Louis HUART

First edition for 'Musée Dantan', 100 portraits drawn and engraved by Maurisset after the curious sculptures by Jean-Pierre Dantan (known as Dantan Jeune). 100 captions opposite each engraving by Louis Huart. Nice edition on vellum.
Bound with: 'Le vieux chasseur by Théophile Deyeux', "One of the rare illustrated volumes of the Romantic period on hunting" (Thébaud), with 53 lithographs by Eugène Rosset, including a title-frontispiece and 52 shooting and hunting scenes.
Green 3/4 morocco binding, signed (top of first flyleaf) Ottmann. Smooth spine elaborately decorated with long, bold and thin intricate designs in gilt, top edge gilt. Rubbing to spines and corners. Some foxing. A...

First separate edition, illustrated by Gavarni with 20 plates and 40 vignettes. The text had originally appeared in Le diable à Paris, a collective volume to which Balzac contributed several texts.
First edition of Louis Huart's work illustrated with 50 vignettes by Cham, published without date in 1846.
Contemporary half red shagreen binding. Spine with false raised bands handsomely decorated. Head and tail rolls. Corners slightly rubbed, one turned in. Some pale foxing on half-titles and indexes. Tinted paper for Paris marié, white for Paris au bal. Good copy.
Satirical and humorous writings in the style of physiologies.