATIONAL LTD. | Tokyo, Japan & Palo-Alto, Calif., U.S.A | {vertical, between rules 漫画肉筆画} || Series: Masterworks of ukiyo-e, № 7. Muneshige Narazaki [楢崎 宗重] (Japanese, 1904 – 2001) – author. Katsushika Hokusai [葛飾 北斎] (Japanese, 1760 – 1849) – artist. John Bester (British, 1927 – 2010) – adaptation.
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  • Yellow seto; Black seto (Japanese ceramics 3) [黄瀬戸 瀬戸黒 日本の陶磁 (3) 中央公論社]. — Tokyo: Chūōkōron-sha, 1974.

    Hardcover volume, 35.3 x 27 cm, bound in grey cloth, blind stamped characters to front, brown characters to spine, in a glassine dust jacket, in a double slipcase, the outer case pictorial paper over cardboard, 36 x 28 cm, pp.: [4] [1] 2-88 (plates with photographs of 129 items), [2] 91-108 [3]. Seto ware [瀬戸焼] (Seto-yaki) – ceramics produced in and around the city of Seto in Aichi Prefecture. Yellow seto [黄瀬戸] (Kiseto) – a yellow glaze seto ware. Black seto [瀬戸黒] (Setoguro) –  a black glaze seto ware. 日本の陶磁 – Japanese ceramics, series title. Contributors: Yasunari Kawabata [川端 康成] (Japanese, 1924 – 1972) – author. Tetsuzo Tanikawa [谷川 徹三] (Japanese, 1895 – 1989) – author. Seizo Hayashiya [林屋晴三] (Japanese, 1928 – 2017) – editor. Chūōkōron-sha [中央公論社] – publisher.
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  • Справочник Союз Советских писателей СССР на 1954-1955 годы. — М.: Советский писатель, 1954.

    Oblong hardcover volume, 13.3 x 21 cm, bound in brown buckram with embossed gilt lettering to front, pp.: [1-4] 5-482 [2] errata leaf laid in. Title-page: СОЮЗ СОВЕТСКИХ ПИСАТЕЛЕЙ СССР | СПРАВОЧНИК | на 1954 — 1955 годы | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «Советский писатель» | МОСКВА 1954 || On page 71, second from bottom: Варшавский Сергей Петрович, г. Ленинград, Ропшинская ул., д. 1/32, кв. 18, тел. В 3-56-00. Print run: 3,000 copies.
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  • Д. Гранин. Ярослав Домбровский. — М.: Молодая гвардия, 1951.

    Hardcover, 20.4 x 14 cm, quarter burgundy cloth over paper boards  with red and beige lettering and vignette to front and beige lettering to spine; pp.: [1-4] 5-182 [2], collation 8vo: 1-118 124, total 92 leaves. Design of binding and t.p. by В. Телепнев. Library pocket, stamps, and inscriptions. Title-page (red and black): Д. ГРАНИН | ЯРОСЛАВ | ДОМБРОВСКИЙ | ~ | ✸ | Издательство ЦК ВЛКСМ | “Молодая гвардия” | 1951 || Print run: 15,000 copies. Contributors: Даниил Александрович Гранин (Russian, 1919 – 2017) – author. Владимир Иванович Телепнев (Russian, 1906 – 1985) – artist. Jaroslaw Dombrowski [Jarosław Dąbrowski] (Polish-French, 1836 – 1871) – character.
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  • Pierre Mac-Orlan. Le quai des brumes / Illustrations de Dignimont. — Paris: Arc-en-ciel, 1948.

    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.
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