[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 field of circus equestrian displays thanks to Antonio Franconi (1738-1836). They named their theatre, built by François Delpont in the jardin des Capucines along the rue Saint-Honoré in 1807, the Cirque Olympique. The second theatre to bear this name was on the Faubourg du Temple. The origins of this circus go back to 1780 and Astley's horses, but the novelty of these displays piqued the curiosity of Parisians. Antonio Franconi then joined forces with his father, no less talented a man in the art of training animals (so important at the time) for our entertainment.
An exceptional and very good, complete, copy with 16 plates colored in watercolors by a contemporary hand.
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 field of circus equestrian displays thanks to Antonio Franconi (1738-1836). They named their theatre, built by François Delpont in the jardin des Capucines along the rue Saint-Honoré in 1807, the Cirque Olympique. The second theatre to bear this name was on the Faubourg du Temple. The origins of this circus go back to 1780 and Astley's horses, but the novelty of these displays piqued the curiosity of Parisians. Antonio Franconi then joined forces with his father, no less talented a man in the art of training animals (so important at the time) for our entertainment.
An exceptional and very good, complete, copy with 16 plates colored in watercolors by a contemporary hand.
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