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1859 - 1860 HAMASAEF: The Hebrew Review and Magazine for Jewish Literature: The journal of Hebrew Enlightenment and the First Modern Hebrew Periodical 1859

LES CONTENANCES DE LA TABLE.

[Lyons, Pierre Mareschal & Bernabé Chaussard, c. 1503].

Small 4to, ff. [4], with large woodcut letter 'L', and with woodcut printer's device on title; the first leaf with section of outer margin restored (not affecting text); lightly washed; traces of central, horizontal fold-marks; late 19th-century red crushed morocco, by Lortic.

AN EXTRAORDINARY SURVIVAL: A PRECIOUS BOOKLET WITH INSTRUCTIONS ON BEHAVIOUR, MORALS AND TABLE MANNERS FOR CHILDREN, written in verse for easy memorizing in best medieval tradition The copy offered here shows faint signs of earlier folding, indicating it may have been intended as a hand-out, which would account for its extreme rarity today. This is one of several editions printed by Pierre Mareschal and Bernabé Chaussard.

'Issued a few decades after the invention of printing, this French rhymed treatise on table manners is a courtesy book addressed to children of humble as well as noble rank. It has been argued that this is the first printed book (apart from elementary Latin grammars) intended to be read specifically by children. The unknown author of Les Contenances offers his advice in the form of quatrains, each beginning "Enfant ..."' (Pierpont Morgan Library, Early Children's Books and their Illustration p. 32).

'Contenances de table ... sont appelées de ce nom de courtes pièces de vers qui énoncent les règles de la bonne tenue à table (c'est un thème de composition très répandue à la fin du Moyen Âge) et qui, de ce fait, contiennent de précieux renseignements sur la vie privée de ce temps. S'inspirant de poèmes latins médiévaux comme le Liber Faceti, De curialitatibus in mensa conservandis, le Modus cenandi, ces textes sont au nombre de trois: le premier, de soixante vers octosylabiques, composé à la fin du XIIIe, recommande en particulier de penser aux pauvres, de s'essuyer les lèvres avant de boire (il n'y a souvent qu'un verre pour toute la table), de ne pas tremper son morceau de viande dans la salière, de se laver les mains après le repas (la fourchette est encore inconnue) ...; le second, de quarante-sept distiques, dérive du précédent (il mentione la serviette); le troisième, écrit au XVe, comporte trente-sept quatrains que suit une ballade; il emprunte beaucoup au poème no 2, qu'il dilue et amplifie' (Dictionnaire des Lettres Françaises, Le Moyen Age, p. 330). The printed Contenances offered here are of the third version, written in thirty-seven quatrains, and ending with a ballad. Anonymously published, they may originate from the same author, as La doctrine du pere au fils, Le doctrinal d's nouveaux mariez, Le doctrinal des filles, and La voye d'padis. These four opuscules, similar in style, and with the same woodcut printer's device on the title, are found bound together in a Sammelband preserved in the Bibliothèque Impériale.

Enfant se tu es ung yvroigne
Par trop boire il est deshonneste
Et si en as mal en ta teste
Et puis apres honte et vergoigne...

Enfant ce test chose honteuse
Se tu as serviete ou drap
De boire dedans ton hanap
La bouche toute orde et baveuse

Much sought after since the time of publication, a facsimile edition, limited to 35 copies - one printed on vellum - was published in 12mo by Bulmer and Co. for the Roxburghe Club in 1816. Another facsimile, limited to 20 copies, was published in Paris, c. 1850, with a copy being offered in Pierre Berès's catalogue Nourritures of 1991 for Ff 8000.

Baudrier XI 483 (listing a copy at Fribourg); Brunet II 244; Cat. Firmin Didot, 1879, 219; Vicaire 207-8; although ISTC provides several entries, the earliest there being described as 'Lyons, Printer of the Complainte de l'âme damnée, about 1485-90', no certain sequence of editions - none are dated - has been established. A total of six copies - none in the British Library - of the various Paris and Lyons printings are recorded in ISTC: two at Chantilly, two at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, one at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and one at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich; the only American location is Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (the only known copy of the first edition: see Fairfax Murray 106). Small 4to, ff. [4], with large woodcut letter 'L', and with woodcut printer's device on title; the first leaf with section of outer margin restored (not affecting text); lightly washed; traces of central, horizontal fold-marks; late 19th-century red crushed morocco, by Lortic. AN EXTRAORDINARY SURV ...

ECONOMISKA ANNALER med Kong. Maj:ts Nådigste Tillstånd utgifna af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Academien …

Stockholm, Henrik A. Nordström, 1807–8.

Eight vols, 8vo; some occasional spotting, heavier in places, but a good copy in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, extremities a little rubbed, flat spines ruled gilt, with contrasting gilt lettering-pieces; modern bookplate to the front pastedown of each vol.; an attractive set.

Rare complete run of the Swedish Academy of Sciences’ Economiska Annaler, which counts Berzelius amongst its contributors and contains articles and translations of a largely agricultural nature. Also included are reviews of contemporary European works on subjects of interest to the journal’s readership, such as John Sinclair’s Essays on Miscellaneous Subjects, Richard Parkinson’s Tour in America, and William Aiton’s Treatise on the Origin, Qualities, and Cultivation of Moss-earth (Glasgow, 1805).

Not in Goldsmiths’ or Kress; OCLC locates copies at Delaware, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Eight vols, 8vo; some occasional spotting, heavier in places, but a good copy in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, extremities a little rubbed, flat spines ruled gilt, with contrasting gilt lettering-pieces; modern bookplate to the front pastedown of each vol.; an attractive set. Rare comp ...

AMERICAN ANTI-SOCIALIST (The). A Monthly Magazine … Volume 1, Number 1 [– Number 6] [all published].

Washington, D.C., John Basil Barnhill, 1912–14.

Six numbers in one vol., 8vo, pp. 80; bound with five other, related items (see below) in contemporary cloth, very slightly sunned.

Scarce complete run of The American Anti-Socialist, ‘An Organ of Jeffersonian Democracy’, edited and published by the libertarian writer John B. Barnhill (1864–1929). Barnhill also edited other journals, such as The Eagle and Serpent, Nationalist, and Humanity First.

The other items included in the volume are:

i) [drop-head title:] Socialism means the Abolition of Family Life. [London, Liberty and Property Defence League, n. d.]

8vo, pp. 4, [2].

ii) O’BRIEN, M. D. [drop-head title:] Private Property; or, Old-Fashioned Folly and New Philosophy. [London, Liberty and Property Defence League, n. d.]

8vo, pp. 4.

iii) PLUMPTRE, Constance E. [drop-head title:] What do we owe the State? [London, Liberty and Property Defence League, n. d.]

8vo, pp. [2].

iv) LOTT, Edson S. [drop-head title:] Fallacies of Compulsory Social Insurance. [New York?, n. p., c.1916].

8vo, pp. 12.

v) LARMOUR, Robert. The Impossible Vagaries of Socialism. Its Fallacies and Illusions. Stratford, Ontario, by the author, c.1911.

8vo, pp. 86; original printed wrappers preserved. Six numbers in one vol., 8vo, pp. 80; bound with five other, related items (see below) in contemporary cloth, very slightly sunned. Scarce complete run of The American Anti-Socialist, ‘An Organ of Jeffersonian Democracy’, edited and published by the libertarian writer John B. Barnhill (1 ...

HOMERIC HYMN (THE) to Aphrodite. A New Translation by F. L. Lucas, fellow of King's College, Cambridge. With ten Engravings by Mark Severin.

Printed in Great Britain at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1948.

Small folio, pp.35, [1], engraved border and vignette on title and twelve other attractive engravings; near-fine in the original quarter black morocco and sienna buckram by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt vignette to front cover, small, unobtrusive stain to rear cover; text 'in Poliphilus Roman and New Hellenic Greek', printed on 'Arnold's mould-made paper'.

First edition, No. 308 of 750 copies. Cockalorum 177. Small folio, pp.35, [1], engraved border and vignette on title and twelve other attractive engravings; near-fine in the original quarter black morocco and sienna buckram by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt vignette to front cover, small, unobtrusive stain to rear cover; text 'in Poliphilus Roman and Ne ...

ZRITEL’ [The Observer] No. 24.

St Petersburg, “Sever”/A. M. Lesman, 1905.

Sm. folio, pp. 12, with cover illustration by Shestopalov printed in orange and black and numerous illustrations in text printed in black, red and blue; a little stained and dust-soiled, but generally in good condition, folded as issued.

A very rare number, confiscated by the authorities, of the very first of the satirical magazines to come out of the 1905 Revolution. 25 numbers were published, between 5 June and 11 December 1905, edited by Yu. K. Artsybyshev. Contributors include Fedor Sologub, and the artists Epifanov and Shestopalov, whose cover design for no. 24 is the ‘only work in 1905 to portray the alliance between worker, soldier and sailor’ (Cathy Porter, Blood & Laughter: Caricatures from the 1905 Revolution, London, Jonathan Cape, 1983, p. 38)

Russkaia satiricheskaia periodika 100; Dul’skii 1; Smirnov-Sokol’skii 2229. Sm. folio, pp. 12, with cover illustration by Shestopalov printed in orange and black and numerous illustrations in text printed in black, red and blue; a little stained and dust-soiled, but generally in good condition, folded as issued. A very rare number, confiscated by the authorities, of the ve ...

NASHI ARTISTKI o parfiumerii t-va parfiumernoi fabriki provizora A. M. Ostroumova. [Our Artistes, on the perfumery of the perfume factory company of the chemist A. M. Ostroumov].

Moscow, A. I. Mamontov for Ostroumov, 1912.

8vo, pp. [54], with 25 lithographic portraits of actresses and other female performers, each with a facing facsimile of a letter to Ostroumov; portraits within green, black or brown borders; marks of old tape repairs to spine, covers, and inner margin of title, but a good copy in the original blue stiff glazed paper wrappers, embossed gilt, rebacked, a few red stains to front cover.

First edition, an album of celebrity endorsements for the cosmetics of Aleksandr Mitrofanovich Ostroumov, with portraits and facsimile letters by the (female) great and good of the Russian stage – singers, ballet dancers and actresses.

Ostroumov had begun his career as a pharmaceutical chemist, but set up his renowned perfume and cosmetics factory in 1885. His major success was with the cream ‘Metamorfoza’, a hit all across Russia, produced for more than 30 years. Ostroumov opened an Institute of Medical Cosmetics, then unique in the world, on Tverskaia ulitsa in 1910, and his products, and his Institute, were particularly popular among the artistes of the Imperial Theatre. In this volume, essentially a marketing device, 25 doyennes pay tribute to Ostroumov: ‘When I dance in “The Corsair” I always wear “Violette”’ (Ekatarina Gel’tser, ballerina), etc.

Of the ballerinas, Gel’tser and Vera Karalli had danced in Diaghilev’s recent Ballets Russes. Among the other notables whose testimony is included are Ol’ga Gzovskaia, Ophelia in Stanislavsky’s Hamlet, who later had a glittering film career. 8vo, pp. [54], with 25 lithographic portraits of actresses and other female performers, each with a facing facsimile of a letter to Ostroumov; portraits within green, black or brown borders; marks of old tape repairs to spine, covers, and inner margin of title, but a good copy in the original blue s ...

PARA UN CASTILLO DE PENAS. Poesias de Antonio Machado, César Vallejo, José Morena Villa, Pablo Neruda, Rafael Alberti, Raúl González Tañon, Leon Felipe, Juvenal Ortiz Saralegui, Luis Cernuda, Emilio Prados, Córdova Iturburu, Manuel Altolaguirre, Miguel Hernández, Arturo Serrano Plaja. Ofrenda y petición de Rafael Alberti.

Buenos Aires, Libreria ‘Marcos Sastre’, 1941.

8vo, pp. 64; paper browned, but a good copy, uncut in the original printed wrappers; stamp of Daniel Devoto and Maria Beatriz del Valle-Inclán to inside lower wrapper.

First edition: an early anthology of exile poetry published in Buenos Aires, with an introductory poem by Rafael Alberti.

Not in the British Library catalogue. 8vo, pp. 64; paper browned, but a good copy, uncut in the original printed wrappers; stamp of Daniel Devoto and Maria Beatriz del Valle-Inclán to inside lower wrapper. First edition: an early anthology of exile poetry published in Buenos Aires, with an introductory poem by Rafael Alberti.

BURELOM. No. 1 [Wind-fallen trees. No. 1].

St Petersburg, G. P. Erastov, 26 November 1905.

Folio, pp. 8, printed in red and black, with numerous illustrations; folded as issued, edges worn.

The first issue of the satirical literary journal Burelom. Two issues came out originally, 26 November and 4 December 1905, at which point Erastov, an artist, was called to account by the authorities for his caricatures; he resumed publication later in the month, but with the sub-title 'Weekly literary-satirical journal', which ran for 3 issues, 18 and 25 December, and 3 January 1906 (the last two sequence were confiscated by the authorities).

Russkaia satiricheskaia periodika 1905-1907 gg. Svodnyi katalog (Moscow, Lenin Library, 1980) 29 and 30; Dul'skii, Grafika satiricheskikh zhurnalov 1905-1906 g.g. (Kazan, n. p., 1922) 11; Smirnov-Sokol'skii, Moia biblioteka (Moscow, "Kniga", 1969) 2186 (without no. 2 from the first sequence; 'highly successful ... All numbers are rather rare'). Folio, pp. 8, printed in red and black, with numerous illustrations; folded as issued, edges worn. The first issue of the satirical literary journal Burelom. Two issues came out originally, 26 November and 4 December 1905, at which point Erastov, an artist, was called to account by the auth ...

EXERCICIO QUOTIDIANO, adicionado con diferentes oraciones.

Madrid, Ibarra, impressor de camara de S.M., 1825.

8vo., pp. [viii], 590; in a contemporary Spanish binding for Maria Christina of Bourbon, Queen of Spain, faintly diced burgundy-red morocco with olive inlays round the sides; broad gilt border of neo-classical floral ornament, the emblems of the Passion at the four corners; central panel with a crowned flourished initial M on upper cover, a similarly crowned initial C on lower cover, flat spine closely gilt with intersecting ovals, broad band of floral and foliate ornament at foot, olive lettering piece; gilt edges; preserved in its original pull-off case of Spanish sheep with gilt border and the same crowned initials M and C on front and back cover respectively; red leather label, foot of spine lettered ARANJUEZ (i.e. the Royal Palace).

In very fresh condition: a charming Spanish romantic binding made for Queen Maria Christina of Bourbon (1806-1878), fourth wife of Ferdinand VII, and Regent of Spain during the minority of Queen Isabella.

The lettering at the foot of the spine of the accompanying case indicates that the volume comes from the library of the Royal Palace at Aranjuez.

This edition not in Palau. 8vo., pp. [viii], 590; in a contemporary Spanish binding for Maria Christina of Bourbon, Queen of Spain, faintly diced burgundy-red morocco with olive inlays round the sides; broad gilt border of neo-classical floral ornament, the emblems of the Passion at the four corners; central panel with a crow ...

MOVIE HERALD: THE COWBOY AND THE LADY w/COOPER OBERON 1940

11 3/4 X 8 3/4 IN. This is a 'herald' acquired from a private collection of 60 or so handbill type movie promotional sheets. Some of them are simply the movie poster on one side and a list of the theaters the movie is playing at on the other side. Some are more complex with star bios and other production informational. The herald is a rarly available format and collectors of movies and the motion picture business will be delighted to add this to their collection. Great gift for the cinephile. The movies are all from the 30's and 40's, almost all are Columbia, Paramount, MGM etc. films. As to condition they have been stored in a 3-ring binder in individual sleeves for the longest time and are all folded and have wrinkles, chips and creases but most are in pretty good shape. Please see the picture for condition. 11 3/4 X 8 3/4 IN. This is a 'herald' acquired from a private collection of 60 or so handbill type movie promotional sheets. Some of them are simply the movie poster on one side and a list of the theaters the movie is playing at on the other side. Some are more complex with star bios and other produ ...

Historia del santissimo volto di S. Croce di Lucca, tradotta di latino in toscano da I[acopo] C[iuffarini]. 1582

4to. 30ff. Every page within a typographical border, small woodcut on title-page of a crucified bishop, one large woodcut initial, lightly browned throughout (as usual), in twentieth century boards.

Only edition of this rare and attractive work containing a history of the True Cross which miraculously dropped out of the sky and landed in Lucca. Attributed on the first page to a certain deacon named Leboino it relates its strange voyage and all the miracles that it wrought, mostly freeing unfortunates from demons. According to the preface Ciuffarini translated the work from an ancient manuscript, bound in red leather, that he found in the church.Censimento CNCE 22613; not in BMC or Adams; RLIN locates only the copies at Harvard and UCLA. 4to. 30ff. Every page within a typographical border, small woodcut on title-page of a crucified bishop, one large woodcut initial, lightly browned throughout (as usual), in twentieth century boards. Only edition of this rare and attractive work containing a history of the True Cross which miraculou ...

THE DANCE OF DEATH AT BASLE/ LA DANCE DES MORTS A BALE 1852

4º mayor.- 1 h.- 86 pgs.- Plena piel, lomera con nervios y dorados, conserva sus cubiertas originales.- 42 ilustraciones entre texto.- Texto en inglés, francés y alemán.- Ejemplar perfecto

LES POESIES GAILLARDES, galantes et amoureuses de ce temps. 1650

In-12 de 82 pp.ch.; maroquin citron, dos à nerfs finement orné, double encadrement avec fleuron central doré sur les plats, dent. int. et tr. dorées (F. Bedford).

Comte d'I, III, 796. Edition originale donnée par Guillaume Colletet de ces poésies très lestes. Ce dernier, qui fut un des premiers membres de l'Académie française et le protégé de Richelieu, faisait partie d'un cercle de jeunes gens qui menaient de front la débauche et la poésie (Hoefer). Ex-libris manuscrit Wm Wharton, daté Paris March. 24: 1685. Une épigramme, de la même main recouvre le verso du dernier feuillet blanc. Bel exemplaire. In-12 de 82 pp.ch.; maroquin citron, dos à nerfs finement orné, double encadrement avec fleuron central doré sur les plats, dent. int. et tr. dorées (F. Bedford). Comte d'I, III, 796. Edition originale donnée par Guillaume Colletet de ces poésies très lestes. Ce dernier, qui fut un des premi ...

CHRISTIANA PARADOXA. 1531

In-4 de 12 ff.n.ch.; veau, dos à nerfs, filets à froid sur les plats avec fleurons dorés (Reliure moderne, genre ancien).

Manque à la BnF, au British Museum et au N.U.C. Opuscule fort rare. Titre dans un bel encadrement gravé à fond noir avec animaux et éléments architecturaux. Nous n'avons pu recenser qu'un seul exemplaire de cet ouvrage, à la bibliothèque de Padoue. Marge extérieure du titre un peu rognée avec atteinte à la bordure et quelques rousseurs. In-4 de 12 ff.n.ch.; veau, dos à nerfs, filets à froid sur les plats avec fleurons dorés (Reliure moderne, genre ancien). Manque à la BnF, au British Museum et au N.U.C. Opuscule fort rare. Titre dans un bel encadrement gravé à fond noir avec animaux et éléments architecturaux. Nous n'avons ...

GRENOBLO Malherou suivi du Dialogo de le quatro comare. 1810

2 parties en un vol. in-12 carré de 20 et 8 pp.ch.; demi-chagrin rouge, dos orné (L. Guetant).

Recueil de deux pièces en vers, en patois grenoblois, fort rare. Ex-libris Eug. Chaper.

CATALOGUE des beaux livres anciens rares et curieux composant la bibliothèque de M. Edouard MOURA. 1923

In-8; toile moderne.

Belle bibliothèque classique de plus de 1000 volumes du bibliophile bordelais, avec une importante section de littérature française du XVIe siècle.

RECUEIL DE PLANCHES DU DICCTIONAIRE DES BEAUX-ARTS, FAISANT PARTIE DE L'ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE PAR ORDRE DE MATIÈRES 1805

4º mayor.- 8 h. + 2 h. + 115 láminas grabadas, de las cuales 15 son dobles.- Media piel de época con nervios y título dorado en el lomo

Ejemplar que perteneció a Jorge Anckerman, hijo del pintor Ricardo cuya firma está escrita en la primera hoja de respeto. Excelente ejemplar, complemetario de la obra de vida a Henri-Claude Watelet, impresa en 1788-91 en Paris po Panckóucke en dos volúmenes, perteneciente a la enciclopedia metódica, ideada por este editor, basada en la de Diderot, organizada por materias y formada por 202 volúmenes. Se terminó en 1832, 30 años después de su muerte 4º mayor.- 8 h. + 2 h. + 115 láminas grabadas, de las cuales 15 son dobles.- Media piel de época con nervios y título dorado en el lomo Ejemplar que perteneció a Jorge Anckerman, hijo del pintor Ricardo cuya firma está escrita en la primera hoja de respeto. Excelente ejemplar, complemetario d ...