CIRQUE - MÉNAGERIELivre Rare Book
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rif. 38727Troyes Impr. Brunard [fin du XIXème siècle) 42,5 x 20,5 cm environ en feuille, papier beige, minuscules manques marginaux
1921AN OUTSTANDING COPY OF BROUET'S MOST IMPORTANT BOOK. Illustrated with 66 original etchings, including 15 full-page and hors-texte. The etchings depict circus life, which Brouet--whose focus was always on marginalized segments of society--proves very adept at handling. From a total edition of 210 copies, this is one of ONLY 30 COPIES PRINTED ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER, WITH THE 15 HORS-TEXTE ETCHINGS AND THE PORTRAIT OF GONCOURT IN TWO STATES. 4to. Loose as issued in original wraps. A bit of wear and foxing to wraps, else FINE AND BRIGHT. Housed in the (slightly worn) original quarter morocco and decorated board chemise.
1895rif. 37701Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber 1895. First Edition. With 135 illustrations many full page. x 2 150 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original white cloth upper board pictorially stamped in gilt and polychrome silk endpapers. One small spot to lower board small book label to front pastedown else a crisp fine copy of this scarce and desirable work on circus athletes freaks and itinerant performers. First Edition. With 135 illustrations many full page. x 2 150 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber unknown
1895rif. 37701Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber 1895. First Edition. With 135 illustrations many full page. x 2 150 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original white cloth upper board pictorially stamped in gilt and polychrome silk endpapers. One small spot to lower board small book label to front pastedown else a crisp fine copy of this scarce and desirable work on circus athletes freaks and itinerant performers. First Edition. With 135 illustrations many full page. x 2 150 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber unknown books
1946rif. 53518Kewanee IL: Bob Parkinson Box 42 ca. 1946. Tall 8vo. 7.25 x 11.25 in. 24 pp unpaginated. thick cardstock w/ die-cut window slots for photos framed in green paper w/ 47 photos inserted sized from 3.25 x 4.75 in up to 4 x 5 in. a few mounted some w/ stamps on versos a few w/ pencil annotations some tipped-in a few mounted on sheets and inserted typed price list and ordering instructions on front pastedown listing many of the photos. Green linen white lettering stamped on front cover slightly shaken some rubbing edgewear still VG exemplar. Very rare photo sample catalogue assembled probably in the 1940s by Bob Parkinson noted circus collector and former director of the Circus World Museum Library and Research Center. The typed price list details the sets of images for sale such as the four photos from glass plate negatives of the Forepaugh Sells Bros. 1898 parade including images of steam calliope and 4 horse team bandwagon and 20 horse team elephant line-up followed by 2 blocks of close order units and more. In addition there are many images of 1908 and 1910 Ringling Bros. circus parades including views of the “Swan” Bandwagon and entire 24 horse team “Persia” tableau and 24 pony team side view “Egypt” tableau with the 16 camel team the entire elephant line-up riders and more. In addition there are added photos of wagons from the Al G. Barnes Circus Cole Bros. Circus later absorbed by Bailey and then Ringling Bros. as well as 101 Ranch Wild West Shows later circus parades in the 1920s the unloading of circus wagons off the Wisconsin Central Railroad flatbed cars loading docks and more. Parkinson explains that his sets for sale from $ 1.35 to $ 6.00 for all of them are taken directly from original glass plate negatives and that he is not charging much more than the printing costs and only trying to recoup his original considerable expense in purchasing the original negatives. Parkinson 1923-1991 began collecting as early as 1936 when he purchased his first Ringling-Barnum Bros. program and followed every circus show within striking distance of Decatur IL. After starting work as an insurance adjustor in 1946 he continued to chase buy & occasionally sell Circus related material assembling a massive collection of field show newspaper ads and was hired as the director of the Circus World Museum Library and Research Center in Baraboo WI from 1965 until his death. It was renamed the Robert L. Parkinson Library & Research Center the same year. Bob Parkinson, Box 42, unknown
rif. 215188Japan. Early Meiji. Black and white woodblock print 33 x 45.8cm few small stains a few small holes neatly repaired. A lively and attractive image. This fun-filled woodblock print is an advertisement for a visiting American circus to Japan in the early Meiji period most likely around the 1870s. The main attraction is the equestrian feats but other acrobatic entertainments including trapeze and clown acts are also featured. Seventeen American names with six others are listed in the left bottom corner. Western circuses such as Risley Circus and Chiarini Circus were very popular in Japan during the Meiji period. . unknown
1857rif. 81743J.-B. Baillière & fils | Paris & Londres & New York 1857 | 13.50 x 21.50 cm | relié
1889rif. 85901Librairie Plon | Paris 1889 (S.d.) | 21 x 28.20 cm | relié
1920rif. 146111920 1 Aquarelle rehaussée d'argent, titrée, (1920), 25 x 18 cm., encadrée.
1938rif. 88793s. n. | Marseille 1938 | 20.6 x 26.8 cm | Relié
1886rif. 7262St. Louis: Great Western Printing Co. Show Printers and Engravers 1886. St. Louis: Great Western Printing Co. Show Printers and Engravers 1886. Two-sided herald 10.5" x 28" printed in black on yellow newsprint. Text on bottom of each side reads "Black on Yellow Car No. 1 Great Western Printing Co. Show Printers and Engravers St. Louis. No. 4" with "Binghamton Mon. May 10" stamped in blue at bottom of verso in the "Will exhibit at" blank. Illustrations and performance roster in two columns. Headline on recto fabulously reads "The World Ransacked for All Its Wonders." Illustrations feature the Grand Street Demonstration the Egyptian Bovalapus actually a water buffalo two from the Equestrian Organization assumed James Robinson in his famous somersault and Emma Stokes wife of show proprietor John B. Doris "Old Betts" the War-Elephant a Troupe of Turkish Athletes another of Bicycle Riders Siberian Roller Skaters knife-thrower Riffia Bey and reptile-queen Katamorpa. Text roster adds everything from Human Blood-Sucking Vampires to a Menagerie of Infant Animals. The show carried a robust equestrian lineup including the aforementioned Robinson who was only the second person to execute a bareback somersault and at the height of his career was the highest paid equestrian in the United States. Another notable performance was the seven-person clown troupe led by Johnny Patterson the Irish humorist and songwriter best known for his song "The Garden Where the Praties Grow." In the show's route diary for this year compiler and Superintendent of the Confectionery Department E.C. White writes that the 1886 run was "one of the most successful seasons Financially and Professionally ever known.Notwithstanding the strong opposition experienced at the commencement and close of the season." On May 8th for the stop in Elmira NY just preceding this poster's show in Binghamton the diary notes "First day of the Forepaugh opposition." From there the rival Adam Forepaugh Circus & Wild West Show began to follow the Doris route a few days behind but sending their tack-spitters ahead to put up adverts for their own show before Doris's arrival in town. The Binghamton stand was 135 miles down the Lake Erie and Western Railroad and the opposition brigade had already gotten there. The diary entry for the date on this herald notes "Forepaugh bills us heavy here" but despite the opposition advertising and an amount of rain goes on to say "business good." Forepaugh would set up in Binghamton four days later on the 14th. The route diary as an aside descends into an almost Sisyphean resignation as this goes on simply writing "Forepaugh" or "Forepaugh again" entry after entry until on June 25th offers the existential almost-haiku "We ferry here. Forepaugh is billed here. Rain all day." In keeping with classic origin stories John B. Doris ran away at fourteen and joined the Dan Rice Circus. He soon bought privileges on the Rice show along with George Batcheller and soon the two split off to start Batcheller & Doris' Great Inter Ocean Circus. Doris bought out his partner in 1881 and continued as the sole proprietor until 1888 when heavyweight boxer John L. Sullivan became a partner. Sullivan one of the first true sports celebrities was meant to engage in a sparring exhibition each night but missed so many shows due to his excessive drinking that Doris closed the show mid-season and retired from traveling to work in theater production. Doris seems to have been well-liked by other circus folk earning the nickname Hunky Doris. Herald is in excellent condition overall with a shallow half-inch chip at bottom and a couple tiny chips and tears in margins along edges along with a few small pinholes to surface none involving or interfering with text. Flattened remnant of a horizontal crease at center. A couple smudged thumbprints to top margin on recto. Print is clean and color even. Great Western Printing Co., Show Printers and Engravers unknown
1886rif. 7262St. Louis: Great Western Printing Co. Show Printers and Engravers 1886. St. Louis: Great Western Printing Co. Show Printers and Engravers 1886. Two-sided herald 10.5" x 28" printed in black on yellow newsprint. Text on bottom of each side reads "Black on Yellow Car No. 1 Great Western Printing Co. Show Printers and Engravers St. Louis. No. 4" with "Binghamton Mon. May 10" stamped in blue at bottom of verso in the "Will exhibit at" blank. Illustrations and performance roster in two columns. Headline on recto fabulously reads "The World Ransacked for All Its Wonders." Illustrations feature the Grand Street Demonstration the Egyptian Bovalapus actually a water buffalo two from the Equestrian Organization assumed James Robinson in his famous somersault and Emma Stokes wife of show proprietor John B. Doris "Old Betts" the War-Elephant a Troupe of Turkish Athletes another of Bicycle Riders Siberian Roller Skaters knife-thrower Riffia Bey and reptile-queen Katamorpa. Text roster adds everything from Human Blood-Sucking Vampires to a Menagerie of Infant Animals. The show carried a robust equestrian lineup including the aforementioned Robinson who was only the second person to execute a bareback somersault and at the height of his career was the highest paid equestrian in the United States. Another notable performance was the seven-person clown troupe led by Johnny Patterson the Irish humorist and songwriter best known for his song "The Garden Where the Praties Grow." In the show's route diary for this year compiler and Superintendent of the Confectionery Department E.C. White writes that the 1886 run was "one of the most successful seasons Financially and Professionally ever known.Notwithstanding the strong opposition experienced at the commencement and close of the season." On May 8th for the stop in Elmira NY just preceding this poster's show in Binghamton the diary notes "First day of the Forepaugh opposition." From there the rival Adam Forepaugh Circus & Wild West Show began to follow the Doris route a few days behind but sending their tack-spitters ahead to put up adverts for their own show before Doris's arrival in town. The Binghamton stand was 135 miles down the Lake Erie and Western Railroad and the opposition brigade had already gotten there. The diary entry for the date on this herald notes "Forepaugh bills us heavy here" but despite the opposition advertising and an amount of rain goes on to say "business good." Forepaugh would set up in Binghamton four days later on the 14th. The route diary as an aside descends into an almost Sisyphean resignation as this goes on simply writing "Forepaugh" or "Forepaugh again" entry after entry until on June 25th offers the existential almost-haiku "We ferry here. Forepaugh is billed here. Rain all day." In keeping with classic origin stories John B. Doris ran away at fourteen and joined the Dan Rice Circus. He soon bought privileges on the Rice show along with George Batcheller and soon the two split off to start Batcheller & Doris' Great Inter Ocean Circus. Doris bought out his partner in 1881 and continued as the sole proprietor until 1888 when heavyweight boxer John L. Sullivan became a partner. Sullivan one of the first true sports celebrities was meant to engage in a sparring exhibition each night but missed so many shows due to his excessive drinking that Doris closed the show mid-season and retired from traveling to work in theater production. Doris seems to have been well-liked by other circus folk earning the nickname Hunky Doris. Herald is in excellent condition overall with a shallow half-inch chip at bottom and a couple tiny chips and tears in margins along edges along with a few small pinholes to surface none involving or interfering with text. Flattened remnant of a horizontal crease at center. A couple smudged thumbprints to top margin on recto. Print is clean and color even. Great Western Printing Co., Show Printers and Engravers unknown books
1950rif. WAS449806 sheet lithographic poster measuring 80 x 84 inches small area of image loss at lower middle of image some chips and tears at edges. Blank section at top left edge was intended for the inclusion of the name and location of a particular event. This poster was acquired by a collector from the Majestic Poster Press of Los Angeles in the early 1970s. At the time the company held inventory of unused posters printed by other presses as well as their own. Large multi-sheet posters are quite scarce today. Alles Printing Co
1950rif. WAS449806 sheet lithographic poster measuring 80 x 84 inches small area of image loss at lower middle of image some chips and tears at edges. Blank section at top left edge was intended for the inclusion of the name and location of a particular event. This poster was acquired by a collector from the Majestic Poster Press of Los Angeles in the early 1970s. At the time the company held inventory of unused posters printed by other presses as well as their own. Large multi-sheet posters are quite scarce today. Alles Printing Co books
Paris, non daté [1901-1902.]. Fort in-4, reliure éditeur demi-chagrin bordeaux, non paginé. (10 pages environ par revue du N° 1 à 29 et ensuite pour la Nouvelle série 20 pp) Cet album contient le N° 1 jusqu'au n° 29 (manque le n° 28) et ensuite les N° de La Nouvelle série du N° 30 au N° 40. Soit 39 numéros. Ecrivains ayant publié dans la revue : Alphonse Allais, (N°10 : Une bonne maison. N° Macédoine. N°17 : Une innovation à laquelle tout le monde applaudira. N° 21 : La malheureuse prononciation. N° 27 : La Science et la Religion - enfin - marchent main dans la main. Etc.)- Jean Lorrain, Tristan Bernard, Maurice Donnay, Jules Clarétie, Félix Galipaux, Charles Quinel, Marcel Prévost, Tené Maizeroy, Xanroff, G. Courteline, Yvette Guilbert, Henri Lavedan, Alfred Capus, etc, etc...La majorité des photographies n'est pas attribuée, mais pour les grandes compositions photographiques : E. Lagrange Notes : Revue paraissant à la suite de La Grande Vie en 1901. Image et texte monochrome, noir, brun, violet ou bleu. Gérant du n° 1: Henri Chevallier. Gérant des autres numéros : E. Le Barbier. Grandes compositions photographiques attribuées à A. [sic] Lagrange, fréquemment cité comme le photographe dans les romans parus chez Nilsson/Per Lamm (sous le nom « E. Lagrange »). A partir du N° 30 la couverture est illustrée en couleurs, ce numéro est consacré à La Vie au Cirque (18 pages). Très nombreuses publicités dans chaque revue, planches dans et hors-texte et certaines sur double-page en couleurs (Morin Au bois de Boulogne). Un seul numéro ne possède pas sa première de couverture, n° 31 (Les Boulevards Parisiens). Bel état intérieur mais fente sur un mors de la reliure.
rif. 26578Paris, non daté [1901-1902.]. Fort in-4, reliure éditeur demi-chagrin bordeaux, non paginé. (10 pages environ par revue du N° 1 à 29 et ensuite pour la Nouvelle série 20 pp)
rif. ORD-17440Ateliers d'Art Engelmann, Lucien Serre et Cie Imprimeurs. 15 Avril 1931. In-f°à l'italienne (426 x 97 mm) cartonnage de l'éditeur, dos toile beige, plats aluminium flanqués de 2 bandes de tissu rouge, 8ff.n.ch. Bien complet des 60 planches couleurs par Fernel présentant des artistes du cirque en représentation, tous identifiés par leur signature. Tirage à 555 exemplaires, celui-ci N°46 un des 500 sur Velin pur fil Vidalon. Couverture un peu abîmée, première page un peu tachée, bon état des illustrations.
1860rif. 39337Niort Imp. Desprez s.d. [ca. 1860] affichette petit in-folio (31 x 21,5 cm) en feuille, traces de plis
1985rif. 7124(Paris), Éditions Flammarion, 1985. In-folio (48 x 31 cm), (38) ff., ouvrage imaginé, mis en page, gravé, calligraphié, avec 17 burins et eaux-fortes par Trémois, les illustrations sont protégées par des feuilles de plastique. En feuilles, couverture estampée à froid rempliée, sous chemise demi-maroquin noir au dos et plats en métal, titre calligraphié à froid sur le plat, titre doré au dos, étui en plexiglas. Très bel exemplaire en état parfait.
1772rif. AMO-3059Le Ventriloque, ou l'Engastrimythe ; Par M. De La Chapelle, censeur royal à Paris, de l'Académie de Lyon, de celle de Rouen, & de la Société Royale de Londres. A Londres, chez de l'Etanville, en France (Paris) chez la Veuve Duchesne, 1772 2 parties en 1 fort volume in-12 (17 x 11 cm) de XXIII-(1)-572 pages (pagination continue). Reliure demi-veau à coins de la première moitié du XIXe siècle. Reliure légèrement frottée, la pièce de titre manque, tranches rouges. Intérieur très frais. Rare rousseurs. Edition originale rare du premier livre sur la ventriloquie. "Ouvrage curieux, et le plus complet que nous ayons sur cette matière" (Quérard IV, 361). On trouve également dans ce volume (pp. 27-30 ) une lettre de M d'Artus capitaine au corps du génie, sur les exercices du scaphandre (du 7 septembre 1770) (expérience menée à l'aide d'un scaphandre inventé et fabriqué d'après les plans de M. de la Chapelle et testé en août 1770 dans les eaux du Rhin - il publiera un ouvrage sur le sujet en 1774). "Les ventriloques sont ainsi nommés parce qu'ils paraissent faire sortir leurs paroles du fond de leur ventre. Cet art est dû à un jeu particulier des muscles du gosier, jeu qu'on peut acquérir par un exercice constant et soutenu ; mais les sons des ventriloques s'articulant dans l'arrière-bouche, pourquoi n'y rapporte-t-on pas à la voix, comme on le fait ordinairement à la bouche intérieure ? Cela vient, dit l'auteur de ce Traité, de nos jugements d'habitude, il n'y a que l'expérience qui nous apprenne à juger par les yeux, de la distance des objets ; nous apprenons de même à en juger par les sons. Toutes les fois que l'air sera modifié de près, comme il l'est, pour produire les sons que l'expérience nous a appris venir de loin, nous en rapporterons le bruit à la même distance, et dans la même direction, quand ils ne partiraient qu'à deux pouces de nos oreilles ; c'est là un principe d'expérience et d'observation. La voix du ventriloque est basse, grêle, peu nourrie, prolongée et comme expirante ; voilà bien les caractères d'une voix faible qui vient de loin ; on doit donc lui attribuer cette qualité, jusqu'à ce que l'expérience ait appris à corriger ce jugement. [...]" (extrait de l'Esprit des Journaux, septembre 1772) L'auteur insiste sur l'effet de dissimulation du ventriloque à l'égard de son auditoire et souligne que cet Art peut être source d'un dangereux manège et propre aux supercheries qu'il faut dénoncer, "c'est une des principales raisons qui m'ont déterminé à écrire sur ce sujet" écrit-il. "Le monde une fois bien instruit et bien prévenu que cette cause d'illusion existe et comment elle existe, n'aura plus à en redouter les effets." La science moderne explique désormais cet artifice spectaculaire. Un ventriloque est un illusionniste qui utilise ses cordes vocales et non son ventre pour prêter la parole à un autre personnage, généralement une marionnette, en émettant les paroles sans bouger les lèvres. C'est bien là, la difficulté : les labiales (B, P, M) et les fricatives (F, V) ne peuvent pas être articulées. C'est à force d'entraînement que l'articulation du langage pourra être crédible. Les muscles du visage restant parfaitement immobiles, comme si le ventriloque ne faisait qu'écouter sa marionnette, le public a l'impression que la voix vient de plus loin, d'où le nom ventriloque. Au-delà du don naturel de nombreux ventriloques, il est indéniable qu'un long entraînement dans la maitrise des muscles faciaux, de la langue et des cordes vocales soit nécessaire. Cette discipline nécessite également un grand travail de coordination afin de donner l'illusion de la vie à la marionnette tout en gardant sa propre attitude sur scène. Selon Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, qui en parle dans son autobiographie concernant Comte, la « ventriloquie est la science de l'engastrimysme ». L'abbé Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle, mathématicien français (vers 1710-1792), donne le premier ouvrage en langue française concernant la ventriloquie, Le Ventriloque, ou l'engastrimythe. On crut pendant longtemps que les ventriloques parlaient du ventre gastronomique, ce qui les a fait désigner sous une foule de noms exprimant cette idée : engastriloques, engastrimandres, engastrimythes, engastromandres, gastriloques, sibilots, etc. Bon exemplaire de cet ouvrage rare.
Grande manifesto di cm. 36,5x85 su carta rosa stampato a Marsiglia nella Stamperia T. Samat (circa 1870/80). Grande figura del tendone del circo, Domatore di Leoni, Elefanti equilibristi. 125 Cavalli, 25 Cavallini (Ponys), Muli e Cammelli, 2 elefanti, 7 Leoni feroci, 150 Persone e 40 Carrozze. La Compagnia arriverà in questa città di mattina... Avrà luogo una Grande Cavalcata... Una carrozza a 4 Cavalli rappresentante degl’Indiani Aborigeni dell’America... Vettura allegorica tirata da Cammelli... RARO. Axs
1786rif. 88648Chez l'auteur | Paris 1786 | 12.4 x 19.5 cm | Relié
1925rif. 3040Bruxelles Editions de la "Vache rose" 1925 in-4 oblong en feuilles Bruxelles, Editions de la "Vache rose", 1925. 28 x 34,5 cm (portefeuille) et 26 x 33 cm (planches), table des planches et 8 gravures sur bois en noir hors texte, en feuilles sous chemise à rabat rose imprimée.
1930rif. 97671930 Paris, sans nom, 1930 ; in-4° en feuilles, couverture rempliée crème, titre en noir au dos avec illustration en pied, étui cartonné crème bordé de rouge; (95)pp., (2)ff.Illustré de 26 eaux-fortes : 12 eaux-fortes à pleine page hors texte, 12 eaux-fortes dans le texte , plus 1 sur le titre et 1 à l'achevé d'imprimer. Tirage total à 135 exemplaires numérotés, celui-ci 1 des XV exemplaires d'auteurs: n° XIV, un des X sur Hollande Van Gelder Zonen.
rif. 2243319474 Crayons gras, gouache et aquarelle, signé en bas à droite, (1947), 46.3 x 38.2 cm.
