Title page: DIALOGUE AUX ENFERS | ENTRE | MACHIAVEL | ET MONTESQUIEU | OU LA POLITIQUE DE MACHIAVEL | AU XIXe SIÈCLE, | PAR UN CONTEMPORAIN. | {6 lines of citations} | ~ | BRUXELLES, | IMPRIMERIE DE A. MERTENS ET FILS, | RUE DE L’ESCALIER, 22. | 1864 ||
Description: 17.9 x 12 cm, quarter red morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt bees in compartments, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, ffep cut out top 1/4, ffep and h.t. loose.
Inscriptions and markings: "Hommage respectueux offert à M. Bourdais par son très humble serviteur, 5 Janvier 1881". Signature: E. Rouger (?) "Vu et approuvé". "Valatte". Ink stamp: "M<aîtr>e E. Brouard - Notaire a Laon Aisne".
[Bonaparte, Louis Napoleon]. The Political and Historical Works of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, President of the French Republic, Now First Collected With An Original Memoir of His Life, Brought Down to the Promulgation of the Constitution of 1852; and Occasional Notes, Complete in Two Volumes. London: Illustrated London Library, MDCCCLII [1852].
Collation:
Vol. 1: [i-v] vi [vii-viii (blank)] [1] 2-462 [463,464 (blank)];
Vol. 2: [1-3] 4-439 [440].
Size: 22.8 x 14.8 cm (8vo), each.
Binding: hardcover; half red morocco and cloth boards, five raised bands, gilt title and decoration, top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte in Vol. 1. Condition: Very good, rubbing to outer joints, leather corners, faint foxing to endpapers, ownership signature on half-title. Internally bright and unmarked.
In binding by Brentano's, New York.
Quinze poèmes d'Emile Verhaeren. Illustrés de 57 gravures sur bois dessinées et gravées par Frans Masereel et suivis d'un 'Souvenir à Verhaeren' par Octave Uzanne. — Paris: Éditions Georges Crès, 1917.
Authors: Emile Verhaeren (text), Frans Masereel (illustrations), Octave Uzanne (text).
Publisher: Éditions Georges Crès. [Georges-Célestin Crès (1875 - 1935) was a French publisher and bookseller. Address: 116 boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris].
Printer: Sonor S.A. - Geneve, under the direction of Auguste Jordanis.
The number of copies printed: 1555 of which 15 (1-15) on Japan paper, 190 (16-205) on Fabriano paper, and 1350 (206-1555) on English paper (1506-1555 not for trade). This copy № 1312.
Pagination: [i] - front cover, [ii] - half-title, [iii] - title, [iv] - printrun justification, [v] - table of contents, [vi] - blank, [i-vii] viii-ciii, [civ] - printer statement, [cv] - back cover; one-side (recto) printing and pagination.
Owner's contemporary red half-Morocco with marbled boards; spine with four raised bands, gilt lettering and design elements. Original printed paper wrappers preserved. Marbled endpapers. Trimmed unevenly.
Le Grelot / journal illustré politique et satirique, №21, dimanche, 3 septembre 1871.
Artist: Caporal (signed in the lower-left corner)
Engraver/Printer: J. Lefman (signed LEFMAN SC in the lower-right corner)
Title: LE COUP D'ÉTAT DU 4 SEPTEMBRE 1871.
The Coup d'Etat of September 4th 1871.
The artist equalled the 4th of September revolution when Napoleon III was ousted and the Second Empire collapsed, to a coup d'Etat. Although the number is marked September 3, it is dedicated to the events of September 4th. This was a usual French newspaper practice to postdate their issues. That's why they almost always operated with categories such as "today", "yesterday", and "tomorrow" instead of definitive calendar dates. "Le Grelot" means "The Sleigh Bell".Personages:Ratapoil – fictional personage invented by Honoré Daumier (French, 1808 – 1879), a Napoleon III caricaturized figure. Ratapoil is addressing the audience holding up Napoléon Bonaparte's tricorn cocked hat.
Pietri – Joseph Marie Piétri [Joachim Piétri] (French, – is sitting in the first row, taking notes.
Rouher – Eugène Rouher (French, 1814 – 1884), president of the Senat.
Canrobert – François Marcellin Certain de Canrobert (French, 1809 – 1895), French Marshal, captured by the Prussian army in Metz with Marshal Bazaine during the surrender of Metz on October 28, 1870.
Ollivier – Olivier Émile Ollivier (French, 1825 – 1913), head of the government.
Hiding behind the theater decoration are: Napoleon III (Lui!), his wife Eugénie (Elle!), their son Prince Imperial (Le P'tit!), and Pierre Bonaparte (L'Autre).
Sitting in the theatre box facing the scene: Adolphe Thiers (French, 1797 – 1877), Jules Favre (French, 1809 – 1880), Louis-Jules Trochu [Le General Trochu] (French, 1815 – 1896), and the other members of the "Government of National Defence".
On the gallery: youngsters and two men in sans-culottes hats.
An unidentified person on a ladder holding to an eagle figure is having a paintbrush and a bucket with 'tender green' paint.
Ref: Musée Carnavalet
L'Éclipse : journal hebdomadaire, №94, 07-11-1869. La Bataille de Louqsor, par Job. [The Battle of Louqsor, by Job].
Le père Gagne, monté sur l'Obélisque, s'écrie: — Citoyens, du bas de ce monument, quatre-vingt mille…..parapluies me contemplent.
[The father Gagne mounted on the Obelisk, cries out: — Citizens, from the bottom of the monument, eighty thousand….umberellas contemplate me].
Étienne-Paulin Gagne, known as Paulin Gagne (French, 1808 – 1876), holding a hat with a tricolour cockade and umbrella with the head of a devil on its grip straddles the obelisk of Luxor at the centre of the Place de la Concorde with marching scarabs on it. A spider dangles from his heel. In the background is The Palais Bourbon, a meeting place of the French National Assembly. The ground is made out of open umbrellas. Paulin Gagne was a graphomaniac poet, essayist, lawyer, politician, inventor, and eccentric, and a perpetual candidate for the Assembly.
Ref.: Gallica; Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Philosophie, histoire, sciences de l'homme, FOL-LC13-114
Title: THE | WORKS | OF THE FAMOUS | Nicholas Machiavel, | CITIZEN and SECRETARY | OF | FLORENCE. |—| WRITTEN | Originally in ITALIAN, and from thence newly | and faithfully Tranſlated into ENGLISH. |—|[ornament]|—| LONDON, | Printed for John Starkey, Charles Harper, and John | Amery, at the Miter, the Flower-de-Luce, and the | Peacock, in Fleetstreet. 1680.
Content: (1) The history of Florence; (2) The Prince; (3) The Original of the Guelf and Ghibilin Factions; (4) The Life of Castruccio Castracani; (5) The Murther of Vitelli, etc. by Duke Valentino; (6) The State of France; (7) The State of Germany; (8) The Discourses on Titus Livius; (9) The Art of War; (10) The Marriage of Belphegor, a Novel; (11) Nicholas Machiavel's Letter in Vindication of Himself and His Writings.
Pagination: ffl, 24 unnumbered pages before the first numbered: [2] – tp / license], [2] – contents / blank], [2] ftp “Florence” / blank, [3] – epistle to Clement VII, [3] – introduction, [12] – table; Misnumbering (X instead of Y format – X/Y): History of Florence: 1- 28/24, 19/91, 198/98, 180/108, 190/109, 174/164, 175/ 165, 179/169, 180/170, 185/175, 186/176, 188/178, 189/179, [190/180 blank]; The Prince, Lucca, State of France: [4] 199-262; State of Germany: 256/263, 266/264, 267/265 [268/266]; Discourses: [4] 267-314, 317-431 [432]; Art of War: [4] 433-528; [4] – publisher, [12] –Machiavelli’s letter, bfl.
Collation: π3 Aa3 b-d2 B-Z4 Aa-Bb2 Cc-Zz4 Aaa-Yyy4 (*)-(**)4
Binding: Original mottled leather boards with embossing, later leather spine with 5 raised bands, crimson label with gilt lettering.
Size: 32.4 x 21.0 x 4.0 cm
Provenance: Bradford H. Gray
This is the second edition; despite misnumbering, the collation is correct and all pages present. The first edition of this book was published in 1675 by Robert Bolter (British, fl. 1666 – 1683).
First MGM edition, original maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold with decorations and lettering, partially darkened, wrap-around dust-jacket, chipped and torn near the head of spine with some loss, small chip and larger closed tear to lower panel. Photoplay edition. Film tie in edition for the 1926 French silent film which does not exist at this time in a full version. The front and rear panels depict scenes from the film. Bleiler (1978), p. 161. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992).
Pagination: [2] – blank / advert., [2] – t.p. / coloph., [4] –advert. / editor's note, [2] – advert. / blank, [13] 14-251 [252: printer's imprint] [2] – blanks, note: [first and last leaves used as front and rear paste-downs].
Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 cm.
Publisher: The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd. (London).
Publishing Year: 1927 (not indicated).
Description of Shapero Rare Books, London: An attractive copy from this popular series of film editions, notable for their use of actors and scenes from the film version in question on the wrap-around dust-jacket, and sometimes photographic plates. A number of the film-makers involved were exiles from the Russian Revolution of 1917. The film's art direction was by Eduardo Gosch (Russian, American, 1890 – ?), César Lacca, Alexandre Lochakoff (Russian, French, fl. 1918–1939), Vladimir Meingard and Pierre Schild [Lakka Schildknecht](Russian, Spanish, 1897 – 1968) who recreated the atmosphere of mid-nineteenth century Tsarist Russia. “Jules Verne has written no better book than this, in fact, it is deservedly ranked as one of the most thrilling tales ever written." Leonard S. Davidow, Classic Romances of Literature, 1937.
Vol. 1: THE | WORKS | OF THE | RIGHT HONOURABLE | EDMUND BURKE, | COLLECTED IN THREE VOLUMES. | VOL. I. | DUBLIN: | PRINTED FOR R. CROSS, W. WILSON, P. WO-| GAN, L. WHITE, P. BYRNE, A. GRUEBER, J. MOORE, | W. JONES, W. M’KENZIE, H. WATTS, J. RICE, | AND G. FOLINGSBY. | 1792.||
Pagination: 2 blank leaves, [2] - t.p. /blank, [2] - contents / blank, [2] - f.t. / blank, [3] 4-61 [62] - blank, [2] - f.t / blank, [4] contents, 65-580, 1 blank leaf.
Collation: 8vo; π2 B-Z8 Aa-Oo8 Pp4.
Vol. 2: THE | WORKS | OF THE | RIGHT HONOURABLE | EDMUND BURKE, | COLLECTED IN THREE VOLUMES. | VOL. II. | DUBLIN: | Printed by William Porter, | For R. Cross, W. Wilson, P. Wogan, L. White, P. Byrne, W. M’kenzie, J. Moore, A. Grueber, W. Jones, H. Watts, J. Rice, And G. Folingsby. | M.DCC.XCIII.||
Pagination: 2 blank leaves, [2] - t.p. /blank, [2] - contents / cont., [2] - f.t. / blank, [3] 4-655 [656 blank], 2 blank leaves.
Collation: 8vo; π2 B-Z8 Aa-Tt8.
Vol. 3: THE | WORKS | OF THE | RIGHT HONOURABLE | EDMUND BURKE, | COLLECTED IN THREE VOLUMES. | VOL. III. | DUBLIN: | PRINTED FOR R. CROSS, W. WILSON, P. WO-| GAN, L. WHITE, P. BYRNE, A. GRUEBER, J. MOORE, | W. JONES, W. M’KENZIE, H. WATTS, J. RICE, | AND G. FOLINGSBY. | 1792.||
Pagination: 2 blank leaves, [2] - t.p. /blank, [2] - contents / blank, [2] - f.t. / blank, 3-602, 3 blank leaves.
Collation: 8vo; A-Z8 Aa-Pp8.
Binding: Full contemporary calf ruled in gilt, leather spine labels gilt, gilt scrollwork in compartments framed in Greek–key rolls, marbled endpapers, hinges cracked, central vertical split to spine panel to vol. 1 and 3, early ownership signature to titles.
Title: REFLECTIONS | ON THE | REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, | AND ON THE | PROCEEDINGS IN CERTAIN SOCIETIES | IN LONDON | RELATIVE TO THAT EVENT. | IN A | LETTER | INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SENT TO A GENTLEMAN | IN PARIS. | BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE | EDMUND BURKE. | — | {in lozenges} THE SECOND EDITION. | —| LONDON: | PRINTED FOR J. DODSLEY, IN PALL-MALL. | M.DCC.XC. ||
Pagination: [4 blanks] [i-iii] iv, 1-356 [4 blanks].
Collation: 8vo; π2 B-Z8, Aa2.
Binding: Quarter calf with marbled boards, gilt fillets, red label with gilt lettering to spine. "King John Haggerston, 1790" handwritten ink inscription to front endpaper, t.p. and p. iii. Seems like Sir John Haggerston, 9th Baronet.
Title: MEMOIRS OF M. THIERS | 1870—1873 | Translated by | F. M. ATKINSON | {publisher’s device} | LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD. | RUSKIN HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C.
Pagination: [6] 7-384.
Collation: 8vo; [1]-248.
Size: 23 x 15 cm
Binding: Blue cloth, top and bottom ruled in blind, gilt lettering to front cover and spine.
Original: Adolphe Thiers. Notes et souvenirs de M. Thiers, 1870-1873: voyage diplomatique, proposition d'un armistice, préliminaires de la paix, présidence de la République. — Paris : [s.n.], 1901. — 465 p. The preface and editing signed "F. D." [Félicie Dosne]. Félicie Dosne (French, 1823 – 1906) was Thiers's sister-in-law.
Title: PROBLÈMES ET DOCUMENTS | HENRI ROLLIN | L'APOCALYPSE | DE | NOTRE TEMPS | Les dessous de la propagande allemande | d'après des documents inédits | nrf | S. P. | GALLIMARD | Paris — 43, rue de Beaune
Pagination: [1-9] 10-567 [9].
Size: 22.6 x 14.2 cm
Binding: original publisher's wrappers. Ex libris Lorenzo Grazzini of Librairie Scritti (book store in Paris).
Publishing Year: 1939; Publisher: Gallimard; Acheve d'impremier - Le 23 Septembre 1939 par l'Impremierie Orleanaise 68, rue Royale, Orleans.
Vol. 1.Title: THE | LIFE AND ADVENTURES | OF | George Augustus Sala | WRITTEN BY HIMSELF | In Two Volumes | VOL. I. | (WITH PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR) | CASSEL AND COMPANY, Limited | LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE | 1895 | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ||
Pagination: frontispiece portrait of Sala by Boussod, Valadon & Cie. w/guard tissue, [i, ii] – t.p./blank, [iii, iv] – dedication/blank, [v]-x – preface, [xi]-xvi – content, [1] 2-442, [16] advert.
Collation: A-Z8 AA-BB8 CC5 [Advert.]8.
Vol. 2. Title: THE | LIFE AND ADVENTURES | OF | George Augustus Sala | WRITTEN BY HIMSELF | In Two Volumes | VOL. II. | (WITH PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHORS MOTHER) | CASSEL AND COMPANY, Limited | LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE | 1895 | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ||
Pagination: frontispiece portrait of Sal’s mother w/guard tissue, [i, ii] – t.p. / blank, [iii] iv-viii – content, [1] 2-457-[460], [16] advert.
Collation: A-Z8 aa-cc8 dd6 [Advert.]8.
Binding: two volumes in uniform green publisher’s pebbled buckram, gilt lettering to spine, contemporary newspaper clippings to front and back pastedowns, vol. 2 uncut.
Note: George Augustus Sala's mother was an actress Henrietta Simon Sala, known as Madame Sala, (Guyanese, British, 1789 – 1860). Here she is depicted by an engraver Thomas Alfred Woolnoth (British, 1785 – 1857) after a portrait painted by Rose Emma Drummond (British, fl. 1820 – 1840).
Title (black and red): ЦИЦЕРОН | ДИАЛОГИ | О ГОСУДАРСТВЕ 〜 О ЗАКОНАХ | ИЗДАНИЕ ПОДГОТОВИЛИ | И. Н. ВЕСЕЛОВСКИЙ, В. О. ГОРЕНШТЕЙН | и С. Л. УТЧЕНКО | {device} | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО • НАУКА | МОСКВА • 1966 ||
Frontispiece (black and red): M. TVLLI CICERONIS | DIALOGI | DE REPUBLICA 〜 DE LEGIBUS| {device} ||
Pagination: [1-7] 8-223 [224], insert errata slip, 2 plates.
Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-148.
Binding: 22 x 17.3 cm; hardbound: original serial green cloth, blind-stamped with scrolls and gilt lettering to board and spine, lacking DJ.
Веселовский, Иван Николаевич (Russian, 1892 – 1977); Горенштейн, Виктор Осипович (Russian, 20th century); Утченко, Сергей Львович (Russian, 1908 – 1976).
Title: LETTRES DE GAMBETTA | 1868 – 1882 | recueillies et annotées par | DANIEL HALÉVY ET ÉMILE PILLIAS | ÉDITIONS BERNARD GRASSET | 61, RUE DES SAINTS-PÈRES, VIe | PARIS ||
Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-428, unpaginated, (336 leaves) + 4 leaves of plates extraneous to collation, untrimmed wove paper, 587 letters, printed on the 25th of March 1938 by Floch (Mayenne); limited edition, unnumbered copy.
Binding: original publisher’s pictorial wrappers, lettering to spine.
Series: "Documents", pub. sous la direction de la Société d'histoire de la troisième république.
Insert: Lettre Autographe Signée (LAS): Ludovic Halévy (French, 1834 – 1908).
Transcript:
Mercredi,
Mon cher ami,
Reçois mes bien sincères et bien affectueuses félicitations.
Si tu continues à marcher de ce pas tu en seras bientôt en grande situation et ce sera
justice, et j’en serais bien heureux n’en doute pas.
Tout à toi
Ludovic Halévy
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 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: 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.
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, –