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A two-volume set. Volume 1: GERMAN POPULAR STORIES | translated from the | Kinder und Haus Märchen, | COLLECTED BY | M. M. GRIMM, | from oral tradition. | [Vignette] | JAMES ROBINS & Co. LONDON. |AND | JOSEPH ROBINS JUNR & Co. DUBLIN. | MDCCCXXV.|| 12mo, pp. xii, 240; engraved title vignette and 11 plates by George Cruikshank, with a fine proof (?) of the plate illustrating ‘The Jew in the bush’ on India paper laid onto verso of leaf bound between half-title and title. Table of contents: Hans in luck -- The travelling musicians -- The golden bird -- The fisherman and his wife -- The tom-tit and the bear -- The twelve dancing princesses -- Rose-bud -- Tom thumb -- The grateful beasts -- Jorinda and Jorindel -- The waggish musician -- The queen bee -- The dog and the sparrow -- Frederick and Catherine -- The three children of fortune -- King grisly-beard -- The adventures of chanticleer and partlet -- Snow-drop -- The elves and the shoemaker -- The turnip -- Old sultan -- The lady and the lion -- The jew in the bush -- The king of the golden mountain -- The golden goose -- Mrs. fox -- Hansel and Grettel -- The giant with the three golden hairs -- The frog prince -- The fox and the horse -- Rumpel-stilts-kin.; Volume 2: GERMAN POPULAR STORIES | translated from the | Kinder und Haus Märchen, | COLLECTED BY | M. M. GRIMM, | from oral tradition. | [Vignette] | JAMES ROBINS & Co. LONDON. |AND | JOSEPH ROBINS JUNR & Co. DUBLIN. | MDCCCXXVI.|| 12mo, iv, 256, [2]; engraved title vignette and 9 plates by George Cruikshank. Table of contents: The goose-girl -- Faithful John -- The blue light -- Ashputtel -- The young giant and the tailor -- The crows and the soldier -- Pee-wit -- Hans and his wife Grettel -- Cherry, or the frog-bride -- Mother Holle -- The water of life -- Peter the goatherd -- The four clever brothers -- The elfin-grove -- The salad -- The nose -- The five servants -- Cat-skin -- The robber-bridegroom -- The three sluggards -- The seven ravens -- Roland and may-bird -- The mouse, the bird, and the sausage -- The juniper tree. Binding: bound without advertisements in 19th-century brown morocco by Leighton, spines decorated and lettered in gilt, gilt edges, marbled endpapers; armorial bookplates of Thomas Gaisford and Charles Tennant to endpapers. Note: The third edition of vol. 1 (first C. Baldwyn 1823) and the first edition of vol. 2 of the first English translation of Grimm’s Fairy Tales – including Tom Thumb, the Elves and the Shoemaker, Hansel and Grettel, the Frog Prince, and Rumpelstiltskin – with George Cruikshank’s celebrated illustrations. Of Cruikshank’s work, Ruskin remarked, ‘The etchings are the finest things, next to Rembrandt’s, that, as far as I know, has been done since etching was invented. You cannot look at them too much, nor copy them too often’ (The Elements of Drawing, 1857). Provenance: (1) Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855), classical scholar, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University, Dean of Christ Church, curator of the Bodleian Library and delegate of the Clarendon Press. (2) Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet (1823-1906), a Scottish industrialist who amassed a notable library and collection of pictures at his Peeblesshire estate, ‘The Glen’. Catalogue raisonné: Albert M. Cohn 369. -
Hardcover, 22 x 15 cm; publisher's quarter burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine, pictorial DJ. Stated 1st edition. Translation of Bushōkō Hiwa (The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi) and Yoshino Kuzu (Arrowroot). ISBN: 9780394524542 -
Christie's Auction Catalog; Sale WALTER-15785; New York, September 26-27, 2017; Publisher's pictorial wrappers, front cover: THE COLLECTION OF | PAUL F. WALTER | NEW YORK 26–27 SEPTEMBER 2917 | {profile chest portrait of Paul F. Walter} | CHRISTIE'S || 26.8 x 21.2 x 3 cm; 662 lots, illustrations in colour and b/w, pictorial dust jacket; pp: [2] 3-462.Paul F. Walter (American, 1935 – 2017) – "Collector. Following studies in history and history of art Oberlin College, Ohio, and Columbia University, he began to collect in the1960s, starting with prints by Whistler and moving on to the Aesthetic Movement and the Arts & Crafts in Britain, as well as the arts of the Indian subcontinent and modern American painting. He was Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art from 1992-2006, and a benefactor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, the Morgan Library and Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art."
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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. -
Hardcover volume, 22.2 x 14.8 cm, bound in grey buckram, gilt lettering in an ornamental frame to front and spine, blind-stamped lettering to back; pp.: [1-2] 3-364 [4], collated 8vo:1-238, total 184 leaves, 368 pages. Title-page: ЛЕНИНГАДСКИЙ ОРДЕНА ЛЕНИНА | И ОРДЕНА ТРУДОВОГО КРАСНОГО ЗНАМЕНИ | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ ИМЕНИ А. А. ЖДАНОВА | {in two-compartment frame: В. Я. ПРОПП {within a compartment} | ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЕ КОРНИ ВОЛШЕБНОЙ СКАЗКИ {within a compartment} | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ЛЕНИНГРАДСКОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА | ЛЕНИНГРАД 1986 || Print run: 25,000 copies. Edition: 2nd edition; for the 1st edition, see [LIB-3184.2023] В. Я. Пропп. Исторические корни волшебной сказки. — Л.: ЛГУ, 1946. English title: [LIB-1615.2018] The historical roots of the fairy tale. Contributors: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп [Vladimir Propp] (Russian, 1895 – 1970) -
УКАЗАТЕЛЬ | ИМЕНЪ И ПРЕДМЕТОВЪ | УПОМЯНУТЫХЪ ВЪ | ПОДРОБНОМЪ СЛОВАРЕѢ РУССКИХЪ ГРАВЕРОВЪ Д. А. РОВИНСКАГО. | СОСТАВИЛЪ | ЕВГ. НИК. ТЕВЯШОВЪ. | (Доложено въ заседанiи Историко-филологическаго отделенiя 13 января 1899 г.) | САНКТЪ-ПЕТЕРБУРГЪ, 1899. | ПРОДАЕТСЯ У КОМИССIОНЕРОВЪ ИМПЕРАТОРСКОЙ АКАДЕМИИ НАУКЪ: | И. И. Глазунова, М. Эггерса и Комп., К. Л. Риккера въ Санктъ-Петербургѣ; Н. П. Карбасникова въ Санктъ-Пе- | тербургѣ, Москвѣ и Варшавѣ; | М. В. Клюкина въ Москве; Н. Киммеля въ Ригѣ; Н. Я. Оглоблина въ Санктъ- | Петербургѣ и Кiевѣ; у Фоссъ (Г. Гэссель) въ Лейпцигѣ, а также въ Книжномъ складѣ Императорской | академiи наукъ. | Цена: 1 р. 20 к. = 3 Mark. Pagination: original wrapper bound in, [2] t.p. / colophon, [1, 2] 3-208 (numbered half-pages, 52 leaves). Collation: 4to; 1-134. Binding: Owner's later 3/4 grey cloth over buckram boards. original front wrapper preserved, upper-right corner cut out. -
Title: ПОДРОБНЫЙ СЛОВАРЬ | РУССКИХЪ ГРАВЕРОВЪ | XVI-XIX ВВ. | СОСТАВИЛЪ Д. А. РОВИНСКIЙ. | (ПОСМЕРТНОЕ ИЗДАНIЕ). | СО МНОГИМИ ЦИНКОГРАФIЯМИ ВЪ ТЕКСТѢ. | САНКТПЕТЕРБУРГЪ, 1895. | ПРОДАЕТСЯ У КОМИССIОНЕРОВЪ ИМПЕРАТОРСКОЙ АКАДЕМИИ НАУКЪ: | И. И. Глазунова, М. Эггерса и Комп. и К. Л. Риккера въ С.-Петербургѣ, Н. П. Карбасникова въ | С.-Петербургѣ, Москвѣ и Варшавѣ, | Н. Киммеля въ Ригѣ. Фоссъ (Г. Гэссель) въ Лейпцигѣ. | Цена 4 руб. Pagination: [2] t.p./colophon, [2] dedication/blank, [2] f.t. ИСТОРИЧЕСКIЙ ОБЗОРЪ | ГРАВИРОВАНIЯ / blank; 1-344 (numbered half-pages, 86 leaves); [2] f.t. СЛОВАРЬ ГРАВЕРОВЪ. / blank, 1-806 [808 blank] (numbered half-pages, 202 leaves) Collation: 8vo; π3 1-258 262. Книга состоит из двух разделов с раздельной пагинацией. Первая часть "Исторический обзор гравирования", вторая – собственно "Словарь граверов". В обеих частях пронумерованы половины страниц. -
Small volume 17 x 11.5 cm, bound in tan cloth with brown lettering to front cover and spine, gilt fillets to spine, in wood-engraved pictorial dust jacket; pp.: [1-4] 5-254 [2], total 256 pages; collated in-16mo: [1]-816, total 128 leaves; wood-engraved portrait frontispiece within collation. Print run: 35,000 copies. Title-page (red and black): Райнер Мария Рильке | ЛИРИКА | Перевод с немецкого | Т. Сильман | {publisher’s device} | Издательство «Художественная литература» | Москва • 1956 • Ленинград || Contributors: Rainer Maria Rilke (German, 1875 – 1926) Тамара Исааковна Сильман (Russian-Jewish, 1909 – 1974) Владимир Григорьевич Адмони (Russian-Jewish, 1909 – 1993) -
Hardcover, 20.8 x 13.2 cm; publisher's original green cloth with black and gilt lettering to front and spine; pictorial endpapers. Gift ms inscription from Irina Komarova to Yury and Elvina Varshavsky to front free endpaper's verso: "Прослышав, что теперь для Юры / Нет ничего милей гравюры, / Литературу я отныне / Дарю из принципа Эльвине! / И. / Февраль 86". Pp.: [2] 3-477 [3], collation 16mo: 1-1516 (total 240 leaves) plus portrait frontispiece. Title-page: Джон Фаулз | ПОДРУГА | ФРАНЦУЗСКОГО | ЛЕЙТЕНАНТА | РОМАН | Перевод с английского | М. Беккер и И. Комаровой | под редакцией Н. Рахмановой | {vignette} | {publisher’s device} | ЛЕНИНГРАД | «ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА» | ЛЕНИНГРАДСКОЕ ОТДЕЛЕНИЕ• 1985 || T.p. verso: […] | JOHN FOWLES | THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN | Вступительная статья А. ДОЛИНИНА | Примечания М. БЕККЕР | Оформление художников | Н. ВАСИЛЬЕВА и Э. КАПЕЛЮША | […] || Contributors: Беккер, Мэри Иосифовна (Russian, 1920 – 2010) Комарова, Ирина Бенедиктовна (Russian, b. 1933) Рахманова, Наталия Леонидовна (Russian, b. 1930) -
Hardcover, publisher's white cloth with a black imprint to cover, red and black lettering to spine, pictorial DJ, pp.: [1-4] 5-398 [2]. Послесловие В. Столбова, художник В. Юрлов. Russian translation of Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez. -
Title (black lettering, red elements): ЛЕГЕНДА | О ДОКТОРЕ | ФАУСТЕ | {element} | ИЗДАНИЕ ПОДГОТОВИЛ | В. М. ЖИРМУНСКИЙ | ВТОРОЕ, ИСПРАВЛЕННОЕ ИЗДАНИЕ | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «НАУКА» | МОСКВА 1978 || Pagination:[1-5] 6-421 [3]; +3 leaves of plates. Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-278. Binding: 22 x 17.5 cm, serial green buckram blind-stamped with a scroll adorned with gold lettering to board and spine. Contents:- Исторические и легендарные свидетельства о докторе Фаусте / Пер. С. А. Акулянц.
- Народная книга: История о докторе Иоганне Фаусте, знаменитом чародее и чернокнижнике / Пер. Р. В. Френкель.
- Свидетельства о постановке народной драмы и кукольной комедии / Пер. С. А. Акулянц
- Кукольные комедии / Пер. H. A. Сигал: (1) Доктор Иоганн Фауст; (2) Доктор Фауст, или Великий Негромант; (3) Иоганнес Фауст.
- Кристофер Марло. Трагическая история доктора Фауста / Пер. H. H. Амосовой.
- «Фауст» Лессинга / Пер. В. Е. Гаккель-Аренс.
- Комментарии: В. М. Жирмунский. История легенды о Фаусте.
- Примечания / Сост. В. М. Жирмунский; к «Фаусту» Марло — H. H. Амосова.
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Title: О. Б. ЛЕПЕШИНСКАЯ, | действительный член Академии медицинских наук, | лауреат Сталинской премии. | Происхождение клеток | из живого вещества | [blank] | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ЦК ВЛКСМ | "МОЛОДАЯ ГВАРДИЯ" | 1951 || Pagination: original pictorial wrappers with portrait in frame, [1-2] – t.p. / imprint., 3-37 [38] [2] – blank / colophon. -
A two-volume edition. 1st vol. Title (in black and red): МИШЕЛЬ | МОНТЕНЬ | ОПЫТЫ | КНИГА ПЕРВАЯ | ИЗДАНИЕ ТРЕТЬЕ | ПЕРЕВОД А.С.БОБОВИЧА | СТАТЬЯ Ф.А.КОГАН-БЕРНШТЕЙН | КОММЕНТАРИИ А.С.БОБОВИЧА | И Ф.А.КОГАН-БЕРНШТЕЙН | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО АКАДЕМИИ НАУК СССР | МОСКВА – ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1960 || Opposite title: MICHEL |de | MONTAIGNE | LES ESSAIS | LIVRE PREMIER || Pagination: [1-11] 12-526 [2], errata slip. Collation: 8vo, [1]-338, 5 plates extraneous to collation (incl. frontispiece portrait). 2nd vol. Title (2) (in black and red): МИШЕЛЬ | МОНТЕНЬ | ОПЫТЫ | КНИГА ВТОРАЯ | ИЗДАНИЕ ВТОРОЕ | ИЗДАНИЕ ПОДГОТОВИЛИ | Ф.А.КОГАН-БЕРНШТЕЙН, | А.С.БОБОВИЧ И А.А.СМИРНОВ | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО АКАДЕМИИ НАУК СССР | МОСКВА – ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1960 || Opposite title: MICHEL |de | MONTAIGNE | LES ESSAIS | LIVRE SECOND || Pagination: [1-7] 8-652, errata slip. Collation: 8vo, [1]-428. Binding: Uniformly bound in serial design green cloth with gilt lettering on an embossed scroll to front cover, gilt lettering to spine. 22 x 18 cm. Print run: 10,000 copies each volume. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (French, 1533 – 1592) Ананий [Анатолий] Самуилович Бобович (Russian-Jewish, 1904 – 1988) Александр Александрович Смирнов (Russian, 1883– 1962) Фаина Абрамовна Коган-Бернштейн [b. Аронгауз] (Russian-Jewish, 1899 – 1976) -
![Joseph Burke and Colin Caldwell. Hogarth: The Complete Engravings. – Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York, [1968].](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-2111.2019-a-500x684.jpeg)
Title: Joseph Burke and Colin Caldwell | Hogarth | The Complete Engravings | Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York || Pagination: [1-4] 5-30 (text), unpaginated: 128 leaves of illustrations (267 plates), 16 leaves of descriptions, folding list of plates: total number of leaves 160, incl. one folding. Exterior: 34 x 24.5 cm, hardbound; original brown cloth, silver lettering to spine, pictorial DJ. Harry N. Abrams (British-American, 1905 – 1979). Joseph Terence Burke (British, 1913 – 1992). Colin Caldwell (British, 1913 – 1989). -
![Memoirs, Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, written in French by the Abbé Barruel, And Translated into English by the Hon. Robert Clifford, F. R. S. & A. S. / 2nd edition, revised and corrected. Printed for the Translator. — T. Burton. London, 1798. — Vol. 1-4. Vol. 1: Part I. The Antichristian Conspiracy: pp. (xvi) 401; Vol. 2: Part II. The Antimonarchical Conspiracy: pp.479; Vol. 3: Part III. The Antisocial Conspiracy: pp. (xviii) 414; Vol. 4: Part IV. Antisocial Conspiracy; Historical Part: pp. (xviii) 601 [50].](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-2195.2019-500x796.jpeg)
Vol. 1. PART I. | THE ANTICHRISTIAN CONSPIRACY. || Title page: MEMOIRS, | Illustrating the | HISTORY of JACOBINISM, | Written in French by | THE ABBÉ BARRUEL, | And translated into English by | THE HON. ROBERT CLIFFORD, F. R. S. & A. S. | — | Princes and Nations shall disappear from the face of the Earth… and this | REVOLUTION shall be the WORK OF SECRET SOCIETIES. | Weishaupt’s Discourse for the Mysteries. | — | PART I. | THE ANTICHRISTIAN CONSPIRACY. | Second Edition, revised and corrected. | LONDON: | Printed for the Translator, | By T. Burton, No. 11 Gate-street, Lincoln’s-Inn Fields. | Sold by E. Booker, No. 56, New Bond-street. | 1798. || Pagination: [2] – t.p. / imprint, [2] – contents / contents, [i] ii-xvi, [1] 2-401 [402 blank]. Collation : 2 blank leaves, π2 b8, B-Z8 Aa-Bb8 Cc9, 2 blank leaves. Vol. 2: Same as Vol. 1, but: PART II. THE ANTIMONARCHICAL CONSPIRACY. || Pagination: [2] – t.p. / imprint, [2] – contents / contents, [1] 2-479 [480 blank]. Collation: 2 blank leaves, π2 B-Z8 Aa-Gg8 Hh3, 2 blank leaves. Vol. 3.: Same as Vol. 1, but: PART III. THE ANTISOCIAL CONSPIRACY. || Pagination: [i,ii] – t.p. / imprint, [iii] iv-xviii, [1] 2-414; one plate. Collation : 2 blank leaves, π1 A-Z8 Aa-Cc8 D7. Vol. 4: PART IV. ANTISOCIAL CONSPIRACY; HISTORICAL PART. || Pagination: [i,ii] – t.p. / imprint, iii-xviii, [1] 2-601 [602 blank], [1] 2-50; one folding plate. Collation: 2 blank leaves, a8 B-Z8 Aa-Pp8 Qq5, a-c8 d1. Binding: All four volumes uniformly bound in full polished calf, gilt roll-and-rule border, black and green labels with gilt lettering, gilt filigree to spine; marbled endpapers and all edges; printed on wove paper, with long “s”. The original French title: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du Jacobinisme par M. l'abbé Barruel. Author: Augustin Barruel (French, 1741 – 1820). Translator: The Honourable Robert Edward Clifford (British, 1767 – 1817). LIB-2195-1.2019; LIB-2195-2.2019; LIB-2195-3.2019; LIB-2195-4.2019. -
Title: The amorous drawings | of the | Marquis von Bayros | Part I | THE CYTHERA PRESS | NEW YORK Pagination: [1-3] 4-238 [2], 292 illustrations within pagination. Content: Preface by Wilhelm M. Busch, biography of Von Bayros by Johann Pilz, two essays by Von Bayros; 292 illustrations by Marquis Franz von Bayros; Part I and II in one volume. Exterior: 33 x 26 cm, publisher's black cloth with white lettering and fac-simile drawing of von Bayros to cover, white lettering to spine, similarly designed DJ. The original Cythera Press hardcover edition of 1968. -
Of the limited edition of 1150 copies, this is №54 (on Japan paper, signed by Bartsch and by von Bayros). Owner's binding imitating quarter-morocco, a red label with gilt lettering to spine (possibly by Ms Hunt, who was an amateur bookbinder). Bookplate on front pastedown: "Ex libris Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt | S. B. Hill Dec 1913 | A.J. Downey Sc." Alfred James Downey (1882-1944). Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt (1882-1963). Sarah B. Hill had done lettering for Ms Hunt. On back pastedown: Stamp "Hunt Libraries CMU" and sticker "Gotham Book Mart | 128 West 45th street | New York". This is from an edition of Carcassonne:
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Half-title: ÜBERREICHT VON | GILHOFER UND RANSCHBURG | SORTIMENT–, BÜCHER– UND KUNST– | ANTIQUARIAT | WIEN 1, BOGNERGASSE 2 || Title: Red letterpress lettering in black ornamental frame: Insel- | Almanach | auf das Jahr | 1907 || Pagination: [6] – h.t., frontis., title; [1-16] 17-150 [2], + 2 folding plates (op. p. 30 and 32), and 2 plates op. p. 50 (Franz von Bayros "Francine" for Die Bohème by Henri Murger) and 112 (colour). Binding: 17.3 x 9.9 cm; original olive paper wrappers with gilt lettering and elements to cover, lettering to spine. Catalogue raisonné: Heinz Sarkowski (1999): № 1986, pp. 329-30, with contents. Contributors: Gilhofer und Ranschburg – antiquarian bookstore in Vienna. Schröder, Rudolf Alexander (German, 1878 – 1962) – title and cover. Wieynk, Heinrich (German, 1874 – 1931) – typeset. Kippenberg, Anton Hermann Friedrich (German, 1874 – 1950) – editor. Brandstetter, Oscar (German, 1844 – ?) – printer.
