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1850réf. 23248Paris: Libr. Nouvelle Au Bureau du Journal Le Charivari ca. 1850.- 1 h. 15 láminas xilográficas con 4 caricaturas por lámina estampadas por el recto o cara anterior de la hoja y que en total suman 60 caricaturas una en la portada; 4º 24 x 18 cm; Texto en francés; Cubiertas originales estando al anterior decorada con xilografías del autor.- Col. des Albums Comiques par Cham. Excelente estado. CUENTOS AVENTURAS LEYENDAS LITERATURA INFANTIL CÓMICS HUMORISMO. Livre en français Libr. Nouvelle paperback
1850réf. 23243Paris: Maison Martinet ca. 1850.- 1 h. 15 láminas xilográficas con 4 caricaturas por lámina estampadas al recto o cara anterior de la hoja y que en total suman 60 caricaturas una en la portada; 4º 246 x 184 cm; Texto en francés; Cubiertas originales. Excelente estado. CUENTOS AVENTURAS LEYENDAS LITERATURA INFANTIL CÓMICS HUMORISMO. Livre en français Maison Martinet paperback
1858réf. 23233Paris: Arnauld de Vresse Editeur ca. 1858.- 1 h. 14 láminas xilograficas en negro con 4 figuras por lámina la portada lleva tambien una xilografía; 4º 245 x 18 cm; Texto en francés; Cubiertas Originales decoradas con xilografías en la tapa anterior. Excelente estado. CUENTOS AVENTURAS LEYENDAS LITERATURA INFANTIL CÓMICS HUMORISMO. Livre en français Arnauld de Vresse paperback
1853réf. 23251Paris: Libr. Nouvelle A Bureau du Journal Le Charivari ca. 1853.- 1 h. 15 láminas xilográficas con 4 caricaturas por lámina estampadas por al recto o cara anterior de la hoja y que en total suman 60 caricaturas una en la portada; 4º 24 x 183 cm; Texto en francés; Cubiertas originales estando la anterior decorada por el autor.- Col. des Albums Comiques par Cham. Excelente estado. CUENTOS AVENTURAS LEYENDAS LITERATURA INFANTIL CÓMICS HUMORISMO. Livre en français Libr. Nouvelle paperback
réf. 04875Paris: Maison Martinet 1856. Three of Cham's Greatest Rarities Three Complete Hand-Colored Albums Bound Together Sixty Superb Hand-Colored Lithographs by the Great Master of French Comic Illustration CHAM pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé 1818-1879. L'Art d'Engraisser et de Maigrir à Volonté. & Mr. Papillon ou L'Amour Autour du Monde. & Pincez-moi à la Campagne!! Paris: Maison Martinet 1856-ca. 1860. Three complete first editions bound together in one folio volume. Folio 12 11/16 x 9 7/8 inches; 326 x 251 mm. Three magnificent pictorial hand-colored lithograph title-pages and sixty superb hand-colored lithograph plates all heightened with gum arabic and containing more than two hundred individual comic scenes. Plates lithographed by Fernique and Destouches. Late nineteenth-century olive-green buckram over boards marbled endpapers. Spine lightly rubbed. An exceptionally bright fresh copy the original hand-coloring remarkably vibrant throughout and beautifully heightened with gum arabic. Few artists captured the humor absurdity and quiet eccentricities of nineteenth-century French life more brilliantly than Cham. During a career spanning more than forty years Charles Amédée de Noé became one of the principal illustrators of Le Charivari producing thousands of caricatures that chronicled bourgeois society with inexhaustible wit and extraordinary graphic invention. While Daumier supplied biting political satire and Gavarni revealed the elegance and vanities of Parisian society Cham excelled in transforming the comic mishaps of everyday life into irresistibly entertaining visual narratives. His finest work appeared not only in newspapers but as luxurious hand-colored lithographic albums published by Maison Martinet. Intended for the fashionable drawing room rather than the newsstand these beautifully colored folios represent the highest achievement of French comic lithography during the Second Empire. Complete examples are today among the rarest survivals of nineteenth-century illustrated publishing. The present volume unites three of Cham's most elusive albums each complete and preserved with exceptionally rich contemporary hand-coloring. Together they comprise sixty large folio lithographs whose sparkling color and delicate gum arabic highlights remain remarkably fresh. The Art of Gaining Weight and Losing Weight Cham's wonderfully absurd satire on Victorian health fads follows the fortunes of two inseparable friends whose greatest ambitions could scarcely be more different. Monsieur Lesec painfully thin longs to become stout while the enormously overweight Monsieur Legras dreams only of becoming slim. Their increasingly desperate attempts at self-improvement lead them across Europe North Africa the Crimea Turkey and India where every new adventure - from lion hunting and camel riding to exotic diets and improbable medical cures - produces precisely the opposite effect. Cham transforms what begins as a parody of fashionable diet manuals into a wonderfully sustained comic novel in pictures culminating in a delightfully macabre conclusion worthy of the finest nineteenth-century satire. Only four hand-colored institutional copies are recorded worldwide. Mr. Papillon or Love Around the World Among Cham's rarest productions Mr. Papillon recounts the romantic adventures of an incurable optimist whose search for love carries him from country to country. Everywhere he encounters unfamiliar customs impossible misunderstandings cultural mishaps and romantic disappointment each episode providing Cham with fresh opportunities for gentle social satire. The album is one of Cham's most elegant narrative works combining graceful draftsmanship with an effortless sense of comic timing. Beneath its humor lies a sly parody of both sentimental romance and the fashionable travel literature of the period. Only a single institutional copy appears to survive. Pinch Me I'm in the Country!! Perhaps the rarest of all Cham's albums Pincez-moi à la Campagne!! is a masterpiece of observational comedy. Convinced that life in the countryside promises peace simplicity and healthy recreation an urbane Parisian eagerly exchanges the capital for rural France. His idyllic expectations collapse almost immediately. Instead he encounters uncomfortable lodgings impossible furniture sleepless nights aggressive livestock disastrous hunting expeditions endless insects suspicious villagers and every conceivable rural inconvenience. Each attempt to embrace country life merely compounds his misery producing one comic disaster after another. More than a century and a half later Cham's observations remain strikingly modern. His humor derives not from exaggerated caricature alone but from universal human experience - the city dweller discovering that nature is far less accommodating than imagined. The album anticipates the gentle observational comedy of Jacques Tati and possesses a timeless quality rarely found in nineteenth-century caricature. In more than one hundred years of recorded auction results we have been unable to trace another copy. Only eight institutional examples are known worldwide. Cham's comic albums occupy a unique position in the history of French illustration. They bridge the gap between the early Romantic lithographers and the mature social satire of the later nineteenth century combining sophisticated narrative structure with some of the most attractive hand-colored lithography ever produced in Paris. As Gordon N. Ray observed: "Among the most attractive. is Amédée de Noé known as Cham. of whom it was said that he had 'an idea a day' for Le Charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums." The Art of the French Illustrated Book pp. 155-156. Three complete hand-colored albums by Cham are seldom encountered together. Preserved in such fresh condition with unusually brilliant original coloring and comprising three of the artist's rarest publications this volume represents one of the finest surviving monuments to the golden age of French comic lithography. Paris: Maison Martinet, 1856 unknown books
réf. 04875Paris: Maison Martinet 1856. Three of Cham's Greatest Rarities Three Complete Hand-Colored Albums Bound Together Sixty Superb Hand-Colored Lithographs by the Great Master of French Comic Illustration CHAM pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé 1818-1879. L'Art d'Engraisser et de Maigrir à Volonté. & Mr. Papillon ou L'Amour Autour du Monde. & Pincez-moi à la Campagne!! Paris: Maison Martinet 1856-ca. 1860. Three complete first editions bound together in one folio volume. Folio 12 11/16 x 9 7/8 inches; 326 x 251 mm. Three magnificent pictorial hand-colored lithograph title-pages and sixty superb hand-colored lithograph plates all heightened with gum arabic and containing more than two hundred individual comic scenes. Plates lithographed by Fernique and Destouches. Late nineteenth-century olive-green buckram over boards marbled endpapers. Spine lightly rubbed. An exceptionally bright fresh copy the original hand-coloring remarkably vibrant throughout and beautifully heightened with gum arabic. Few artists captured the humor absurdity and quiet eccentricities of nineteenth-century French life more brilliantly than Cham. During a career spanning more than forty years Charles Amédée de Noé became one of the principal illustrators of Le Charivari producing thousands of caricatures that chronicled bourgeois society with inexhaustible wit and extraordinary graphic invention. While Daumier supplied biting political satire and Gavarni revealed the elegance and vanities of Parisian society Cham excelled in transforming the comic mishaps of everyday life into irresistibly entertaining visual narratives. His finest work appeared not only in newspapers but as luxurious hand-colored lithographic albums published by Maison Martinet. Intended for the fashionable drawing room rather than the newsstand these beautifully colored folios represent the highest achievement of French comic lithography during the Second Empire. Complete examples are today among the rarest survivals of nineteenth-century illustrated publishing. The present volume unites three of Cham's most elusive albums each complete and preserved with exceptionally rich contemporary hand-coloring. Together they comprise sixty large folio lithographs whose sparkling color and delicate gum arabic highlights remain remarkably fresh. The Art of Gaining Weight and Losing Weight Cham's wonderfully absurd satire on Victorian health fads follows the fortunes of two inseparable friends whose greatest ambitions could scarcely be more different. Monsieur Lesec painfully thin longs to become stout while the enormously overweight Monsieur Legras dreams only of becoming slim. Their increasingly desperate attempts at self-improvement lead them across Europe North Africa the Crimea Turkey and India where every new adventure - from lion hunting and camel riding to exotic diets and improbable medical cures - produces precisely the opposite effect. Cham transforms what begins as a parody of fashionable diet manuals into a wonderfully sustained comic novel in pictures culminating in a delightfully macabre conclusion worthy of the finest nineteenth-century satire. Only four hand-colored institutional copies are recorded worldwide. Mr. Papillon or Love Around the World Among Cham's rarest productions Mr. Papillon recounts the romantic adventures of an incurable optimist whose search for love carries him from country to country. Everywhere he encounters unfamiliar customs impossible misunderstandings cultural mishaps and romantic disappointment each episode providing Cham with fresh opportunities for gentle social satire. The album is one of Cham's most elegant narrative works combining graceful draftsmanship with an effortless sense of comic timing. Beneath its humor lies a sly parody of both sentimental romance and the fashionable travel literature of the period. Only a single institutional copy appears to survive. Pinch Me I'm in the Country!! Perhaps the rarest of all Cham's albums Pincez-moi à la Campagne!! is a masterpiece of observational comedy. Convinced that life in the countryside promises peace simplicity and healthy recreation an urbane Parisian eagerly exchanges the capital for rural France. His idyllic expectations collapse almost immediately. Instead he encounters uncomfortable lodgings impossible furniture sleepless nights aggressive livestock disastrous hunting expeditions endless insects suspicious villagers and every conceivable rural inconvenience. Each attempt to embrace country life merely compounds his misery producing one comic disaster after another. More than a century and a half later Cham's observations remain strikingly modern. His humor derives not from exaggerated caricature alone but from universal human experience - the city dweller discovering that nature is far less accommodating than imagined. The album anticipates the gentle observational comedy of Jacques Tati and possesses a timeless quality rarely found in nineteenth-century caricature. In more than one hundred years of recorded auction results we have been unable to trace another copy. Only eight institutional examples are known worldwide. Cham's comic albums occupy a unique position in the history of French illustration. They bridge the gap between the early Romantic lithographers and the mature social satire of the later nineteenth century combining sophisticated narrative structure with some of the most attractive hand-colored lithography ever produced in Paris. As Gordon N. Ray observed: "Among the most attractive. is Amédée de Noé known as Cham. of whom it was said that he had 'an idea a day' for Le Charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums." The Art of the French Illustrated Book pp. 155-156. Three complete hand-colored albums by Cham are seldom encountered together. Preserved in such fresh condition with unusually brilliant original coloring and comprising three of the artist's rarest publications this volume represents one of the finest surviving monuments to the golden age of French comic lithography. Paris: Maison Martinet, 1856 unknown
1875réf. 74140Paris 1875. Fine. Paris 1875 11.50 x 17 cm une feuille Affectionate autograph letter signed one and a half pages 32 lines from Cham addressed to his friend Alexandre Dumas fils thanking him fraternally for the fruitful administrative steps undertaken by the latter in favor of obtaining the ribbon of the Legion of Honor for his fellow caricaturist: In this missive filled with surprised modesty and discretion Cham shows himself to be both proud and gently mocking of decorations. He never ceases to praise the affection and gratitude he feels for his friend. ""Ce 11 Fev. 1875 Mon cher ami C'est atroce ! Me voilà décoré ! Jusqu'à la fin de mes jours ! et c'est de votre faute ! Par le plus grand des hasards j'ai appris que vous aviez écrit une lettre de quatre pages au ministre. Le tout me concernant et appelant sur moi le ruban ! Sans rien dire à personne ! et sans vous dénoncer une fois le coup terminé et réussi. Que penser d'un pareil homme Où trouver assez de reconnaissance pour le remercier d'un pareil traits Je forme immédiatement une société au capital d'une reconnaissance énorme qui puisse acquitter ma dette envers vous. Ce n'est pas une croix qui honore un homme ce sont des amis comme vous. Vous devez comprendre ce que j'éprouve pour vous après un coup pareil. Bien affectueusement et merci je ne vous dis que ça ! Cham. Mes respectueux hommages à madame Dumas. Je porte mon ruban en rosette ça fait très bien."" ""February 11 1875 My dear friend It's atrocious! Here I am decorated! Until the end of my days! and it's your fault! By the greatest chance I learned that you had written a four-page letter to the minister. All concerning me and calling for the ribbon upon me! Without saying anything to anyone! and without denouncing yourself once the deed was done and successful. What to think of such a man Where to find enough gratitude to thank him for such a gesture I immediately form a company with the capital of enormous gratitude that can settle my debt to you. It is not a cross that honors a man it is friends like you. You must understand what I feel for you after such a deed. Most affectionately and thank you that's all I say to you! Cham. My respectful regards to Madame Dumas. I wear my ribbon as a rosette it looks very good."" unknown
1882réf. 67259Paris: Chez Calmann Lévy 1882. Fine. Chez Calmann Lévy Paris 1882 22 x 31 cm relié Illustrated edition with 1000 drawings by Cham. Publisher's binding in full red cloth signed Magnier. Spine slightly faded headcaps rubbed scratch on one of the leading edges. Chez Calmann Lévy hardcover
1865réf. 40489Paris: Arnauld de Vresse 1865. Fine. Arnauld de Vresse Paris s. d. circa 1865 18 x 25 cm broché First edition. A pale dampstain to head of the first few pages otherwise a handsome copy. Arnauld de Vresse unknown
1870réf. 40487Paris: Arnaud de Vresse 1870. Fine. Arnaud de Vresse Paris s. d. circa 1870 18.50 x 24.50 cm broché First edition. A small trace of angular fold not serious to head of upper cover. A good copy. Arnaud de Vresse unknown
1854réf. 40350Paris: Victor Lecou 1854. Fine. Victor Lecou Paris 1854-1855 12 x 18.50 cm 2 volumes reliés Edition illustrated with 200 in-text vignettes by Cham. Half Russian green morocco bindings spines with four raised bands decorated with gilt compartments enhanced with gilt and blind typographical motifs gilt dates at foot gilt fillets on marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns top edges gilt. Foxing bookseller's description label pasted on an endpaper of the first volume. Provenance: from the library of Henri Monnier with his bookplate pasted on the verso of the front boards. Victor Lecou hardcover
1855réf. 40189Paris: Aubert & Cie 1855. Fine. Aubert & Cie Paris s. d. circa 1855 10 x 13 cm broché First edition. Illustrated pamphlet with 27 color caricatures. Two small lacks at head and foot of spine light interior foxing stains and two minute holes to rear cover. Rare. Aubert & Cie unknown
1855réf. 40190Paris: Aubert & Cie 1855. Fine. Aubert & Cie Paris s. d. circa 1855 10 x 13 cm broché First edition. Booklet illustrated with 27 black caricatures. Two small lacks at head and foot of spine light interior foxing. Rare. Aubert & Cie unknown
1870réf. 40488Paris: Arnauld de Vresse 1870. Fine. Arnauld de Vresse Paris s. d. circa 1870 18 x 25 cm broché First edition. A good copy. Arnauld de Vresse unknown
réf. EEzz3583Paris Arnauld de Vresse ca. 1850. gr.-4° lithograph. Titelbl. u. 20 num. lithogr. Taf. türkisgrauer OPpbd. lithogr. bedruckt Titelei gold gedr. Rü. u. Kanten berieben Einbd. stellenw. fleckig innen sehr gut. Seltenes frühes Album von Cham. Nicht bei Sander. - Zeigt mittels einer Reise die nationalen Eigenheiten u. sozialen Zustände in Belgien Holland Rußland England Irland und Schottland. Paris, Arnauld de Vresse (ca. 1850). unknown
1848réf. 8973Hand-colored lithograph highlighted with gum arabic. Plate No. 153. Minor foxing and tearing to edges see image. Scarce. 13.75 x 10.75 in Aubert & Cie.
1871réf. 299797Paris.: Aux Bureaux Du Charivari. No date but 1871. 1st Edition. Rebacked with a plain paper spine with the original wrappers. Very good rebacked with a plain paper spine. 32x24.5x0.7 cm. Satirical lithograph drawings illustrating the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian war in 1870-1871. weight: 1.0 lb. Lithograph illustrated title page by Cham 19 additional illustrations by Cham and 10 by Daumier. Aux Bureaux Du Charivari. unknown
1848réf. 8970Hand-colored lithograph highlighted with gum arabic. Minor foxing to edges and creases to corners see image. Scarce. 10.75 x 13.75 in Aubert & Cie.
1848réf. 8971Hand-colored lithograph highlighted with gum arabic. Minor foxing to edges and a stain to left bottom corner see image. Scarce. 10.75 x 13.75 in Aubert & Cie.
1847réf. 8972Hand-colored lithograph highlighted with gum arabic. Plate No. 20. Minor foxing to edges see image. Stain to rear not affecting front. Scarce. 10.5 x 13.75 in Aubert & Cie.
1850réf. 1278863Paris: Au Bureau du Journal le Charivari 1850's. 8vo.; VG; 3/4 bound in brown leather spine paneled with burgundy label and gilt lettering; repaired with original spine rebacked new label new endpapers; marbled boards; wear to corners rubbing to boards spine; some age-toning to pages; three of the images have been cut out of the Revue Du Salon De 1853. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area ND-HV Column. 1278863. FP New Rockville Stock. Au Bureau du Journal le Charivari unknown books
1850réf. 85595Paris: Michel Lévy frères 1850. Fine. Michel Lévy frères Paris 1850 17.50 x 26.50 cm relié Illustrated edition with 20 hors-texte plates as well as numerous drawings in the text by Cham. Half-green morocco-grained shagreen binding smooth spine decorated with gilt romantic arabesques six gilt fillets at head and tail of spine spine with some rubbing green cardboard boards with epidermures endpapers and pastedowns of marbled paper corners slightly bumped contemporary romantic binding. Foxing. Michel Lévy frères hardcover
1850réf. 1278863Paris: Au Bureau du Journal le Charivari 1850's. 8vo.; VG; 3/4 bound in brown leather spine paneled with burgundy label and gilt lettering; repaired with original spine rebacked new label new endpapers; marbled boards; wear to corners rubbing to boards spine; some age-toning to pages; three of the images have been cut out of the Revue Du Salon De 1853. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area ND-HV Column. 1278863. FP New Rockville Stock. Au Bureau du Journal le Charivari unknown
réf. 06030Paris: Chez Arnauld De Vresse 1851. A Fine Selection of Sixteen Hand Colored Lithographs from Five of Cham's Best Albums CHAM pseudonym of Amédée de Noé. Album Varié par M.M. Cham Daumier Gavarni et autres Dessinateurs du Charivari. Paris: Chez Arnauld De Vresse ca. 1851. Folio 12 7/8 x 10 inches; 327 x 254 mm. Lithograph title-page and sixteen fine hand colored lithograph plates all heightened with gum arabic. Plate numbers 5 and 8 are duplicates. Publisher's quarter red roan over printed yellow glazed boards front cover neatly repaired at lower corner. With the bookplate of Bernard Mamy on front paste-down. This is a slightly later published assembly of hand colored lithographs by Cham from five of his works: Nos Gentils Hommes 1846; Turlupinades ca. 1850; Moeurs Britanniques ca. 1850; Souvenirs de Garnison ca. 1850 and Moeurs Algeriennes 1844. The Plates: 1. Palsambleu Quél Bon Petit Chic!! - Voilà une rosière comme nous les aimons nous autres gentils-hommes! Palsambleu What a Good Little Chic!! - Here is a rose garden as we like them us other gentlemen! 2. Le Pas Gymnastique. - Je ne suis pas purpris qu'on fasse son chemin dans ce corps. Quand on court si fort on ne doit pas manquer d'arriver. The Gymnastic Step. - I am not surprised that one makes one's way in this body. When one runs so hard one must not fail to arrive. 3. L'Invalide De Chelsea. - Waterloo Waterloo! Mais mon brave homme voici deux heures que vous me rabâchez la même Victoire.à ce compte là combine un Français mettrait-il donc de temps à vous raconteur ses victoires. The Chelsea Invalid. - Waterloo Waterloo! But my good man for two hours you have been harping on about the same Victory. at that rate how long would a Frenchman take to tell you about his victories. 4. Tiens Tiens Elle Était Pressée C'tte Lettre Qué qu'aurait dit ça y a quinze jours qué traine dans ma loge. Well Well Was That Letter In A Hurry What would that have said it's been lying around in my dressing room for two weeks now. 5. Ah! Vous Êtes Ambitieux! Comment! Après quatre ans de surnumérariat vous n'étes pas content!. prenez y garde Mossieu je n'aime pas les intrigans. Ah! You are ambitious! What! After four years of being a surplus you are not happy!. be careful sir I do not like schemers. 6. Oui J'ai Quitté Le Service. - Dans la cavalerie je faisais un métier de cheval l'artillerie est toujours près de ses pieces quant aux équipages ça ne m'allait pas je déteste la train.pour le genie. - Oh! Le genie t'es trop béte pour en avoir c'est clair!. Yes I Left the Service. - In the cavalry I had a horse job the artillery is always near its pieces as for the crews it didn't suit me I hate the train.for the engineers. - Oh! The engineers you're too stupid to have any that's clear!. 7. Non Vous Ne Vous Trompez Pas! C'est bien ici que demeure Mademoiselle Caroline que lui voulez vous je suis son frère. No you are not mistaken! This is where Miss Caroline lives what do you want from her I am her brother. 8. Ah! Vous Êtes Ambitieux! Comment! Après quatre ans de surnumérariat vous n'étes pas content!. prenez y garde Mossieu je n'aime pas les intrigans. DUPLICATE of #5 Ah! You are ambitious! What! After four years of being a surplus you are not happy!. be careful sir I do not like schemers. 9. Le Péage Du Turn-Pike. 3 pences! Allons bon!.j'ai oublié ma bourse.je n'avais plus que dix pas pour arriver et il faut que je retourne chez moi à quatre lieues d'ici!. The Turn-Pike Toll. 3pence! Come come!.I forgot my purse.I had only ten paces to go and I must go home four leagues from here!. 10. M'est avis Jean Piarre que ce beau Monchieu qu'tire le villageen plan est un donneux de sort.y vient p'f ensorceller nos vaches bé sur.attends! attends!. It seems to me Jean Piarre that this handsome Monchieu who draws the village plan is a spell giver. he comes to bewitch our cows of course. wait! wait!. 11. Baragouin Brittannique. Godem! Oha! Frenchman ridiculous costume comical very good Oh Ah! Oh! British gibberish. Godem! Oha! Frenchman ridiculous comical costume very good Oh Ah! Oh! 12. Mœurs Algeriennes. Chinoiseries Turques. Mon tigre a décidement le spleen voilà huit jours qu'il est d'une humeur de dogue faites-moi le plaisir d'entrer dans sa cage et tachez de l'amuser il y va de votre téte. Un aveugle turc. Algerian customs. Turkish chinoiserie. My tiger is definitely feeling down he has been in a dog-like mood for eight days do me the pleasure of entering his cage and try to amuse him it is up to you. A blind Turk. 13. Ces Gueux D'Arabes. - C'est dur tout de méme qu'ils ne veulent pas nous laisser tranquilles chez nous. Those Arab Beggars. - It's hard all the same that they don't want to leave us alone at home. 14. Cap'taine! Y vous va joliment le costume de pekin!. - Oui je suis un peu chiqué n'est-ce pas.hein j'en suis pour plus de 40 francs!. Captain! The Peking costume suits you well!. - Yes I am a bit squeamish aren't I. eh I'm looking at more than 40 francs!. 15. Enfin J'en Tiens Un!. Ils dissent que c'est une maladie qui court une cholerine une bétise. C'est parbleu! Bien le cholera le vrai cholera!. C'est un cas magnifique!!. Finally I Have One!. They say it's a disease that's running around cholera a stupidity. Oh my! Cholera real cholera!. It's a magnificent case!!. 16. Foi De Carrossier. Un homme d'une position aussi élevée que la votre doit avoir la voiture la plus basse possible. Coachbuilder's Faith. A man of such high position as yours must have the lowest possible car. Paris: Chez Arnauld De Vresse, 1851 unknown books
réf. 06867Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. 1851. The French Take on the British. Fifteen Hilarious Lithographs Caricaturing British Life and Manners CHAM pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé. Mœurs Britanniques. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. n.d. ca. 1850. First edition. Large folio 13 1/4 x 10 inches; 336 x 252 mm. Lithographed pictorial title and fifteen numbered lithographed plates each with printed caption below. Publisher's original cream-colored glazed lithographed boards upper cover reproducing the pictorial title design. A remarkably fine clean and fresh copy. A wonderfully entertaining series of fifteen caricatures devoted entirely to the peculiarities of the British as observed from across the Channel by one of nineteenth-century France's most popular comic artists. Cham turns his irreverent eye upon an extraordinary cross-section of British life and manners: marriage Quakers army recruiting museums philanthropy prize-fighting Scottish dress the national costume incomprehensible English conversation the stocks turnpikes Chelsea pensioners and finally Smithfield Market. The splendid pictorial title sets the tone for the album. The British lion sits beside the Union Jack with a diminutive figure perched upon its mane while immediately before it lies a tied bundle prominently marked "IRLANDE" - a pointed visual joke upon Anglo-Irish relations that would have been immediately recognizable to Cham's contemporary French audience. The individual plates continue the sustained Anglo-French satire. In Un Costume National an elegantly dressed English gentleman encounters a ragged Irishman and asks whether he comes from a hot country to which the latter replies "Non monsieur je suis Irlandais." Baragouin Britannique makes comic capital of the Frenchman's traditional bewilderment at the English language while Les Hauts Grades lampoons the spectacular proportions of British military headgear. Elsewhere Cham takes aim at Quakers army recruiting the English enthusiasm for boxing Scottish national dress philanthropy public punishment toll roads Chelsea pensioners and the notorious livestock market at Smithfield. Taken together the fifteen scenes form a delightful visual survey of British national character institutions dress and customs as perceived through decidedly French eyes. CHAM pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé 1818-1879 was one of the most prolific and popular French caricaturists of the nineteenth century. He published his first book Monsieur Lajaunisse in 1839 and from 1843 contributed regularly to Le Charivari producing thousands of drawings and lithographs satirizing contemporary politics society manners and everyday life. Of Cham Ray notes that several artists "followed in the wake of Daumier and Gavarni. Among the most attractive of the former is Amédée de Noé known as Cham that is Ham the son of Noah.it was said that he had 'an idea a day' for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siège 173 in which Daumier was his collaborator are typical of his work" Ray pp. 155-156. Published by Aubert the celebrated Parisian house closely associated with the golden age of French caricature and with such artists as Daumier Gavarni and Grandville Mœurs Britanniques is especially appealing for its sustained concentration upon Britain. Rather than merely including occasional English subjects among a broader collection of social satires Cham devotes the entire album to British manners and national stereotypes. Copies were also produced with the plates colored by hand; Bobins records a colored copy III 842. The present copy is the uncolored issue the lithographs displaying the strength and subtlety of Cham's original draughtsmanship to particularly good effect. The Plates: Une femme bien attachée. Le Quaker. Le Recruteur. Visite au Musée. Mariage d'inclination. Les Hauts grades. Philanthropie. Bien entendue. Les Boxeurs. L'Écossais. Un Costume national. Baragouin Britannique. In the Stocks. Le Péage du turn-pike. L'Invalide de Chelsea. Smithfield Market. A remarkably fine and fresh copy of Cham's delightful visual satire on Britain and the British-fifteen wonderfully observed caricatures ranging from Quakers prize-fighters and Highlanders to Irishmen Chelsea pensioners and the inhabitants of Smithfield Market preserved in the striking original glazed pictorial boards. Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914 pp. 155-156. Bobins III 842 colored copy. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., 1851 unknown books
