[Mme BERTIN, née VERIELL] Mme B... née de V...
Le cirque olympique ou les exercices des chevaux de MM. Franconi, du Cerf Coco, du Cerf Azor, de l'Éléphant Baba, suivi du Cheval aéronaute, de M. Testu Brissy ou Petits parallèles de l'instinct perfectionné des animaux, et de la raison naissante des enfans
Nepveu|Paris 1817|9 x 14 cm|relié
The rare first edition with 15 engravings showing 24 subjects after J. D. Dugourc, heightened with colors.
The author's name in this work was made up by the bookseller and printer Nepveu, who published several works using this pseudonym or that of Madame Bertin, née Veriell.
Bound in near-contemporary half blue sheep, spine with triple gold fillets (very discreetly restored). Small wormhole to inner margin, touching the last few leaves.
A lovely treatise with charming illustrations heightened in watercolors by a contemporary hand, showing horses, the elephant Baba and the stag Coco, drawn in Antonio Franconi's circus. The celebrated Italian Franconi family stood out in the fie
The author's name in this work was made up by the bookseller and printer Nepveu, who published several works using this pseudonym or that of Madame Bertin, née Veriell.
Bound in near-contemporary half blue sheep, spine with triple gold fillets (very discreetly restored). Small wormhole to inner margin, touching the last few leaves.
A lovely treatise with charming illustrations heightened in watercolors by a contemporary hand, showing horses, the elephant Baba and the stag Coco, drawn in Antonio Franconi's circus. The celebrated Italian Franconi family stood out in the fie
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