Paris (France)

Petits jeux de société [with] Des phrases [with] Les Rêves
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 C^ie for Le Charivari.
– Des phrases (1839): four lithographs published by Aubert et C^ie for La Caricature.
– Les Rêves (1839): six lithographs published by Aubert et C^ie for Le Figaro.
Bradel binding in half grey cloth, spine decorated with a title label in black morocco, marbled paper boards, the first bearing a blue title label framed with triple gilt fillets in its centre. Some rubbing on the spine end, bottom of the covers and on the corners as well as on the label margins. Scattered foxing.

Provenance: Cabinet du Baron de Fleury with its ex-libris glued to the first pastedown endpaper.

Fourberies de femmes
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 margin.
A nice copy of this famous gallery of maneaters.

Clichy
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 margins, marbled paper boards, the first bearing a black title label framed with triple gilt fillets in its centre.

A small tear skilfully restored in the lower margin of the second board (a little shorter than the others); a small corner piece missing from the fourth board.

Provenance: Paul Gavault's library with his ex-libris glued to the first pastedown endpaper.

Discours de Suède
[Nobel Banquet Speech]First edition, one of 56 numbered copies on Holland paper, the tirage de tête.

A very beautiful copy. Very nice copy of Camus' most beautiful text on the commitment and responsibility of new generations facing the challenges of the world to come.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa.
Light sun exposure to the spine as is usual, more pronounced sun damage at the top and the bottom of the spine and the boards.
Publisher's boards bound after the original model by Mario Prassinos.
Handwritten signed presentation by Albert Camus to Madame Moureau.