Small six-lobed sancai (blue, amber, and cream) earthenware tripod censer with amber lead glaze mouth, an outer surface of the body decorated in a form of toad skin, the centre of the bottom unglazed, standing on unglazed beast's paws.
China, the Tang dynasty [唐朝] (618 – 907).
Diameter: 10.2 cm; Height: 9.2 cm.
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.
Cover and title page: Н. Л. | ФРАН-МАСОНСТВО | И | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ИЗМѢНА. | Изданiе В. П. | С.-ПЕТЕРБУРГЪ | Типографиiя газеты «Россiя». Бассейная, 3. | 1906 г. ||
Pagination: [1-3] 4-77 [3]; collation: [1]8 2-58; 23 x 15.5 cm, in publisher’s lettered wrappers, library and bookstore stamps.
A reprint of an article published in № 4 of the magazine "Море и его Жизнь", January 1905. Allegedly a translation and a brief exposition of La franc-maçonnerie et la Révolution française by Maurice Talmeyr [Marie-Justin-Maurice Coste] (French, –
Front wrapper (in black and red in a red frame): ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ОРДЕНА ЛЕНИНА БИБЛИОТЕКА СССР | ИМЕНИ В. И. ЛЕНИНА — {СК} (white stylizedlettersonredbackground) | 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.
Front wrapper (in black and red, in a red frame): (top left) ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ | ОРДЕНА ЛЕНИНА | БИБЛИОТЕКА СССР | ИМЕНИ В. И. ЛЕНИНА — (top right) {СК} (white stylizedlettersonredbackground) | СВОДНЫЙ | КАТАЛОГ | РУССКОЙ | НЕЛЕГАЛЬНОЙ | И ЗАПРЕЩЕННОЙ | ПЕЧАТИ XIX ВЕКА | КНИГИ И ПЕРИОДИЧЕСКИЕ ИЗДАНИЯ | (bottom left) 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 2. Книги Н–Я. Периодические издания. | (1159–2576) | МОСКВА 1982 ||
Publisher’s wrappers, 21.5 x 14.5 cm, lettering to front and spine; pagination: [2] – t.p. / imprint, 3-230 [2].
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)
Часть 3-я. Приложения. Вспомогательные указатели. Список источников. [LIB-2661.2021]
Title page: ТОРКВАТО ТАССО | ОСВОБОЖДЕННЫЙ | ИЕРУСАЛИМ | ПЕРЕВОД С ИТАЛЬЯНСКОГО | РОМАНА ДУБРОВКИНА | {publisher’s device} | САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГ | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ИВАНА ЛИМБАХА | 2020 ||
Frontispiece recto: Torquato Tasso portrait by Aegidius Sadeler; verso: TARQUATO TASSO | GERUSALEMME | LIBERATA ||
Pagination: [1-4] 5-607 [608], il. in text by Charles-Nicolas Cochin, the Younger (French, 1715 – 1790).
Hardcover, pictorial paper board, lettering to spine, 25 x 15.5 cm. Print run: 1,000 copies.
Original: Torquato Tasso. La Gerusalemme liberata (it.)
Translation from the Italian and a foreword by Roman Doubrovkine [Роман Дубровкин] (Russian-Swiss, b. 1953).
Published in 2020 by Издательство Ивана Лимбаха in St. Petersburg.
In this collection: LIB-2639.2021 with illustrations by Hubert François Gravelot (French, 1699–1773); LIB-2636.2021 with illustrations by Bernardo Castello (Italian, 1557–1629), and another translation into Russian by В. С. ЛИХАЧЕВ LIB-2654.2021.
Pagination: [2] – letterpress title / blank, t.p. with contents / to readers, [1] 2-376 + 7 b/w and 16 coloured plates (total 23); this differs to Abbey’s description of 372 pages + 4 pages index, and 41 plates (lacking 18 plates).
In No 73 lacking 3 plates: Quadrant Regent st., Morning dress and Full dress.
In No 74 lacking 5 plates: Charles str., Brienz, head dresses, full dress, and muslin patterns.
In No 75 lacking 5 plates: 4 with bank notes and Castle of Rinkenberg.
In No 76 lacking 1 plate: Cavern St. Beat.
In No 77 lacking 2 plates: Wetzar and Lake Thun.
In No 78 lacking 2 plates: Crescent at Portland Place and Environs of Thun.
Collation: 4to; letterpress title, [A]1 B-Z4 Aa-Zz4 3A-3C4 3D2.
Binding: 23.5 x 15.5 cm; double fillet blind-ruled half-calf over pebbled cloth boards, raised bands ruled blind, crimson label with gilt lettering to spine.
References: Martin Hardie (1906), p.310 [LIB-2623.2021]; R. V. Tooley (1935), p. 26 [LIB-2641.2021]; J. R. Abbey (1953), Cat. № 212, p. 174 [LIB-2622.2021].
Title: BIBLIOTHECA FICTIVA | A Collection of Books & Manuscripts | Relating to Literary Forgery | 400 BC – AD 2000 | Arthur Freeman | Bernard Quaritch Ltd | 2014 ||
Pagination: xvi, 424, with colour frontispiece and 36 illustrations in text.
Binding: 26 x 18 cm, burgundy cloth, blocked in gold on spine, printed dust-jacket.
Front wrapper: PARIS SOUS NAPOLÉON III | Mémoires d'un homme du monde | DE 1857 À 1870 | PAR LE COMTE DE ARTHUR GRANDEFFE | {publisher’s device} | PARIS: IMPRIMERIE ET LIBRAIRIE CENTRALES DES CHEMINS DE FER | A. CHAIX ET Cie | RUE BERGÈRE 20, PRÈS DU BOULEVARD MONTMARTRE | 1879 ||
Similar lettering to t.p.
Softcover 18.5 x 12 cm, publisher’s original blue wrappers, first and last leaves glued to wrappers, unevenly trimmed, some uncut, pagination [4] [i] ii-vi, [1] 2-413 [414], authors advert to back wrapper; mispaginated pp. 136-141; collation: 18mo, π6, 1-2218 236. Sticker with gilt lettering to front wrapper “LIBRAIRIE CENTRALE | BERTRAND & QUEYROT | MENTON”; sticker to spine "577".
Cover: Publisher's wrappers, to front cover with black and red lettering: DEUXIÈME ÉDITION |—| AUGUSTE LEPAGE | Les Diners | ARTISTIQUES ET LITTÉRAIRES | de Paris | {publisher's device} | PARIS | BIBLIOTHÈQUE DES DEAUX MONDES| FRINZINE, KLEIN et Cie, ÉDIREURS | 1, RUE BONAPARTE, 1 | 1884 | Tous droits réservés ||
Title page: Similar lettering t.p. in black only, with "DEUXIÈME ÉDITION" below "de Paris".
Pagination: front wrapper with a pasted leaf, [iii-vii] viii-xi [xii] [1-3] 4-360, back wrapper with a pasted 3/4 leaf, black lattering to spine.
Collation: 18mo; π5, 1-1918-206.
A contemporary reprint in publisher's wrappers, 22.8 x 14.4 cm, untrimmed, stapled, with title on the outer cover and similar to t.p.:
The Truth About | "The Protocols" | A LITERARY FORGERY | From The Times of | August 16, 17, and 18, 1921 | LONDON: | PRINTING HOUSE SQUARE, E.C.4. | ONE SHILLING NET. ||
Pagination: [2] – t.p. / colophon, 3-24.
Collation: [A]2 B10.
Front wrapper: Comité politique plébiscitaire | 17, rue de Surène, PARIS, VIIIe | {Napoleon III portrait} | NAPOLÉON III, EMPEREUR | LES BIENFAITS DE L'EMPIRE ||
Title page: in a double-fillet frame with years in corners: 1848, 1851, 1852, 1870 || LES | BIENFAITS DE L'EMPIRE | PAR | ALEXANDRE BRADIER | {quotation from Napoléon Ier} | {quotation from Napoléon III} | {quotation from Prince Napoléon} | HUITIÈME EDITION | IMPRIMERIES BELLEVILLE | 29 — Rue du Moulin-Vert — 29 | PARIS (XIVe) | Tous Droits réservés ||
Pagination: [1-3] 4-62 [2 table]
15.5 x 12 cm brochure in publisher’s original lavender wrappers, front cover discoloured to grey, with publisher’s advert to back wrapper.
Printed by Imprimeries Bellville.
Published by Comité politique plébiscitaire.
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).
Cover: (original wrapper) PARIS-CANARD| PAR | CH. VIRMAITRE | A. SAVINE, Édeiteur, rue Drouot, 18, PARIS ||
Wood engraving to cover signed LeNatur — Michelet, sc.
Title page: CHARLES VIRMAITRE | PARIS–CANARD | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | NOUVELLE LIBRAIRIE PARISIENNE | ALBERT SAVINE, ÉDITEUR | 18, RUE DROUOT, 18 | 1888 | Tous droits réservés. ||
Pagination: 2 blank leaves, original pictorial wrapper, [4], [1] 2-319 [320 blank], original back wrapper with publisher’s advertisement, 2 blank leaves.
Collation: 12mo; π2, 1-1712 184.
Binding: 18 x 12 cm, hardcover; quarter blue percaline, marbled boards, red title label ruled gilt with gilt lettering, gilt double tail ruler, fleuron to spine; original paper wrappers preserved.
Bookplate to front pastedown: "EX LIBRIS EUGENE SELIGMANN" written on a ribbon; ink inscription to half-title in french: "To my good friends Paul Vogler and Maurice Radiguet, former – for a new acquaintance, latter – to become great." Signed: Ch. Virmaitre.
Paul Vogler (French, 1853 – 1904) – painter in the Impressionist style.
Jules Maurice Radiguet (French, 1866 – 1941) – illustrator , caricaturist and cartoonist. Father of Raymond Radiguet (French, 1903 – 1923).
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.
Title page: CHARLES VIRMAITRE | PARIS | qui s'efface | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | NOUVELLE LIBRAIRIE PARISIENNE | ALBERT SAVINE, ÉDITEUR | 18, RUE DROUOT, 18 | 1887 | Tous droits réservés. ||
Collation: Front pictorial wrapper, ffl, π3 1-1712 181, bfl, back wrapper w/publ. advert.
Pagination: [6] [1-3] 4-314.
Cover: CH. VIRMAÎTRE | PARIS OUBLIÉ — PARIS | E. DENTU, ÉDITEUR ||
Title page: CHARLES VIRMAÎTRE | PARIS OUBLIÉ | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | E. DENTU, ÉDITEUR | LIBRAIRE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES GENTES DE LETTRES | PALAIS-ROYAL, 15-17-19, GALERIE D’ORLÉANS | 1886 | Tous droits réservés. ||
Pagination: publisher’s pictorial wrapper, ffl, [2] – t.p. / blank, 1-327 [328 blank], bfl, publisher’s advert. to back wrapper.
Title page: THE | ADVENTURES | OF | TELEMACHUS, | THE | SON OF ULYSSES. | FROM THE FRENCH OF | SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE–FENELON, | ARCHBISHOP OF CAMBRAY. | BY THE LATE | JOHN HAWKESWORTH, LL. D. | CORRECTED AND REVISED BY | G. GREGORY, D. D. | JOINT EVENING PREACHER AT THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, AND AUTHOR OF | ESSAYS, HISTORICAL AND MORAL, &C. | WITH | A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND A COMPLETE INDEX, HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL. | EMBELLISHED WITH TWELVE ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS. | IN TWO VOLUMES. | VOL. I. [VOL. II] | — | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR C. AND G. KEARSLEY, FLEET-STREET. | 1795. ||
Vol. 1: collation: 2 blank leaves, π6, a-d4, B-Z4 Aa-Ff4, 2 blank leaves, 7 coloured engravings; pagination: [i-v] vi-xxxv [xxxvi], [1] 2-223 [224 blank].
Vol. 2: collation: 2 blank leaves, π4, Gg-Zz4, 3A-3K4 [a]4 b2, 2 blank leaves, 5 coloured engravings; pagination: [i-iii] iv-vii [viii], [225] 226-439, [440-452].
Exterior: 2-volume set, uniformly bound in full crimson linen morocco, key fret inside, gilt-ruled with a floral pattern between fillets to boards, flat spine decorated in gilt, with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, AEG, 4to, 28 x 22.5 cm; printed on wove paper with watermark “WS”. Blind stamp to ffl by previous owner: "B. J. WIJNVELDT".
Engravings: 12 tinted stipple engravingsà la poupée: one by James Neagle (British, 1760? – 1822), four by William Bromley (British, 1769 – 1842), four by William Skelton (British, 1763 – 1848), one by John Ogborne (British, 1755 – 1837), and two by James Parker (1750 – 1805) after Thomas Stothard (British, 1755 – 1834).
Ref.: Lewine (1898), p. 183: "The 1795 edition, 2 vols., 4to., with 12 engravings after Stothard, has a nominal value." Not in Cohen De Ricci, 1912.
Original: François Fénelon. Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d’Ulysse. See №№ LIB-2522-2020 and LIB-2683.2021 in this collection.
John Hawkesworth (British, c. 1715 – 1773).
George Gregory (British, 1754 – 1808).
Front wrapper: Quatrième mille | Paris Documentaire | NOUVELLE ÉDITION | TROTTOIRS | ET | LUPANARS | PAR | Ch. VIRMAITRE | A. CHARLES | LIBRAIRE | 8, Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, 8 | PARIS ||
Title page: Ch. VIRMAITRE | PARIS DOCUMENTAIRE | (Mœurs) | TROTTOIRS | ET | LUPANARS | {fleuron} | A. CHARLES | LIBRAIRE | 8, Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, 8 | PARIS | 1897 ||
Collation: 18mo; Front pictorial wrapper, 2 ffls, π4, 118, 318, 518, 718, 918, 1118, 1318, 1514, back pictorial wrapper (portrait)
Pagination: [1-7] 8-282 [6].
Binding: Publisher’s pictorial wrappers, lettering to spine.
Charles Virmaître (French, 1835 – 1903).
Hardcover volume in 8vo, 21.2 x 15.4 cm, tan cloth with black on gilt background circular publisher’s device "TFU" to front cover, gilt-stamped compartments and burgundy labels with gilt lettering to spine. Ink inscription to fep verso dated Jan 18, 1907. Publisher's device and serial device to h.t.
Title-page: ❦❦❦ THE MEMOIRS AND | TRAVELS OF MAURITIUS AUGUSTUS COUNT DE | BENYOWSKY | IN SIBERIA, KAMCHATKA, JAPAN, THE LIUKIU ISLANDS AND FORMOSA | FROM THE TRANSLATION OF HIS | ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT (1741–1771), | BY WILLIAM NICHOLSON, F.R.S., 1790 | EDITED BY CAPTAIN | PASFIELD OLIVER | ILLUSTRATED | LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN, | PATERNOSTER SQUARE. MDCCCXCIII ❦❦❦ ||.
Collation/Pagination: [1]-258 plus 7 plates, incl. frontispiece and 1 map. [1, 2] – serial h.t. "The Adventure Series" / advert. THE ADVENTURE SERIES. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 5s. 17 titles, [3, 4] – t.p. / blank, [5] 6-9 contents, [10] blank, [11, 12] illustrations/blank, [13] 14-52 introduction, 53-399, [400] colophon: THE GRESHAM PRESS, | URWIN BROTHERS, | CHILWORTH AND LONDON.
Contributors:
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin (London); Thomas Fisher Unwin (British, 1848 – 1935).
Author: Maurice Auguste count de Benyowsky [Мориц Август Бенёвский] (Polish-Slovak-Hungarian, 1746 –1786).
Editor: Samuel Pasfield Oliver (British, 1838 – 1907).
Translator: William Nicholson (British, 1753 – 1815).
Originally published in 1790, in London (I have not seen it anywhere) and in Dublin by P. Wogan [etc.], and in 1791 in French, in Paris byBuisson; see LIB-2742.2021.
For another copy of the same edition, see LIB-3139.2023. For the 1904 edition, see LIB-2703.2021.
Title: AN ESSAY | ON THE | PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION; | OR, | A VIEW OF ITS PAST AND PRESENT EFFECTS | ON | HUMAN HAPPINESS; | WITH | AN INQUIRY INTO OUR PROSPECTS RESPECTING THE FUTURE | REMOVAL OR MITIGATION OF THE EVILS WHICH | IT OCCASIONS | BY T. R. MALTHUS, A. M. | Late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and Professor of History and Political Economy in the East-India College, Hertfordshire. | IN THREE VOLUMES. | VOL. I. [or II. or III.] | THE FIFTH EDITION, | WITH IMPORTANT ADDITIONS. | LONDON: | JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. | 1817. ||
Pagination and collation:
Vol. 1: ffl, [i, ii] – t. p. / imprint., [iii] iv-xvi, [1] 2-496, bfl; A-Z8 2A-2I8.
Vol. 2: ffl, [i, ii] – t. p. / imprint., [iii]-iv – contents, [1]-2-507 [508], bfl; [A]2 B-Z8 2A-2I8 2K6.
Vol. 3: ffl, [i, ii] – t. p. / imprint., [iii]-iv – contents, [1]-2-500, bfl; [A]2 B-Z8 2A-2I8 2K2.
Binding: Three volumes printed on wove paper, uniformly bound in quarter brown polished calf, blind-ruled, black label, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine, green buckram boards; 22.2 x 13.5 cm.
Edition: 5th edition, corrected with a new preface, an updated appendix of Malthus’ responses to his critics, and addition of several chapters to the whole: on France, England, and on the poor laws. Lifetime edition.
Ref.: Einaudi 3670; Goldsmiths’ 21761; Kress B.6974; Mattioli 2210.
Printed by W. Clowes: William Clowes Ltd. (London).
Clowes, William (British, 1779 – 1847).
Malthus, Thomas Robert (British, 1766 – 1834).
Murray, John (British, 1737 – 1793)
Murray, John II (British, 1778 – 1843)
John Murray (publishing house)
Titlepage: Луи-Себастьен | МЕРСЬЕ | ГОД | ДВЕ ТЫСЯЧИ | ЧЕТЫРЕСТА СОРОКОВОЙ | СОН, КОТОРОГО, ВОЗМОЖНО, И НЕ БЫЛО | {device} | ИЗДАНИЕ ПОДГОТОВИЛИ | А. Л. АНДРЕС, П. Р. ЗАБОРОВ | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «НАУКА» | ЛЕНИНГРАДСКОЕ ОТДЕЛЕНИЕ | ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1977 ||
Frontispiece: Louis-Sébastien | MERCIER | L'AN | DEUX MILLE | QUATRE CENT QUARANTE | RÊVE, S'IL EN FUT JAMAIS | {device} ||
Pagination: [1-5] 6-240, 3 leaves of plates extraneous to collation.
Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-158.
Binding: Hardcover, serial design green buckram with gilt lettering on an embossed scroll to front cover, gilt lettering to spine. 23 x 18 cm.
Series: АН СССР, Литературные памятники.
Autor: Louis-Sébastien Mercier (French, 1740 – 1814). See: LIB-2695.2021
Translator: Александра Львовна [Лейбовна] Андрес (Russian, 1907 – 1991).
Title page (black and red): ГУГО ГРОЦИЙ | О ПРАВЕ | ВОЙНЫ | И МИРА | ß ТРИ КНИГИ ß | В КОТОРЫХ ОБЪЯСНЯЮТСЯ | ЕСТЕСТВЕННОЕ ПРАВО | И | ПРАВО НАРОДОВ, | А ТАКЖЕ ПРИНЦИПЫ | ПУБЛИЧНОГО ПРАВА | {device} | Перевод с латинского | А. Л. САККЕТТИ | Государственное издательство | ЮРИДИЧЕСКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | МОСКВА 1956 ||
Verso t.p.: Под общей редакцией профессора С. Б. КРЫЛОВА
Pagination: [1, 2] – t.p. / editor, [3] 4-867 [868] – contents, errata slip, 4 plates extraneous to collation: frontis. portrait, t.p. Amsterdam edition of 1646, t.p. Russian edition of c. 1710, Lovensteyn castle.
Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-548 552.
Binding: Publisher’s brown cloth, blind-stamped lettering to front board, elements of design in black and gilt lettering to spine.
Вступительная статья А. А. Желудкова.
Author: Hugo Grotius [Huig or Hugo de Groot] (Dutch, 1583 – 1645).
Originally published by Nicolas Buon in Paris in 1625 in Latin under the title: De iure belli ac pacis (English: On the Law of War and Peace).
Editor: Сергей Борисович Крылов (Russian, 1888 – 1958).
Translator: Александр Ливериевич Саккетти (Russian, 1881 – 1966).
Front wrapper, t.p.: Общедоступная философiя | ВЪ ИЗЛОЖЕНИИ | АРКАДIЯ ПРЕССА | — | ГРОЦIЙ. | О ПРАВѢ ВОЙНЫ И МИРА. | Цена 40 коп. | [two medals] С.-Петербург | Изданiе П. П. Сойкина [two medals] | Книжный Складъ / Стремянная, 12 | Книжный Магазинъ / Невский, 96 ||
Verso to front wrapper: publisher's advert.; verso to back wrapper: publisher's advert.; back wrapper: Series advert.
Series: Общедоступная философия в изложении Аркадия Пресса
Pagination: [1, 2] – t.p. /censor's approval dated September 30, 1902 г., imprint, [3] 4-50 [2] – publisher's advert.
Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-38 42.
Inscriptions: Handwriting to front wrapper "1902"; to title page "1902" and in Russian: "Ензику от Тышки 19/III-26г."
Size: 19.5 x 12.3 cm.
Binding: original publisher's wrappers, lettering, pp. 35-46 loose.
Author: Hugo Grotius [Huig or Hugo de Groot] (Dutch, 1583 – 1645).
Originally published by Nicolas Buon in Paris in 1625 in Latin under the title: De iure belli ac pacis (English: On the Law of War and Peace).
Compiler/translator: Аркадий Германович Пресс [Аркадиус Пресас or Arkadius Presas] (Russian-Finish, 1870 – 1952).
Title: COSTUMES ET MODES | D’AUTREFOIS | HORACE VERNET | Incroyables | et | Merveilleuses | Paris | 1810–1818 | TEXTE PAR | ROGER–ARMAND WEIGERT | Conservateur au Cabinet des Estampes | de la Bibliothèque Nationale | ÉDITIONS ROMBALDI | PARIS ||
Content: 24 photomechanical reproductions of the images from Bibliothèque nationale de France, printed on vélin paper from Papeteries Aussedat by Papeteries de la Moselle printing presses and stencil-coloured by Edmond Vairel. Text printed by Imprimerie Kapp on October 20, 1955. A print run of 4,000 copies, of which this is №122.
Exterior: Pink lettered dust jacket over wrappers.
Pagination: loose double leaves, [4 blanks] [4 h.t. and t.p.], i-xi [xii], 24 unnumbered plates, [4 blanks].
Title (black and orange): Presenting |Stefano della Bella| Seventeenths – century Printmaker | {Stefano's fac-simile} | by Phyllis Dearborn Massar | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Distributed by New York Graphic Society ||
Pagination: [1-6] 7-141 [3], pp. 7-10 – introduction, 1-133 – plates with annotations, 134-140 – notes.
Binding: Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and a small print in orange frame pasted to front cover, pictorial DJ.
Cover (in blackletter): H. L. Rosegger. | Von Königen u. Jakobinern | {vignette by von Bayros} | Verlag C. Seifert | • Köstritz u Leipzig • ||
Title (blackletter): Von Königen | und Jakobinern | Von | Hans Ludwig Rosegger | mit vier Vollbildern und Buchschmuck | von Marquis F. von Bayros | {publisher’s device} | 1913 | C. Seifert Verlag, G.m.b.H. | Köstritz und Leipzig ||
Pagination: [2] – t.p. / blank, [2] – contents / blank, [1-3] 4-263 [264 vignette, colophon], 4 plates extraneous to collation, 2 vignettes.
Collation: 8vo; 1-168 174.
Binding: Hardcover, pictorial paper boards, lettering to spine, lettering and vignette by von Bayros to cover. Owner's inscription to ffl: "T. Lewe. März, 1919."
Title: The amorous drawings | {vignette} | of the | Marquis von Bayros | Part I | BRANDON HOUSE | NORTH HOLLYWOOD ||
Title page verso: A BRANDON HOUSE BOOK | PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH | CYTHERA PRESS | COPYRIGHT 1968 BY CYTHERA PRESS | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. | MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ||
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: 28 x 22 cm, publisher's green wrappers with yellow lettering and fac-simile drawing of von Bayros to cover, lettering to spine.
A re-print softcover edition of the original Cythera Press 1st edition, see: LIB-2246.2019
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.
Title: ZICHI | A bevezető tanulmányt írta | és a képeket válogatta | GELLÉR KATALIN | Introduced and selected by | KATALIN GELLÉR | CORVINA ||
Pagination: [1-4] 5-44 + 34 leaves of illustrations, (66 plates).
Exterior: 32.5 x 28 cm, hardcover, original dark green cloth with silver lettering to spine, pictorial DJ. Text in Hungarian and English.
Artist: Mihály Zichy [Michael von Zichy] (Hungarian, 1827 – 1906).
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).
Title: ИЗБРАННЫЕ | СКАЗКИ | БРАТЬЕВ ГРИММ | Перевод | Григория Петникова | {device} | ACADEMIA | Москва—Ленинград | 1937 ||
Title verso: Kinder- und Hausmärchen | gesammelt durch die | Brüder Grimm | иллюстрации с рисунков Ракхама 1900 г. | Переплет, контр-титул, фронтиспис, заставка и концовка А. Д. Силина.
Pagination: [1-4] 5-634 [2] ; b/w illustrations in text, 2 colour plates.
Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-398 406.
Print run: 15,300 copies.
Binding: publisher’s blue cloth stamped with lettering and elements of design to cover and spine, pictorial endleaves.
Петников, Григорий Николаевич (Russian, 1894 – 1971)
Силин, Александр Дмитриевич (Russian, 1883 – 1942)
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 RobertsonCVO (British, 1869 – 1948) who was a British academic historian, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Vice-chancellor of the University of Birmingham.
Title: MAROUSSIA | PAR | P.-J. STAHL | D'APRÈS UNE LÉGENDE DE MARKOWOVZOK | DESSINS PAR TH. SCHULER | GRAVURES PAR PANNEMAKER | {vignette} | BIBLIOTHÈQUE | D'ÉDUCATION ET DE RÉCRÉATION | J. HETZEL ET Cie, 18, RUE JACOB | PARIS | Tous droits de reproduction et de traduction réservés ||
Pagination: [2] – t.p. / blank, [1, 2] – dedication / blank, [3] 4-272, [1] 2-11 [12] – publisher’s advert.; Frontispiece and 22 leaves of wood-engraved plates by F. Pannemaker after Th. Schuler, extraneous to collation, woodcut head- and tailpieces, vignettes in the text by Charles Baude.
Collation: 4to; 1-344, + 6 leaves of publisher's advertisement.
Binding: “Cartonnage Hetzel” – red cloth stamped in gilt and black with the elements of design to spine, front and back, publisher's device to back, AEG.
Author and publisher: Pierre-Jules Hetzel [P.-J. Stahl] (French, 1814 – 1886).
Artist: Jules Théophile Schuler (French, 1821 – 1878).
Engravers: Adolphe François Pannemaker (Belgian-French, 1822 – 1900) and Charles Baude (French, 1853 – 1935).
Author of the legend: Markowovzok [Marko Vovchok; Марко́ Вовчо́к, real name Mariya Vilinskаya;Мария Александровна Вилинская] (Ukrainian, 1833 – 1907).
Series: Collection Hetzel (stamped on the front board).
Typographie A. Lahure (Paris), Alexis Lahure (French, 1849 – 1929).
MAROUSSIA – The French version of the Ukrainian name Маруся.