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Best.-Nr. 05538Paris: Chez Aubert 1837. Characteristic Expressions Love Letters and Law Students Twenty-Five Fine Hand Colored Lithographs by Daumier Gavarni and Cujas DAUMIER Honoré. La Galerie Physionomique The Physiognomic Gallery 5 plates 0f 25 1837; GAVARNI Paul. Au Boit Aux Lettres At the mailbox 11 plates of 34 1838; GAVARNI Paul. Les Coulisses Behind the scenes 1 plate of 31 1857; CUJAS. Cours de Droit Law courses 8 plates of 12 1838. Folio 13 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches; 343 x 257 mm. A fascinating collection of twenty-five hand colored lithograph plates by Daumier Gavarni & Cujas all heightened with gum arabic. Contemporary quarter dark green calf over green marbled boards. Smooth spine decoratively tooled in gilt plain endpapers. Extremities rubbed. 1. DAUMIER. La Galerie Physionomique No. 14. La loge grillée - The box grated DR 339 2. CUJAS. Cours de Droit No. 1. La Chaumière et ton coeur - The Cottage and your heart 3. CUJAS. Cours de Droit No. 2. Jus Romanum 4. CUJAS. Cours de Droit No. 4 Homme étonnant!!! Quel chique. 5. CUJAS. Cours de Droit No. 6. L'Etudiant a besoin de quelques distractions - The Student 6. CUJAS. Cours de Droit No. 8. Reflexion philosophique en morale de Mlle Fifine 7. CUJAS. Cours de Droit No. 9. Allons Gustine joue tout droit tu ne manqueras pas de touche. 8. CUJAS. Cours de Droit No. 10. Je ne me trompe pas d'etait bien mon B.! 9. GAVARNI. Les Coulisses No. 6. Le soldat romain Quinze sous par jour. A&H 454 10. CUJAS. Cours de Droit No. 12. Tiens! Ernest!. qu'es tu donc devenu 11. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres Sans No. Je prends la plume d'une main tremblante. A&H p. 88 12. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres No. 2. Vous avez le secret de ma vie. A&H 1685 13. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres No. 3. La lettre qu'on lit. A&H 1686 14. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres No. 4. J'ai ta lettre cherie a mon Ernest je la presse. A&H 348 15. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres Sans No. Je soussigné Roi des Batinolles. A&H p. 89 16. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres Sans No. Chère ange mon amour vous envoie sur l'aile. A&H p. 89 17. DAUMIER. La Galerie Physionomique No. 5. Le bon morceau - A Tidbit DR 330 18. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres No. 8. Sans No. Viens me prendre ce soir je suis sortie. A&H p. 89 19. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres No. 9. Sans No. Ma sière epouse je vous. A&H p. 89 20. DAUMIER. La Galerie Physionomique No. 18. Rien!.rien!. Je ne trouve rien - Nothing! nothing at all. DR 343 21. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres No. 11. Congé en partie double. A&H 1693 22. DAUMIER. La Galerie Physionomique No. 8. La bonne prise - A good pinch of snuff DR 333 23. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres No. 13. Monsieur malgré que je sois sans experience je n'ai. A&H 1695 24. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres No. 14. Ah! prenez pitié de l'etat cruel où me laisse mon attachement. A&H 349 25. DAUMIER. La Galerie Physionomique No. 20. Contentement de soi-meme - The man who is satisfied with himself DR 345 Daumier Register DR-330 DR-333 DR-339 DR-343 DR-345; Armelhault & Bocher 348 454 1685 1686 1693 1695 & pp. 88 & 89. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1837 unknown books
Best.-Nr. 05542Paris: Chez Aubert Éditeur du Musée Philipon. 1842. Twenty Superb Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Daumier Cham Beaumont & Quillenbois DAUMIER Honoré & others. Paris Comique Revue Amusante Des Caractères Moeurs Modes Folies Ridicules Excentricités Niaiseries Bêtises Sottises Voleries et Infamies Parisiennes. Text non politique Par MM. L. Huart Michelant Ch. Philipon et autres Rédacteurs du Charivari et de la Caricature: Dessins Comiques par MM. Bouchot Cham de N. Daumier Gavarni Grandville et autrés artistes du Musée Philipon. Paris: Chez Aubert Éditeur. 1844. Folio 13 x 9 7/8 inches; 329 x 250 mm. iv 160 pp. Twenty magnificent hand colored lithographs all heightened with gum arabic. The plates are by Honoré Daumier 10; Cham 8; Beaumont 1 & Quillenbois 1. Contemporary ca. 1844 quarter dark green morocco over green paper boards front cover with gilt emblem. Spine with five raised bands tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments marbled endpapers. An excellent example with ten of the wonderful hand colored lithographs by Honoré Daumier. "The house of Aubert was ingenious in marketing its products. Its lithographs.were published one by one in periodicals like Le charivari and together in suites by the same artist without letterpress. Still a third form of publication was in albums made up of lithographs by several artists with accompanying texts. These collections most commonly took the form of volumes with the generic title Paris Comique which consisted of twenty colored lithographs accompanied by quite unrelated texts. Aubert remarked that the resulting hodgepodge had 'a plan that is easy to follow for it consists in not having any' and in fact this was indeed a frugal procedure for reusing old texts and already published plates. The interest of the various volumes of Paris comique resides entirely in the lithographs they happen to contain. It can be considerable however since Daumier and Gavarni are the predominant artists" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 164. The Plates: 1. DAUMIER. La Tragédie. "Que de soins m'ont couté cette tête charmante ! ." Phèdre. DR 1740 The Tragedy. How much worries this charming face has caused me. 2. DAUMIER. La Tragédie. "Venez dignes soutiens de la grandeur romaine." "Compagnons de César approchez!." La mort de César. DR 1741 The Tragedy. Come dignified pillars of Roman grandeur. friends of Caesar approach! 3. DAUMIER. Locataires et Propriétaires. - Eh! bien monsieur et mes trois termes. vous me direz toujours que vos meubles en répondent!. DR 1624 Tenants and Owners. Well Monsieur and my three months rent. you are always telling me that your furniture serves as collateral. 4. DAUMIER. Locataires et Propriétaires. Vois comme ils m'avaient abimé mes murailles avec leurs conduits de cheminée. on ne devrait pas permettre aux locataires de faire du feu!. DR 1623 Tenants and Owners. See how they have damaged my walls with their chimney ducts. tenants really shouldn't be allowed to have a heating. 5. CHAM. Les Fêtes Champêtres. Inconvénient de diner sur l'herbe non loin d'une ménagerie. Jeu d'adresse sentimental et patriotique. Country festivals. Disadvantage of dining on the grass not far from a menagerie. Sentimental and patriotic game of skill. 6. DAUMIER. Actualités. Allant aux renseignements Politiques chez le concierge du Général Changarnier. DR 2103 News. The public opinion gets its information on politics from the housekeeper of general Changarnier. 7. CHAM. Actualités. Monsieur Odilon continuant à chasser et à exterminer tous les snagliers qu'il rencontre. News. Monsieur Odilon continues to hunt and exterminate all the snagliers he encounters. 8. CHAM. Les Fêtes Champêtres. Elite de la société de Mabile au bal de Noisy-le-Sec. Mr. le maire n'est plus content. Country festivals. Elite of Mabile's society at the ball at Noisy-le-Sec. Mr. Mayor is no longer happy. 9. BEAUMONT. Au Bal Masqué. Cette Petite ligne m'annonce que votre vertu va enfin trouver sa récompense.un fort marchand de papier en gros s'apprête à vous demander en mariage! J'aimerais mieux un restaurateur.je me commanderais un crâne souper tous les jours de bal! At the masked ball. This Little Line announces to me that your virtue will finally find its reward.a strong merchant of wholesale paper is about to ask you in marriage! I'd rather have a restaurant owner.I'd order myself a skull supper every prom day! 10. CHAM. Les Politiques de Marais. Eh! Bien et les nouvelles du Portugal. Je suis un peu plus rassuré les nouvelles doivent être meilleures je remarque aujourd'hui que les marchandes d'oranges sont moins abattues.je ne vous cacherai pas qu'il y a deux jours j'étais bien effrayé on m'avait fait une orange dix sous!. Marsh Politics. Hey! Well what about the news from Portugal. I'm a little more reassured the news must be better I notice today that the orange sellers are less despondent.I won't hide from you that there two days later I was very frightened they had made me an orange ten sous!. 11. CHAM. Actualités. Lecture de journaux donnant des nouvelles peu rassurantes. News. Reading newspapers giving not very reassuring news. 12. CHAM. Actualités. Une Séance de la Commission de Surveillance. Nous constatons au procès verbal que présentement la ville de Paris est uniquement occupée de ballons!. News. A meeting of the Supervisory Commission. We note in the minutes that currently the city of Paris is only occupied with balloons!. 13. CHAM. Actualités. Le Beau sexe voyant grâce aux sergens de ville les jeux de Bourse transformés en des parties de barres. News. The fair sex seeing thanks to the sergens de ville the stock exchange games transformed into bar games. 14. DAUMIER. Actualités. Un nouvel Almaviva venant essayer de séduire Rosine-Véron en lui donnant une sérénade sur l'air de Vive Henri V. DR 2110 News. A new Almaviva trying to seduce Rosine - Véron by singing her a serenade on the tune of Vive Henry V. 15. QUILLENBOIS. Prophéties Charivariques. Les cabinets de lecture subiront des agrandissemens reclamés par le format des journaux. Le journal la semaine trouvera un abonné. Les abonnés de l'Epoque porteront un uniforme. Les porteurs du journal seront tenus de les saluer. Charivaric prophecies. The reading cabinets will undergo enlargements demanded by the format of the newspapers. The weekly newspaper will find a subscriber. Epoch subscribers will wear a uniform. Newspaper carriers will be required to salute them. 16. CHAM. Actualités. Dègoûté de la politique le directeur du Constitutionnel se décide à attendre désormais bien tranquillement l'arrivée du mois de Mai de l'an 1852. News. Disgusted with politics the director of Le Constitutionnel decided to wait quietly for the arrival of the month of May in the year 1852. 17. DAUMIER. Actualitiés. Surveillant la Commission de Surveillance. DR 3957 News. Supervising the supervisory commission. 18. DAUMIER. Actualitiés. Un nouveau Bélisaire. DR 2107 News. A new Belisarius. 19. DAUMIER. Locataires et Propriétaires. Deux bons voisins. DR 1618 Tenants and Owners. Two good neighbors. 20. DAUMIER. Locataires et Propriétaires. Locataires noctambules. DR 1619 Tenants and Owners. Nighttime movers. Paris: Chez Aubert, Éditeur du Musée Philipon..., 1842 unknown books
Best.-Nr. 05441Paris: Chez Aubert 1838. Daumier's Masterpiece of French Social Satire The Complete Les Robert Macaire - One Hundred Magnificently Hand-Colored Lithographs Heightened with Gum Arabic An Extraordinary Copy in the Original Publisher's Blue Cloth with an Additional Plate from the Exceedingly Rare Second Series DAUMIER Honoré 1808-1879 illustrator and PHILIPON Charles 1800-1862. Les Robert Macaire Caricaturana. Paris: Chez Aubert August 1836-November 1838. First edition. Folio 13 3/16 x 10 3/8 inches; 338 x 263 mm. One hundred original hand-colored lithographed plates all heightened with gum arabic together with one additional hand-colored plate from the exceptionally scarce second series. The complete suite of one hundred plates from the first series is present. A remarkable bibliographical curiosity: In this copy plate 96 À tous les cœurs bien nés que la patrie est chère!! Daumier Register 451 published October 28 1838 was originally replaced by a plate from the second series Robert Macaire 2e Série No. 7: Nouveautés philanthropiques Daumier Register 872 published April 4 1841. The plate number has been altered in old ink to read "96" apparently at or before the time of binding although the circumstances of the substitution cannot be established with certainty. An original hand-colored impression of the correct plate 96 DR 451 has subsequently been supplied and inserted immediately following plate 95 thereby restoring the complete first series while preserving the unusual second-series plate in its original bound position. The first plate bound a little tightly at the upper margin just touching the image. Plate 13 DR 366 with a small expertly repaired marginal tear extending approximately 1 1/2 inches and just touching the image; plate 46 DR 401 with a small expert repair approximately 5/8 inch to the inner blank margin; plates 11 DR 364 31 DR 385 and 48 DR 403 each with a tiny repaired marginal tear approximately 5/16 inch. A few plates very slightly toned; plate 34 DR 388 with some light foxing. Overall the plates are remarkably fresh with exceptionally vivid hand-coloring. Original publisher's diaper-grain blue cloth covers ruled in blind front cover decoratively lettered in gilt "Robert-Macaire." Plain endpapers. Expertly recased with inner hinges repaired. An early bookseller's catalogue description dated April 1942 affixed to the front free endpaper making no reference to the substituted plate. Traces of old tape residue on the front and rear endpapers. An excellent and unusually desirable example retaining the exceptionally scarce original publisher's binding and displaying the superb quality of the contemporary hand-coloring throughout. The Great Masterpiece of Daumier's Social Satire: Among the many achievements of Honoré Daumier few have exercised so enduring an influence upon the history of caricature as Les Robert Macaire. First published in the pages of Le Charivari between 1836 and 1838 this extraordinary series of one hundred lithographs constitutes one of the most penetrating inventive and entertaining portrayals of nineteenth-century French society. The series arose from the increasingly restrictive political climate of Louis-Philippe's July Monarchy. Following the September Laws of 1835 which severely curtailed political caricature Daumier and his publisher and collaborator Charles Philipon redirected their formidable satirical talents toward the absurdities pretensions and moral corruption of contemporary bourgeois life. Their vehicle was Robert Macaire the flamboyant confidence trickster made famous by the actor Frédérick Lemaître in the melodrama L'Auberge des Adrets. In Daumier's hands Macaire became something altogether more significant: the embodiment of a society in which speculation self-interest hypocrisy and dishonesty appeared to flourish in virtually every profession. Accompanied by his long-suffering accomplice Bertrand Macaire appears in an astonishing succession of disguises and occupations: banker lawyer physician businessman journalist financier entrepreneur philanthropist and opportunist of every conceivable description. No institution escapes scrutiny. The law courts the stock exchange the medical profession commercial speculation fashionable society marriage religion and charitable enterprise all provide opportunities for Macaire's inexhaustible ingenuity in separating the gullible from their money. Daumier's genius lies not merely in the grotesque exaggeration of his figures but in his extraordinary understanding of human character. Macaire's expansive gestures magnificent self-assurance and perpetual air of injured respectability are rendered with such brilliance that the character becomes at once ludicrous recognizable and disturbingly convincing. The accompanying captions largely devised by Philipon are an essential part of the achievement. Their wit irony and perfectly judged dialogue transform each lithograph into a miniature theatrical performance. Together artist and writer created a sustained comic portrait of an entire social order one whose relevance has scarcely diminished in the intervening two centuries. The original album was published by Aubert in a reported edition of 2500 copies a considerably larger printing than was customary for contemporary lithographic series. However the overwhelming majority were issued with the plates uncolored and complete copies with contemporary hand-coloring are particularly desirable. The present example is distinguished by the brilliance and freshness of its coloring enhanced throughout by the application of gum arabic which lends a characteristic luminosity and richness to selected details. The original publisher's blue cloth binding is another feature of exceptional importance. Most surviving copies have been rebound and examples retaining their original publisher's cloth are seldom encountered. This is only the second such copy we have handled. The present copy possesses the additional distinction of containing a plate from the exceedingly scarce second series of Robert Macaire issued between 1840 and 1842. This later continuation comprised twenty lithographs Daumier Register 866-885 and individual impressions are themselves difficult to obtain. The presence of Nouveautés philanthropiques DR 872 incorporated into the original sequence and renumbered in contemporary ink is an intriguing survival. Whether introduced by the publisher or by an early owner it provides unusual evidence of the manner in which these lithographic albums could be assembled and altered. With the correct original plate 96 now supplied the album preserves the complete first series while retaining this additional and exceptionally uncommon impression. The bibliographical importance of Les Robert Macaire has long been recognized. Charles Baudelaire singled out the series for discussion in his essay on French caricaturists while Philip Hofer Gordon N. Ray and other historians of illustrated books have acknowledged its central position in the development of modern graphic satire. Gordon Ray described it as Daumier's best-known work and noted the extraordinary contemporary popularity that led to the publication of 6000 copies of the smaller-format two-volume Les Cent-et-Un Robert Macaire beginning in 1839. Despite this popularity complete copies of the original folio series are uncommon and those combining contemporary hand-coloring exceptional condition and the publisher's original binding are rarer still. A magnificent survival of one of the most celebrated achievements in the history of European caricature combining artistic brilliance bibliographical rarity and an unusually interesting publishing history. References: Daumier Register 354-373 375-455 first series; 872 additional plate from second series. Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 161. Beraldi Les Graveurs du XIXe Siècle V p. 124. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1838 unknown books
Best.-Nr. 05492Paris: Chez Aubert 1838. The First Twenty Hand Colored Lithographs of Daumier's Most Celebrated Work DAUMIER Honoré and Charles Philipon. Les Robert Macaire Caricaturana. Paris: Chez Aubert 1836-1838. First edition. Oblong folio 10 3/8 x 14 inches; 264 x 355 mm. Twenty hand-colored lithographed plates numbered 1 - 20 heightened with gum arabic. Plate no. 7 supplied and expertly re-margined at gutter and lower margins. Contemporary quarter green calf over green patterned boards decoratively ruled in gilt with gilt corner pieces smooth spine. Inner hinges repaired slight rubbing to extremities. An excellent collection of the first twenty plates of Daumier's Caricaturana. "Les Robert Macaire remains Daumeir's best-known work. Baudelaire chose it. for specific discussion in his essay on French caricaturists and Carteret accorded it a place in his bibliography. Its contemporary popularity was immense. As an album it was published by Aubert in an edition of 2500 copies a far larger number than for any other series. Yet so persistent was the demand that 6000 two-volume sets of reduced copies called Les cent-et-un Robert Macaire were published in 1839." Ray. Though 2500 may have been printed few have survived. OCLC/KVK records only two copies in institutions worldwide Sadleir's at the Morgan Library and at Yale. Though both are complete only the Morgan copy is in the original cartonnage portfolio. ABPC reports only three complete copies at auction since 1935 and it appears that at least two were rebound; it is safe we think to presume that the third copy was also rebound. The 'reduced' edition of 1839 is still quite rare at auction two copies only since 1975 but there are more copies in institutional holdings. "When politics became a forbidden topic in Le Charivari where Caricaturana first appeared Daumier and Philipon turned to social satire. If they could not attack Louis-Philippe directly they could at least show the kind of society that flourished under his gross and venal regime. Taking the flamboyant and florid swindler Macaire from the character that Frederick Lemaitre had created in a hack melodrama called L'Auberge des adrets they showed him.ranging through all kinds of commercial enterprise in the stock market in the banks in the courts and in dozens of other public settings never failing to find eager dupes.Though Daumier's designes are are superb in themselves.they would be incomplete without the unfailing wit and point of Philipon's captions" Ray. Ray Art of the French Illustrated Book 161. Beraldi V p. 124. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1838 unknown books
Best.-Nr. 05423Paris: Au Bureau du Journal le Charivari 1857. Thirty Amusing Wood-Cut Illustrations by Honoré Daumier DAUMIER Honoré. Croquis Variés. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal le Charivari 1857. First edition. Small quarto 9 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches; 241 x 181 mm. 16 leaves including vignette title-page all printed on one side only. Thirty amusing wood-cut illustrations. Some foxing throughout as is usual. Publisher's pale green printed wrappers with advertisements on rear. Complete with the publisher's glassine wrapper. Apart from the usual foxing a remarkable survival of this very fragile little book. First edition of this collection of plates by the famous illustrator writer sculptor. French lithographer and caricaturist Honoré Daumier Marseilles February 26 1808 - Valmondois February 10 1879 famous for his satirical cartoons targeting the political figures of the time. Daumier from a very young age demonstrated a propensity for drawing. In 1825 he was an apprentice of Beliard lithography starting to collaborate then with the humorous newspaper "La Silhouette" demonstrating right from the start all his satirical verve. Among the first tables that he created one caused a stir. In it the caricaturist opposed the glorious Napoleonic tricolor to the restored Bourbon flag. Daumier's political commitment did not stop at paper but he took an active part in the revolutionary uprisings which overthrew the monarchy of Charles X in July 1830. During the uprisings he was also hit by a bullet. In 1835 he began his collaboration with the famous satirical newspaper directed by Charles Philipon and Gabriel Aubert "La Caricature" which gave him fame and visibility but also various problems which also led him to be imprisoned for a too ferocious cartoon towards Louis Philippe I of France formerly Louis-Philippe Duke of Orléans. Dumier in the following years became one of the most famous illustrators of France collaborating with newspapers such as Le Charivari and La Chronique de Paris newspaper founded in 1836 by Balzac who also used the caricaturist for the images of some of his works and illustrating classic works and contemporary novels achieving enormous success. Uncommon in this first edition. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal le Charivari, 1857 unknown books
Best.-Nr. 05269Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari.et chez Martinet 1859. The Moroccan Sultan Monsieur Prudhomme and the Chinese Emperor Thirty Fine Humorous Lithographs by Honoré Daumier Bound together with Les Cosaques Pour Rire Forty fine lithographs by Daumier Cham & Vernier DAUMIER Honoré. Album des Charges du Jour. 30 Lithographies par H. Daumier. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari.et chez Martinet 1859-60. First edition. Oblong folio 10 3/8 x 13 5/16 inches; 264 x 338 mm. Lithographed pictorial title-page and thirty superb plates by Daumier lithographed by Destouches. This scarce album contains thirty fine and humorous lithographs by Daumier which had previously appeared in the Le Charivari in the series: Actualités En Chine Croquis de Chasse Ces Bons Parisiens and Emotions Nautiques. The three figures featured on the front cover and the title-page are: the Moroccan sultan Mr. Prudhomme a stereotypical bourgeois and the Chinese emperor. OCLC locates just two copies in libraries and institutions worldwide New York Public Library NY USA & The Morgan Library & Museum NY USA. and CHAM DAUMIER & Charles VERNIER. Les Cosaques Pour Rire. Album de Quarante Caricatures. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari 1853-54. First edition. Oblong folio 10 3/8 x 13 5/16 inches; 264 x 338 mm. Original lithographed yellow wrapper title-page and forty superb plates by Daumier 18 Cham 11 and Vernier 11 all lithographed by Destouches. This scarce album contains forty amusing lithographs by Daumier Cham and Vernier "Les Cosaques Pour Rire" or "The Cossacks in Jest" illustrates caricatures from the Crimean War 1853-1856. Daumier humorously depicts Russian military command soldiers and the czar pertaining to either the Crimean War or to the Cossacks. OCLC locates just two copies of this work in libraries and institutions worldwide Brown University RI USA & The Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Two works bound together in one volume. The plates have been expertly washed. Both of the original front wrappers are present. Modern tree calf front cover lettered in gilt "Album Comique" smooth spine lettered in gilt "Daumier". Cockerel style endpapers. The Plates: Album des Charges du Jour 1. - Dire que nous v'la Parisiens!. Unbelievable. we are Parisians now too! DR #3235; Actualités 2. Mr. Prudhomme - Mon fils rappelle toi ce jour mémorable où tu as vu démolir à jamais le mur d'octroi. rappelle-toi que tôt ou tard la philosophie produit de la raison humaine; renversera de même les barrières des préjugés sociaux!. Le Petit Adolphe- Oui papa!. mais dis donc. papa . pourquoi qu'on les reconstruit un peu plus loin. Mr. Prudhomme - My son remember that memorable day when you saw the wall of the grant being demolished forever . remember that sooner or later philosophy product of human reason; will also reverse the barriers of social prejudice! . Little Adolphe- Yes dad! . but say so . dad . why do we rebuild them a little further . DR #10945; Actualités 141 3. Le Diamant Magnétiseur. Nouveau divertissement des soirées. - ou manière de s'amuser et de se faire loucher en société sans se fâcher. The Diamond Hypnotist. A new pastime at evening parties - or how to have fun and get someone to squint without getting into trouble. DR #3227; Actualités 134 4. Une Application Utile du Diamant Magnétiseur. - Ma femme est bien magnétisée!. je peux filer tranquillement pour le bal de l'opéra. dors bien bobonne!. Practical Application for a Diamond Hypnotist. My wife is hypnotized. now I can quietly leave for the opera ball. sleep well my dear! DR #3230; Actualités 140 5. Toujours les merveilles du diamant magnétiseur. - ou manière en société de faire prendre aux dames des poses non moins fatigantes que disgracieuses. More marvels from the diamond hypnotist. Or how to make the ladies pose in society in exhausting and not very gracious positions. DR #3228; Actualités 137 6. - Mon ami. viens donc voir ces jolis diamants!. - Ne regarde pas cela. imprudente!. ça te ferait loucher!!. - My dear come and have a look at these beautiful diamonds! - Don't even look at them you careless woman. they'll make you cross-eyed! DR #3229; Actualités 138 7. La Chiromancie Nouveau Passe Temps Des Bons Parisiens. - Adélaïde. j'ai beau chercher. je ne me trouve pas la petite ligne qui annonce une longue vie. mon Dieu!. dois-je donc mourir à la fleur de l'âge!. Palmistry New Parisian Pastime. - Adelaide. no matter how intensely I am searching I simply cannot find the line for long life. oh my God must I die in the prime of my days! DR #3240; Actualités 142 8. - Ah! Théophile. j'en apprends de belles sur ton compte. d'après le livre de Mr. Desbarolles je vois que tu as dans la main la ligne du libertinage!. - Ah!. bah. - Ah Théophile what ghastly things I am reading about you. According to the book by Mr. Desbarolles I can tell that you have in your palm the lines of a libertinage!. - Oh well. DR #3241; Ces Bons Parisiens 1 9. L'empereur du maroc consultant le celèbre sorcier desbarolles. - Voici une petite ligne qui m'indique que vous êtes destiné à recevoir une grande raclée!. The Emperor of Morocco in consultation with the Famous Magician Desbarolles. - This small line here indicates to me that you are going to get a royal thrashing! DR #3225 10. À Tanger - Sublime Majesté! . . . . . voici les Espagnols qui arrivent . . . . . je crois aller au devant de vos désirs afin de leur inspirer du respect . de déployer votre auguste parasol ! . - Laisse-moi donc tranquille Belboul avec mon parasol . . . . en ce moment-ci j'aimerais mieux avoir un Pare-à-balle ! . . . . . . In Tangiers. - Sublime Majesty. the Spanish are coming. in order to frighten them off I took the liberty to fully open your umbrella as a sign of your greatness! - Leave me alone with your umbrella Belboul. I would rather like to have an umbrella protecting me from their bullets. DR #3223 11. Le Cid se mettant aussi en campagne pour aller combattre les Maures. El Cid also takes to the field to fight against the Moors. DR #3233 12. Combat singulier entre le Cid et l'Empereur du Maroc. A unusual battle between El Cid and the emperor of Morocco. DR #3234 13. Un parasol dans une position difficile. An umbrella in a difficult position. DR #3224 14. - Voilà un vent qui va joliment contrarier le débarquement des Espagnols!. - Oui. mais c'est aussi un bien fichu temps pour mon parasol . - This wind will give the Spanish a hard time when disembarking. - Sure but look at what it is doing at my umbrella! DR #3226 15. - Dire que c'est là ce que les Français appellent des chinois!. Strange. this is what the French call "Chinois". DR #3120 16. - Ils vont être bien attrapés ces européens!. ils ont des canons qui sont terribles parce qu'ils sont rayés moi j'ai eu l'excellente idée de faire rayer tous mes soldats!. These Europeans will be quite surprised. they are using "rifled cannons" . thus I had the clever idea to add "rifles" stripes to the uniforms of my soldiers. DR #3118 17. Patrouille chinoise en reconnaissance. Chinese reconnaissance unit in action. DR #3117 18. - Tiens regarde cette caisse. elle renferme les envoyés Américains qui se rendent à Pékin!. - On dirait que cette voiture contient des animaux curieux. - Ma foi! s'ils sont curieux. tant pis pour eux car ils ne voient pas beaucoup le pays qu'ils traversent! - Look at that box - it contains the American envoys on the way to Peking! - Anyone would say it was a coach full of curious animals. - Well if they are curious so much the worse for them for they can't see much of the country they are travelling through. DR #3114 19. Arrivée à Pékin des ambassadeurs Américains. Arrival of the American Ambassador in Beijing. DR #3115 20. L'envoyé américain obtenant une audience de l'Empereur de la Chine. The Emperor of China receives the American Ambassador. DR #3116 21. - Tchinn-tchinn. tu m'apportes une bonne nouvelle!. je t'accorde l'insigne honneur de baiser l'auguste poussière de mes augustes souliers!. Tchinn Tchinn. you are bringing me good news! As a special sign of grace I will allow you to kiss the sublime dust of my sublime shoes! DR #3119 22. La Chine se civilisant. - Voyons. attention!. voici la théorie européenne. les yeux à quinze pas de distance et que le pied qui est à terre vienne rejoindre vivement celui qui est en l'air. China on its way to become civilized. Attention!. this is European theory now. the eyes must look fifteen feet ahead. . the foot on the ground must quickly join the one in the air. DR #3124 23. Fonctionnaires chinois veillant au salut de l'empire ! . Chinese civil servants diligently guarding over the welfare of the nation. DR #3123 24. -Tenez je viens de tuer un magnifique coq de bruyère!. -Mais malheureux!. c'est le coq Brahma de la ferme voisine. un coq qui vous coûtera peut-être plus de trente francs. sans compter les coups de fourche!. - Look! I just killed this magnificent grouse! . - Poor you! That is the rooster of the farm next door. That cock will cost you more than thirty francs not counting the pitchfork jabs! DR #3216 25. - Eh! bien. as-tu l'intention de rester là . - Non certes!. je t'attendais pour que tu me transportes sur ton dos jusqu'au village. - Merci à une lieue et demie d'ici!!. es-tu fou. - Allons!. voyons mon ami. fais comme si tu avais tué un chevreuil et que tu sois obligé de le rapporter chez toi!. - What about it. are you planning to stay here all day - Surely not. I thought you were going to carry me to the next village! - You must be joking. one and a half leagues. you must be crazy! - Oh come on. just pretend I were a stag you shot you would have had to carry him too. DR #3217 26. - Eh! bien. allons-nous continuer notre chasse malgré le vilain temps . . . . . - Non ! du tout . . . . . il pleut . . . . le gibier craint autant la pluie que nous . . . . il ne pourra manquer de venir se mettre à l'abri dans cette chaumière et nous allons en prendre beaucoup ! . . . . . . - Now what Are we going to continue hunting during the rain - Not at all! The animals are just as afraid of the rain as we are. They might not be able to find this shelter and we would end up losing too many of them! DR #3215 27. Mr. Prudhomme. - Comment . . . flots impudents ! . . . . . vous ne savez donc pas qui vous portez en ce moment que vous vous montrez si hardis à mon égard . . . . mer audacieuse! . . . apprends que comme Xerxès je pourrais te faire fouetter ! . . . . . Mme. Prudhomme Toute tremblante. - Oh! . . . mon ami . . . . . je t'en supplie ! . . . . ne lui dis pas d'insolences tu la mettrais en colère et elle serait capable de nous engloutir! . . . . . Mr. Prudhomme: - Obnoxious waves. don't you know whom you are carrying in this moment. oh audacious. know I shall like Xerxes whip you terribly. Mme Prudhomme: shivering of fear - Pray my dear friend do not offend the sea any longer. you might wake its fury and it might devour us completely! DR #3218 28. Les Eunuques Réformés par le Bey de Tunis. - Qu'allons-nous devenir. nous voilà mis à pied!. - Nous n'avons plus qu'à nous faire cochers de Constantinople!. Eunuchs reformed by the Bey of Tunis. - What's going to become of us. we have been fired. - The only thing we can do is go to Constantinople and become coachmen. DR #3237 29. Le nouveau costume des cochers turcs à Constantinople - Ni hommes ni femmes. tous eunuques!. Extrait de la nouvelle ordonnance. The new uniform of the Turkish coachmen in Constantinople. neither male nor female. all eunuchs. from the new ordinances. DR #3238 30. Une position difficile. - Tiraillé entre la civilisation et le parti rétograde. A difficult position. Torn between civilization and the conservative party. DR #3221 The Plates: Les Cosaques Pour Rire 1. Comme quoi la chasse ouvrira cette année bien avant le mois de Septembre. Cham Like what the hunt will open this year well before September. 2. Ayant eu l'imprudence de se lancer à toute Vitesse sur la route de St. Petersbourg à Constantinople. Cham Having had the imprudence to launch at full speed on the road from St. Petersburg to Constantinople. 3. Les soldats les mieux disciplines du monde. Daumier The best disciplined soldiers in the world. 4. Les Boyards réduits à cultivar eux-mêmes leurs terres par suite de l'enrôlement de leurs derniers paysans. Daumier The Boyars reduced to cultivating their land themselves following the enlistment of their last peasants. 5. Mes amis n'ayez pas peur je n'oublierai pas mon ancient état.j'vas tanner la peau aux Cosaques.travailler dans du vrai cuir de Russie quelle chance! Vernier My friends don't be afraid I won't forget my former state.I'm going to tan the skin of the Cossacks.working in real leather from Russia what luck! 6. l'Amiral Menschikoff en tournée d'inspection. Daumier Admiral Menschikoff on an inspection tour. 7. Le Faisceau. Il est solide je t'en préviens n'y touche pas. Vernier The beam. It's solid I warn you don't touch it. 8. Enrôlemens Volontaires en Russie. Pas tant de zèle!.il est inutile de vous bousculer comme ça pour signer.chacun son tour mes braves!. Vernier Voluntary enlistments in Russia. Not so zealous!.it is useless to rush you like that to sign.each in turn my braves!. 9. C'est drôle tout d'même!.dire qu'on ne pas la même langue et qu'on s'entend à merveille!. Vernier It's funny all the same! . to say that we don't speak the same language and that we get along wonderfully! 10. À Odessa. Bourgeois.je viens de vous donner ces torches avec la manière de vous en server.le premier d'enter vous qui ne mettra pas le feu à sa maison au premier signal aura affaire à moi.je ne vous dis que ça!. Vernier In Odessa. Bourgeois.I have just given you these torches with the way to use them.the first of you who does not set fire to his house at the first signal will have to deal with me.I am only telling you that!. . 11. Enflammant Le Courage De Ses Cosaques. Il sera distribué aux plus braves des chandelles d'honneur! Daumier Igniting the Courage of His Cossacks. It will be distributed to the bravest candles of honor! 12. Commençant à s'apercevoir qu on va le faire danser à grand orchestre et qu'il aura pas mal de violons à payer. Cham Beginning to realize that we are going to make him dance with a big orchestra and that he will have a lot of violins to pay for. 13. Soldats russes se préparant par le jeûne et l'abstinence à monter à l'assaut de Silistrie. Daumier Russian soldiers preparing by fasting and abstinence to mount the assault on Silistrie. 14. Un terrible cauchemar. Daumier A terrible nightmare. 15. Les Artilleurs de Nouvelle Création à Sébastopol. Le sentiment du devoir et quelque chose de plus les enchaine à leur poste. Vernier The New Creation Gunners in Sevastopol. A sense of duty and something more binds them to their post. 16. Manière d'entrainer les Cosaques. Daumier Manner of training the Cossacks. 17. Oursikoff!.trouvez-vous cela ressemblant. Non Sire!. À la bonne heure.je vous aurais envoyé en Sibérie si vous m'aviez reconnu.toutes ces mauvaises charges du CHARIVARI n'empêchent pas que je ne sois toujours le plus bel homme de mon empire!. Oui Sire!. Daumier Oursikoff!.do you find that similar. No Sire!. Good luck.I would have sent you to Siberia if you had recognized me.all these bad charges from the CHARIVARI do not prevent I am still not the handsomest man in my empire!. Yes Sire!. 18. Devant Kalafat. Une fois.deux fois.trois fois!.je vous somme de mettre bas les armes.faites bien attention je ne vous le repeterai plus.c'est bien decide vous ne voulez pas vous render.eh! bien alors je m'en vais!. Vernier In front of Kalafat. Once.twice.three times!.I summon you to lay down your arms.be careful I won't repeat it to you again.it's decided you don't want to surrender.eh! well then I'm leaving!. 19. À Buckarest: C'est ici.entrez.on va vous payer!. Daumier To Buckarest: It's here.come in.we'll pay you!. 20. Distribution de vivres un jour de gala. Daumier Distribution of food on a gala day. 21. Allons camarade.faut trinquer avec les amis.vous pouvez avaler ça sans scrupule ça n'est pas du vin!. Vernier Come on comrade. you have to toast with friends. you can swallow that without scruple it's not wine!. 22. En Valachie. Confiscation Générale des faux pioches et rateaux at autres instrumens aratoires propres à défricher le dos des Cosaques. Daumier In Wallachia. General confiscation of scythes pickaxes and rakes and other plowing instruments suitable for clearing the backs of Cossacks. 23. L'Empereur de Russie témoignant toute sa satisfaction aux autorités militaires de Cronstad après l'inspection des travaux de défense. Cham The Emperor of Russia expressing his satisfaction to the military authorities of Kronstad after the inspection of the defense works. 24. Tenant aussi à consulter sa petite table pour savoir s'il sera définitivement vainqueur. Daumier Also wanting to consult his little table to find out if he will definitely be the winner. 25. Mais Colonel au commandement FIXE vos hommes regardant en arrière!. Ne faites pas attention mon Général c'est une habitude qu'ils ont contractée en Valachie. Vernier But Colonel at the FIXED command your men looking back!. Don't mind General it's a habit they picked up in Wallachia. 26. Officier russe suivi de son brosseur. Cham Russian officer followed by his brusher. 27. Le Roi Othon se fesant mal en voulant manger de la brioche faite par l'Empereur de Russie. Cham King Othon hurting himself trying to eat brioche made by the Emperor of Russia. 28. Ce que les Russes appellant un Mouvement Stratégique. Daumier What the Russians call a Strategic Movement. 29. L'Escamoteur Manquant Son Tour Faute D'Un Compère: Si une personne de la société veut bien m'honorer un instant de sa confiance je commence immédiatement mon tour J'escamote le Sultan!.personne n'accepte.le tour est enfoncé!. Cham The Conjurer Missing His Turn For Lack Of A Compère: If a person from society wants to honor me for a moment with his confidence I immediately begin my turn I conjure the Sultan!.nobody accepts. the turn is down!. 30. L'Empereur Nicolas finissant par en pincer un qui moins fin que les autres s'est laisse prendre au piége. Cham The Emperor Nicolas ended up pinching one who less fine than the others let himself be trapped. 31. À Sébastopol. C'est insupportable.Ces vaisseaux sont toujours.pas moyen d'aller un peu flâner dans la mer noire!.nous n'y serions pas blancs!. Daumier In Sevastopol. It's unbearable.These ships are still.no way to go and stroll a little in the black sea!.we wouldn't be white there!. 32. La Crèce Mise en Ébullition. C'est très imprudent ce que vous faites là car sans parler des taches Ce qui vous inquiete peu il pourrait bien finir par vous en cuire!. Vernier The Boiling Crib. It's very reckless what you're doing there because not to mention the stains which doesn't worry you much he could end up cooking you!. 33. Comment ils emportent mon argent.et ils ne s'insurgent pas mieux que cela.allons j'ai fait une fichue opératiou!. Daumier What they're taking my money.and they don't rise up any better than that.come on I've had a bloody operation!. 34. Bertrand voila des gaillards qui ont toutes mes sympathies. Ils partent pour une expedition aventureuse le moment est venu de leur donner nos bénédictions les plus orthodoxes!. Daumier Bertrand here are some fellows who have all my sympathies. They are leaving for an adventurous expedition the time has come to give them our most orthodox blessings!. 35. Enthousiasme Russe. Enrolés volontaires rejoignant leurs regiments. Daumier Russian enthusiasm. Volunteers joining their regiments. 36. Je vous demande pardon si je ne peux rien vous offrir pour vous raffraîchir mais les Cosaques ne font que de nous quitter et voilá dans quelle position ils nous ont laisse!!. Vernier I beg your pardon if I can't offer you anything to refresh you but the Cossacks are just leaving us and that's the position they left us in!!. 37. Un inspecteur general russe. Daumier A Russian Inspector General. 38. À St. Pétersbourg. Le Grand Duc Amiral en chef mettant en requisition tous les banquets de St. Petersbourg pour la composition de sa flotte à rames. Cham In St. Petersburg. The Grand Duke Admiral-in-Chief requisitioning all the banquets of St. Petersburg for the composition of his rowing fleet. 39. Un chef de sauvage se préparant à scalper un Parlementaire. Cham A savage chief preparing to scalp a Parliamentarian. 40. Excellente charge militaire faite à l'Empereur de Russie au moment oû il croyait s'asseoir bien tranquillement sure le Divan. Cham Excellent military charge made to. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari...et chez Martinet, 1859 unknown books
Best.-Nr. 05141Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari.et chez Martinet 1859. The Moroccan Sultan Monsieur Prudhomme a Stereotypical Bourgeois and the Chinese Emperor Thirty Fine Humorous Lithographs by Honoré Daumier DAUMIER Honoré. Album des Charges du Jour. 30 Lithographies par H. Daumier. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari.et chez Martinet 1859-60. First edition. Oblong folio 10 1/4 x 13 1/16 inches; 260 x 332 mm. Lithographed pictorial title-page by Daumier and thirty wonderful Daumier plates lithographed by Destouches. Publisher's pictorial lithographed yellow paper wrappers. Minimal edge wear to wrappers the remarkable plates all clean and fresh. A Wonderful example. Housed in a felt-lined half green morocco over pale green cloth boards clamshell case spine with five raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt. This scarce album contains thirty fine and humorous lithographs by Daumier which had previously appeared in the Le Charivari in the series: Actualités En Chine Croquis de Chasse Ces Bons Parisiens and Emotions Nautiques. The three figures featured on the front cover and the title-page are: the Moroccan sultan Mr. Prudhomme a stereotypical bourgeois and the Chinese emperor. OCLC locates just two copies in libraries and institutions worldwide New York Public Library NY USA & The Morgan Library & Museum NY USA. The Plates: 1. - Dire que nous v'la Parisiens!. Unbelievable. we are Parisians now too! DR #3235; Actualités 2. Mr. Prudhomme - Mon fils rappelle toi ce jour mémorable où tu as vu démolir à jamais le mur d'octroi. rappelle-toi que tôt ou tard la philosophie produit de la raison humaine; renversera de même les barrières des préjugés sociaux!. Le Petit Adolphe- Oui papa!. mais dis donc. papa . pourquoi qu'on les reconstruit un peu plus loin. Mr. Prudhomme - My son remember that memorable day when you saw the wall of the grant being demolished forever . remember that sooner or later philosophy product of human reason; will also reverse the barriers of social prejudice! . Little Adolphe- Yes dad! . but say so . dad . why do we rebuild them a little further . DR #10945; Actualités 141 3. Le Diamant Magnétiseur. Nouveau divertissement des soirées. - ou manière de s'amuser et de se faire loucher en société sans se fâcher. The Diamond Hypnotist. A new pastime at evening parties - or how to have fun and get someone to squint without getting into trouble. DR #3227; Actualités 134 4. Une Application Utile du Diamant Magnétiseur. - Ma femme est bien magnétisée!. je peux filer tranquillement pour le bal de l'opéra. dors bien bobonne!. Practical Application for a Diamond Hypnotist. My wife is hypnotized. now I can quietly leave for the opera ball. sleep well my dear! DR #3230; Actualités 140 5. Toujours les merveilles du diamant magnétiseur. - ou manière en société de faire prendre aux dames des poses non moins fatigantes que disgracieuses. More marvels from the diamond hypnotist. Or how to make the ladies pose in society in exhausting and not very gracious positions. DR #3228; Actualités 137 6. - Mon ami. viens donc voir ces jolis diamants!. - Ne regarde pas cela. imprudente!. ça te ferait loucher!!. - My dear come and have a look at these beautiful diamonds! - Don't even look at them you careless woman. they'll make you cross-eyed! DR #3229; Actualités 138 7. La Chiromancie Nouveau Passe Temps Des Bons Parisiens. - Adélaïde. j'ai beau chercher. je ne me trouve pas la petite ligne qui annonce une longue vie. mon Dieu!. dois-je donc mourir à la fleur de l'âge!. Palmistry New Parisian Pastime. - Adelaide. no matter how intensely I am searching I simply cannot find the line for long life. oh my God must I die in the prime of my days! DR #3240; Actualités 142 8. - Ah! Théophile. j'en apprends de belles sur ton compte. d'après le livre de Mr. Desbarolles je vois que tu as dans la main la ligne du libertinage!. - Ah!. bah. - Ah Théophile what ghastly things I am reading about you. According to the book by Mr. Desbarolles I can tell that you have in your palm the lines of a libertinage!. - Oh well. DR #3241; Ces Bons Parisiens 1 9. L'empereur du maroc consultant le celèbre sorcier desbarolles. - Voici une petite ligne qui m'indique que vous êtes destiné à recevoir une grande raclée!. The Emperor of Morocco in consultation with the Famous Magician Desbarolles. - This small line here indicates to me that you are going to get a royal thrashing! DR #3225 10. À Tanger - Sublime Majesté! . . . . . voici les Espagnols qui arrivent . . . . . je crois aller au devant de vos désirs afin de leur inspirer du respect . de déployer votre auguste parasol ! . - Laisse-moi donc tranquille Belboul avec mon parasol . . . . en ce moment-ci j'aimerais mieux avoir un Pare-à-balle ! . . . . . . In Tangiers. - Sublime Majesty. the Spanish are coming. in order to frighten them off I took the liberty to fully open your umbrella as a sign of your greatness! - Leave me alone with your umbrella Belboul. I would rather like to have an umbrella protecting me from their bullets. DR #3223 11. Le Cid se mettant aussi en campagne pour aller combattre les Maures. El Cid also takes to the field to fight against the Moors. DR #3233 12. Combat singulier entre le Cid et l'Empereur du Maroc. A unusual battle between El Cid and the emperor of Morocco. DR #3234 13. Un parasol dans une position difficile. An umbrella in a difficult position. DR #3224 14. - Voilà un vent qui va joliment contrarier le débarquement des Espagnols!. - Oui. mais c'est aussi un bien fichu temps pour mon parasol . - This wind will give the Spanish a hard time when disembarking. - Sure but look at what it is doing at my umbrella! DR #3226 15. - Dire que c'est là ce que les Français appellent des chinois!. Strange. this is what the French call "Chinois". DR #3120 16. - Ils vont être bien attrapés ces européens!. ils ont des canons qui sont terribles parce qu'ils sont rayés moi j'ai eu l'excellente idée de faire rayer tous mes soldats!. These Europeans will be quite surprised. they are using "rifled cannons" . thus I had the clever idea to add "rifles" stripes to the uniforms of my soldiers. DR #3118 17. Patrouille chinoise en reconnaissance. Chinese reconnaissance unit in action. DR #3117 18. - Tiens regarde cette caisse. elle renferme les envoyés Américains qui se rendent à Pékin!. - On dirait que cette voiture contient des animaux curieux. - Ma foi! s'ils sont curieux. tant pis pour eux car ils ne voient pas beaucoup le pays qu'ils traversent! - Look at that box - it contains the American envoys on the way to Peking! - Anyone would say it was a coach full of curious animals. - Well if they are curious so much the worse for them for they can't see much of the country they are travelling through. DR #3114 19. Arrivée à Pékin des ambassadeurs Américains. Arrival of the American Ambassador in Beijing. DR #3115 20. L'envoyé américain obtenant une audience de l'Empereur de la Chine. The Emperor of China receives the American Ambassador. DR #3116 21. - Tchinn-tchinn. tu m'apportes une bonne nouvelle!. je t'accorde l'insigne honneur de baiser l'auguste poussière de mes augustes souliers!. Tchinn Tchinn. you are bringing me good news! As a special sign of grace I will allow you to kiss the sublime dust of my sublime shoes! DR #3119 22. La Chine se civilisant. - Voyons. attention!. voici la théorie européenne. les yeux à quinze pas de distance et que le pied qui est à terre vienne rejoindre vivement celui qui est en l'air. China on its way to become civilized. Attention!. this is European theory now. the eyes must look fifteen feet ahead. . the foot on the ground must quickly join the one in the air. DR #3124 23. Fonctionnaires chinois veillant au salut de l'empire ! . Chinese civil servants diligently guarding over the welfare of the nation. DR #3123 24. -Tenez je viens de tuer un magnifique coq de bruyère!. -Mais malheureux!. c'est le coq Brahma de la ferme voisine. un coq qui vous coûtera peut-être plus de trente francs. sans compter les coups de fourche!. - Look! I just killed this magnificent grouse! . - Poor you! That is the rooster of the farm next door. That cock will cost you more than thirty francs not counting the pitchfork jabs! DR #3216 25. - Eh! bien. as-tu l'intention de rester là . - Non certes!. je t'attendais pour que tu me transportes sur ton dos jusqu'au village. - Merci à une lieue et demie d'ici!!. es-tu fou. - Allons!. voyons mon ami. fais comme si tu avais tué un chevreuil et que tu sois obligé de le rapporter chez toi!. - What about it. are you planning to stay here all day - Surely not. I thought you were going to carry me to the next village! - You must be joking. one and a half leagues. you must be crazy! - Oh come on. just pretend I were a stag you shot you would have had to carry him too. DR #3217 26. - Eh! bien. allons-nous continuer notre chasse malgré le vilain temps . . . . . - Non ! du tout . . . . . il pleut . . . . le gibier craint autant la pluie que nous . . . . il ne pourra manquer de venir se mettre à l'abri dans cette chaumière et nous allons en prendre beaucoup ! . . . . . . - Now what Are we going to continue hunting during the rain - Not at all! The animals are just as afraid of the rain as we are. They might not be able to find this shelter and we would end up losing too many of them! DR #3215 27. Mr. Prudhomme. - Comment . . . flots impudents ! . . . . . vous ne savez donc pas qui vous portez en ce moment que vous vous montrez si hardis à mon égard . . . . mer audacieuse! . . . apprends que comme Xerxès je pourrais te faire fouetter ! . . . . . Mme. Prudhomme Toute tremblante. - Oh! . . . mon ami . . . . . je t'en supplie ! . . . . ne lui dis pas d'insolences tu la mettrais en colère et elle serait capable de nous engloutir! . . . . . Mr. Prudhomme: - Obnoxious waves. don't you know whom you are carrying in this moment. oh audacious. know I shall like Xerxes whip you terribly. Mme Prudhomme: shivering of fear - Pray my dear friend do not offend the sea any longer. you might wake its fury and it might devour us completely! DR #3218 28. Les Eunuques Réformés par le Bey de Tunis. - Qu'allons-nous devenir. nous voilà mis à pied!. - Nous n'avons plus qu'à nous faire cochers de Constantinople!. Eunuchs reformed by the Bey of Tunis. - What's going to become of us. we have been fired. - The only thing we can do is go to Constantinople and become coachmen. DR #3237 29. Le nouveau costume des cochers turcs à Constantinople - Ni hommes ni femmes. tous eunuques!. Extrait de la nouvelle ordonnance. The new uniform of the Turkish coachmen in Constantinople. neither male nor female. all eunuchs. from the new ordinances. DR #3238 30. Une position difficile. - Tiraillé entre la civilisation et le parti rétograde. A difficult position. Torn between civilization and the conservative party. DR #3221. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari...et chez Martinet, 1859 unknown books
Best.-Nr. 04953Paris: Léopold Pannier et Cie. 1841. One Hundred Masterpieces by Honoré Daumier Two Exceptionally Rare Complete Albums Bound Together One Hundred Superb Lithographs Satirizing Parisian Life and the Classical World DAUMIER Honoré illustrator. Variétés Drolatiques. Paris: Léopold Pannier et Cie. 1841. First collected edition. Folio 13 3/16 x 10 inches; 335 x 254 mm. Publisher Léopold Pannier gathered together seven of Daumier's finest humorous series into a single album comprising fifty lithographs: Vulgarités 10 plates complete Les Musiciens de Paris 6 plates complete Proverbes de Famille 2 plates complete Proverbes et Maximes 12 plates complete La Pêche 7 plates complete La Journée du Célibataire 12 plates complete Les Saltimbanques 1 plate as issued in the album A total of fifty lithographs. As noted by the Daumier Register: "Pannier published a separate album with the title Variétés Drolatiques. containing seven complete series. bringing the total number of prints to fifty. This album can be considered rare." Far scarcer than the individual lithographs themselves this publisher's album represents one of the earliest attempts to preserve Daumier's celebrated caricatures in collected form. The seven suites encompass every aspect of Parisian life - from domestic quarrels and bachelorhood to musicians fishermen itinerant entertainers and the comic absurdities of bourgeois society. Together they provide an extraordinary survey of Daumier's mature genius during the early years of the July Monarchy. Institutionally the album is exceptionally elusive. OCLC records only three individual plates from Proverbes et Maximes in public collections while we have located only a single complete copy appearing at auction sold between October 1898 and July 1899. Even the celebrated Armand Hammer Collection includes only a single plate from La Pêche. Bound with Histoire Ancienne Daumier's Brilliant Satire on Classical Antiquity DAUMIER Honoré illustrator. PHILIPON Charles. Histoire Ancienne. Paris: Chez Aubert 1841-1843. Complete with fifty lithographed plates. Together the two works comprise one hundred superb lithographs. Contemporary quarter dark brown morocco over marbled boards spine with four raised bands ruled in blind and lettered in gilt marbled endpapers. A near fine complete example. One of Daumier's most original and intellectually ambitious achievements Histoire Ancienne transforms the heroes and gods of Greece and Rome into recognizably nineteenth-century Parisians. Achilles Ulysses Hercules Jupiter and countless other classical figures are stripped of their heroic grandeur and recast as vain bourgeois comic bureaucrats quarrelsome husbands and pretentious social climbers. Published between 1841 and 1843 the series formed part of the Romantic assault upon academic Classicism then dominating French art and literature. Charles Philipon's witty accompanying texts contain numerous veiled political references to the reign of King Louis-Philippe making the series not merely humorous but a sophisticated exercise in social and political satire. Among the finest plates are: Le Baptême d'Achille in which the infant Achilles is plunged into the Styx with comic domestic realism rather than epic grandeur. La Mère des Gracques perhaps the best-known image in the series where the famous Roman matron proudly presents her boisterous children as her "only jewels" allowing Daumier to transform an episode from Plutarch into a scene from contemporary Parisian family life. Complete copies are extraordinarily uncommon. We have located only a single institutional example worldwide at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Bound together these two remarkable albums contain one hundred original lithographs spanning every facet of Daumier's genius - from the comic theater of everyday Parisian existence to his devastating reinterpretation of the ancient world. Few nineteenth-century caricature albums combine such artistic brilliance historical importance and genuine rarity. An exceptional opportunity to acquire two of the master's most elusive and complete lithographic series in a handsome contemporary binding. Paris: Léopold Pannier et Cie., 1841 unknown books
Best.-Nr. 04829Paris: Chez Aubert 1839. With 50 Hand-Colored Lithographs including Nine by Honoré Daumier and Fifteen by Gavarni DAUMIER Honoré Gavarni and others illustrators. ALHOY Maurice Louis Huart and Charles Philipon editors. Le Musée pour rire. Dessins par tous les caricaturistes de Paris; Texte par MM. Maurice Alhoy Louis Huart et Ch. Philipon. Paris: Chez Aubert Editeur des Cent-et-Un Robert-Macaire 1839 Volume II only of 3. First edition. Quarto 10 3/8 x 8 1/8 inches; 265 x 207 mm. i-ii half-title verso blank iii-iv title verso blank v-vi Table 200 pp. With 50 numbered 51-100 hand-colored lithographs heightened with gum arabic by Honoré Daumier nine Gavarni fifteen Frédéric Bouchot seventeen Benjamin i.e. Benjamin Roubaud four Bourdet three Grandville one and Edme-Jean Pigal one. Heavy spotting in places but mainly to text leaves. Plates generally clean. Publisher's silk patterned paper over boards covers decoratively stamped in gilt smooth spine decoratively stamped and titled in gilt. Rebacked with the original spine laid down. With the engraved bookplate of author and collector Jaques Robiquet on front paste-down. A reasonably priced album containing fine hand-colored lithographs of Bouchot Daumier & Gavarni etc. etc. "The house of Aubert was ingenious in marketing its products. Its lithographs.were published one by one in periodicals like Le charivari and together in suites by the same artist without letterpress. Still a third form of publication was in albums made up of lithographs by several artists with accompanying texts. These collections most commonly took the form of volumes with the generic title Paris comique which consisted of twenty colored lithographs accompanied by quite unrelated texts. Aubert remarked that the resulting hodgepodge had 'a plan that is easy to follow for it consists in not having any' and in fact this was indeed a frugal procedure for reusing old texts and already published plates. The interest of the various volumes of Paris comique resides entirely in the lithographs they happen to contain. It can be considerable however since Daumier and Gavarni are the predominant artists. Le musée pour rire represents a more considerable effort on the part of Aubert. To accompany 150 lithographs including forty-five by Daumier among them twenty-seven from Croquis d'expressions and eight from La galerie physionomique and forty-two by Gavarni new commentaries were commissioned on each plate all except two by Alhoy and Huart. Daumier's lithographs were trimmed slightly and their captions were relettered. The designs of the other artists were provided with decorative frames. The whole was then published in three handsome volumes and in copies with expert contemporary coloring like this one Le musée pour rire is among the freshest and most attractive of romantic illustrated books" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book. Le Musée pour Rire "contained 150 lithographs by Daumier Gavarni Bouchot Traviès etc. These are re-impressions some of them in mirror image which had previously already been used for publication in Le Charivari. Most prints of the series 'Croquis d'expressions' are contained in the book. The name of the series is missing and the texts were printed in a different type than in the original Charivari version. We do not consider these prints original lithographies but rather prints 'after Daumier'". Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 164. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1839 unknown books
Best.-Nr. 172366DAUMIER Honore. Les Bohemiens de Paris. With 28 lithographs by Daumier. Folio. 345 x260 mm.Matted in a cloth folding case. Paris: Au Bureau de Journal Amusant & du Petit Journal pour Rire 1840-1842. Complete set of Daumier's "Les Bohémiens de Paris" series. All the prints in the present set are "sur blanc" i.e. printed individually on superior white wove paper without the text of the Charivari journal on the verso. Because of the finer paper and printing methods 'sur blanc' impressions are much more prized than those which appeared within the journal itself. Les Bohémiens de Paris figures prominently in Rumas' Daumier: 120 Great Lithographs which especially reproduces and describes Plate 9 "A Professional Sponger about to crash a fashionable Wedding Party" Plate 15 "A Sick-Nurse the French equivalent of Dickens' Sairy Gamp" and Plate 20 "A Minor Actor in a small theater who plays Wealthy Monarchs though actually starving here eating French Fries!. Plates 135671112142324252627 belong to Delteil's 2nd state of 3; The rest are all 3rd state. The first state avant la lettre are invariably described as "fort rare" and are now unfindable. In excellent condition. Delteil 822-849. BN Fonds Français Après 1800 Tom. V p. 478 No. 157. hardcover books
1840Best.-Nr. 1649991840. FABRE Francois. Némésis Médicale Illustrée. Recueil de Satires. Two volumes. xxxii 278; 360 pp. illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Honoré Daumier. 4to 245 x 155 mm. marbled boards. Paris: Au Bureau de la Némésis Médicale 1840. A collection of medical satires written in twenty-five poems in rhyming couplets. Illustrated with thirty woodcuts and numerous vignettes by Daumier. hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 344611Paris: Aubert & Cie no date. Unbound. Good. Lithograph. Image size: 25.5 x 18 cm. Sheet size: 36 x 25 cm. Age-toning to the paper with a light horizontal crease through the center of the sheet and a tear to the top right corner else very good. From the series of lithographs "Les Représentans Représentés" published in Le Charivari circa 1850. Aubert & Cie unknown books
Best.-Nr. 344592Paris: Aubert & Cie no date. Unbound. Very Good. Lithograph. Image size: 23 x 18.5 cm. Sheet size: 36 x 24 cm. Age-toning to the paper with four small pieces of tape on the back at the fore edge and upper edge. Very good. From the series of lithographs "Voyage in Chine" published in Le Charivari circa 1845. With the subtitle "Les chinois adorent la décence et proscrivent impitoyablement toutes les danses immodestes introduites par les tartares sous les noms de Kan-Kan Ka-chu-cha et cetera il n'en est qu'une une seule la plus voluptueuse la plus lascive de toutes une qui livre la femme aux étreintes d'un jeune homme une qui trouble et enivre les sens celle-ci un chinois l'interdit rigoureusement à ses filles et ne la permet. qu'à sa femme! Aubert & Cie unknown books
Best.-Nr. 007350Paris: Bureau du Charivari et Chez Martinet. Lithographer: Destouches. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good Minus. Humorous caricatures and uproarious situations of the great master. A good number of the cartoons involve exotic locations -- China Morocco etc. Only two institutional holdings of the complete album evidenced on OCLC First Search -- at the NYPL and the Morgan Library. Oblong 26 by 33.5 cm. Condition: Wraps with light soiling and edgewear -- one closed tear short in length repaired or stabilized with clear tape. Leaves within have scattered foxing generally not overly obtrusive with not quite a third of the plates very heavily toned or more soiled. About a third of the plates come off as clean and the last third fall somewhere in between. Still an appealing copy of an important collection of caricature plates. Bureau du Charivari et Chez Martinet. Lithographer: Destouches unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. M7722Los Angeles:: Lynton Kistler 1967. 1967. 340 x 272 mm. Portfolio. i 2 pp. 12 black and white prints laid in a folded paper portfolio; top cover faded else fine. (Lynton Kistler), 1967. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 04761Paris: Charivari and Martinet 1859. The Moroccan Sultan Monsieur Prudhomme a Stereotypical Bourgeois and the Chinese Emperor Thirty Fine Humorous Lithographs by Honoré Daumier DAUMIER Honoré. Album des Charges du Jour. 30 Lithographies par H. Daumier. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari.et chez Martinet 1859-60. First edition. Oblong folio 10 3/8 x 13 5/16 inches; 264 x 338 mm. Lithographed pictorial title-page and thirty wonderful plates lithographed by Destouches. Some light foxing to a few plates mainly on the verso. Publisher's pictorial lithographed yellow paper wrappers spine very slightly chipped at extremities otherwise fine. A Wonderful example. Housed in a felt-lined half green morocco over pale green cloth boards clamshell case spine with five raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt. This scarce album contains thirty fine and humorous lithographs by Daumier which had previously appeared in the Le Charivari in the series: Actualités En Chine Croquis de Chasse Ces Bons Parisiens and Emotions Nautiques. The three figures featured on the front cover and the title-page are: the Moroccan sultan Mr. Prudhomme a stereotypical bourgeois and the Chinese emperor. OCLC locates just two copies in libraries and institutions worldwide New York Public Library NY USA & The Morgan Library & Museum NY USA. The Plates: 1. - Dire que nous v'la Parisiens!. Unbelievable. we are Parisians now too! DR #3235; Actualités 2. Mr. Prudhomme - Mon fils rappelle toi ce jour mémorable où tu as vu démolir à jamais le mur d'octroi. rappelle-toi que tôt ou tard la philosophie produit de la raison humaine; renversera de même les barrières des préjugés sociaux!. Le Petit Adolphe- Oui papa!. mais dis donc. papa . pourquoi qu'on les reconstruit un peu plus loin. Mr. Prudhomme - My son remember that memorable day when you saw the wall of the grant being demolished forever . remember that sooner or later philosophy product of human reason; will also reverse the barriers of social prejudice! . Little Adolphe- Yes dad! . but say so . dad . why do we rebuild them a little further . DR #10945; Actualités 141 3. Le Diamant Magnétiseur. Nouveau divertissement des soirées. - ou manière de s'amuser et de se faire loucher en société sans se fâcher. The Diamond Hypnotist. A new pastime at evening parties - or how to have fun and get someone to squint without getting into trouble. DR #3227; Actualités 134 4. Une Application Utile du Diamant Magnétiseur. - Ma femme est bien magnétisée!. je peux filer tranquillement pour le bal de l'opéra. dors bien bobonne!. Practical Application for a Diamond Hypnotist. My wife is hypnotized. now I can quietly leave for the opera ball. sleep well my dear! DR #3230; Actualités 140 5. Toujours les merveilles du diamant magnétiseur. - ou manière en société de faire prendre aux dames des poses non moins fatigantes que disgracieuses. More marvels from the diamond hypnotist. Or how to make the ladies pose in society in exhausting and not very gracious positions. DR #3228; Actualités 137 6. - Mon ami. viens donc voir ces jolis diamants!. - Ne regarde pas cela. imprudente!. ça te ferait loucher!!. - My dear come and have a look at these beautiful diamonds! - Don't even look at them you careless woman. they'll make you cross-eyed! DR #3229; Actualités 138 7. La Chiromancie Nouveau Passe Temps Des Bons Parisiens. - Adélaïde. j'ai beau chercher. je ne me trouve pas la petite ligne qui annonce une longue vie. mon Dieu!. dois-je donc mourir à la fleur de l'âge!. Palmistry New Parisian Pastime. - Adelaide. no matter how intensely I am searching I simply cannot find the line for long life. oh my God must I die in the prime of my days! DR #3240; Actualités 142 8. - Ah! Théophile. j'en apprends de belles sur ton compte. d'après le livre de Mr. Desbarolles je vois que tu as dans la main la ligne du libertinage!. - Ah!. bah. - Ah Théophile what ghastly things I am reading about you. According to the book by Mr. Desbarolles I can tell that you have in your palm the lines of a libertinage!. - Oh well. DR #3241; Ces Bons Parisiens 1 9. L'empereur du maroc consultant le celèbre sorcier desbarolles. - Voici une petite ligne qui m'indique que vous êtes destiné à recevoir une grande raclée!. The Emperor of Morocco in consultation with the Famous Magician Desbarolles. - This small line here indicates to me that you are going to get a royal thrashing! DR #3225 10. À Tanger - Sublime Majesté! . . . . . voici les Espagnols qui arrivent . . . . . je crois aller au devant de vos désirs afin de leur inspirer du respect . de déployer votre auguste parasol ! . - Laisse-moi donc tranquille Belboul avec mon parasol . . . . en ce moment-ci j'aimerais mieux avoir un Pare-à-balle ! . . . . . . In Tangiers. - Sublime Majesty. the Spanish are coming. in order to frighten them off I took the liberty to fully open your umbrella as a sign of your greatness! - Leave me alone with your umbrella Belboul. I would rather like to have an umbrella protecting me from their bullets. DR #3223 11. Le Cid se mettant aussi en campagne pour aller combattre les Maures. El Cid also takes to the field to fight against the Moors. DR #3233 12. Combat singulier entre le Cid et l'Empereur du Maroc. A unusual battle between El Cid and the emperor of Morocco. DR #3234 13. Un parasol dans une position difficile. An umbrella in a difficult position. DR #3224 14. - Voilà un vent qui va joliment contrarier le débarquement des Espagnols!. - Oui. mais c'est aussi un bien fichu temps pour mon parasol . - This wind will give the Spanish a hard time when disembarking. - Sure but look at what it is doing at my umbrella! DR #3226 15. - Dire que c'est là ce que les Français appellent des chinois!. Strange. this is what the French call "Chinois". DR #3120 16. - Ils vont être bien attrapés ces européens!. ils ont des canons qui sont terribles parce qu'ils sont rayés moi j'ai eu l'excellente idée de faire rayer tous mes soldats!. These Europeans will be quite surprised. they are using "rifled cannons" . thus I had the clever idea to add "rifles" stripes to the uniforms of my soldiers. DR #3118 17. Patrouille chinoise en reconnaissance. Chinese reconnaissance unit in action. DR #3117 18. - Tiens regarde cette caisse. elle renferme les envoyés Américains qui se rendent à Pékin!. - On dirait que cette voiture contient des animaux curieux. - Ma foi! s'ils sont curieux. tant pis pour eux car ils ne voient pas beaucoup le pays qu'ils traversent! - Look at that box - it contains the American envoys on the way to Peking! - Anyone would say it was a coach full of curious animals. - Well if they are curious so much the worse for them for they can't see much of the country they are travelling through. DR #3114 19. Arrivée à Pékin des ambassadeurs Américains. Arrival of the American Ambassador in Beijing. DR #3115 20. L'envoyé américain obtenant une audience de l'Empereur de la Chine. The Emperor of China receives the American Ambassador. DR #3116 21. - Tchinn-tchinn. tu m'apportes une bonne nouvelle!. je t'accorde l'insigne honneur de baiser l'auguste poussière de mes augustes souliers!. Tchinn Tchinn. you are bringing me good news! As a special sign of grace I will allow you to kiss the sublime dust of my sublime shoes! DR #3119 22. La Chine se civilisant. - Voyons. attention!. voici la théorie européenne. les yeux à quinze pas de distance et que le pied qui est à terre vienne rejoindre vivement celui qui est en l'air. China on its way to become civilized. Attention!. this is European theory now. the eyes must look fifteen feet ahead. . the foot on the ground must quickly join the one in the air. DR #3124 23. Fonctionnaires chinois veillant au salut de l'empire ! . Chinese civil servants diligently guarding over the welfare of the nation. DR #3123 24. -Tenez je viens de tuer un magnifique coq de bruyère!. -Mais malheureux!. c'est le coq Brahma de la ferme voisine. un coq qui vous coûtera peut-être plus de trente francs. sans compter les coups de fourche!. - Look! I just killed this magnificent grouse! . - Poor you! That is the rooster of the farm next door. That cock will cost you more than thirty francs not counting the pitchfork jabs! DR #3216 25. - Eh! bien. as-tu l'intention de rester là . - Non certes!. je t'attendais pour que tu me transportes sur ton dos jusqu'au village. - Merci à une lieue et demie d'ici!!. es-tu fou. - Allons!. voyons mon ami. fais comme si tu avais tué un chevreuil et que tu sois obligé de le rapporter chez toi!. - What about it. are you planning to stay here all day - Surely not. I thought you were going to carry me to the next village! - You must be joking. one and a half leagues. you must be crazy! - Oh come on. just pretend I were a stag you shot you would have had to carry him too. DR #3217 26. - Eh! bien. allons-nous continuer notre chasse malgré le vilain temps . . . . . - Non ! du tout . . . . . il pleut . . . . le gibier craint autant la pluie que nous . . . . il ne pourra manquer de venir se mettre à l'abri dans cette chaumière et nous allons en prendre beaucoup ! . . . . . . - Now what Are we going to continue hunting during the rain - Not at all! The animals are just as afraid of the rain as we are. They might not be able to find this shelter and we would end up losing too many of them! DR #3215 27. Mr. Prudhomme. - Comment . . . flots impudents ! . . . . . vous ne savez donc pas qui vous portez en ce moment que vous vous montrez si hardis à mon égard . . . . mer audacieuse! . . . apprends que comme Xerxès je pourrais te faire fouetter ! . . . . . Mme. Prudhomme Toute tremblante. - Oh! . . . mon ami . . . . . je t'en supplie ! . . . . ne lui dis pas d'insolences tu la mettrais en colère et elle serait capable de nous engloutir! . . . . . Mr. Prudhomme: - Obnoxious waves. don't you know whom you are carrying in this moment. oh audacious. know I shall like Xerxes whip you terribly. Mme Prudhomme: shivering of fear - Pray my dear friend do not offend the sea any longer. you might wake its fury and it might devour us completely! DR #3218 28. Les Eunuques Réformés par le Bey de Tunis. - Qu'allons-nous devenir. nous voilà mis à pied!. - Nous n'avons plus qu'à nous faire cochers de Constantinople!. Eunuchs reformed by the Bey of Tunis. - What's going to become of us. we have been fired. - The only thing we can do is go to Constantinople and become coachmen. DR #3237 29. Le nouveau costume des cochers turcs à Constantinople - Ni hommes ni femmes. tous eunuques!. Extrait de la nouvelle ordonnance. The new uniform of the Turkish coachmen in Constantinople. neither male nor female. all eunuchs. from the new ordinances. DR #3238 30. Une position difficile. - Tiraillé entre la civilisation et le parti rétograde. A difficult position. Torn between civilization and the conservative party. DR #3221. Paris: Charivari and Martinet, 1859 unknown books
Best.-Nr. 02253Paris: 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 Charles Philipon editors. Le Musée pour rire. Dessins par tous les caricaturistes de Paris; Texte par MM. Maurice Alhoy Louis Huart et Ch. Philipon. Paris: Chez Aubert Editeur des Cent-et-Un Robert-Macaire 1839-1840. First edition. Three quarto volumes bound in one 10 x 7 5/8 in; 251 x 193 mm. 1 half-title 2 title 600 pp. With 150 numbered hand-colored lithographs heightened with gum arabic by Honoré Daumier forty-five Gavarni forty-two Frédéric Bouchot twenty-two Victor Adam ten Platier seven Benjamin i.e. Benjamin Roubaud four Bourdet three Pruche three Platel two Grandville two Edme-Jean Pigal two Alophe Menut two Charles Vernier two Charles-Joseph Traviès one and others. Bound ca. 1886-1890 by James Screeton of Hull with label to rear pastedown half black pebbled morocco over gray-brown cloth. Elaborately gilt tooled compartments gilt-rolled raised bands. All edges gilt. Some foxing and toning throughout but still a very good copy. "The house of Aubert was ingenious in marketing its products. Its lithographs.were published one by one in periodicals like Le charivari and together in suites by the same artist without letterpress. Still a third form of publication was in albums made up of lithographs by several artists with accompanying texts. These collections most commonly took the form of volumes with the generic title Paris comique which consisted of twenty colored lithographs accompanied by quite unrelated texts. Aubert remarked that the resulting hodgepodge had 'a plan that is easy to follow for it consists in not having any' and in fact this was indeed a frugal procedure for reusing old texts and already published plates. The interest of the various volumes of Paris comique resides entirely in the lithographs they happen to contain. It can be considerable however since Daumier and Gavarni are the predominant artists. Le musée pour rire represents a more considerable effort on the part of Aubert. To accompany 150 lithographs including forty-five by Daumier among them twenty-seven from Croquis d'expressions and eight from La galerie physionomique and forty-two by Gavarni new commentaries were commissioned on each plate all except two by Alhoy and Huart. Daumier's lithographs were trimmed slightly and their captions were relettered. The designs of the other artists were provided with decorative frames. The whole was then published in three handsome volumes and in copies with expert contemporary coloring like this one Le musée pour rire is among the freshest and most attractive of romantic illustrated books" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book. Le Musée pour Rire "contained 150 lithographs by Daumier Gavarni Bouchot Traviès etc. These are re-impressions some of them in mirror image which had previously already been used for publication in Le Charivari. Most prints of the series 'Croquis d'expressions' are contained in the book. The name of the series is missing and the texts were printed in a different type than in the original Charivari version. We do not consider these prints original lithographies but rather prints 'after Daumier'". James Screeton was the son of bookbinder William Screeton of Hull. It appears that he was partner of binder William Wardell until opened his own shop in 1886. Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 164. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1839 unknown books
1888Best.-Nr. 290110Paris: Librairie Renouard; H. Laurens Successeur 1888. Three Quarters Leather. Near Fine binding. The first systematic listing of Daumiers lithograph illustrations by Arsene Alexandre. Honore Daumier was a French printmaker caricaturist painter and sculptor who focused on social and political aspects of 19c France. With portrait frontispiece three double page plates about 32 full page plates and illustrations and additional text illustrations. Scattered foxing. Some loss to the top of the spine. Original wrappers and paper spine bound in. Navy morocco over marbled paper boards with gilt and red lettering and decoration. Near Fine binding. Librairie Renouard; H. Laurens, Successeur unknown books
1996Best.-Nr. 216471San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts 1996. Hardcover. VG. Some light nicks around the edges of jacket and previous owners bookplate on front end papers otherwise clean and unmarked. Quarto. Hardcover. Bound in navy cloth with illustrated jackets. 1200 illustrations portrait ; 29 cm. v. 1. The paintings 446 pages -- v. 2. The watercolours and drawings 692 pages. Alan Wofsy Fine Arts hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 04944Paris: Chez Aubert et Cie 1839. Daumier's Greatest Comic Masterpiece The Exceptionally Rare Original Hand-Colored Quarto Edition One Hundred and One Magnificent Hand-Colored Lithographs DAUMIER Honoré. PHILIPON Charles. Les Cent et Un Robert-Macaire composés et dessinés par M. H. Daumier. Paris: Aubert et Cie 1839. First quarto edition. Original hand-colored issue. Two quarto volumes 10 3/8 x 8 inches; 264 x 203 mm. With 101 magnificent hand-colored lithographed plates all heightened with gum arabic. Contemporary red chagrin over silk paper-covered boards elaborately blocked in gilt all edges gilt. A few text leaves toned occasional scattered foxing largely confined to margins but an unusually attractive copy. The original contemporary hand-coloring remains exceptionally bright and fresh throughout. Few creations in the history of nineteenth-century illustration proved more influential than Robert Macaire. Originally a theatrical rogue invented by Frédérick Lemaître for the melodrama L'Auberge des Adrets the character was transformed by Charles Philipon and Honoré Daumier into the very personification of modern society's corruption speculation opportunism and commercial fraud. Unable to attack King Louis-Philippe directly after the tightening of censorship Philipon and Daumier turned their attention from politics to society itself. Robert Macaire became the perfect vehicle through which they could ridicule bankers lawyers stockbrokers politicians journalists industrialists doctors inventors philanthropists publishers and virtually every profession created by the rapidly expanding bourgeois economy. No enterprise was too respectable to escape his schemes no victim too sophisticated to become his dupe. The result was one of the supreme achievements of French social satire. First issued individually in Le Charivari and later collected in the celebrated Caricaturana the series enjoyed immense contemporary popularity. So great was the demand that Aubert published this reduced quarto edition in 1839 in an edition of approximately six hundred sets. While the lithographs are reductions of Daumier's original folio compositions they preserve the extraordinary vitality of his draftsmanship and remain among the most entertaining illustrated books of the nineteenth century. As Gordon N. Ray observed: "Les Robert-Macaire remains Daumier's best-known series." He further noted that although these reduced lithographs are generally less accomplished than the original folio issues they are "not often found colored." That observation greatly understates the rarity of copies retaining their original contemporary hand-coloring. The present example is distinguished not only by its completeness but by the remarkable freshness of its coloring whose delicate palette and gum arabic highlights considerably enhance the visual brilliance of every plate. More than simply comic entertainment Les Cent et Un Robert-Macaire constitutes one of the great illustrated chronicles of the July Monarchy. Daumier and Philipon expose an age intoxicated by speculation finance political ambition and commercial enterprise yet their satire remains astonishingly modern. Robert Macaire is not merely a nineteenth-century swindler; he is the eternal confidence man continually reinventing himself to exploit every new opportunity offered by society. Few illustrated books better demonstrate Daumier's extraordinary gifts as both artist and storyteller. Across one hundred and one brilliantly conceived scenes Robert Macaire appears in every imaginable disguise - stock promoter publisher lawyer inventor politician philanthropist physician military entrepreneur newspaper editor art dealer and countless others - each episode exposing another facet of bourgeois hypocrisy with inexhaustible invention and comic brilliance. Beautiful original hand-colored examples of this celebrated work are among the most desirable of all nineteenth-century French illustrated books and are encountered only rarely on the market. Paris: Chez Aubert et Cie, , 1839 unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. NF2607Chef's -D'Oeuvre De L'Art Daumier GRANDS SCULPTEURS Hachette 1969 first edition near fine in full color photographic wraps being 8 pages of text accompanied by 16 full page full color photographic plates of the works of Honore Daumier. Text in French. Hachette paperback books
1979Best.-Nr. 210511Los Angeles CA: Armand Hammer Foundation 1979. Softcover. VG. Gray stapled wraps with orange text bw illustration. 16 pp. Bw illustrations. "This exhibition celebrates the genius of Honore-Victorin Daumier by displaying an outstanding selection of his prints drawings and sculptures. All the works come from the extraordinary art collection of Corcoran trustee Dr. Armand Hammer. Dr. Hammer who joined the Board of Trustees last year has enabled the Corcoran to establish a free admissions program and has provided the financial means to renovate the Hemiscycle Auditorium within the historic Corcoran building. To Dr. Hammer's generosity we are also indebted for this important Daumier exhibition." Armand Hammer Foundation paperback books
1945Best.-Nr. 194035Zurich: Rascher 1945. Paperback. VG Folio has edgewear; DJ is chipped and has edgewear smudging and foxing; booklets are clear; plates are clear; some edges and corners have previously been bent. Oversized ivory folio with b&w illustration and lettering; glassine DJ; contains two booklets and 16 loose b&w plates. Text in German. Rascher paperback books
1931Best.-Nr. 192039Paris: Imp. Frazier-Soye 1931. Paperback. Good Wraps show minor soiling foxing and relatively heavy age-toning; wraps are worn at the edges and corners; pages are foxed and age-toned as expected; binding is solid. Cream-colored wraps with black lettering and red illustrations; 31 pp. richly illustrated in bw. Text in French. Imp. Frazier-Soye paperback books
1884Best.-Nr. 190462Paris: Charles Waree 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. Cover has general wear. Interior pages have age toning foxing and staining. Bookblock has age toning and darkening. French language text. Black leather cover with gilt highlights. Gilt lettering and design elements on 4 raised band spine. 525 pgs illustrations. Charles Waree hardcover books
