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St. Petersburg: pri Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 1770-1772. Small quartos (24.6 × 18.3 cm). Later polished calf with spine in six compartments and gilt titles; marbled endpapers; red edges; 460 and 438, a-e, 460 pp. (lacking pp. 461-763). Decorative initials, headpieces, and etched allegorical vignette with a small portrait of Peter.....

MoreZhurnal ili Podennaia zapiska, blazhennyia i vechnodostoinyia pamiati gosudaria imperatora Petra...

42 pp. compendium of poems by noted figures including Koshiro Onchi, who also designed the book and its layout, accompanied by 8 reproductions of photographs by the noted avant-garde photographer Katsuji Fukuda (1899-1991) mostly showing images of the female nude. 4to. Stiff printed and illustrated wrpps., sl. shaken. Tokyo (Fugaku.....

MoreShika-shu Jintai-Shoka

A complete collection in 5 issues, 8 pp. each, of the scarce and extremely short-lived French satirical journal, featuring political caricatures and short works of prose and poetry, featuring illustrations from Leal da Camara, Ricardo Florès, Adolph Willette, Henri-Gabriel Ibels, Marcel Capy, Monterose, Benjamin Rabier, Radiguet, Paul Pigassou, and Ripart.....

MoreLe Barbare: Illustré Satyrique Hebdomadaire. No. 1 (25 October 1914) through No. 5 (22...