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  10. Lithographie originale en noir et blanc - Grande exposition de l'Industrie et des Blagues Contemporaines - "Entrez et jugez!..."
    Honoré DAUMIER

    Lithographie originale en noir et blanc - Grande exposition de l'Industrie et des Blagues Contemporaines - "Entrez et jugez!..."

    Chez Aubert|Paris s. d. [1839]|25.30 x 33.30 cm|une feuille
    Rare original black and white lithograph, second state, for Le Figaro printed on heavy paper. Signed on the plate.
    Delteil, 3823. Rare.
    Some foxing (more pronounced on verso), bottom margin cut which prevents reading of the last line of the caption and four tears of less than one centimeter on the top margin.
    €350
  11. Lithographie originale en noir et blanc - "L'empire c'est la paix"
    Honoré DAUMIER

    Lithographie originale en noir et blanc - "L'empire c'est la paix"

    Chez Aubert|Paris s. d. [1870]|23.40 x 31 cm|une feuille
    Original black and white lithograph, in second state, for Le Charivari printed on heavy paper. Signed in the plate.
    Delteil, 3426
    Some foxing and a tear (1cm) at bottom of left margin, not affecting the image.
    €90
  25. Lithographie originale en noir et blanc - Les Cinq Sens - "Le Toucher"
    Honoré DAUMIER

    Lithographie originale en noir et blanc - Les Cinq Sens - "Le Toucher"

    Chez Aubert|Paris s. d. [1839]|34.30 x 26.40 cm|une feuille
    ff.: Publisher's announcements.

    Plates:


    Title pages (15 pl.): p.i: preface; p.1: notice; p.9: life and work; p.38: enamel of the Louvre; Melun diptych; p.73: hours of Master Estienne Chevalier, p. 92: office of the Virgin; office of the Passion; saints and female saints; readings and meditations; p.94: Boccaccio of Munich; p.105: Jewish antiquities by Flavius Josephus; p.113: decades of Livy; p.117: Fouquet presumed works; p.168: table of contents.
    1 steel engraving.
    5 chromolithographs: p.38: 1 pl., enamel by Jean Fouquet; 2 pl., LL-AAA, Melun diptych,; p.102: 1 pl., FFF, Boccaccio of Munich; p.116: 1 pl., III, Tullia;
    p.102: plan of the...
    €120
  32. La grande ville. Nouveau tableau de Paris comique, critique et philosophique
    Paul de KOCK

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

    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 text by Gavarni, Daumier, D'Aubigny... The second volume published in 1843 contains texts by Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Soulié, Edouard Ourliac, Eugène de Mirecourt... 29 illustrations by Daumier signed in volume 1, 10 in volume 2. 17 plates in the second volume.
    Contemporary half dark green sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with series of fillets. Blue cloth boards. Boards rubbed, corners slightly bumped. Scattered foxing.



    Rare publication on the Paris of Louis-Philippe. The work proceeds by subject and articles: The wet nurses' bureau, flower sellers, baths, street lamps, sidewalks, theatre exits, beards and...

    €450
  48. Lithographie originale en noir et blanc - Les Baigneurs - "Un abus de confiance - Les misérables !! voler un avocat de prison qui nage sous la sauve-garde des lois naturelles et sociales !"
    Honoré DAUMIER

    Lithographie originale en noir et blanc - Les Baigneurs - "Un abus de confiance - Les misérables !! voler un avocat de prison qui nage sous la sauve-garde des lois naturelles et sociales !"

    Chez Aubert|Paris 1842|35.90 x 27.50 cm|une feuille
    Original lithograph in black and white and in third state, created for Le Charivari and printed on strong paper.
    Delteil, 653.
    Monogrammed stamp "AB" from the collection of Dr Albert Bloch on the verso of the plate.
    Fine copy in fresh condition.
    €220
  66. Histoire de la caricature et du grotesque dans la littérature et dans l'art
    Thomas WRIGHT

    Histoire de la caricature et du grotesque dans la littérature et dans l'art

    Au bureau de la revue britannique|Paris 1867|16.50 x 25 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    First edition in French.
    Publisher's full blue cloth binding, spine decorated with compartments and blind fillets, blind fillet border on boards, yellow paper endpapers and pastedowns, small discoloration spots on spine and boards.
    Scattered foxing.
    Work illustrated with 238 figures in the text.
    €100
  67. L'enragé N°6
    Georges WOLINSKI, CABU

    L'enragé N°6

    L'enragé & Jean-Jacques Pauvert|Paris Juillet 1968|23 x 31 cm|en feuilles
    First edition of this violently anti-Gaullist review.
    Handsome copy.
    Issue illustrated with drawings by Wolinski, Reiser, Cabu, Siné, Malsen, Topor.
    €60
  68. L'enragé N°2
    Georges WOLINSKI, CABU

    L'enragé N°2

    L'enragé & Jean-Jacques Pauvert|Paris Deuxième trimestre 1968|23 x 31 cm|en feuilles
    First edition of this violently anti-Gaullist magazine.
    Handsome copy.
    Issue containing two songs by Eugène Pottier, which was printed during the 1968 strikes and decorated with illustrations by Siné, Flip, Malsen, Wolinski.
    €60
  70. L'album. Les maîtres de la caricature
    Benjamin RABIER, CARAN D'ACHE

    L'album. Les maîtres de la caricature[The Album. The Masters of Caricature]

    Jules Tallandier|Paris 1902|25.50 x 32 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    First edition illustrated with numerous unpublished drawings in black and in color by Albert Guillaume, Ferdinand Bac, Albert Robida, Lucien Métivet, Jean-Louis Forain, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, Job, Charles Léandre, Hermann Paul, Benjamin Rabier, Charles Huard, Henry Gerbault, Abel Faivre, Paul Balluriau...
    Publisher’s decorated binding in full cloth, smooth spine decorated with a green floral motif, bevelled boards, the upper cover illustrated by Lucien Métivet showing the masked faces of most of the illustrators of this volume and, above them, a society lady manipulating these caricatures with strings like puppets, endpapers and pastedowns of blue paper slightly discoloured at...
    €1,800
  71. Jérome Paturot à la recherche de la meilleure des républiques
    Louis REYBAUD, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE

    Jérome Paturot à la recherche de la meilleure des républiques

    Michel Lévy frères|Paris 1849|19 x 27 cm|relié
    First edition illustrated by Tony Johannot, second part of the story of Jérôme Patureau, the first being: Jérôme Patureau à la recherche d'une position sociale, illustrated by Grandville. 30 plates outside the text and 200 wood-engraved vignettes in the text.
    Half old-red straight-grained morocco binding, near-contemporary, signed on the first marbled endpaper by Prosper Charon. Spine with flat false raised bands decorated with ornate compartments with black framing around the compartments and emphasizing the bands. Elegant binding. Rubbing to boards, edges and corners. Scattered foxing, mainly in the margins, on good white paper.
    Rare illustrated covers preserved. The frontispiece...
    €500
  72. Paris marié [Ensemble] Paris au bal
    Honoré de BALZAC, Louis HUART

    Paris marié [Ensemble] Paris au bal

    J. Hetzel • Aubert & Cie|Paris 1846|-|relié
    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.

    €400
  73. [PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique de Gustave Doré
    (Gustave DORÉ) [NADAR] Félix Tournachon dit NADAR

    [PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique de Gustave Doré[PHOTOGRAPHY] Photographic portrait of Gustave Doré]

    Nadar|Paris s. d. [1867]|6.60 x 10.40 cm|une photographie
    Nadar, Paris N.D. (but 1867), 6,6x10.4 cm, photograph

    Original photograph on albumin paper in a visiting card format, laid down on card by Nadar, initialed and with a red border.
    Doré poses with his arm on a fringed chair, the same as in the portraits of Théophile Gautier, Edouard Manet and Alexandre Dumas.
    Manuscript annotation to verso.
    We have not been able to find any copies of this photograph in any of the international public collections.
    €1,200
  74. Comic-finance - Journal satirique financier paraissant le jeudi - Année 1887 complète (52 numéros)
    COLLECTIF

    Comic-finance - Journal satirique financier paraissant le jeudi - Année 1887 complète (52 numéros)

    Imprimé par Ch. Noblet|Paris 6 janvier - 29 décembre 1887|31.50 x 48 cm|52 numéros reliés
    First edition of this complete year consisting of 52 issues published between January 6 and December 29, 1887, twentieth year.
    Contemporary half blue cloth binding, spine decorated with seven blind fillets, gilt title and date, marbled paper boards.
    Cloth rubbed and frayed at head and foot of spine. A tear without loss to inner lower margin of first endpaper. Lower corners of bottom board damaged with small loss.
    Comic-finance was edited by Ernest Schrameck.
    €1,200
  75. 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
  76. Mr. Cryptogame
    Rodolphe TÖPFFER

    Mr. CryptogameMr Bachelor Butterfly

    Imprimerie Levé|Paris s. d. [circa 1870]|28 x 19.50 cm|relié
    Rodolphe TÖPFFER & CHAM
    Mr. Cryptogame [Mr Bachelor Butterfly]
    Imprimerie Levé [Garnier] | Paris n. d. [c. 1870]| 28 x 19.5 cm | publisher's binding
    New Garnier edition. 64 pages of illustrations. The unique collaboration between the two inventors of comic books.
    Publisher's illustrated cloth in full red glazed calico, spine decorated at the top and bottom with gilt fillets and motifs with a gilt title, boards framed with black fillets and arabesques, the first with a large golden illustration in the centre, original blue endpapers, all edges gilt.
    The upper spine end very slightly lifting, top joint of the upper board a...
    €350
  77. The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club
    Charles DICKENS

    The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club

    Chapman and Hall|London 1842|15 x 23 cm|relié
    New edition after the original of 1837 published by the same publisher, conforming in all respects to it. It is illustrated with 43 satirical captioned plates including a frontispiece and a title-frontispiece bearing the date 1837.
    Later binding ca 1880 in half brown shagreen. Spine with false raised bands decorated with compartments and blind fillets. Gilt title. Browning on the verso of the half-title, otherwise very clean throughout with rare spotting. It is rare to encounter the engravings without foxing due to the paper used which is most often found heavily browned or foxed. Light traces of rubbing. Handsome copy.
    The posthumous papers, like all of Dickens's works...
    €550
  78. The history of Pendennis. His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy
    William Makepeace THACKERAY

    The history of Pendennis. His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy

    Bradbury and Evans|London 1849 - 1850|14.50 x 21.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First edition abundantly illustrated with 2 engraved titles with vignettes and very numerous in-text vignettes by the author, as well as 46 plates by Richard Doyle.
    Contemporary English binding in half green calf with corners. Spine with false raised bands richly decorated. Brown shagreen title and volume labels. Rubbing to headcaps, joints and corners. Brown dampstain to engraved titles in margin, and to the first 3 plates, the dampstain becoming pale on all plates, more or less pronounced, sometimes minimal, sometimes present.
    The tribulations of a young English gentleman seeking his place in society and in life, the novel is a satire of human nature and Victorian aristocratic...
    €800
  79. The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club
    Charles DICKENS

    The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club

    Chapman and Hall|London 1837|13.50 x 21.30 cm|relié
    First edition illustrated with 43 plates including a frontispiece and a title-frontispiece (all plates are bound consecutively, after the preliminary pages, half-title, title page, preface and table of contents). MCCCXXXVII on title page. The plates bear no captions; the first 27 have pagination at bottom of page, the following bear no indication and appear to be before lettering (with pencil pagination notation). Our volume possesses several features attesting to the very first printing: Line 29 p. 260: "holding"; p. 341 line 1: "inbe-licate"; p. 342 line 5: "S. Veller"; p. 432 the F of Posthumous papers of is poorly printed. The engraved title is in second state with Tony Weller's name...
    €500
  80. Monsieur le ministre
    Adrien MARIE, Frédéric BOURDIN

    Monsieur le ministre

    Maison Quantin|Paris 1885|20.50 x 29.50 cm|relié
    Illustrated edition of 10 original Adrien Marie compositions etched by Wallet, one of 50 numbered copies on Japan featuring etchings in double condition;
    Binding in half gray percaline with corners, smooth back adorned with a floral golden pattern, golden date and double fillet in tail, title piece of navy shagreen, boards of marbled paper, Contemporary binding.
    Edition enriched with an unpublished preface by Jules Clarétie.
    Some foxinges mainly affecting the white guards of the binding.
    Our copy is exceptionally embellished with an original watercolor in color signed Frédéric Bourdin on the page preceding the title page.
    €600
  81. Distiques pour une carmagnole de la Honte
    Louis ARAGON

    Distiques pour une carmagnole de la HonteAutograph poem : "Distichs for a Carmagnole of Shame”

    s. d. [1944-1945]|19.80 x 26.50 cm|une feuille sous étui-chemise

    Exceptionally rare autograph satirical poem by Louis Aragon, entitled Distiques pour une Carmagnole de la Honte, written between September 1944 and February 1945. 26 lines penned in black ink on a single leaf, with a note from the author in blue ink at the foot of the page.
    Our manuscript belongs to a group of thirteen poems composed during the first half of 1945, intended for publication in a poetry anthology (Aragon, published by Pierre Seghers in Paris, Collection “Poètes d’aujourd’hui” no. 2, 20 July 1945). It was sent by Aragon as a working copy to his editor and friend Claude Roy. This autograph poem is the only known...

    €5,000
  82. Rikette aux enfers
    Charles MÜLLER, Paul REBOUX

    Rikette aux enfers

    Ernest Flammarion|Paris 1914|15 x 22 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe issue.
    Work illustrated with 90 black and white drawings by Carlègle.
    As preface, a curious "unpublished text" by Gustave Flaubert.
    Very handsome copy as issued, retaining its deckled edges.
    €300
  83. Les français peints par eux-mêmes
    Honoré de BALZAC, COLLECTIF

    Les français peints par eux-mêmes

    J. Philippart|Paris 1876 S.d.|19 x 28 cm|4 tomes en 4 volumes reliés
    Completely revised edition, with some parts in first edition, both for texts and illustrations. Introduction by Jules Janin and texts by Balzac, La bedollière, Charles Nodier, Frédéric Soulié, Petrus Borel... with in-text and full-page illustrations by Grandville, Daubigny, Pauquet, Français, Bertall, Johannot, Daumier, Bayard... Printed in double columns.
    Contemporary half brown shagreen bindings. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 fleurons. Title and volume labels in chocolate morocco. Rubbing to headcaps and raised bands, boards, edges and corners. Spines slightly lightened. Corners slightly bumped. Some foxing, mainly in margins, some signatures browned, but overall paper...
    €500
  84. 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
  85. Les dicts & faicts du chier cyre Gambette le Hutin en sa court
    NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]

    Les dicts & faicts du chier cyre Gambette le Hutin en sa court [The Sayings & Deeds of the dear sire Gambette the Hutin in his court]

    chés l'auctheur|Paris s. d. [1882]|14 x 19 cm|relié
    first edition of this Rabelaisian style pamphlet directed against Gambetta, one of 300 numbered copies on paper of the Netherlands.
    Binding to open bradel ivory wove, smooth back, red mesh frame compositions painted boards and boards to centers: a bookplate and a monogram on the first front cover and Léon Gambetta dabbling in a bathtub on the second, fragile parchment wrappers preserved and bound in, contemporary binding signed Dodé.
    Nadar handwritten signature under the justification of the draw.
    Book adorned the author of illustrations.
    Provenance: Library of Frederick Lachèvre, bibliographer, specialist in French poetry, with its large bookplate...
    €400
  86. La Passion illustrée sinon illustre de N.-S. Gambetta
    NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]

    La Passion illustrée sinon illustre de N.-S. Gambetta [The Illustrated, if not Illustrious, Passion of N.-S. Gambetta]

    chés l'auctheur|Paris s. d. [1882]|14 x 19 cm|relié
    first edition of this Rabelaisian style pamphlet directed against Gambetta, one of 300 numbered copies on Holland paper.
    Binding to open bradel ivory wove, smooth back, red mesh coaching boards and boards painted in watercolor compositions centers: a bookplate and a monogram on the first front cover and Léon Gambetta embodying Christ crucified, fragile parchment wrappers preserved and bound in, contemporary binding signed Dodé.
    Nadar handwritten signature under the justification of the draw.
    In addition, this copy is enriched with a handwritten correction Nadar pencil in The Passion,     p. 45, to orveitan [sic].
    Book adorned the author of illustrations.
    €400
  87. Le tiroir du diable
    Honoré de BALZAC, Alphonse KARR

    Le tiroir du diable

    Chez Les principaux libraires|s. l. • [Paris] 1850 S.d.|18 x 27 cm|relié
    First edition, richly illustrated with 75 hors-texte plates, principally by Gavarni, including 4 music plates framed with wood engravings by Bertall and several compositions by Bertall. Very numerous vignettes by Monnier, Français, Daubigny... The compositions with multitudes of vignettes by Bertall on subjects such as evenings at the opera, Paris by night... which constitute the ensemble of Paris comique are particularly delightful. This edition is rarer than le Diable à Paris.
    Contemporary green half-shagreen. Smooth spine decorated with series of romantic tools in compartments. Green corsillonné paper boards. Borders rubbed and corners slightly bumped. Some scattered foxing...
    €300
  88. Le petit illustré amusant, 1903, année complète, du n°1 au n°52
    COLLECTIF, POULBOT

    Le petit illustré amusant, 1903, année complète, du n°1 au n°52

    Le petit illustré amusant|Paris 1903|30 x 39 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Half red cloth binding, smooth spine decorated with fillets stamped in blind, light scuffs to the joints, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
    This weekly caricature magazine is richly illustrated by Raoul Thomen, Landelle, Jean d'Aurian, Poulbot, Edmond Guénin, Bogron, Vallet, Valéry Muller, Henry Muller, Léon Bardet, Haye, Ferdinand Bac, Ricardo Flores, Delannoy, Le Bocain, E. Tap, Gog, Malherbe, d'Albat... etc.
    Each issue comprises eight pages, including large color drawings on the first and last pages and numerous black and white drawings.
    A rare and handsome copy.
    €500
  89. Le petit illustré amusant, 1904, année complète, du n°1 au n°53
    COLLECTIF, POULBOT

    Le petit illustré amusant, 1904, année complète, du n°1 au n°53

    Le petit illustré amusant|Paris 1904|30 x 39 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Half red sheep binding, minor scuffs of no consequence to the spine which is decorated with gilt fillets, some surface wear, contemporary binding.
    This weekly caricature magazine is richly illustrated by Raoul Thomen, Landelle, Jean d'Aurian, Poulbot, Edmond Guénin, Bogron, Vallet, Valéry Muller, Henry Muller, Léon Bardet, Haye, Ferdinand Bac, Ricardo Flores, Delannoy, Le Bocain, E. Tap, Gog, Malherbe, d'Albat, Schuster, Viriez, Gus Bofa, Alex, Zybalt, A. Ziem, Blondeau, Fertom... etc.
    Each issue comprises eight pages, including large color drawings on the first and last pages and numerous black and white drawings.
    A rare and handsome copy.
    €500
  90. Le petit illustré amusant, 1905, année complète, du n°1 au n°52
    COLLECTIF, POULBOT

    Le petit illustré amusant, 1905, année complète, du n°1 au n°52

    Le petit illustré amusant|Paris 1905|30 x 39 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Half red sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, some minor scuffing without significance on the marbled paper boards, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
    This weekly caricature magazine is richly illustrated by Raoul Thomen, Landelle, Jean d'Aurian, Poulbot, Edmond Guénin, Bogron, Vallet, Valéry Muller, Henry Muller, Léon Bardet, Haye, Ferdinand Bac, Ricardo Flores, Delannoy, Le Bocain, E. Tap, Gog, Malherbe, d'Albat, Schuster, Viriez, Gus Bofa, Alex, Zybalt, A. Ziem, Blondeau, J. Cadet, Stick, Zilberty, Vosrie, Lenature, Bourguignon, Arthur Perrier, Brun, Jean Plumet, Arboult, Rose Maury, Sirdey, L. Forton, Fertom, Jako...
    €500
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