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1903réf. 1410032Wien Vienna: Verlag Von Josef Šafář 1903. First Edition. Loose folio. Folio xvi pages plus 6 chromolithograph plates. In Good plus condition. Quarter-bound in black cloth with paper boards with text to front and rear cover. Boards have minor fraying to spine ends bumping to corners chipping to edges and significant scuffing throughout. Textblock has cracking and tears to spine a previous owner's signature to the interior front board a stain to the title page light age toning and scuffing throughout. Plates have light age toning contemporary creasing slight tears to creases on plates 2-6 impacting text on plates 3 and 4. Text in German Italian English and French. Shelved in Room F Elephant. 1410032. Special Collections - Upstairs. Verlag Von Josef Šafář unknown books
réf. 05952Paris & London: V. Morlet & McLean 1830. Twelve Superb Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates Depicting Scenes from the Debtor's Prison of Sainte-Pélagie ADAM Victor. Album de Sainte-Pélagie Prison de la Dette. Gravures réhaussées à l'aquarelle. Douze scènes intérieures dessinées et lithographiées d'après nature par V. Adam. Paris & London: Publié par V. Morlot & Mc.Léan n.d. ca. 1830. First edition. Oblong folio 10 5/8 x 13 7/8 inches; 270 x 352 mm. 4 pp. of descriptive text. Twelve numbered hand-colored lithographed plates. Plates lithographed by Bernard. Each plate with the publisher's oval blind-stamp in lower blank margin. Bound without the printed title-page. Mid-nineteenth century quarter red calf over marbled boards smooth spine ruled and lettered in gilt. A superb example with fine contemporary hand-coloring. The plates are captioned: "L'Écrou;" "Chambre du détenu malheureux;" "Chambre du détenu philosophe;" "Les Élections;" "Le Cabinet de lecture;" "Le Cabaret;" "Le Café;" "Le Repas dans la cour;" "Les Jeux dans la cour;" "Le Bain du créancier;" "Le Paye;" and "Sortie du débiteur;." A rare album depicting various scenes at the Parisian prison of Sainte-Pélagie. This prison once located in the 5th arrondissement was active from 1790-1899 and housed many renowned prisoners during and after the French Revolution including the Marquis de Sade. In this series Adam conveys in various scenes of prison life the dignified squlor to which its inhabitants were reduced. Exceptionally rare. We have only seen this book once before - a copy with modern hand-coloring which we sold in 2003. OCLC locates just one copy - BCU Dorigny Lausanne Switzerland. Jean Victor Adam 1801-1866 was a French painter and lithographer. Born in Paris he was the son of Jean Adam an esteemed engraver. During the years 1814 to 1818 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and also in the ateliers of Meynier and Régnault. In 1819 he exhibited 'Herminia succouring Tancred.' He was almost immediately afterwards employed to paint various subjects for the Museum at Versailles amongst which are 'The Entry of the French into Mainz' 'The Battle of Varroux' 'The Taking of Menin 'The Battle of Castiglione' 'The Passage of the Cluse' 'The Battle of Montebello' 'The Capitulation of Meiningen;' the last three in association with Alaux. He also exhibited down to the year 1838: 'Henry IV. after the Battle of Coutras' 'Trait of Kindness in the Duke de Berri' 'The Postillion' 'The Vivandiere' 'The Road to Poissy' 'The Return from the Chase' 'Horse-fair at Caen' and numerous other subjects. He then retired from publicity till 1846 when he appeared as the exhibitor of some works in lithography to which branch of art he afterwards restricted himself. In this line he produced a lithographic album 'Views in the Environs of Paris' 'Studies of Animals for an edition of Buffon' &c. He obtained a gold medal in 1824 a second class medal in 1836 besides several others from Lille Douai and other cities. He died at Viroflay in 1866. "Beraldi assigns between 7000 and 8000 designs to Victor Adam 1801-1865.A Parisian by birth he remained in the capital all his life but this did not prevent him from drawing negroes Turks Chinese and other peoples all over the world in his Paris studio. He was famous indeed as a faiseur de bonshommes that is to say a specialist in adding groups of small figures to the foreground of architectural or landscape drawings by other artists.His immense production contains many amusing albums concerning the life of the time" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book p. 194. Sainte-Pélagie was a debtor's prison in Paris in active use from 1790 to 1899. The former Parisian prison was located between the current group of buildings bearing No. 56 Rue de la Clef with Rue du Puits-de-l'Ermite in the 5th arrondissement of Paris at the old Place Sainte-Pélagie. The penal structure held many noted prisoners during the French Revolution with Madame Roland Grace Dalrymple Elliott and Marie-Louise O'Murphy being among the known prisoners. After the revolution the Marquis de Sade was imprisoned here as was the young mathematician Évariste Galois. During the July Monarchy the "April insurgees" were also detained there and some managed to escape through a tunnel. The painter Gustave Courbet was also imprisoned there for his activities in the Paris Commune. Bobins V 1524. Paris [&] London: V. Morlet [&] McLean, 1830 unknown books
réf. 05978Paris: Sazerac et Duval Engelmann Langlumè & Brossier 1824. First Edition of the Illustrator's First Book One Year in the Life of a Young Man Depicted in Seventeen Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates ADAM Victor. Un An de la Vie d un Jeune Homme. Histoire véritable en 17 Chapitres. Escrits par lui-même et Lithographiés par Victor Adam. Paris: Sazerac et Duval Engelmann Langlumè & Brossier 1824. First edition. Folio 13 9/16 x 10 3/8 inches; 345 x264 mm. Lithograph title-page and seventeen superb hand-colored lithograph plates printed by Langlumé. Some occasional light marginal foxing plate 10 with two neatly repaired small closed tears to lower blank margin. All plates with the blind stamp of the publisher Sazerac et Duval in lower blank margin. Small circular library stamp of Bernard Franck at foot of title-page and also on front free endpaper. Contemporary quarter dark-green scored calf over green paper boards. Smooth spine ruled in gilt tan morocco label lettered in gilt board edges worn. With the bookplate of celebrated collector Bernard Franck on front free endpaper. An excellent example of a very rare suite of hand-colored lithographs by Victor Adam. Victor Adam 1801-1865 is better known for his later works of pictorial journalism or for his many lithographs of military history than for his early works of fashion and society life. "His immense production contains many amusing albums concerning the life of the time such as Un an dans la vie de jeune homme. This series is a sort of bourgeois rake's progress. A young man from the country comes to Paris to sample its pleasures. He acquires a new wardrobe; buys a horse; is duped by gamblers makes a conquest of a pretty lady; exclaims 'Jasmin! she seemed so artless' as he lies recovering from the resulting malady; is imprisoned for debt; writes at last to 'the old one' a buxom woman of means; and is accepted by her in the final plate. The series is unusual among the albums of the time in that it tells a consecutive story and it certainly has more spirit and finish than Adam's usual work" Ray. A lovely copy of the first book by this gifted painter and illustrator. Very scarce. Bernard Franck 1849-1924 Born in Paris Franck was a veteran of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War during which he was awarded the Medaille Militaire. He was an industrialist specializing in the manufacturing of military equipment. His success in business enabled him to become an inveterate collector. He amassed his vast collection over 45 years from 1875 to 1920. The collection consisted of 18th Century and early 19th Century objects - miniature portraits many emphasizing military subjects medals and decorations armory uniforms paintings engravings a variety of bibelots. Besides the miniature portraits especially noteworthy was Franck's collection of Carnets de Bal dance cards. He sold this collection to J.P. Morgan around 1910. Before doing so he had the collection reproduced in an album entitled "Collection de 124 carnets de bal du XVIIIe siecle/formee par M.Bernard Franck a Paris de l'annee 1875 au 23 avril 1902". Only 20 albums were produced of which one is in the Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum and one in the Morgan Library autographed by Franck to Morgan. Franck died in 1924. The collection that follows has been held within the family since that time. me. The Plates: 1. J'arrive! I arrive! 2. Je ne me reconnais plus. I do not recognize myself anymore. 3. C'est superbe! It is superb! 4. Elle me regarde! Dieu quel bonheur! She's looking at me! God what happiness! 5. C'est une femme honnête. She is an honest woman. 6. Je ne pouvais pas aller à pied. I couldn't walk. 7. C'est à qui m'aura. Who's going to get me 8. Comment Docteur! How Doctor! 9. Jasmin!.elle avait l'air si ingénu!! Jasmine! . she looked so ingenuous !! 10. Quel guignon! What a mess! 11. Des mémoires! Fi donc. Memories! Fi then. 12. Je le savais. I knew it. 13. St. Pelagie.charmant séjour! St. Pelagie. lovely stay! 14. Quels inhumains! Me mettre dehors! What inhumans! Kick me out! 15. Aux grands maux les grands remédes. To great ills great remedies. 16. La simpiternelle serait ma bisaïeule. The simpiternal would be my grandmother. 17. Il faut faire une Fin! Je lépouse. We must make an End! I marry him. Paris: Sazerac et Duval, Engelmann, Langlumè & Brossier, , 1824 unknown books
réf. 05698Madrid: Estamperias de los Suizos 1846. The Military Costume of the Spanish Army Thirty-two Superb Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Victor Adam after José Villegas ADAM Victor illustrator. VILLEGAS José. Album Militar. Coleccion de uniformes del ejercito Español pintadas por D.J. Villegas y lithografiados por V. Adam. Madrid: Estamperias de los Suizos 1846. First edition. Folio 12 1/16 x 9 1/4 inches; 307 x 235 mm. Pictorial lithograph title page and thirty-two superb hand colored lithograph plates by Victor Adam after José Villegas all on stubs. Printed by Godard and Lemercier. Six of the plates are very slightly toned but not affecting images. The thirty-two plates are bound out of order. Early twentieth century three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards spine with five raised bands ruled in blind and lettered in gilt in compartments marbled endpapers top edge gilt. This extremely rare Spanish work on the military costume of the Spanish Army was issued without text save for a title page. The composition of the subjects is superb but the chief glory of this work is the exceptional hand-coloring. OCLC locates just one complete copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: Brown University RI US. The Bibliotheque Nationale de France and the Kunstbilio Staatliche Museen zu Berlin have just 25 of the 32 plates apparently uncolored. The only copy that we can locate at auction over the past fifty years was at Sotheby's Hodgsons in 1979 24 of 25 hand-colored plates only. Colas 3016 25 plates only; Lipperheide 2361 25 plates only; Not in Bobins. According to Colas 3017 and Hiler p. 881 there was an undated edition with 34 hand colored plates. Colas 3016 25 plates only; Lipperheide 2361 25 plates only; Not in Bobins. Madrid: Estamperias de los Suizos, 1846 unknown books
réf. 05603Paris: Chez Dero-Becker 1840. The Military Costumes of France Forty-Two Superb Hand Colored Lithographs by Victor Adam ADAM Victor. Collection des Costumes Militaires Armée Francaise 1832 Représentés dans des Sujets de Genre. Lithographie par V. Adam. Paris: Chez Dero-Becker ca. 1840. First edition. Oblong folio 10 7/8 x 14 1/4 inches; 278 x 362 mm. Forty-two superb hand colored lithograph plates all heightened with gum arabic. Bound by the Atelier Bindery for Charles Scribners Sons in three-quarter red morocco over red cloth boards. Spine with five raised bands lettered in gilt in second compartment marbled endpapers. Original pictorial lithograph wrapper on front paste-down. A fine complete copy of Adam's military costumes of France with superb original hand-coloring. This rare French work on military costume was issued without text save for a wrapper title a portion of which appears with this copy mounted to the front pastedown. The composition of the subjects is superb but the chief glory of the work is its exceptionally beautiful hand-coloring. Colas describes the work which should contain 42 plates as "Tres rare complet". OCLC & KVK locate just four complete copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: Brown University RI US; Union Catalogue of Belgian Libraries; Austrian National Library; Universitats- und Landesbibliothek Darm Germany. The Plates: 1. Garde Nationale. National Guard. 2. Dragons. Dragoons. 3. Marechal de Camp. Camp Marechal. 4. Hussards. Hussars. 5. Lanciers. Cavalerie de la ligne. Lancers. Line cavalry. 6. Artillerie de la la Ligne. Artillery of the Line. 7. Carabiniers. Carabineros. 8. Lanciers 1er régiment. Lancers 1st regiment. 9. Corps Municipal de la Ville de Paris. Garde á cheval grande tenue petite tenue et tenue d'ecurie Garde á pieds grande tenue. Municipal body of the City of Paris. Horse guard full dress light dress and stable outfit Foot guard full dress. 10. Infanterie de Ligne. Grenadier Voltigeur Soldat du Centre. Line Infantry. Grenadier Voltigeur Soldier of the Center. 11. Infantrie Officiers. Infantry officers. 12. Artillerie a Pied. Grande tenue. Foot Artillery. Great outfit. 13. Cuirassiers. Cavalerie de réserve. Cuirassiers. Reserve cavalry. 14. Chasseurs. Hunters. 15. Garde Nationale de Paris. Sapeur. Voltigeur. Chasseur. Musicien et Tambour-Major. Paris National Guard. Sapper. Voltigeur. Hunter. Musician and Drum Major. 16. Gendarmes des Départemens. Grande et petite tenue. Departmental Gendarmes. Big and small outfit. 17. Sapeurs-Pompiers de la Ville de Paris. Grande et petite tenue. Firefighters of the City of Paris. Big and small outfit. 18. Train des Equipages. Crew Train. 19. Infanterie Legère. Light Infantry. 20. Marins. Sailors. 21. Dragons Officiers et Trompette. Dragoons Officers and Trumpet. 22. Gendarmes a Pied des Départemens. Departmental Foot Police. 23. Officiers de Hussards. Hussar officers. 24. Chirurgiens de l'Armèe. Army surgeons. 25. État Major de la Garde Nationale. General Staff of the National Guard. 26. Sapeurs du Génie Officiers et Soldat. Grande et petite tenue. Engineers Officers and Soldiers. Big and small outfit. 27. Infanterie Légére. Light Infantry. 28. Officiers d'Artillerie Grande et petite tenue. Artillery officers full and small uniform. 29. Officier Supérieur de Chasseurs Trompette et Soldat. Senior Officer of Hunters Trumpet and Soldier. 30. Général de Division. Division general. 31. Carabiniers. Grande et petite tenue. Carabineros. Big and small outfit. 32. Vétérans et Officiers d'Invalides. Veterans and Disabled Officers. 33. Cuirassiers. Cavalerie de Reserve. Cuirassiers. Reserve Cavalry. 34. Ecoles de Cavalerie St. Cyr et Polytechnique. Cavalry Schools St. Cyr and Polytechnique. 35. Régiments des Zoabes. Armées Français d'Affrique 1832. Zoabe regiments. French Armies of Africa 1832. 36. Lanciers et Chasseurs. Armées Françaises d'Affrique 1832. Lancers and Hunters. French Armies of Africa 1832. 37. Artillerie Légère. Light Artillery. 38. Garde Municipale. Officier Garde à cheval Capitaine Garde à pied petite tenue. Municipal Guard. Horse Guard Officer Foot Guard Captain small uniform. 39. Hussards en Campagne. Hussars in the Campaign. 40. Garde Natle. et Pompier de la Banlieue. National Guard and Suburban Firefighter. 41. Intendant Militaire. Military Intendant. 42. Officiers de Marine. Naval officers. Bobins IV 1204; Colas 34; Hiler p. 6; Not in Lipperheide; Vinet 2259 36 plates only. Paris: Chez Dero-Becker, 1840 unknown books
réf. 05535Paris: Sazerac et Duval Engelmann Langlumè & Brossier 1824. First Edition of the Illustrator's First Book With Seventeen Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates ADAM Victor. Un An de la Vie d un Jeune Homme. Histoire véritable en 17 Chapitres. Escrits par lui-même et Lithographiés par Victor Adam. Paris: Sazerac et Duval Engelmann Langlumè & Brossier 1824. First edition. Folio 13 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches; 336 x 251 mm. Facsimile cover title. Seventeen superb hand-colored lithograph plates printed by Langlumé. Modern royal blue cloth front cover with facsimile title pasted on. Short marginal tear neatly repaired to lower margin of first plate not affecting image. Plates 2 8 15 & 17 with the blind stamp of the publisher Sazerac et Duval in lower blank margin. A very good example. One year in the life of a young man. A true story in seventeen chapters. Written by himself and lithographed by Victor Adam. Victor Adam 1801-1865 is better known for his later works of pictorial journalism or for his many lithographs of military history than for his early works of fashion and society life. "His immense production contains many amusing albums concerning the life of the time such as Un an dans la vie de jeune homme. This series is a sort of bourgeois rake's progress. A young man from the country comes to Paris to sample its pleasures. He acquires a new wardrobe; buys a horse; is duped by gamblers makes a conquest of a pretty lady; exclaims 'Jasmin! she seemed so artless' as he lies recovering from the resulting malady; is imprisoned for debt; writes at last to 'the old one' a buxom woman of means; and is accepted by her in the final plate. The series is unusual among the albums of the time in that it tells a consecutive story and it certainly has more spirit and finish than Adam's usual work" Ray. A lovely copy of the first book by this gifted painter and illustrator. Very scarce. The Plates: 1. J'arrive! I arrive! 2. Je ne me reconnais plus. I do not recognize myself anymore. 3. C'est superbe! It is superb! 4. Elle me regarde! Dieu quel bonheur! She's looking at me! God what happiness! 5. C'est une femme honnête. She is an honest woman. 6. Je ne pouvais pas aller à pied. I couldn't walk. 7. C'est à qui m'aura. Who's going to get me 8. Comment Docteur! How Doctor! 9. Jasmin!.elle avait l'air si ingénu!! Jasmine! . she looked so ingenuous !! 10. Quel guignon! What a mess! 11. Des mémoires! Fi donc. Memories! Fi then. 12. Je le savais. I knew it. 13. St. Pelagie.charmant séjour! St. Pelagie. lovely stay! 14. Quels inhumains! Me mettre dehors! What inhumans! Kick me out! 15. Aux grands maux les grands remédes. To great ills great remedies. 16. La simpiternelle serait ma bisaïeule. The simpiternal would be my grandmother. 17. Il faut faire une Fin! Je lépouse. We must make an End! I marry him. Bobins V 1523; Hiler p.6; Lipperheide 3561; Ray. Art of the French Illustrated Book 126. Paris: Sazerac et Duval, Engelmann, Langlumè & Brossier, 1824 unknown books
réf. 05391Paris: J. Monrocq 1850. The Original Folio Edition of 'Fair Ideas' ADAM Victor illustrator. La Foire aux Idées. Paris: J. Monrocq 1851-54. First edition complete. Large quarto 11 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches; 302 x 235 mm. Title on front cover. One hundred numbered leaves a varying number of illustrations on each page. Plates lithographed by Becquet freres. Publisher's quarter dark green morocco over embossed black cloth boards front cover decorated in gilt surrounding the title in gilt smooth spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Spine faded - still a fine example. The original large quarto edition of 1851-54 containing one hundred numbered lithograph plates with between one and fifteen subjects on a page. All plates have the running title "La Foire Aux Idées Par V. Adam" the imprints of "Paris. J. Monrocq - éditeur" & "Lith. de Becquet frères à Paris" and all signed "V. Adam". A wonderful selection of sketches jokes caricatures costumes games animals and fantasies. OCLC locates just four copies of the later edition with 120 plates in libraries and institutions worldwide: Trinity College Library CT US; Smithsonian Institution DC US; Princeton University NJ US and The Bibliotheque Nationale de France. According to ABPC no complete copies have sold at auction over the past 100 years. There was a later edition which contained 120 lithograph plates Extraordinary magazine of subjects drawn by Victor Adam of black lithographed plates like so many vignettes borrowed from his past or future thematic albums Animals of all species Horses and riders Little tales put into action etc. or even illustrations from the albums of Allouard and Koeppelin or Micheland France in the 14th and 15th centuries or Memorable Facts in the History of France etc. Published in 1855 under the title The Fair of Ideas 1851-1854 Grrrrrande exhibition of sketches loads drolleries caricatures costumes games animals fantasies the plates were printed in quarto format lithographed by Becquet frères and coated of the signature V. Adam with the current title La Foire aux Idées by V. Adam and the address Paris - Monrocq brothers publishers Lith. Becquet brothers in Paris. Smaller format albums were published under the same title where each original board was divided into two parts. Jean-Victor Adam. is the son and pupil of the engraver Jean Adam; he made himself known as a painter of battles. His lithographic production was abundant to the point that "one can regret that the artist did not curb his overflowing facility; maybe he would have won for he was not without talent However it would be very surprising if among the thousands of pieces of a draftsman who takes his subjects from the news the curious did not find some useful and interesting information. Beraldi. Jean-Victor Adam 1801-1867 was a French painter and lithographer. Born in Paris he was the son of Jean Adam an esteemed engraver. During the years 1814 to 1818 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and also in the ateliers of Meynier and Régnault. In 1819 he exhibited 'Herminia succouring Tancred.' He was almost immediately afterwards employed to paint various subjects for the Museum at Versailles amongst which are 'The Entry of the French into Mainz' 'The Battle of Varroux' 'The Taking of Menin 'The Battle of Castiglione' 'The Passage of the Cluse' 'The Battle of Montebello' 'The Capitulation of Meiningen;' the last three in association with Alaux. He also exhibited down to the year 1838: 'Henry IV. after the Battle of Coutras' 'Trait of Kindness in the Duke de Berri' 'The Postillion' 'The Vivandiere' 'The Road to Poissy' 'The Return from the Chase' 'Horse-fair at Caen' and numerous other subjects. He then retired from publicity till 1846 when he appeared as the exhibitor of some works in lithography to which branch of art he afterwards restricted himself. In this line he produced a lithographic album 'Views in the Environs of Paris' 'Studies of Animals for an edition of Buffon' &c. He obtained a gold medal in 1824 a second class medal in 1836 besides several others from Lille Douai and other cities. He died at Viroflay in 1866. The Engravers of the 19th Century guide for the amateur of modern prints 1885 I p. 19 n°9 under the heading "Macedonias and Placards": "album of a hundred sheets with small subjects it is one of the most famous collections among all those that Victor Adam drew". Grand Carteret 620; Beraldi Paris: J. Monrocq, 1850 unknown books
réf. 05390Paris: J. Monrocq 1855. 'Fair Ideas' ADAM Victor. La Foire aux Idées. Paris: J. Monrocq ca. 1855. Small oblong quarto 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches; 145 x 216 mm. Title on front cover. Twenty-two leaves all lithograph illustrations. Plates lithographed by Becquet freres. Publisher's embossed red paper over boards front cover decorated in gilt surrounding a pale blue cartouche with the title in gilt. Small booksellers label of J. Berville and engraved bookplate of Yves Marchand on front pastedown. A selection of 22 fine lithograph plates from Victor Adam's 1851 book of the same title - a wonderful selection of sketches jokes caricatures costumes games animals and fantasies. A fine example of one of the 'extract' albums. The present edition was published around the same time or slightly later than the original folio edition of 1851. These half-size small oblong quarto albums with extracts from the original edition had each original plate divided into two 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches; 145 x 216 mm. format plates so that the head of the numbered plate appeared successively with the current title and the heel of the same plate with the publisher's address. The present example brings together the eleven 'split' plates which carry the numbers 50 55 56 57 59 65 66 70 71lower 76 and 82 plus one unidentified. The first plate has been partially colored at an early date. The original large quarto edition of 1851 contained one hundred numbered lithograph plates with between two and fifteen subjects on a page. All plates had the running title "La Foire Aux Idées Par V. Adam" and the imprints of "Paris. J. Monrocq - éditeur" and "Lith. de Becquet frères à Paris". Jean-Victor Adam 1801-1867 was a French painter and lithographer. Born in Paris he was the son of Jean Adam an esteemed engraver. During the years 1814 to 1818 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and also in the ateliers of Meynier and Régnault. In 1819 he exhibited 'Herminia succouring Tancred.' He was almost immediately afterwards employed to paint various subjects for the Museum at Versailles amongst which are 'The Entry of the French into Mainz' 'The Battle of Varroux' 'The Taking of Menin 'The Battle of Castiglione' 'The Passage of the Cluse' 'The Battle of Montebello' 'The Capitulation of Meiningen;' the last three in association with Alaux. He also exhibited down to the year 1838: 'Henry IV. after the Battle of Coutras' 'Trait of Kindness in the Duke de Berri' 'The Postillion' 'The Vivandiere' 'The Road to Poissy' 'The Return from the Chase' 'Horse-fair at Caen' and numerous other subjects. He then retired from publicity till 1846 when he appeared as the exhibitor of some works in lithography to which branch of art he afterwards restricted himself. In this line he produced a lithographic album 'Views in the Environs of Paris' 'Studies of Animals for an edition of Buffon' &c. He obtained a gold medal in 1824 a second class medal in 1836 besides several others from Lille Douai and other cities. He died at Viroflay in 1866. Grand Carteret 620; Beraldi I p. 19 no. 9. 70 71 76 and 82. Paris: J. Monrocq, 1855 unknown books
réf. 05380Paris: Librairie d'Éducation A. Courcier Éditeur 1860. 'Brothers In Arms' The Italian War of Independence and The Crimean War The Battles of Magenta Kinburn and Malakoff ADAM Victor illustrator & MOREL-FATIO Antoine Léon illustrator. Les Frères d'Armes. Par Th. Midy. Ullustré de six superbes gravures a deux teints par V. Adam et Morel-Fatio. Paris: Librairie d'Éducation A. Courcier Éditeur 1860. First edition. Folio 12 x 8 3/4 inches; 305 x 222 mm. 1-2 half-title verso blank 3-4 vignette title verso blank 5-38 1 table des matières 1 advertsisements pp. Six fine hand colored lithograph plates. Plates lithographed by Sarazin. Publisher's color pictorial boards head and tail of spine chipped joints slightly cracked but still a remarkable survival of a very fragile pictorial binding. The text and hand colored plates bright and fresh. Feint early ink inscription dated 1876 on front free endpaper. The six hand colored lithograph plates include scenes from The Battle of Magenta which was fought in 1959 during the Second Italian War of Independence; the British and French Navy bombarding the Russian coastal fortifications at Kinburn in 1855 after an Anglo-French ground force had besieged them; and the French forces celebrating their attack against the Russian forces and subsequent capture on the Malakoff redoubt on 8 September 1855 as a part of the siege of Sebastopol during the Crimean War. OCLC locates just one copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: Kunstbiblio Staatliche zu Berlin Germany Jean-Victor Adam 1801-1867 was a French painter and lithographer. Born in Paris he was the son of Jean Adam an esteemed engraver. During the years 1814 to 1818 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and also in the ateliers of Meynier and Régnault. In 1819 he exhibited 'Herminia succouring Tancred.' He was almost immediately afterwards employed to paint various subjects for the Museum at Versailles amongst which are 'The Entry of the French into Mainz' 'The Battle of Varroux' 'The Taking of Menin 'The Battle of Castiglione' 'The Passage of the Cluse' 'The Battle of Montebello' 'The Capitulation of Meiningen;' the last three in association with Alaux. He also exhibited down to the year 1838: 'Henry IV. after the Battle of Coutras' 'Trait of Kindness in the Duke de Berri' 'The Postillion' 'The Vivandiere' 'The Road to Poissy' 'The Return from the Chase' 'Horse-fair at Caen' and numerous other subjects. He then retired from publicity till 1846 when he appeared as the exhibitor of some works in lithography to which branch of art he afterwards restricted himself. In this line he produced a lithographic album 'Views in the Environs of Paris' 'Studies of Animals for an edition of Buffon' &c. He obtained a gold medal in 1824 a second class medal in 1836 besides several others from Lille Douai and other cities. He died at Viroflay in 1866. Antoine Léon Morel later Morel-Fatio 1810-1871 was a French naval painter Peintre officiel de la Marine curator of the naval and ethnographic museum of the Louvre and mayor of the 20th arrondissement of Paris. He added Fatio in 1844 to distinguish himself from a businessman of the same name. It was apparently in reference to a Swiss branch of the family. The Plates: 1. Bataille de Magenta - The Battle of Magenta 2. Un Marché dans une Petite Ville en Russie - A Market in a small town in Russia 3. Une Noce en Bretagne - A Wedding in Brittany 4. La Flotte Devant Kinburn - The Fleet in front of Kinburn 5. La Flotte Devant Schwaborg - The Fleet in front of Schwaborg 6. Prise de Malakoff - The taking of Malakoff. Paris: Librairie d'Éducation, A. Courcier, Éditeur, 1860 unknown books
réf. 05396Paris: Chez Ch. Motte 1830. A Rare Book on Coaching Twelve Superb Lithograph Plates ADAM Victor. Panidochème ou Toutes Sortes de Voitures par V. Adam 1830. Paris: Chez Ch. Motte 1830. First Charles Motte edition preceded only by the 1828 Gihaut Frères hand colored issue with 36 plates. Oblong folio 10 1/4 x 13 5/8 inches; 260 x 346 mm. Twelve superb lithograph plates. The plates are numbered 1 thru 12 and all have the imprint "V. Adam delt." & "Lith de C. Motte." All plates have the small oval blind-stamp of the publisher on the lower blank margins. Plates 11 & 12 have neatly repaired tears on right blank margin not affecting image. A few plates with light marginal toning and or minimal foxing. Early twentieth century quarter black morocco over marbled boards smooth spine ruled and lettered in gilt. The quality of the lithography is absolutely stunning - a rare book on the most common method of travel in the early nineteenth century. "A retrospective exhibition of engravings and "lithographes d'attelage" was held in 1900 exhibiting ancient coaches and included many of Adam's lithographs and engravings both in black and white and in colour." Menassier. Jean-Victor Adam 1801-1867 was a French painter and lithographer. Born in Paris he was the son of Jean Adam an esteemed engraver. During the years 1814 to 1818 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and also in the ateliers of Meynier and Régnault. In 1819 he exhibited 'Herminia succouring Tancred.' He was almost immediately afterwards employed to paint various subjects for the Museum at Versailles amongst which are 'The Entry of the French into Mainz' 'The Battle of Varroux' 'The Taking of Menin 'The Battle of Castiglione' 'The Passage of the Cluse' 'The Battle of Montebello' 'The Capitulation of Meiningen;' the last three in association with Alaux. He also exhibited down to the year 1838: 'Henry IV. after the Battle of Coutras' 'Trait of Kindness in the Duke de Berri' 'The Postillion' 'The Vivandiere' 'The Road to Poissy' 'The Return from the Chase' 'Horse-fair at Caen' and numerous other subjects. He then retired from publicity till 1846 when he appeared as the exhibitor of some works in lithography to which branch of art he afterwards restricted himself. In this line he produced a lithographic album 'Views in the Environs of Paris' 'Studies of Animals for an edition of Buffon' &c. He obtained a gold medal in 1824 a second class medal in 1836 besides several others from Lille Douai and other cities. He died at Viroflay in 1866. The Plates: 1. Courses. 2. Landau. 3. Coucous. 4. Tilbury. 5. Caleche a la Daumont. 6. Voiture de Roulier. 7. Coupé et Tilbury à Capote. 8. Voiture pour les Environs de Paris. 9. Dormeuse de Voyage. 10. Caisson de la Garde Royale. 11. Berline. 12. Calèche à Capote. Paris: Chez Ch. Motte, 1830 unknown books
réf. 04374Paris: Maison Martinet - Hautecoeur Frères 1860. The Animals of the Jardin des Plantes With Twenty-Four Superb Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates An Exceptionally Rare French Juvenile Natural History ADAM Albert illustrator. ROSTAING Jules. Le Jardin des Plantes en Estampes. Dessiné et Lithographié par A. Adam. Accompagné d'une Histoire de Tous les Animaux que Possède la Ménagerie par Jules Rostaing. Paris: Maison Martinet - Hautecoeur Frères 1860. First edition. Large oblong quarto 10 3/16 x 13 1/2 inches; 259 x 343 mm. iv 30 1 table 1 blank pp. With twenty-four superb hand-colored lithographed plates by Albert Adam many containing multiple images and heightened with gum arabic. Some light foxing to the text leaves only; the plates exceptionally bright and clean. Publisher's black pebble-grain cloth front cover elaborately pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt with a central wreath enclosing the title and surrounded by vignettes of animals and their habitats; lower cover with central decoration stamped in blind; yellow coated endpapers. Front inner hinge expertly and almost invisibly repaired. Neat early ink inscription on front fly-leaf dated 1860. An excellent copy. A wonderfully evocative pictorial tour of the celebrated Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes in Paris presenting its exotic inhabitants in a series of richly hand-colored lithographs. Rather than illustrating the animals simply as isolated zoological specimens Adam frequently places them within their enclosures and surroundings sometimes accompanied by their keepers and elegantly dressed visitors giving the book considerable interest as a visual record of the nineteenth-century zoological garden. The twenty-four plates encompass an extraordinary range of animal life including bison deer moose antelope llamas goats giraffes buffalo elephants hippopotamuses rhinoceroses camels zebras donkeys lions tigers leopards jackals wolves hyenas orangutans monkeys dogs birds of prey crocodiles snakes gazelles and numerous other mammals and birds. Among the most striking compositions is the giraffe plate in which three giraffes occupy their enclosure while fashionably dressed visitors observe them with smaller animal studies arranged around the principal scene. Another spectacular plate gathers lions tigers and other great cats around their barred enclosure supplemented by charming subsidiary scenes of visitors and keepers. The elephant plate similarly combines its monumental central animals with smaller studies of hippopotamuses and other pachyderms. The deer and moose plate demonstrates particularly well Adam's attractive combination of zoological observation with picturesque landscape. The application of gum arabic over the hand-coloring gives portions of the animals foliage and costumes a luminous almost enameled appearance characteristic of the finest French juvenile color-plate books of the period. Albert Adam 1833-1900 was the son of the celebrated French painter lithographer and caricaturist Jean-Victor Adam 1801-1867 with whom he worked and whom he assisted with lithographic commissions. In Le Jardin des Plantes en Estampes the younger Adam combines accomplished lithographic draughtsmanship with an engaging sense of narrative: animals keepers and spectators together create miniature scenes of life at the Paris menagerie rather than merely conventional zoological portraits. The accompanying text by Jules Rostaing provides descriptions and histories of the animals represented transforming Adam's spectacular series of plates into an educational introduction to the inhabitants of one of Europe's most celebrated zoological collections. Exceptionally rare. OCLC records just one copy at the Morgan Library & Museum New York - the copy formerly in the collection of Gordon N. Ray. The work is apparently unknown to Denise's bibliography of the Jardin des Plantes. A particularly desirable example of nineteenth-century French juvenile natural history combining twenty-four exceptionally attractive hand-colored lithographs contemporary zoological observation scenes of Parisian social life and a handsome pictorial gilt publisher's binding. Paris: Maison Martinet - Hautecoeur, Frères, 1860 unknown books
1856réf. 339213Edinburgh: A. & C. Black 1856. unbound. Bartholomew J. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 21 1/4" x 16 1/2". This lovely map of North America was published in Black's General Atlas of North America in 1856. The map is labeled in great detail showing rivers towns mountains and coastal features. The map is in good condition. Scattered foxing and toning along original fold line. Adam Black 1784-1874 was a Scottish publisher and politician who with his brother Charles founded the A & C Black publishing company. Together they published a wide range of materials including atlases medical books and the 7th 8th and 9th editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica. A. & C. Black unknown books
1998réf. 623476Roseville Minnesota: Atlas Games 1998. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 160pp. Illustrated. Final leaf stands proud and has some wear along the foredge otherwise fine glossy wrappers. Atlas Games unknown books
1946réf. 615198Chicago: Negro Digest Publishing Company 1946. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. IV No. 11. Small octavo. 98pp. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers with rubbing and wear very good or a bit better. A single issue from this important and influential digest which was the foundation of the Johnson Publishing empire. In addition to excerpting articles by and about African-Americans from other publications there was also much original content written expressly for the magazine. This issue prints "Sidney Hillman's Last Message to Negroes"; a roundtable discussing the question "Is Labor or Business Fairer To The Negro"; "The Rape of Justice" by Adam Clayton Powell Jr. condensed from Everybody's Digest; "How I Beat Jim Crow" by Chatwood Hall pen name of African-American journalist Homer Smith Jr.; "Iron Men of Baseball" an article on the Negro league by George C. Morse; "My Father Had 16 Wives" by Okechukwu Ikejian condensed from Magazine Digest; "Jim Crow on the Band Stand" by African-American band leader Phil Moore; "African Beauty Parlor" by Ernest Henry Shrenzel condensed from Fascination; "He Lost 10000 Years" by Allen Rankin about African-American artist Bill Traylor condensed from Colliers; "How I Discovered Marian Anderson" by Sol Hurok with Ruth Goode condensed from their book Impresario; and a condensation from the book Trumpet to the World by Mark Harris among other material. Early issues are uncommon. Negro Digest Publishing Company unknown books
1841réf. 616088Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle 1841. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition by this publisher complete in one volume. Tall octavo. 493pp. Preliminary frontispiece and decorative title. Printed in two columns. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in blind and in gilt on the spine. Two early ink owner names a faint dampstain on first and last few leaves corners bumped and a small scrape on front board. A nice example of relatively early American publisher's book binding. Thomas Wardle hardcover books
1965réf. 617444New York: Simon and Schuster 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. First American edition. Slightly cocked spine and staining on the bottom board edge thus good only in a good only dust jacket with some staining short tears and creasing. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1900réf. 6211561900. Hardcover. Very Good. Sheet music album. Folio. Approximately 110 pages. Quarter red morocco marbled paper boards with gilt bands along the spine creating six compartments with "Musique Americane" in gilt and marbled endpapers. Many of the pieces have been trimmed along the top and bottom to fit within the album though no music has been affected many pieces have music shop stamps and/or an owner stamp of Jean Haviland and some scattered soiling overall very good or better. All pieces for piano many include a vocal part with lyrics. Contains 16 songs including "The Stars and Stripes Forever Marche Americaine" by John Philip Sousa "I Want Yer Ma Honey: An Ethiopian Oddity" by Fay Templeton "Creole Love Song" by Edgar Belmont Smith "Les Cadets" by John Philip Sousa "The Mosquitoes Parade: A Jersey Review" by Howard Whitney and "The Belle of New York: Valse" by Gustave Kerker. A complete list of song titles and authors is available upon request. hardcover books
1925réf. 622845New York: William Wood and Company 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Fourth edition. Small quarto. xvi 663pp. Blue-green cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Owner name of a noted American psychologist on the front fly. Binding with just a bit of loss to the cloth nearly all of it at the joints some darkening in the gutters from the binder's glue and a small light stain on the foredge an otherwise bright very good copy. William Wood and Company hardcover books
1907réf. 610304New York: Review of Reviews 1907. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. One volume of a six volume set. Translated into English by numerous contributors. 12mo. Black-and-white frontispiece. Tan clothcovered boards stamped in brown with gilt on the spine. About fine. Review of Reviews hardcover books
2008réf. 583740Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 2008. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 293pp. Wrappers. Margins slightly age-toned near fine. Contributions by Patricia Brieschke Rich Cohen Bernard Cooper Atul Gawande Albert Goldbarth Emily R. Grosholz Jonathan Lethem Ariel Levy Ricky Moody David Sedaris John Updike and more. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1929réf. 582840New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith 1929. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Mrs. Oliver Harriman. Fine in attractive very good plus dust wrapper with art by Pat Keely with modest chipping mostly at the top of the rear panel. Interesting cookbook with some stress on regional fare. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith hardcover books
1968réf. 180291968. Harlem Fundraiser Handbill for an event with Adam Clayton Powell. New York: 3 November 1968. Blue wrappers reading "Sock It to Em' with Adam C Powell." and event information in black text. Measures 8.5" x 5.5". Handbill is advertising a Harlem fundraiser event featuring longtime congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. as well as soul music a dance contest and cash prizes put on by the Alfred E. Isaac club for Democrats. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was an American Baptist pastor and the first African American to be elected to Congress from any state in the Northeast representing the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Powell remained in office for nearly three decades and used his platform to advocate for civil rights social issues and US support for nations gaining independence from colonial rule. Notes in ink on verso and ink scribbled on front cover. Creased from folding not affecting text. Overall very good condition. unknown books
1764réf. 1721551764. ADAM Robert. Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia. vi 8 33 1 pp. with 61 engraved plates on 54 sheets some double-page. Folio 525 x 370 mm. bound in full contemporary calf. London: For the author 1764. First edition. "The book incorporated the first encyclical of Britain's most popular architect of the day who had now been in practice for several years with an immense patronage. Adam makes it quite plain that the great palace of Diocletian forms the source of his ideas upon domestic building and he modestly claims that it is the first private dwelling-house of the Romans to have been illustrated and described." Adam's account was based on his five-week visit to Spalatro in Croatia now known as Split; the sixty-one superb plates were executed after Clerisseau Zucchi and others some of the drawings survive at the Hermitage St. Petersburg. In his introduction Adam expresses his conviction that Diocletian had revived a taste in Architecture superior to that of his own times. Adam's "observance on unusual detail throughout is remarkable. Nothing is too minute to escape his notice. A careful reading of the descriptions shows whence Robert Adam derived his theories for the planning of his domestic buildings on a monumental scale like Syon and Kedleston" James Lees-Milne The Age of Adam pp. 67-69. A fine copy of this landmark book. Millard British 1. Harris British Architectural Books 4. Fowler 2. Berlin Katalog 1893. Cicognara 3567. John Fleming Robert Adam and His Circle 1962 pp. 235-240. Georg Kowalczyk Denkmäler der Kunst in Dalmatien 1910 reproducing 22 plates. unknown books
1990réf. 589580New York: The New York Review of Books 1990. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Mass market paperback. Illustrated by David Levine. 131pp. A few pages with a small stain at bottom bottom edge with a light splash mark wrappers lightly worn very good. Prints A Conversation in Prague by Philip Roth; other contributions by Adam Michnik Vaclav Havel Timothy Garton Ash Elena Bonner Gordon A. Craig and Fritz Stern. The New York Review of Books unknown books
1850réf. 1716611850. ADAM Victor. Charades alphabet. 25 coloured and gummed lithographic plates. 268 x 340 mm. Publisher's blue moiré percaline boards in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Aubert ca. 1850. A truly spectacular large scale alphabet with the stunning plates by Victor Adam exquisitely hand coloured. The book was clearly intended for export with the plates bearing the names of English and American publishers. This copy is clearly as published and is without title-page or text. Extremely rare with OCLC listing Princeton UCLA Amsterdam American Antiquarian Society and BN hardcover books
