Paris: Aux Bureaux du Charivari, 1871. Thirty-Nine Wonderfully Satiric Images by Daumier & Cham of the Siege of Paris by the Prussian army in the Winter of 1870-1871 CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé). DAUMIER, Honoré. Album du Siége Par Cham et Daumier. Recueil de Caricatures publiées pendant Le Siege dans Le..... More
Paris: Louis Janet, 1828. A Color-Plate Tour Down the River Seine [MALO, Charles]. Voyage Pittorèsque de Paris au Havre sur les Rives de la Seine. Paris: Louis Janet, [1828]. First edition. Sixteenmo (5 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches; 146 x 89 mm.). [viii], [1]-207, [1, blank] pp. Hand colored copper-plate vignette..... More
Paris [&] London: V. Morlet [&] McLean, 1830. Twelve Superb Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates Depicting Scenes from the Debtor's Prison of Sainte-Pélagie [ADAM, Victor, illustrator]. Album de Sainte-Pélagie, Prison de la Dette. [Gravures réhaussées à l'aquarelle. Douze scènes intérieures dessinées et lithographiées d’après nature par V. Adam]. Paris [&] London: Publié par..... More
London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. A Superb Mid-Twenties Cosway-Style Binding by Bayntun of Bath with Two Fine Oval Miniatures Extra-Illustrated by the Insertion of Twenty-Five Engraved Plates of which Six are Hand-Colored COSWAY-STYLE BINDING. BAYNTUN, binder. WILLIAMS, H. Noel. Queen Margot Wife of Henry of Navarre. With sixteen illustrations..... More
London: H. Humphrey, 1800. Napoleon's Abandonment of General Duga in Egypt James Gillray's Satirical Representation of an Event Which Changed the Face of Events in France and Throughout Europe GILLRAY, James. Buonaparté Leaving Egypt. For an Illustration of the above, see Intercepted Letters from the Republican General Kleber, to the French Directory..... More
London: H. Humphrey, 1805. St. George and the Dragon GILLRAY, James. St. George and the Dragon. [Britannia; Napoléon Bonaparte; King George III] A Design for an Equestrian Statue, from the Original in Windsor Castle. Drawn by an Amateur. Etched by Js. Gillray. London: Published August 2nd. 1805. by H. Humphrey. 27..... More
Paris: Chez Aubert, 1839. With 150 Hand-Colored Lithographs, including Forty-Five by Honoré Daumier and Forty-Two by Gavarni [DAUMIER, Honoré, Gavarni, and others, illustrators]. [ALHOY, Maurice, Louis Huart, and Ch[arles] Philipon, editors]. Le Musée pour rire. Dessins par tous les caricaturistes de Paris; Texte par MM. Maurice Alhoy, Louis Huart et Ch. Philipon..... More
Paris: Delpech, 1828. Extremely Rare Monnier MONNIER, Henri. Six Quartiers de Paris. Paris: [François Séraphin] Delpech, 1828. A rare suite of six hand colored lithographed plates, (without the hand colored lithographed title) otherwise complete as issued. Oblong quarto. Plate size: 9 x 12 inches (231 x 307 mm). Bound to contemporary..... More
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