Paul GAVARNI

Paul GAVARNI

Born13 janvier 1804
Died24 novembre 1866
LanguageFrench
NationalityFrance
Dessinateur et lithographe. A aussi dessiné des costumes pour le Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin
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GAVARNI, Paul
  1. La Romance - Journal de musique
    Marceline DESBORDES-VALMORE, Pierre-Jean de BÉRANGER

    La Romance - Journal de musique

    1834-1835|26 x 33 cm|3 volumes reliés
    First edition.
    Contemporary green half morocco bindings, spines uniformly sunned, with gilt fillets and dentelle motifs, marbled paper covers, morocco label "Marie Seillan" pasted on each volume, spine-ends rubbed, otherwise a handsome copy. Scattered foxing, paper on some issues a little browned.
    Detailed volume contents :
    - Volume 1: 26 issues (nos. 1 to 26) and 26 scores, 2 lithographs with the first two scores, an engraved portrait of Rossini, vignettes in the text.
    - Volume 2: 25 issues (nos. 27 to 52) and 26 scores, vignettes in the text.
    - Volume 3: 26 issues (nos. 1 to 26) and 26 scores (two scores are missing and have been replaced by three others). Complete...
    €1,500
  2. Husbands, Wives and Le Charivari
    Les maris vengés
    Paul GAVARNI

    Les maris vengés[The Avenged Husbands]

    Galerie Vero Dodat|Paris 1837|25.50 x 35.50 cm|relié

    Rare complete suite of Gavarni’s eighteen lithographs for Les Maris vengés, published in Paris by Aubert in 1837-1838, here expanded to twenty-one sheets by the presence of three plates in two states; the second state is coloured, while the third of these plates also appears in two differently hand-coloured impressions. Eight lithographs are therefore hand-coloured in all.

     

    To complete the series, the collector had to use, for plates nos. 13, 14 and 16, the impressions published in Le...

    €1,800
  3. Dessin à l'encre. Carnaval
    [Paul GAVARNI]

    Dessin à l'encre. Carnaval

    1864|14.50 x 22.20 cm|une feuille
    Original drawing attributed to Gavarni created for the carnival series. This drawing indeed appears engraved in the published album Gens de Paris, Carnaval (1864), and reprinted in the second printing of Le Diable à Paris in 1868. We provide a photograph of the engraving in the description. Hatching drawing technique which allows faithful reproduction by the engraver, and often used by Gavarni.
    One card sheet. Mounting traces on verso. Ensemble lightly browned.

    €800
  5. Voyage autour de mon jardin
    Paul GAVARNI, Charles-François DAUBIGNY

    Voyage autour de mon jardin

    L. Curmer • & V. Lecou|Paris 1851|19 x 28.50 cm|relié
    Edition illustrated with 8 hors-texte color plates under tissue guards with captions as well as 150 wood engravings in the text after Adolphe Steinheil, Ernest Meissonier, Paul Gavarni, Charles-François Daubigny and Hercule Louis Catenacci.
    Discreet pen annotations by a previous owner in upper left corner of one endpaper.
    Half green morocco-grained shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt floral motifs, marbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, binding signed by Mercier.
    Handsome copy attractively presented.
    €580
  6. Le juif errant
    Eugène SUE, Paul GAVARNI

    Le juif errant

    Paulin|Paris 1845|18.50 x 27.50 cm|4 volumes reliés en 2
    First edition superbly illustrated by Gavarni with 83 hors-texte plates as well as 600 in-text vignettes.
    Between pages 254-255 of the third volume, our copy is complete with the folding map showing the Progressive March of Cholera Morbus in Asia and Europe from 1817 to 1832.
    Half-brown shagreen bindings, spines slightly faded with four raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with double gilt compartments, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
    Some foxing as usual.
    Le juif errant is one of the greatest bestsellers of the 19th century, published just after Les mystères de Paris. To the narrative qualities of Les mystères de Paris...
    €500
  7. La grande ville - Nouveau tableau de Paris comique, critique et philosophique
    Honoré de BALZAC, Paul de KOCK

    La grande ville - Nouveau tableau de Paris comique, critique et philosophique

    Maresq|Paris 1844|17.50 x 26.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First printing of the 31 illustrations outside text (29 plates and 2 frontispieces) and numerous vignettes within the text by Gavarni, Daumier, D'Aubigny, Adam, Emy, Traviès, Boulanger, Monnier and Théno.
    This is a copy of the first edition of 1843 reissued by Marescq in 1844 with the same illustrations but with different titles and additionally containing 11 plates outside text in volume 1, 2 engraved titles as well as 2 frontispieces.
    Texts by Paul de Kock, Honoré de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Frédéric Soulié, Léon Gozlan, Edouard Ourliac, Eugène Briffault, Eugène Guinot and Henri Monnier.
    Half chocolate brown morocco bindings with corners, smooth spines decorated with richly...
    €1,200
  8. Stunning and rare suite by a great illustrator from the Romantic era
    Souvenirs du Carnaval par Gavarni. 25 planches. Souvenirs de Carnaval. Les bals masqués. Costumes historiques
    Paul GAVARNI

    Souvenirs du Carnaval par Gavarni. 25 planches. Souvenirs de Carnaval. Les bals masqués. Costumes historiques

    Léopold Pannier et Cie|Paris s. d. [1840-1850]|25.50 x 34.50 cm|25 lithographies reliées en un volume

    First collective edition of this complete series of 25 original lithographed plates printed on thick vellum.


    Mounted engravings, preceded by a title page bringing together three series: Souvenirs de Carnaval     (6 plates), Les bals masqués (7 plates), Costumes historiques (12 plates).


    Each of these series first appeared in other journals: under the title 'Souvenirs de Carnaval' in Ritner et Goupil, 'Les bals masqués' in La Caricature and 'Costumes historiques' in Charivari.
    Engravings in third state according to Vicaire.
    Some foxing.


    Red half straight-grained morocco Bradel binding...

    €3,000
  9. Jazz N°6 de la première série
    TITAŸNA, Carlo RIM

    Jazz N°6 de la première série

    Jazz|Paris Mai 1929|24.50 x 31.50 cm|agrafé
    First edition of this issue.
    Marginal stains to covers, pleasant interior condition.
    The magazine "Jazz", celebrated for the quality of its illustrations and photographs, was founded in 1929 by Titaÿna with Carlo Rim as editor-in-chief, and was published monthly between December 1928 and March 1930, comprising 15 issues plus 2 supplements.
    Contributions by Titaÿna "Bagdad", Ilya Ehrenbourg "Slovaquie", Marcel Zahar "Centenaire du bec de gaz", Carlo Rim "Rues", Pierre Scize "Le cinéma"...
    Issue illustrated with works by Carlo Rim, Honoré Daumier, Eugène Delacroix, Francisco de Goya, Paul Gavarni as well as numerous photographs by Germaine Krull, Laszlo Moholy Nagy, Ilya...
    €400
  10. Jazz N°7 de la première série
    TITAŸNA, Carlo RIM

    Jazz N°7 de la première série

    Jazz|Paris Juin 1929|24.50 x 31.50 cm|agrafé
    First edition of this issue.
    Light marginal foxing to the covers, minor tears to the spine without consequence, handsome interior condition.
    The magazine "Jazz", celebrated for the quality of its illustrations and photographs, was founded in 1929 by Titaÿna with Carlo Rim as editor-in-chief, and appeared monthly between December 1928 and March 1930, totaling 15 issues plus 2 supplements.
    Contributions by Titaÿna "Alep", Florent Fels "Joris Ivens", Jean Dorsenne "L'Océanie à travers les artistes", Carlo Rim "Rues", Legrand-Chabrier "Frégoli"...
    Issue illustrated with works by Carlo Rim, Serge and Sennep as well as numerous photographs by Germaine Krull, Joris Ivens...
    €400
  12. Perles et Parures, Les Joyaux, fantaisie par Gavarni, texte par Méry. Minéralogie des dames par le Cte Foelix. [suivi de] Les Parures, fantaisie par Gavarni, texte par Méry. Histoire de la mode par le Cte Foelix.
    Paul GAVARNI, Joseph MÉRY

    Perles et Parures, Les Joyaux, fantaisie par Gavarni, texte par Méry. Minéralogie des dames par le Cte Foelix. [suivi de] Les Parures, fantaisie par Gavarni, texte par Méry. Histoire de la mode par le Cte Foelix.

    G. de Gonet|Paris 1850 (S.d)|18.80 x 27.80 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First edition, illustrated with a repeated frontispiece and 30 plates by Gavarni engraved on steel by Geoffroy. Printed on fine vellum. Copy from the deluxe issue with plates finely heightened in watercolor; These engravings are presented in very beautiful frames with lace-cut margins. Illustrated orange-tinted covers preserved (spine and back covers with advertisements also preserved).
    Half lemon yellow morocco binding with corners, late 19th century. Spine with false raised bands richly decorated with roses in compartments ornamented with stars and other decorations. Red morocco title labels, second title labels in soft green shagreen. Some rubbing. Small brown spots on the leather of...
    €1,600
  13. Les Joyaux
    Joseph MÉRY, Paul GAVARNI

    Les Joyaux

    G. de Gonet|Paris s. d. [1850]|18 x 27 cm|relié
    First edition and first issue, illustrated with 16 hors-texte engravings by Paul Gavarni engraved on steel by Charles Geoffroy and heightened in colors. Each plate features lace-cut decorative borders standing out against a pink paper background.
    Publisher's full pictorial boards, original yellow paper endpapers and pastedowns somewhat soiled at margins as usual. Some corners slightly rubbed, as well as the headcaps; rear joint very slightly opened. Scattered foxing more pronounced on certain leaves.
    Very handsome publication preserved in its romantic pictorial boards.
    €800
  14. La Pléiade. Ballades, Fabliaux, Nouvelles et Légendes
    Ernst Theodor Amadeus HOFFMANN, Charles DICKENS

    La Pléiade. Ballades, Fabliaux, Nouvelles et Légendes

    Léon Curmer|Paris 1842|13.50 x 20.50 cm|10 livraisons en 8 volumes brochés sous chemise et étui
    First printing of this important Romantic publication issued in 10 parts in 8 volumes.
    Literary contributions by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann "Le conseiller Krespel", Charles Dickens "Le baron de Grogzwig", Matthias Emmich "Geneviève de Brabant", Sâvitrî "Episode du Mahabharata", Homer "Le combat des rats et des grenouilles", Gottfried August Bürger "Lénore", Paul Gavarni "Madame Acker", Marie de France "Lai des deux amants" and "Lai du Bisclaveret", Ludwig Tieck "La réconciliation", Henri Blaze "Rosemonde" correctly containing 34 pages, which identifies the first printing as opposed to the...
    €1,000
  15. Oeuvres choisies. Etudes de moeurs contemporaines. 1- Les enfants terribles. Traductions en langue vulgaire. Les lorettes. Les actrices. Notices par Théophile Gautier et Laurent-Jan. 2- Fourberies de femmes en matière de sentiment. Clichy. Paris le soir. Notices par Laurent-Jan, Auguste Lireux et Léon Gozlan. 3- Le Carnaval à Paris. Paris le matin. Les étudiants de Paris. Notices par Théophile Gautier, A. Barthet et A. de Soubiran. 4- La vie de jeune homme. Les débardeurs. Notices par P.J. Stahl.
    Paul GAVARNI

    Oeuvres choisies. Etudes de moeurs contemporaines. 1- Les enfants terribles. Traductions en langue vulgaire. Les lorettes. Les actrices. Notices par Théophile Gautier et Laurent-Jan. 2- Fourberies de femmes en matière de sentiment. Clichy. Paris le soir. Notices par Laurent-Jan, Auguste Lireux et Léon Gozlan. 3- Le Carnaval à Paris. Paris le matin. Les étudiants de Paris. Notices par Théophile Gautier, A. Barthet et A. de Soubiran. 4- La vie de jeune homme. Les débardeurs. Notices par P.J. Stahl.

    Hetzel|Paris 1845-1848|17.70 x 26.80 cm|4 volumes reliés
    First edition and first printing of the engravings.
    Contributions by Théophile Gautier, Laurent-Jan, Léon Gozlan, Auguste Lireux and Jules Hetzel under the pseudonym P.-J. Stahl among others.
    Contemporary publisher's binding in full black shagreen. Smooth spine decorated with 3 ornate compartments, blind and gilt fillets. Large rocaille composition on boards, thick triple fillet frame. Interior frieze. White watered silk endpapers. All edges gilt. Perimeter of watered silk endpapers brown-stained. Tailcap of volume 2 with a loss. Traces of rubbing. Thin scratch on the upper board of volume 1, lower board of volume 2. Some very occasional foxing on clean white paper. The binder...
    €1,800
  16. Perles et Parures, Les Joyaux, fantaisie par Gavarni, texte par Méry. Minéralogie des dames par le Cte Foelix. [suivi de] Les Parures, fantaisie par Gavarni, texte par Méry. Histoire de la mode par le Cte Foelix.
    Paul GAVARNI, Joseph MÉRY

    Perles et Parures, Les Joyaux, fantaisie par Gavarni, texte par Méry. Minéralogie des dames par le Cte Foelix. [suivi de] Les Parures, fantaisie par Gavarni, texte par Méry. Histoire de la mode par le Cte Foelix.

    G. de Gonet|Paris 1850 (S.d)|19 x 28.50 cm|relié
    First edition, illustrated with a repeated frontispiece and 30 steel-engraved plates by Gavarni engraved by Geoffroy on China paper laid down. Printed on fine white wove paper. Blue or neutral tissue guards. Illustrated orange-tinted covers preserved (spine and back covers with advertisements also preserved).
    Half lavender morocco binding with corners and long grain signed Mercier (1920) at the top of the first endpaper, in Romantic style. Spine with false raised bands richly decorated with two complex mirrored tools in each compartment, blind fillets and rolls on the bands. Separation fillets on the boards. Uncut copy, full-margined. Perfect paper freshness. Light rubbing traces...
    €1,200
  17. Les Français peints par eux-mêmes. Encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle - Le prisme [Avec] Les Anglais peints par eux-mêmes
    Paul GAVARNI, Eugène DELACROIX

    Les Français peints par eux-mêmes. Encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle - Le prisme [Avec] Les Anglais peints par eux-mêmes[The French Painted by Themselves. Moral Encyclopaedia of the Nineteenth Century – The Prism [With] The English Painted by Themselves]

    Léon Curmer|Paris 1840-1842|18 x 26.50 cm|11 volumes reliés
    Les Français peints par eux-mêmes. Encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle – Le Prisme [with] Les Anglais peints par eux-mêmes [The French painted by themselves – The English painted by themselves]
    Léon Curmer | Paris 1840-1842 | 18 x 26,5 cm 11 volumes in half morocco
    First edition, one of the grand papier (deluxe) copies with two states of the illustrations for the 8 volumes of Les Français peints par eux-mêmes: one in black on tinted paper, and one enhanced by hand using the so-called “coloris gommé” technique with watercolour and varnish on...
    €10,000
  18. Romantic Paris in a painted binding
    La grande ville. Nouveau tableau de Paris comique, critique et philosophique
    Paul de KOCK, Charles-François D'AUBIGNY

    La grande ville. Nouveau tableau de Paris comique, critique et philosophique[The Great City. A New Picture of Comic, Critical and Philosophical Paris]

    Au bureau central des publications nouvelles • Victor Magen|Paris 1842 - 1843|16.50 x 26 cm|2 volumes reliés

    First edition illustrated with wood engravings in the text by Gavarni, Daumier, D'Aubigny...
    Bradel binding in full beige percaline, smooth spine with a black paper label, front cover decorated with an oil painting after the frontispiece, signed lower right "A. Dangleterre d'après document d'époque". Headcaps and joints skillfully restored.
    A rare publication on Paris under Louis-Philippe. The work proceeds by subjects and articles: the wet-nurses’ office, flower sellers, baths, streetlamps, pavements, theatre outings, beards and moustaches, the Luxembourg Gardens, the Opera Ball, the auctioneers’ hall, lorettes and courtesans (Alexandre Dumas), restaurants and...

    €1,800
  19. Oeuvres complètes de M. de Balzac
    Honoré de BALZAC, Honoré DAUMIER

    Oeuvres complètes de M. de Balzac[Complete Works]

    Furne • Dubochet • Hetzel & Paulin • puis Alexandre Houssiaux|Paris 1842-1855|14.50 x 22 cm|20 volumes reliés
    Honoré de BALZAC & Honoré DAUMIER & Charles Constant Albert Nicolas d'Arnoux de Limoges Saint-Saëns dit BERTALL & Paul GAVARNI & Tony JOHANNOT & Célestin NANTEUIL
    œuvres complètes de H. de Balzac
    [Complete Works]
    Furne, Dubochet, Hetzel, Paulin puis Alexandre Houssiaux | Paris 1842-1855
    | 14.5 x 22 cm | 20 volumes in contemporary half shagreen

    First collective edition sold as the Works, comprising – as well as numerous texts published for the first time – a new version of the Human Comedy, reviewed and revised by Balzac.
    This is also the first illustrated edition.
    Contemporary half blue...
    €10,000
  20. Oeuvres choisies. Etudes de moeurs contemporaines.
    Paul GAVARNI

    Oeuvres choisies. Etudes de moeurs contemporaines. 1- Les enfants terribles. Traductions en langue vulgaire. Les lorettes. Les actrices. Notices par Théophile Gautier et Laurent-Jan. 2- Fourberies de femmes en matière de sentiment. Clichy. Paris le soir. Notices par Laurent-Jan, Auguste Lireux et Léon Gozlan. 3- Le Carnaval à Paris. Paris le matin. Les étudiants de Paris. Notices par Théophile Gautier, A. Barthet et A. de Soubiran. 4- La vie de jeune homme. Les débardeurs. Notices par P.J. Stahl.

    J. Hetzel & Cie|Paris 1846 - 1848|18 x 26.80 cm|4 tomes en 2 volumes reliés
    First edition and first printing of the 320 wood engravings. Publication of the 4 volumes from 1846 to 1848, which explains why they are found separately.
    Contributions by Théophile Gautier, Laurent-Jan, Léon Gozlan, Auguste Lireux and Jules Hetzel under the pseudonym P.-J. Stahl among others.
    Contemporary half black shagreen bindings. Flat false raised bands spine decorated with ornate compartments. Gilt titles and volume labels. Gilt edges. Blind ruling frame on boards. A. Gaillard at foot. Roulettes on bands. Very fine gold and grey decorative endpapers. Pale scattered foxing on very white paper.
    Work illustrated with a general frontispiece, 14 vignettes including one...
    €850
  21. Les deux miroirs, contes pour tous
    Jean-Philippe SCHMIT, Paul GAVARNI

    Les deux miroirs, contes pour tous

    Chez A. Royer|à Paris 1844|16.50 x 26 cm|relié
    First edition illustrated with a frontispiece drawn by Schmit and engraved by Hilaire Guesnu, with 37 color plates hors-texte (instead of 38) and vignettes by Schmit, Gavarni, Nanteuil and Schlesinger.
    Half green shagreen binding, faded spine with four raised bands set with gilt cartouches and gilt compartments decorated with typographical corner motifs, double gilt fillets framing the green boards, yellow paper endpapers and pastedowns, edges gilt.
    Some occasional foxing, one gathering entirely yellowed (pages 26 to 35), one color plate and one gathering foxed, one color hors-texte engraving is missing.
    Handsomely illustrated first edition.
    €400
  22. Les deux miroirs, contes pour tous
    Jean-Philippe SCHMIT, Paul GAVARNI

    Les deux miroirs, contes pour tous

    Chez A. Royer|à Paris 1844|15 x 25.50 cm|relié
    First edition illustrated with a frontispiece drawn by Schmit and engraved by Hilaire Guesnu, 38 plates and vignettes by Schmit, Gavarni, Nanteuil and Schlesinger.
    Full green shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands set with gilt dentelle, compartments decorated with quadruple gilt framing fillets and cold-stamped fillets, double fillets and dotted gilt rolls at head and foot, fine hatchings on headcaps, cold-stamped fillets and multiple gilt fillets framing the boards, gilt rolls framing the pastedowns, gilt fillet on leading edges.
    Some foxing.
    Handsomely illustrated first edition.
    €150
  23. Oeuvres choisies de Gavarni - Etudes de moeurs contemporaines. "Les enfants Terribles" -Traduction en langue vulgaire- "Les Lorettes". "Les actrices". Avec des notices en tête chaque série par MM, Théophile Gautier & Laurent-Jan.
    Théophile GAUTIER, Paul GAVARNI

    Oeuvres choisies de Gavarni - Etudes de moeurs contemporaines. "Les enfants Terribles" -Traduction en langue vulgaire- "Les Lorettes". "Les actrices". Avec des notices en tête chaque série par MM, Théophile Gautier & Laurent-Jan.

    Hetzel|Paris 1846|17 x 27 cm|relié
    New edition revised, corrected and newly classified by the author.
    Half brown shagreen binding, spine with four false raised bands, decorated with triple compartments stamped in blind
    Suite of captioned engravings accompanied by notices at the head of each series by MM. Théophile Gautier & Laurent-Jan.
    €180
  24. Les deux miroirs, contes pour tous
    Paul GAVARNI, Célestin NANTEUIL

    Les deux miroirs, contes pour tous

    A. Royer|Paris 1844|-|relié
    First edition illustrated with a frontispiece, 37 lithographed plates and numerous vignettes by C. Nanteuil, Gavarni, Français, J.P. Schmit, De Beaumont, Bertand...
    Half havana brown morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt compartments, gilt date and monogram at foot, red morocco title label, gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, one corner slightly bumped, top edge gilt, elegant binding signed by Petit.
    Foxing.
    €80
  25. Le Carnaval à Paris [avec] Les Bals masqués
    Paul GAVARNI

    Le Carnaval à Paris [avec] Les Bals masqués

    Chez Aubert & Cie • Chez Bauger|Paris s. d. [1842 et 1839]|25.50 x 34 cm|relié
    Complete series of 28 original hand-colored lithograph plates, all heightened with gum-arabic, captioned and numbered ; 20 plates of Le Carnaval à Paris and 8 plates of Les Bals masqués. Includes the 8 leaves of advertisments bound at rear.
    Discreet repairs and foxing on some plates.
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  26. Le juif errant
    Eugène SUE, Paul GAVARNI

    Le juif errant

    Paulin|Paris 1845|18.50 x 27 cm|4 volumes reliés
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  28. Keepsake lyrique. Recueil de 12 romances, chansonnettes et cavatines
    Paul GAVARNI, Eugène ISABEY

    Keepsake lyrique. Recueil de 12 romances, chansonnettes et cavatines

    Leduc|Paris 1835|24.60 x 31 cm|relié
    Keepsake lyrique. Recueil de 12 romances, chansonnettes et cavatines
    Leduc, Paris 1835, 24,6x31cm, full morocco binding.
    First edition of this music collection by Rossini, Meyerbeer, Halevy, Bellini, Caraf, Donizetti... with 12 lithographs by Eugène Isabey, Gavarni, Devéria, Charlet, Bellange, Camille Rogier, Monthelier, on chine paper, mounted on thick paper.
    Contemporary full purple morocco binding, housed in a goffered cloth case, spine pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt, covers decoratively stamped in blind, pink moiré silk endpapers, all edges gilt, printed on fine paper.
    Slightly rubbed.
    Superb copy.
    Remarkable example of salon music that...
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  29. Petits jeux de société [avec] Des phrases [avec] Les Rêves
    Paul GAVARNI

    Petits jeux de société [avec] Des phrases [avec] Les Rêves

    Caboche, Grégoire et Cie • Aubert & Cie|Paris s. d. [1837-1838, 1839 et 1839]|24 x 34 cm|3 séries de lithographies reliées en un volume
    Petits jeux de société [with] Des phrases [with] Les Rêves
    Caboche | Grégoire et Cie & Aubert et Cie Paris [1837-1838] | 1839 et 1839) | 24 x 34 cm 3 sets of lithographs bound together in half cloth
    Three full series of original lithographs enhanced by hand with colour and varnish, first printing.

    The 16 engravings are preceded with a unique green cover indicating “Album comique par Gavarni”:
    – Petits jeux de société (1837-1838): six lithographs published by Caboche, Grégoire et Cie for Le Charivari.
    – Des phrases (1839): four lithographs published by Aubert et Cie for...
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  30. Fourberies de femmes
    Paul GAVARNI

    Fourberies de femmes

    Aubert & Cie|Paris s. d. [1840]|27 x 34 cm|52 lithographies reliées en un volume
    Fourberies de femmes
    Aubert et Cie | Paris [1840] | 27 x 34 cm 52 lithographs bound together in half shagreen
    Full sets of 52 original lithographs hand-colored and heightened with gum arabic, first printing. These engravings were initially published in La Caricature.
    Contemporary binding in half brown shagreen, spine lightly faded. Upper corners lightly damaged, margins and spine ends a little rubbed.
    Some discreet foxing mainly on the first board. A worm hole filled with a piece of paper on the lower margin of the twenty-first print. Plate 38 is little shorter than the others on the external...
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  31. Clichy
    Paul GAVARNI

    Clichy

    Aubert & Cie|Paris s. d. [1840-1841]|25.50 x 34.50 cm|21 lithographies reliées en un volume
    Clichy
    Aubert & Cie | Paris [1840-1841] | 25,5 x 34,5 cm | 21 lithographs bound together in half cloth
    Full set of 21 original lithographs enhanced by hand with colour and varnish, all in first printing and second state. These engravings were initially published in Le Charivari with the exception of the nineteenth which was produced for La Caricature.

    The engravings, all mounted on guards, are preceded by a yellow cover with some marks and indicating “Clichy – Album parGavarni”.

    Bradel binding in half green cloth, spine decorated with a title label in brown morocco slightly detached in the...
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  33. Récits historiques à la Jeunesse
    BIBLIOPHILE JACOB [Paul LACROIX] Tony JOHANNOT

    Récits historiques à la Jeunesse

    R. Pornin & Cie|Tours 1844|17.50 x 28 cm|relié
    First edition and first printing of the illustrations by Tony Johannot, Paul Gavarni and Jean Gigoux.
    Half chocolate brown morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with gilt typographical motifs set within double gilt compartments, gilt date at foot, gilt friezes at head and foot, gilt fillet frame on pebbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, handsome romantic covers and spine (lined and with slight lacks of no importance at head and foot) preserved, elegant binding signed David.
    Occasional foxing.
    Handsome copy perfectly executed.
    Sold
  34. Le musée pour rire
    Honoré DAUMIER, Paul GAVARNI

    Le musée pour rire

    Chez Aubert|Paris 1839 - 1840|21.50 x 27.50 cm|3 tomes en un volume relié
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  35. Oeuvres complètes de Balzac [enrichi d'une] lettre autographe signée de Balzac
    Honoré de BALZAC, George SAND

    Oeuvres complètes de Balzac [enrichi d'une] lettre autographe signée de Balzacoeuvres completes de Balzac [enriched with] handwritten letter signed by Balzac

    Furne • Dubochet • Hetzel & Paulin • puis Alexandre Houssiaux|Paris 1842-1855|13 x 21.50 cm|20 volumes reliés
    Œuvres complètes de Balzac [enriched with] handwritten letter signed by Balzac
    Furne, Dubochet, Hetzel, Paulin then Houssiaux Paris 1842-1855 | 13 x 21,5 cm | 20 volumes bound in calf
    First edition, one of the extremely rare copies all with the Furne address, including the last three volumes, complete with all its first print plates, set in an elegant, strictly contemporary, uniform binding. Our copy is also complete with the portrait of Balzac, on the frontispiece of the Comédie humaine and the biographical preface by George Sand which is most often missing.

    “First collective edition under the title of Oeuvres, presenting a...
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  38. La peau de chagrin
    Honoré de BALZAC, Paul GAVARNI

    La peau de chagrin

    H. Delloye • V. Lecou|Paris 1838|16 x 26 cm|relié
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  39. Le diable à Paris
    COLLECTIF, Paul GAVARNI

    Le diable à Paris

    J. Hetzel|Paris 1845 & 1846|19.50 x 28.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
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  40. Oeuvres choisies. Etudes de moeurs contemporaines. 1- Les Enfants terribles. Traductions en langue vulgaire. Les Lorettes. Les Actrices. Notices par Théophile Gautier et Laurent-Jan. 2- Fourberies de femmes en matière de sentiment. Clichy. Paris le soir. Notices par Laurent-Jan, Auguste Lireux et Léon Gozlan. 3- Le Carnaval à Paris. Paris le matin. Les Etudiants de Paris. Notices par Théophile Gautier, A. Barthet et A. de Soubiran. 4- La Vie de jeune homme. Les Débardeurs. Notices par P.J. Stahl.
    Paul GAVARNI

    Oeuvres choisies. Etudes de moeurs contemporaines. 1- Les Enfants terribles. Traductions en langue vulgaire. Les Lorettes. Les Actrices. Notices par Théophile Gautier et Laurent-Jan. 2- Fourberies de femmes en matière de sentiment. Clichy. Paris le soir. Notices par Laurent-Jan, Auguste Lireux et Léon Gozlan. 3- Le Carnaval à Paris. Paris le matin. Les Etudiants de Paris. Notices par Théophile Gautier, A. Barthet et A. de Soubiran. 4- La Vie de jeune homme. Les Débardeurs. Notices par P.J. Stahl.

    J. Hetzel & Cie|Paris 1846 - 1848|18.50 x 27 cm|4 volumes reliés
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  41. Le diable à Paris
    COLLECTIF, Paul GAVARNI

    Le diable à ParisDevil in Paris

    J. Hetzel|Paris 1845 & 1846|18.50 x 27 cm|2 volumes reliés + 1 volume d'atlas
    Le Diable à Paris [Devil in Paris]
    J. Hetzel | Paris 1845 & 1846 | 18.5 x 27 cm
    | contemporary romantic shagreen
    First edition and first printing of the 207 plates by Gavarni and 4 plates by Bertall. Many vignette illustrations.
    Contemporary Romantic binding of half red shagreen over red paper boards, spines with gilt Romantic arabesques, gilt name of a previous owner to foot, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns.
    Contributions from George Sand, Charles Nodier, Honoré de Balzac, Gérard de Nerval, Théophile Gautier, Alfred de Musset, Léon Gozlan and others.
    This copy without any trace of foxing. A few pale and tiny dampstains to margins of some leaves.
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  42. Oeuvres complètes
    Honoré de BALZAC, Honoré DAUMIER

    Oeuvres complètes

    Alexandre Houssiaux|Paris 1855|13 x 21 cm|20 volumes reliés
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  43. Oeuvres choisies. Etudes de moeurs contemporaines. 1- Les enfants terribles. Traductions en langue vulgaire. Les lorettes. Les actrices. Notices par Théophile Gautier et Laurent-Jan. 2- Fourberies de femmes en matière de sentiment. Clichy. Paris le soir. Notices par Laurent-Jan, Auguste Lireux et Léon Gozlan. 3- Le Carnaval à Paris. Paris le matin. Les étudiants de Paris. Notices par Théophile Gautier, A. Barthet et A. de Soubiran. 4- La vie de jeune homme. Les débardeurs. Notices par P.J. Stahl.
    Paul GAVARNI

    Oeuvres choisies. Etudes de moeurs contemporaines. 1- Les enfants terribles. Traductions en langue vulgaire. Les lorettes. Les actrices. Notices par Théophile Gautier et Laurent-Jan. 2- Fourberies de femmes en matière de sentiment. Clichy. Paris le soir. Notices par Laurent-Jan, Auguste Lireux et Léon Gozlan. 3- Le Carnaval à Paris. Paris le matin. Les étudiants de Paris. Notices par Théophile Gautier, A. Barthet et A. de Soubiran. 4- La vie de jeune homme. Les débardeurs. Notices par P.J. Stahl.

    J. Hetzel & Cie|Paris 1846|19 x 27 cm|4 volumes en reliures de l'éditeur

    GAVARNI Paul. œuvres choisies. Études de mœurs contemporaines. Notices par P. J. Stahl.
    J. Hetzel & Cie, Paris 1846, 19 x 27 cm, 4 volumes, publisher's binding
    The first edition and first printing of the engravings.
    Contributions from Théophile Gautier, Laurent-Jan, Léon Gozlan, Auguste Lireux and Jules Hetzel under the pseudonym of P.-J. Stahl, as well as others.
    Contemporary Romantic publisher's navy blue paper boards, spine with gilt decorative motifs, a few repairs to head and foot of some joints, illustrated covers, yellow paper pastedowns and endpapers, a few endpapers soiled, all edges gilt.
    With a general...
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  44. Album amicorum, suite de dessins
    Paul GAVARNI, [Paul GAVARNI as] Sulpice Guillaume CHEVALIER

    Album amicorum, suite de dessinsAlbum amicorum, a set of drawings

    S. n.|s. l. (vers 1846)|21.50 x 27 cm|relié
    GAVARNI, Sulpice-Guillaume Chevalier, known as Paul. Album amicorum, a set of drawings. N.p., n.d. [but c. 1846], no author given. 27 x 21.5 cm, bound.

    AN ITALIANATE ALBUM OF 52 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS in pen and ink by Paul Gavarni.
    Bound in full green blindstamped shagreen in the Romantic style, bearing the gilt initials ‘SC' (for Sulpice Chevalier, Galvani's real name) on the upper cover and ‘PD' (for Paul Delaroche) on the lower, gilt filet to inside edges. 50 leaves, of which 12 on brown paper, a.e.g. Foxing. A few tears, a few careful restorations.
    48 drawings (14 x 18.7 cm) mounted on to larger paper leaves (overall size 20.5 x 26 cm), with rice-paper...
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  45. Oeuvres choisies. Etudes de moeurs contemporaines. 1- Les enfants terribles. Traductions en langue vulgaire. Les lorettes. Les actrices. Notices par Théophile Gautier et Laurent-Jan. 2- Fourberies de femmes en matière de sentiment. Clichy. Paris le soir. Notices par Laurent-Jan, Auguste Lireux et Léon Gozlan. 3- Le Carnaval à Paris. Paris le matin. Les étudiants de Paris. Notices par Théophile Gautier, A. Barthet et A. de Soubiran. 4- La vie de jeune homme. Les débardeurs. Notices par P.J. Stahl.
    Paul GAVARNI

    Oeuvres choisies. Etudes de moeurs contemporaines. 1- Les enfants terribles. Traductions en langue vulgaire. Les lorettes. Les actrices. Notices par Théophile Gautier et Laurent-Jan. 2- Fourberies de femmes en matière de sentiment. Clichy. Paris le soir. Notices par Laurent-Jan, Auguste Lireux et Léon Gozlan. 3- Le Carnaval à Paris. Paris le matin. Les étudiants de Paris. Notices par Théophile Gautier, A. Barthet et A. de Soubiran. 4- La vie de jeune homme. Les débardeurs. Notices par P.J. Stahl.

    Hetzel|Paris 1845-1847|19 x 26 cm|4 tomes reliés en 1
    The first edition and first printing of the engravings.
    Contributions from Théophile Gautier, Laurent-Jan, Léon Gozlan, Auguste Lireux and Jules Hetzel under the pseudonym of P.-J. Stahl, among others.
    Contemporary Romantic green shagreen, spine richly gilt with Rocaille tools and gilt fleurons, large frame of fillets and gilt tools to covers, sizeable blindstamped tool to covers, pastedowns with gilt roulette frame, endpapers and pastedowns of white moiré material (soiled), gilt fillet to edges of covers, all edges gilt.
    With a general frontispiece, 14 vignettes (one repeated) and 320 plates, all woodcuts.
    References : Vicaire, III, 953-955 ; Brivois pp.168-171...
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  46. Londres et les Anglais
    Émile de LA BÉDOLLIÈRE, Paul GAVARNI

    Londres et les Anglais

    Gustave Barba|Paris s. d. [1842]|19.50 x 29 cm|relié
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  50. La mascarade humaine
    Paul GAVARNI, Ludovic HALÉVY

    La mascarade humaine

    Calmann Lévy|Paris 1881|22 x 31 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    First edition and first issue of Gavarni's illustrations.
    Publisher's full red boards binding, smooth spine very slightly faded, boards decorated with gilt decorative motifs, small corner stains on front board.
    Work illustrated with 100 large compositions by Gavarni.
    A pale marginal dampstain on the title page diminishing and disappearing through the following pages, otherwise pleasant interior condition.
    €150
  51. Masques et visages
    Paul GAVARNI

    Masques et visages

    Paulin • et Lechevalier|Paris 1857|13 x 19 cm|relié
    Edition from the year of the first edition published by the same publisher but with a different collation (248 p. including 28 pages of catalogue of Gavarni's work).
    A frontispiece and numerous vignettes.
    Half burgundy sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with blind fillets, dots and gilt fillets.
    Headcaps and spine rubbed, occasional light foxing, two small lacks not touching text on two leaves.
    €150
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