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    Gil Blas Illustré, hebdomadaire: 1896, 6 Année: №1° (5 janvier) — № 52 (25 décembre), Paris.

    French weekly periodical, full set for the year 1896 (52 issues), 4 leaves (8 pages) each issue, bound in green half sheepskin over green shagreen, ruled with blind dentelle, raised bands, gilt floral diamonds and gilt lettering in compartments, marbled endpapers, blank flyleaves; size 405 x 280 mm. Illustrated mainly by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (French, 1859 – 1923), Paul Balluriau [Jean-Baptiste Balluriau] (French, 1860 – 1917) and Albert Guillaume (French, 1873 – 1942).
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    Gil Blas Illustré, hebdomadaire: 1893, 3 Année: №1° (5 janvier) — № 53 (30 décembre), Paris.

    French weekly periodical, full set for the year 1893 (53 issues), 4 leaves (8 pages) each issue, bound in green half sheepskin over green shagreen, ruled with blind dentelle, raised bands, gilt floral diamonds and gilt lettering in compartments, marbled endpapers, blank flyleaves; size 405 x 280 mm. Illustrated mainly by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (French, 1859 – 1923), Paul Balluriau [Jean-Baptiste Balluriau] (French, 1860 – 1917) and Albert Guillaume (French, 1873 – 1942).
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    François Tortebat / Roger de Piles. Abrégé d’anatomie, accommodé aux arts de peinture et de sculpture. — Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 8 [1799].

    Hardcover 470 x 305 mm, bound in 20th century by a previous owner in quarter vellum over marbled boards, 2 blank fly leaves as endpapers, in-folio, 15 laid paper leaves 450 x 290 mm, i-iv t.p., preface, 8 unpag. leaves incl. f.t. “Première partie / la myologie”, incl. 7 plates, and 5 leaves under f.t. “Deuxieme partie / l’osteologie”, incl 3 plates. A ms signed letter from a previous seller laid in: Librars & Antiquaria s.r.l., Roma, dated 17/7/83; their ticket at rear pastedown. Title-page: ABRÉGÉ | D'ANATOMIE, | ACCOMMODÉ AUX ARTS | DE PEINTURE | ET | DE SCULPTURE, | Par FRANÇOIS TORTEBAT, Peintre de l'Académie de Peinture & de Sculpture, | Et mis dans un ordre nouveau, dont la méthode est très-facile & débarrassée de toutes les | difficultés & choses inutiles, qui ont toujours eté un grand obstacle aux Peintres pour | arriver à la perfection de leur Art. | PAR DE PILES. | OUVRAGE très-utile & très-nécessaire à tous ceux | qui font profession du Dessin. | — | A PARIS, | Du Fonds de CHARLES-ANTOINE JOMBERT, | Chez {BARRIOS, l’aîné, Libraire, rue de Savoie, № 23; | MAGIMEL, Libraire, quai das Augustins, près le Pont-neuf. | — | 8. || Faux-title (1): ABRÉGÉ | D'ANATOMIE, | ACCOMMODE AUX ARTS | DE PEINTURE | ET | DE SCULPTURE | LA PREMIÈRE PARTIE (in double-rules) | CONTENANT | LA MYOLOGIE | OU DESCRIPTION DES MUSCLES, | ET LA CONNOISSANCE DE LEURS PRINCIPALS FONCTIONS. || Faux-title (2): […] DEUXIEME PARTIE (in double-rules) | CONTENANT | L'OSTÉOLOGIE | OU | LA CONNOISSANCE DES OS. || Contributors: François Tortebat (French, 1616 – 1690) – artist/engraver Roger de Piles (French, 1635 – 1709) – author Charles-Antoine Jombert (French, 1712 – 1784) – publisher
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    Charles Feld. Pilotell: Dessinateur et Communard; Avant, pendant et après la Commune: croquis & caricatures à l’eau-forte par Pilotell. — Paris: Livre-Club Diderot, 1970.

    Red cloth portfolio 313 x 250 mm, with gilt lettering in frame to front, contains an in-folio brochure (4 sheets folded in-half), unbound, pp. [2] 3-15 [1], plus 24 leaves of loose plates 300 x 239 mm; title page, full-length photo portrait of Pilotell by Charles Reutlinger (German-French, 1816 – 1881), autograph of the former, and a copy of his birth certificate. Printed by l'Imprimerie Union in Paris in 1970 (2nd edition). Portfolio title: AVANT | PENDANT ET APRÈS | LA | COMMUNE || Title-page: PILOTELL | Dessinateur et Communard | PAR | CHARLES FELD | LIVRE-CLUB DIDEROT – PARIS || Contributors: Pilotell [Pilotelle, Georges Raoul Eugène] (French, 1845 – 1918) Feld, Charles Léon Salomon (Jewish-French, 1919 – 1995) Imprimerie Union (Paris, 1910 – 1995)
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    Lesley Hoskins. The papered wall: history, pattern, technique. — NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1994.

    Hardcover, 310 x 230 mm, red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, brown endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, pp.: [1-5] 6-256, 348 illustrations, incl. 195 plates in full colour. Title-page: Edited by Lesley Hoskins | THE | PAPERED WALL | HISTORY • PATTERN • TECHNIQUE | {vignette} | Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers || Imprint: Copyright @ 1994 Thames and Hudson Ltd, London | Published in 1994 by Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, New York | A Times Mirror Company || ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0810937301 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0810937307 Contributor: Lesley Hoskins, editor, former Secretary of the UK's Wallpaper History Society, Specialist Curator at MoDA (The Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Middlesex University).
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    Der Akt in der Kunst: von der Romantik bis zur Gegenwart; Erotik in der Kunst: von der Erotik bis zur Perversion / Ausstellungs-Katalog (vol. 1 & 2). — München: Das Gemälde Cabinett Unger, 1993.

    Two-volume edition, uniform pictorial glossy oblong 215 x 263 mm hardcover, catalogue of the sales exhibition from May 25 to July 17, 1993, held at the former rooms of the Galerie Wimmer & Co. in Munich. Vol. 1: The Nude in Art: From Romanticism to the Present; pp.: [2] 3-109, 86 colour plates and 16 b/w illustrations. Artists represented: Otto Müller, Paul Paede, Max Liebermann, Rudolf Nissl, Hans Licht, Leopold Schmutzler, Julius Schlegel, Paul Peel, Karl Truppe, Otto Herbig, Mozart Rottmann, Karl Schlageter, Wilhelm Hempfing, Jean Gabriel Domergue, Franz von Stuck, Marcel Herrfeldt, Jörg Trübner (Sohn des Wilhelm), Julius Hüther, Ludwig Bock, Ernst Fuchs, etc. Title-page: “Der Akt in der Kunst” | Von der Romantik bis zur Gegenwart | Gemälde, Aquarelle, Pastelle, Zeichnungen, Bronzen, Graphiken | — | Verkaufsausstellung vom 25. Mai bis 17. Juli 1993 | ~ |  DAS GEMÄLDE CABINETT UNGER | in den ehemaligen Räumen der Galerie Wimmer & Co. seit 1825 | 8000 München 2, Brienner Straße 7, Telefon (089) 22 75 15 u. 29 84 04 | Montag - Freitag 10 - 18 Uhr, Samstag 10 - 14 Uhr, langer Samstag 10 - 16 Uhr || Vol. 2: Eroticism in Art: From Eroticism to Perversion; pp.: [2] 3-100, 93 colour plates and 29 b/w illustrations. Artists represented: Otto Rudolf Schatz (28 watercolours), Fried Pal, Alois Harbeck, Jean Gabriel Domergue, Max Brüning, Max Schwimmer, Alfons Walde, Karl Heidelbach, Josef Werner Leben, etc. Two aquatints by Emil Sartori (Ranzenhofer) marked as Emil Sartou, and two others of him as Erotischer Meister des 19. Jahrhunderts; two aquatints by Frans von Bayros marked as Unbekannter Meister des 19. Jahrhunderts. Title-page: Erotik in der Kunst | “Von der Erotik bis zur Perversion” | Gemälde, Aquarelle, Pastelle, | Zeichnungen, Bronzen, Graphiken | (ibid).
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    La Petite Mort / Edited by Dian Hanson, photographs by William Santillo. — Köln: Taschen, 2016.

    Softcover, 290 x 205 mm, publisher’s flapped pictorial wrappers, pp.: [1-7] 8-205 [3], text in English, French, and German, profusely illustrated. First edition published in 2011. Title-page: Edited by Dian Hanson | LA | PETITE | MORT | § | PHOTOGRAPHS BY SANTILLO | TASCHEN || Hanson, Dian (American, b. 1951) – editor/text Santillo, William (American) – photographer
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    Jacques Ruppert. Le costume, T.IV: Louis XVI—Directoire; T. V: Consulat—Napoléon III (Les arts décoratifs). — Paris: Flammarion, 1931.

    Two softcover volumes, 4th and 5th of the series Les arts décoratifs, collated 8vo, in uniform brown wrappers with red and black lettering to the front cover and black lettering to the spine and back cover, 215 x 152 mm, published by Librairie d'art R. Ducher, overtaken by Flammarion.
    1. Vol. 4: 1-48, pp. [1-5] 6-63 [64]; LES ARTS DÉCORATIFS (in rules) | JACQUES RUPPERT | LE COSTUME | IV | LOUIS XVI – DIRECTOIRE | = 150 ILLUSTRATIONS = | | {vignette } | PARIS | Flammarion (pasted over) ||
    2. Vol. 5: 1-48, pp. [1-5] 6-63 [64]; LES ARTS DÉCORATIFS (in rules) | JACQUES RUPPERT | LE COSTUME | V | CONSULAT - PREMIER EMPIRE -LOUIS-PHILIPPE - NAPOLÉON III | = 145 ILLUSTRATIONS = | {vignette } | PARIS | Flammarion (pasted over) ||
    Contents of Vol. 5.
    1. Le costume sous le Consulat et l'Empire: Caractères généraux. Costume masculin. Costume militaire.
    2. Le costume féminin sous le premier Empire : Éléments caractéristiques. Spencers et canezous. Robes de cour. Redingotes. Witz-chouras.
    3. Les coiffures sous le premier Empire : Coiffures masculines et féminines.
    4. La Restauration : Caractères généraux. Costume masculin. Costume féminin. Coiffures féminines.
    5. Louis-Philippe: Caractères généraux. Costume masculin. Costume féminin. Robes de bal. Robes à pèlerine. Faux et vrai canezous. Mantelets. Robes à corsage plat et crinolines. Coiffures féminines. Chapeaux et bonnets.
    6. Deuxième République et Napoléon III: Costume masculin. Costume féminin. Crinolines et tournures. Coiffures.
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    Jack Ogden. Jewellery of the Ancient World. — NY: Rizzoli, 1982.

    Hardcover, 252 x 260 mm, grey buckram with gilt lettering to spine, in a black pictorial dust jacket with white lettering; pp. [6] 1-185 [1] profusely illustrated in b/w plus 16 leaves of colour plates extraneous to collation, .e. total 112 leaves. Title-page (pictorial): JEWELLERY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD | Jack Ogden | RIZZOLI / NEW YORK || Imprint: Published in the United States of America by Rizzoli International Publications Inc. 712, Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10019 First published by Trefoil Books Ltd, 1982 ISBN 0 8478 0444 5 Contents Jewellery and the archaeologist
    • Gold and silver
    Gold; The sources of gold: Egypt and Nubia, Africa to the South of Nubia. Arabia, Russia, India and Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe; The composition of ancient gold items; Impurities; Changes in gold with time; Silver; The sources of silver: North Africa and Arabia, Western Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe; The composition of ancient silver.
    • Metals other than gold and silver
    Copper and copper alloys; Iron; Lead; Antimony; Tin; Platinum group metals.
    • Goldsmithing techniques
    Sheet metal; Raised sheet work; Cutting and pierced work decoration; Engraving; Wire; Ornamental wires; Chains; Soldering and granulation: Gold and silver, Base metals; Mechanical joining; Casting.
    • The gemstones
    Apatite; Azurite; Beryl: Emerald, Aquamarine; Breccia; Calcite; Chrysoberyl; Cordierite; Corundum: Sapphire, Ruby; Diamond; Dioptase; Feldspar; Fluorspar; Garnet; Gypsum; Hematite; Jade; Lapis lazuli; Lazulite; Malachite; Mica; Obsidian; Olivine; Opal; Porphyry; Pyrites; Quartz: Amethyst, Citrine, Rock crystal, Rose quartz, Smoky quartz, Bloodstone, Chalcedony, Chrysoprase, Cornelian and Sard, Jasper, Plasma, Banded Agates, Onyx; Serpentine, Steatite, Chlorite and related materials; Sodalite; Spinel; Topaz; Tourmaline; Turquoise; Zircon.
    • Organic gem materials
    Amber; Coral; Ivory and bone; Jet and lignite; Pearls; Shells; Tortoise shell; Threading materials for beads.
    • Glass, enamel and faience
    Glazed stone and faience; Glass: Glass beads, Glass inlays, Glass intaglios, Other glass jewellery; Enamel; The aging of glass; Egyptian blue; Etched Cornelian beads.
    • Ancient imitation and altered gemstones
    Man-made imitation gemstones; Altered or improved stones.
    • Stone working
    Chipping; Cutting; Abrasion.
    • Forgeries
    The materials; The techniques: Wire, Sheet metal work, Cutting, Solder joins; Style; Ageing fake jewellery; Glass; Distribution; Forgeries of engraved gems and seals.
    • The jeweller
    Supply and demand; The growth of the industry; The shop; The jeweller; The Guild.
    • Bibliography & references
    • Index to illustrations
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    Christine Guth. Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City 1615-1868 (Perspectives). — NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996.

    Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 235 x 165 mm, pp. [1-9] 10-176, 120 illustrations, incl. 109 in full colour, 3 maps, glossary, and timeline. An enveloped postcard to E. Varshavsky laid in. Text profusely marked with coloured highlighters. Title-page (pictorial): Art of Edo Japan | The Artist and the City 1615-1868 | Christine Guth | PERSPECTIVES | HARRY N. ABRAMS, INC. PUBLISHERS || Contents: NOTE TO THE READER Map: Japan during the Edo period INTRODUCTION: Mapping the Artistic Landscape
    1. The Artist and the City
    The Castle Town; Urban Culture; The Urban Artist
    1. Kyoto Artists
    Map: Kyoto; The Kano and Tosa Schools; Köetsu, Sotatsu, and Rinpa Design; Taiga, Buson, and the Literati Movement; The Maruyama-Shijo School; Individualists: Jakuchü, Shöhaku, and Rosetsu; The Yamatoe Revival
    1. Edo Artists
    Map: Edo; The Kano School and the Realm of the Official Artist; Developments in Woodblock Prints: 1660-1760; Developments in Polychrome Prints: 1765-1801; Further Developments in Woodblock Prints: 1801-68; Sakai Höitsu and Tani Buncho: Edo Ripa and Bunjinga
    1. Osaka and Nagasaki Artists
    Kimura Kenkadö and his Circle; Osaka Books and Prints; Nagasaki: Window on the World; Monk-Artists of the Öbaku Sect; Visiting Chinese Artists and their Pupils; Painters in the Western Manner
    1. Itinerant, Provincial, and Rural Artists; Itinerant Monk-Artists and Pilgrimage Art; Poet and Literati Painters; Provincial and Rural Artists
    GLOSSARY TIMELINE BIBLIOGRAPHY PICTURE CREDITS INDEX
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    Anna Jackson. Japanese Textiles in the Victoria & Albert Museum. – London: V&A Publications, 2000.

    Hardcover, 305 x 258 mm, black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, black pictorial dust jacket with white lettering to front and spine, olive endpapers; pp. [1-5] 6-144, 150 colour illustrations. ISBN 185177 316. Title-page: JAPANESE TEXTILES | IN THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM | Anna Jackson | Photographs by Ian Thomas | V&A PUBLICATIONS || Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Map Japanese textiles List of plates The plates Bibliography
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    Josephine Rout. Japanese dress in detail. — London: V&A; Thames & Hudson, 2022.

    Paperback, 2nd edition, 290 x 205 mm, publisher’s pictorial wrappers with large flaps, white lettering, pp.: [1-6] 7-208, 198 illustrations, with glossary and 2½ pp. index. 1st edition published in 2020. Title-page: Japanese | Dress in Detail | Josephine Rout | with Anna Jackson | {Thames |&Hudson / V&A} || Contents: Introduction
    1. Necklines and Shoulders
    2. Headwear
    3. Sleeves
    4. Waists
    5. Waist Accessories
    6. Hems
    7. Linings and Undergarments
    8. Footwear
    Further Reading Glossary Acknowledgements Index
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    Fritz Kempe. Nicola Perscheid, Arthur Benda, Madame d’Ora / Katalog bearbeitet von Odette M. Appel-Heyne (Dokumente der Photographie 1). — Hamburg: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1980.

    Hardcover, 240 x 192 mm, glossy pictorial boards, lettering to front and spine, pp.: [1-5] 6-171 [172], with 308 plates in colour and b/w. Catalogue of the exhibition held on March 26 – June 1, 1980, at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. Title-page: DOKUMENTE DER PHOTOGRAPHIE 1 | FRITZ KEMPE | NICOLA PERSCHEID | ARTHUR BENDA | MADAME D'ORA | Katalog bearbeitet | von Odette M. Appel-Heyne | MUSEUM FUR KUNST UND GEWERBE HAMBURG 1980 || Contributors: Kempe, Fritz (German, 1909 –1988) – author Appel-Heyne, Odette M. – editor Kallmus, Dora [Madame d’Ora] (Austrian-Jewish, 1881 – 1963) – photographer Perscheid, Nicola (German, 1864 – 1930) – photographer Benda, Arthur (German, 1885 – 1969) – photographer
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    Madame d’Ora / edited by Monika Faber. – Munich, London, NY: Prestel Verlag / Neue Galerie, 2020.

    Hardcover, 290 x 240 mm, blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, grey endpapers, in a black and white pictorial dust jacket with white lettering, pp.: [1-5] 6-231 [232], with 114 plates. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Neue Galerie, NY, February 20—June 8, 2020. Title-page (white on black): MADAME D'ORA | Edited by Monika Faber | With preface by Ronald S. Lauder, foreword by Renée Price, | and contributions by Katrin Bomhoff Christian Brandstätter, Jean-Marc Dreyfus, | Monica Faber, Esther Ruelfs, Lisa Silverman, and Magdalena Vuković | PRESTEL | MUNICH • LONDON • NEW YORK | photoinstitut | BONARTES / MK&G / MUSEUM FÜR | KUNST UND GEWERBE | HAMBURG || Contributors: Kallmus, Dora [Madame d'Ora] (Austrian-Jewish, 1881 – 1963) – photographer Neue Galerie New York – museum of early twentieth-century German and Austrian art and design. Lauder, Ronald Steven (American-Jewish, b. 1944) – the owner of Neue Galerie.
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    Мастера современной гравюры и графики: Сборник материалов / Редакция Вяч. Полонского; Статьи В. Адарюкова, М. Бабенчикова, Е. Данько, К. Кузьминского, Л. Розенталя, А. Сидорова, К. Тихоновой, М. Фабриканта, А. Федорова-Давыдова. — М.- Л: Государственное издательство, 1928.

    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)
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    Chris Uhlenbeck, Jim Dwinger, Josephine Smit. The Riddles of Ukiyo-e: Women and Men in Japanese Prints. — Brussels: Ludion, 2023.

    Hardcover volume 295 x 240 mm, pictorial front cover and purple spine with gilt embossed lettering, back cover with orange lettering, craft endpapers, pp.: [1-6] 7-255 [1], profusely illustrated. Exhibition catalogue with 123 reproductions of Japanese woodblock prints. Title-page: The Riddles of | UKIYO-E | Women and Men in Japanese Prints 1765–1865 | Chris Uhlenbeck / Jim Dwinger / Josephine Smit | {publisher’s device LUDION} || Table of contents: Preface; Introduction; Beauties; Shunga; Legends; Kabuki; INDEX; LIST OF WORKS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; AUTHORS.
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  • Lewis Carroll: Photos and letters to his child friends / Edited by Guido Almansi, notes by Brassai and Helmut Gernsheim. — Parma: Franco Maria Ricci, 1975 ©.

    Hardcover volume, 355 x 240 mm, bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine with a photo portrait of Mary Millais (1860-1944), in a black cloth clam-shell box 370 x 253 x 40 mm, with a shamrock diaper black paper adorned with publisher’s coat of arms pasted to the front. Pp.: [1-12] 13-213 [3], with 41 glued-in photomechanically reproduced photographs, chiefly from the Gernsheim Collection at the University of Texas, two of them of Alice Liddell (pp. 123 and 127). Printed on hand-made blue laid paper. Edition is limited to 3,000 copies, of which this is copy № 1200. Title-page: Lewis Carroll | Photos and Letters | to His Child Friends | Edited by Guido Almansi | Notes by | Brassai and Helmut Gernsheim | Franco Maria Ricci | 1975 || Colophon: This volume was printed in Milan, Italy, in the month of November 1975, under the direction of Franco Maria Ricci. The hand-made paper is the work of the Pietro Miliani mills at Fabriano. This first edition consists of three thousand numbered copies. Copy n. [1200]. Facsimile. Seller’s description: Near Fine condition Hardcover Signed by Franco Maria Ricci on the colophon page, Numbered and Limited Edition #1200/3000 of copies. Includes Notes by Brassai and Helmut Gernsheim, with 41 tipped-in sepia-toned photographs, 213 pages. "The Signs of Man Volume 3". Black boards bound in Orient silk with gold engraved lettering on the spine and cover and a sepia-toned photograph affixed to the front cover, handmade Ingres pastel paper manufactured by Cartiere Milliani in Fabrianoo with decorated endpapers and deckled fore-edge. Housed in a black clamshell case with clover leaf pattern in Very Good + condition with the exception that there is no spine label and very light wear to the extremities. Oversize folio: 9" x 13 3/4" Contributors: Carroll, Lewis (British, 1832 – 1898) – Author/Photographer Ricci, Franco Maria (Italian, 1937 – 2020) – publisher Almansi, Guido (Italian, 1931 – 2001) – editor Brassai [Halász, Gyula] (Hungarian–French, 1899 – 1984) – notes Gernsheim, Helmut (Jewish-German, 1913 – 20 July 1995) – notes  
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  • Pascin. Perls Galleries / Exhibition Catalogues: 1952, 1955, 1959, 1962.

    Four exhibition catalogues at Perls Galleries in NYC, coloured stiff laid paper wrappers, colour lettering, staples, b/w plates: September 22 - October 25, 1952, 8 pp; November 14 - December 24, 1955, 12 pp.; “The Nude” January 5 - February 7, 1959. 16 pp.; Portraits and Models November 20 - December 29, 1962, 12 pp. Size: 155 x 240 mm each.
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