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Paul GAVARNI

Oeuvres choisies. Etudes de moeurs contemporaines. 1- Les enfants terribles. Traductions en langue ...

J. Hetzel & Cie, Paris 1846 - 1848, Grd. in-8 (18x26,8cm), 4 tomes en 2 volumes reliés.

First edition and first print of the engravings. Publications 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 of P.-J. Stahl among [...]

850 €

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John TRUSLER, William HOGARTH

The works of William Hogarth ; in a series of one hundred engravings and fifty by the first artists

The London printing and publishing company, London And New-York 1844 (S.d.), In-4 (22x28cm), 280pp., 2 tomes en un volume relié.

Illustrated edition of an engraved title, a portrait on the frontispiece and 150 plates on vellum.
Publisher's binding in full brown shagreen. Back to nerves decorated with 5 small florets framed with cold irons, rollers in tail and head and on the nerves. Large decorative plate composed of [...]

1 200 €

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Joseph Mallord William TURNER, LEITCH RITCHIE

The rivers of France, from drawings by Turner

Henry G. Bohn, London 1857, Fort grd. in-8 (18,5x28cm), 336pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with a title engraved with a vignette of the chateau Gaillard and 61 inserts on steel by Turner and engraved by Higham, Brendard, Smith, Willmore ... The whole on strong vellum.
Publisher's binding in full shagreen green leather. Richly decorated false nerves back. [...]

700 €

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ANONYME

Carte à jouer érotique à secret - Trois de trèfle

s.l. [France] s.d. (circa 1860), 5,5x8,6cm, une carte à jouer.

Secret erotic playing cards - Three of Clubs
[France] s.d(circa 1860), 5.5 x 8.6 cm, one playing card
Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around the 1860s. Lithograph coloured by stencil, white verso.
In the light, the transparent card reveals an [...]

120 €

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ANONYME

69 Année érotique - Deux cartes à jouer érotique à secret - 6 et 9 de trèfle

s.l. [France] s.d. (circa 1860), 5,5x8,6cm, 2 cartes à jouer.

6 and 9 of Clubs
[France c. 1860] | 5.5 x 8.6 cm
In the light, the transparent cards reveal humorous erotic scenes:
– 6 of Clubs: a lapping dog pleasures a lady stretched out with her dresses lifted up.
– 9 of Clubs: foreplay of a naked couple sitting on the edge of a bed.

380 €

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ANONYME

Cartes à jouer érotiques à secret - Carré d'as

s.l. [France] s.d. (circa 1860), 5,5x8,6cm, 4 cartes à jouer.

Disguised erotic playing cards – Four aces
[France ca 1860] | 5.5 x 8.6 cm | 4 playing cards
Disguised erotic playing cards, maker unknown, produced in France circa 1860. Lithographs colored with stencil, versos blank.
In the light, the transparent cards reveal humorous erotic [...]

800 €

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ANONYME

Album orné

Branston, London 1840 (S.d), In-4 (24x30,5cm), relié.

Collection consisting of an anonymous hand of chromolithographs, engravings. Many pages with various frames, Gothic, ornamental, intended to receive engravings. Frontispiece in chromolithography enhanced with colors. The papers intended to receive drawings, engravings or chromos are of various [...]

450 €

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Edgar DEGAS

15 lithographies d'après Degas

Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris s.d (1889), in-plano (41x59cm), en feuilles sous portefeuille de l'éditeur.

15 lithographies d'après Degas [15 lithographs after Degas]

28 000 €

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