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  • Paperback, 25.3 x 17.3 cm, burgundy flapped wrappers, pp.: [i-vii] viii-x, [2] [1] 2-356. Front wrapper: Picasso's | {vignette} | Brothel | Les Demoiselles d'Avignon | Wayne Andersen || Title-page: PICASSO'S BROTHEL | LES DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON | — | WAYNE ANDERSEN | {publisher’s device} | Other Press | New York || Wayne Andersen (American, 1928 – 2014) Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881 – 1973) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
  • An uncut aizuri fan print showing travellers arriving at Inba Lake [印旛沼] (Inba-numaon Shimosa Plateau [下総台地] (Shimōsa-daichi). Artist: Utagawa Sadahide [歌川貞秀] (Japanese, 1807 – 1879) Publisher: Unknown. Published: c. 1849. Signed: Gountei Sadahide ga [五雲亭 貞秀画] (Picture by Gountei Sadahide). Inscription in cartouche: Shimosa Plateau, Inbanuma (Inba Lake) [下總國印幡沼]. No date seal, no censor seal (privately printed?) Media: Fan print [団扇絵] (uchiwa-e), 235 x 300 mm.
  • Hardcover, 28.5 x 21 cm, blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket with the glued white label “Winner of the Apollo Magazine | Book of the Year 2003 Award”; pp.: [1-9] 10-260, ils.; ISBN 9781872501543, 9781872501239, 1872501540, 1872501230. Title-page: OTTO PÄCHT | Venetian Painting | in the 15th Century | Jacopo, Gentile and Giovanni Bellini | and Andrea Mantegna | Edited by | Margareta Vyoral-Tschapka | and | Michael Pächt | {publisher’s device} | HARVEY MILLER PUBLISHERS || Contributors: Otto Pächt (Austrian, 1902 – 1988) Margareta Vyoral-Tschapka Michael Pächt (Austrian, b. 1942)
  • Description: Two volumes 23.1 x 14.9 cm each, collated in 4to, uniformly bound in French flapped wrappers with the title and an engraved vignette, coloured; wrapped in glassine; cased in a cardboard chemise (23.1 x 15 cm) with a diaper of two hearts pierced by an arrow, in pink; and both volumes cased in a slipcase (23.8 x 15.2 cm) with the same diaper. Printed on unpaginated dense wove paper watermarked ‘Arches’, engravings with clear plate marks. Illustrations are by Jean Dulac. Title-page (double-fillet frame, black and red in manuscript) Nelly et Jean | – | nous deux | simples | papiers | du|  tiroir secret | {vignette} | Première partie (Deuxième partie) | – | Gravé | et imprimé | pour les auteurs | et leurs amis || Vol. 1: 1 blank, π4 (blank, h.t., frontis., engr. t.p.), 1-84, [2 blanks]; total 39 leaves with 19 hand-coloured burin engravings, incl. wrapper, frontis., and t.p. Unpag. Vol. 2: 1 blank, π4 (blank, h.t., frontis., engr. t.p.), 1-114, [1 colophon] [2 blanks], total 52 leaves with 27 hand-coloured burin engravings, incl. wrapper, frontis., and t.p. Unpag. Limitation: total print run of 295 copies of which 12 (№№ 1-12) on Japon Impérial, 13 on Vélin d’Arches (№№ 13-25), 30 on Japon Impérial (№№ 26-55) and 240 on Vélin d’Arches (№№ 56-295); this is copy № 97 on Vélin d’Arches. Contributors: Marcel Valotaire (French, 1889 – 1979) – author. Jean Dulac (French, 1902 – 1968) – artist. Printed by Coulouma (Argenteuil) and Vernant (Paris). The same title with illustrations by Gaston de Sainte-Croix was published in 1956:  LIB-2880.2021.
  • 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.
  • Softcover volume, 24.0 x 17.7 cm, publisher’s tan wrappers, lettered to front and spine in brown and black, publisher’s device and imprint to back, upper margin trimmed, all printed on laid paper, pp: [i-viii] [1-3] 4-496 [4], last page blank (total 508 pages); collated 8vo: π4 1-318 χ2 (total 254 leaves). Book-label with publisher’s device to fep (χ1 recto). Title-page and front wrapper (in brown and black): С. Ф. ЛИБРОВИЧЪ | НА КНИЖНОМЪ ПОСТУ | ВОСПОМИНАНIЯ | : : ЗАПИСКИ : : | ДОКУМЕНТЫ | {two-headed eagle} | ИЗДАНIЕ | Т-ВА М. О. ВОЛЬФЪ | ПЕТРОГРАДЪ И МОСКВА | (1916 on front wrapper) || Provenance: Publisher Contributors: Сигизмунд Феликсович Либрович [Zygmunt Librowicz] (Polish-Russian, 1855 – 1918) – author. Товарищество М. О. Вольф (Петроград-Москва) – publisher. Типография товарищества М. О. Вольф (Петроград) – printer. Маврикий Осипович Вольф [Maurycy Bolesław Wolff] (Polish-Russian, 1825 – 1883) – dedicatee.
  • Coin purse, or porte-monnaie, made of patinated copper alloy, full-grain brown leather outside and purple inside, with a clutch and a hinge, and an oval miniature bust portrait on each side, painted in colour with gold and silver, by an anonymous artist after Franz Xaver Winterhalter, inscribed NAPOLÉON III and L'IMPCE DES FRANÇAIS, respectively, under glass. Dimensions: 97 x 67 x 18 mm. Contributors: Napoleon III [Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte] (French, 1808 – 1873) – character/sitter. Eugénie de Montijo [María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick] (Spanish-French, 1826 – 1920) – character/sitter. Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805 – 1873) – artist.
  • Softcover volume, 23.5 x 15 cm, in tan French flapped wrappers with red lettering to front, collated in-4to, in a tan double slipcase 24 x 15 cm with red lettered label to spine, pp.: [1-12] 13-112 [8], total 120 pages, incl. those within wrappers; printed on thick wove paper watermarked “Lafuma Frères”, 5 full-page and 6 half-page illustrations within collation, incl. frontispiece, guard tissue laid in. Title-page (red and black): LE ROMAN | DE | GODEMICHET | ÉPOPÉE | LIBERTINE | ET VÉCUE | composée par un | DESCENDANT D’HERMES | AMI DES MUSES | ÉMULE DE PRIAPE | et illustrée par un | MAITRE DU GENRE | ÉDITÉ POUR LES | AMIS DE L’AUTEUR | A PARIS EN L’AN DE GRACE | MCMXLVIII || Limited edition 200 + XX, this is copy № 175. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 2336. Jean Reschofsky (French, 1905 – 1998) – artist.
  • Hand-coloured woodcut on wove paper, 288 x 426 mm; black ink stamp “5305” to reverse. Top centre: "FAMILLE IMPÉRIALE", right: "67." Under the image: "Le Prince Murat." — "Le Prince Impérial." — "L' Empereur et l'Impératrice." — "Le Prince Napoléon." Bottom: "Fabrique d'Estampes de Gangel et P. Didion, à Metz." — "Déposé." Bottom: ms in pencil "1861 – 1868". Publisher/printer: Gangel et P. Didion (Metz); Paulin Didion (French, 1831 – 1879). Characters: Napoleon III [Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte] (French, 1808 – 1873) Eugénie de Montijo [L'impératrice Eugénie] (Spanish-French, 1826 – 1920) Napoléon, Prince Imperial (Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte] (French, 1856 – 1879) Prince Murat [Lucien Charles Joseph Napoléon] (French, 1803 – 1878) Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte [Prince Napoléon] (French, 1822 – 1891)
  • The Colophon, A Book Collectors' Quarterly

    1. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Summer 1935, № 1, vol. 1. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1935. Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, paper boards, serial pictorial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 7-159 [160] [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | SUMMER 1935 | VOLUME I • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 1 | NEW YORK, N. Y. ||
    2. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Autumn 1935, № 2, vol. 1. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1935. (2 copies). Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, paper boards, serial pictorial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 167-315 [315] [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | AUTUMN 1935 | VOLUME I • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 2 | NEW YORK ||
    3. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Autumn 1936, № 1, vol. 2. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1936. Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, cloth serial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 7-157 [158] [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | AUTUMN 1936 | VOLUME II • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 1 | NEW YORK ||
    4. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Winter 1936, № 3, vol. 1. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1936. (2 copies) Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, paper boards, serial pictorial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 323-480 [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | WINTER 1936 | VOLUME I • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 3 | NEW YORK ||
    5. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Autumn 1937, № 4, vol. 2. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1937. Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, cloth serial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 487-628 [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | AUTUMN 1937 | VOLUME II • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 4 | NEW YORK ||
    6. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Summer 1938, № 3, vol. 3. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1938. Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, cloth new serial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 335-476 [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | SUMMER 1938 | VOLUME III • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 3 | NEW YORK ||
    7. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Autumn 1938, № 4, vol. 3. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1938. Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, cloth new serial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 483-632 [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | AUTUMN 1938 | VOLUME III • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 4 | NEW YORK ||  
  • NEW
    Hardcover, 273 x 200 mm, original cardboard, lettering, vignette, frame to front, lettering to spine, colour plates after pp. 4, 10, 40, 64, 96, 232, and 240. Collated 8vo: π10 1-268, i.e. 218 leaves, profusely illustrated in b/w, plus 7 colour plates extraneous to collation; pp.: [i-viii] ix-xix [xx]  [2] 3-414 [2]. Title-page: МАСТЕРА | СОВРЕМЕННОЙ ГРАВЮРЫ | И ГРАФИКИ | СБОРНИК МАТЕРИАЛОВ | ★ | РЕДАКЦИЯ ВЯЧ. ПОЛОНСКОГО | — | СТАТЬИ | B. AДAPЮKOBA, M. БАБЕНЧИКОВА, E. ДАНЬКО, | K. KУЗЬMИНCKOГO, Л. PO3EHTAЛЯ, A. СИДOPOBA, | K. ТИХОНОВОЙ, M. ФАБРИKAHTA, | A. ФEДOPOBA-ДАВЫДОВА | {publisher’s device} | | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | МОСКВА — 1928 — ЛЕНИНГРАД || Imprint: Отпечатано в 1-й Образцовой типографии | Гиза. Москва, Пятницкая, 71, в количестве | 2000 экз. Х. 60. Гиз 18467. Главлит 82394. | Заказ № 467. | ★ | Обложка работы Н. И. Пискарева | макет для верстки В. В. Гольцева || Print run 2000 copies. Editor: Полонский [Гусев], Вячеслав Павлович [Polonsky, Vyacheslav] (Russian, 1886 – 1932) Contents:
    Предисловие Вяч. Полонского ... VIII
    A. П. Остроумова-Лебедева. В. Я. Адарюкова ... 1
    Е. С. Кругликова. В. Я. Адарюкова ... 13
    М. В. Добужинский. Л. В. Розенталя ... 31
    С. В. Чехонин. Е. Данько ... 61
    Г. И. Нарбут. А. А. Сидорова ... 77
    Д. Н. Кардовский. К. С. Кузьминского ... 107
    П. А. Шиллинговский. В. Я. Адарюкова ... 135
    Д. И. Митрохин. М. В. Бабенчикова ... 149
    Ю. А. Анненков. М. В. Бабенчикова ... 167
    Ленинградская школа графических искусств. А. Федорова-Давыдова ... 189
    II
    И. Н. Павлов. В. Я. Адарюкова ... 227
    М. А. Добров. В. Я. Адарюкова ... 245
    И. И. Нивинский. В. Я. Адарюкова ... 257
    B. А. Фаворский. М. И. Фабриканта ... 273
    A. И. Кравченко. А. А. Сидорова ... 297
    B. А. Ватагин. К. С. Кузьминского ... 325
    Д. П. Штеренберг. К. С. Тихоновой ... 343
    Московская школа графики. А. А. Сидорова ... 357
    III
    Библиография современной русской графики. А. А. Сидорова ... 405
    Artists:
    Остроумова-Лебедева, Анна Петровна [Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Anna] (Russian, 1871 – 1955) Кругликова, Елизавета Сергеевна [Kruglikova, Elizaveta] (Russian, 1865 – 1941) Добужинский, Мстислав Валерианович [Dobuzhinsky, Mstislav] (Russian-Lithuanian, 1875 – 1957) Чехонин, Сергей Васильевич [Chekhonin, Sergey] (Russian, 1878 – 1936) Нарбут, Георгий Иванович [Narbut, Heorhiy] (Ukrainian, 1886 – 1920) Кардовский, Дмитрий Николаевич [Kardovsky, Dmitry] (Russian, 1866 – 1943) Шиллинговский, Павел Александрович (Russian, 1881 – 1942) Митрохин, Дмитрий Исидорович [Mitrohin, Dmitry] (Russian, 1883 – 1973) Анненков, Юрий Павлович [Annenkov, Yury] (Russian-French, 1889 – 1974) Павлов, Иван Николаевич [Pavlov, Ivan] (Russian, 1972 – 1951) Добров, Матвей Алексеевич (Russian, 1877 – 1958) Нивинский, Игнатий Игнатьевич [Nivinski, Ignati] (Russian, 1881 – 1933) Фаворский, Владимир Андреевич [Favorsky, Vladimir] (Russian, 1886 – 1964) Кравченко, Алексей Ильич [Kravchenko, Aleksei] (Russian, 1889 – 1940) Ватагин, Василий Алексеевич [Vatagin, Vasily] (Russian, 1883 – 1969) Штеренберг, Давид Петрович [Shterenberg, David] (Ukrainian-Jewish, 1881 – 1948)
  • Iron tsuba of round form with design of two parallel crossbars and two rings in openwork (sukashi). Rounded square rim. Moderate iron bones (tekkotsu) allover. Copper sekigane. Kanayama school. Momoyama period (or late Muromachi). Size: 74.5 x 74.0 x 5.5 mm. The rings possibly represent the sun and the moon, or the stars. The parallel crossbars may represent the "two stripes" (futatsu biki) family crest (incl. Ashikaga family).
  • Fuchi-kashira with rock and boar (iwa ni inoshishi zu) motif. Inlay of precious stones or colour glass. Shakudō, gold, gemstones. Technique: Sukibori zogan kiniroe.

    Fuchi: 36 x 21 x 14 mm; Weight: 22 g; Kashira: 32 x 17 x 5 mm; Weight: 8 g; Material : Shakudō; Gold; Gemstones (Chalcedony and Rose Quartz). Possibly, Owari school.
    Signature: Unsigned  
     
  • Дело А. А. Лопухина в особом присутствии правительствующего сената. Стенографический отчет. С.-Петербург, типография Р. И. Арциви, 1910. С.116. Из библиотеки А. Я. Пассовера.

    Суд проходил в марте 1909 года. Бывший директор департамента полиции А. А. Лопухин обвиняется в том, что выдал провокатора Е. Ф. Азефа партии социалистов-революционеров. А. Я. Пассовер защищал Лопухина на этом суде. Суд присудил Лопухина (1 мая 1909 г.) к 5 годам каторжных работ с лишением всех прав состояния. Решением Общего собрания кассационных департаментов правительствующего сената, в виду смягчающих вину обстоятельств, каторга была заменена ссылкой на поселение.

  • Iron tsuba of round form with design of diamond-shaped family crest (waribishi-mon) in openwork (sukashi). Bevelled, raised rim. Kozuka-hitsu-ana plugged with tin or lead. Ko-Katchushi school. Early Muromachi period: Early 15th century (Oei era). Size: Height: 89.3 mm. Width: 89.0 mm. Rim thickness: 4.3 mm. Center thickness: 2.9 mm. Provenance: Sasano Masayuki Collection, № 41: "In this tsuba, a family crest incorporating four lozenges sits upright on the right side of the nakago-ana. The straight lines of the lozenge add substance and power. Initially, the crest creates confusion regarding the age, yet the overall impression is one lacking in vigor and probably dates rather later than Nanbokucho period".  
  • The thin, four-lobed iron plate of brownish color is carved on each side with two concentric grooves in the middle of the web, and with four thin scroll lines (handles, kan) that follow the shape of the rim. The hitsu-ana were added at a later date.  Copper sekigane. Kamakura-bori school. Muromachi period, circa 1400-1550. Size: Height 80.4 mm, width 79.0 mm, thickness 3.2 mm at seppa-dai and 2.7 mm at the rim. Weight: 97.7 g. NBTHK Certificate №4004241: 'Hozon' attestation. As for the motif: the concentric circles is a widespread and generic design. It is described by John W. Dower [The Elements of Japanese Design, 1985, p. 132, #2201-30] as follows: Circle: Enclosure (wa). As a crest by itself, the cirlce carries obvious connotations of perfection, harmony, completeness, integrity, even peace. [...] Ordinary circles are labeled according to their thickness, with terminology ranging from hairline to "snake's eye". The motif that is described by both Compton Collection and R.E. Haynes as "scrolls", presented by John W. Dower as "Handle (kan): Although probably a purely ornamental and nonrepresentational design in origin, over the centuries this motif acquired the label kan, denoting its resemblance to the metal handles traditionally used on chests of drawers. [...] Very possibly the "handle" motif represents an early abstract version of the popular mokko, or melon pattern." Early Chinese Taoists claimed that special melon was associated with the Eastern Paradise of Mount Horai just as life-giving peaches were associated with the Western Paradise of the Kunlun Mountains. [...] A design motif called mokko (also translated as "melon" in accordance with the two ideographs with which it is written) may have nothing to do with the fruit. Mokko designs... are widely used as crests of both private families and Shinto shrines and are repeated as background designs that evoke a sense of classicism" [Symbols of Japan. Merrily Baird, 2001]. There is a look alike tsuba at Dr. Walter A. Compton Collection, 1992, Christie’s auction, Part II, pp. 14-15, №16: The description goes: “A kamakurabori type tsubaMuromachi period, circa 1400. The thin, six-lobed iron plate is carved on each side with a wide groove that follows the shape of the rim, and with six scroll lines and a single thin circular groove. […] The hitsu-ana was added at a later date, circa 1500-1550.  Height 8.3 cm, width 8.6 cm, thickness 2.5 mm. The tsuba was initially intended  to be mounted on a tachi of the battle type in use from Nambokucho to early Muromachi period (1333-1400)”. Sold at $935. And another one in Robert E. Haynes Catalog #9 on page 24-25 under №23: R.E. Haynes description: “Typical later Kamakura-bori style work. This type of plate and carving show the uniform work produced by several schools in the Muromachi period. Some had brass inlay and others were just carved as this one is. The hitsu are later. Ca. 1550. Ht. 8.8 cm, Th. 3.25 mm”. Sold for $175.    
  • Artist: Mikhail Larionov (June 3, 1881 – May 10, 1964) ). Russian/French. Lithographic illustration "Woman in a hat" for Aleksei Kruchenykh book "Lipstick", Moscow, Kuzmin and Dolinsky Publishers, 1913, 480 copies printed. Size: 11,3 х 8,2 cm. Михаил Ларионов (3 июня 1881 – 10 мая 1964). Россия/Франция. Литографическая иллюстрация "Женщина в шляпе" к книге Алексея Крученых "Помада"; М.: Изд. Г.Л. Кузьмина и С.Д. Долинского, 1913, отпечатана в 480 экз. Формат: 11,3 х 8,2 см.
  • An iron tsuba of round shape inlaid with shakudō, gold, and silver with a motif of a weather-beaten (nozarashi) skull and grasses growing beside as well as through the eye-pit, and a crescent moon above the scene. Grasses on the reverse. Unsigned. Dimensions: 71.7 x 70.6 x 4.2 mm Reference: Skull, bones and grave markers SOLD