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POVERTY — HOMELESSNESS — STRASBOURGBiblio.com

Broadside: De tous les objets de Police & de surveillance confiés aux soins de l’administration celui de la mendicité a dû le plus particulièrement fixer l’attention & exciter la sollicitude du Magistrat dans les circonstances présentes. Ce fléau semble s’accroître chaque jour dans notre ville.

1789rif. 4181Strasbourg: Jean François Le Roux 1789. Folio broadsheet 525 x 432 mm. Double column French text on top and German text below divided into four quadrilaterals by a horizontal thick and thin rule and a vertical woodcut of an ivy-entwined pole woodcut arms of Strasbourg at top. The texts signed “Albert Ex Commission.” Deckle edges formerly folded tiny tear at fold juncture folds slightly browned and darkened on verso. A broadside invitation to the citizens of Strasbourg to share with the Secretariat of the Police Commissariat their views on how best to set up workhouses euphemistically called ateliers as part of the campaign to eliminate beggars. Four months after the storming of the Bastille — echoed a week later in Strasbourg where on July 21st the Hotel de Ville was sacked — the authorities launched a democratic appeal to the citizenry to help them deal with the age-old problem of homelessness and vagrancy. Revolutionary events notwithstanding little had changed in the 25 years since Séguier de Saint-Brisson had published his plea against the prison mentality of the law-and-order establishment. The author of this broadside one Albert a member of an anti-poverty Commission makes the usual clichéd distinction between the “good” poor hard-working or infirm and those professional beggars who are steeped in vice. The plan outlined is firmly one of poorhouses where the arrested homeless are to be imprisoned and enslaved; the commission asks the public simply to help brainstorm their implementation. It had evidently become clear by this time that large-scale poorhouses did not work well and the trend was now toward smaller local establishments. The loyal citizens of Strasbourg and clerics in particular since they have experience in charitable work are asked to advise on the details: where the ateliers should be set up how they should be administered what kind of work should be assigned to the inhabitants and what their relationship should be with existing charitable institutions. I locate no other copies of the broadside but the text was published at the same time in a 6-page quarto pamphlet in the same typeface and with the same woodcut arms; the printer “Johann Franz Le Roux” is identified in its colophon. The copy at the University of Tübingen is digitized. Le Roux printer for the King the Bishopric and the City was 89 years old at the time; he died a few months later cf. the website Maisons de Strasbourg. Not in Garnier Essai de bibliographie charitable which lists 3 pieces relating to Strasbourg from 1803 1836 and 1842 no. 1487-1489. [Jean François Le Roux] unknown

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La Blanchere, Henri de (1821-1880); G Fischbach, Strasbourg, printer; Henry Gallice (1853-1930) , provenance; Marcel Jeanson (1Biblio.com

Les oiseaux gibier : chasse moeurs acclimatation. Avec quarante-cinq chromolithographies et de nombreuses vignettes. Game Birds: Hunting Habits Acclimatization. With forty-five chromolithographs and numerous vignettes. First edition.

rif. 51-7337Paris : J. Rothschild 1876. . Large 4to 365 x 280mm. half-title 45 plates after Benjamin Fawcett vignettes and ornamental initials in text contemporary red half-morocco original wrappers bound in edges uncut.“Beau volume assez rare qui d’après Souhart n’aurait été tiré qu’à 300 ex.” Thiébaud 538 - Souhart 277.Édition originale de ce rare ouvrage qui n’aurait été tiré selon Souhart qu’à 300 exemplaires composé par le photographe et naturaliste Henri de La Blanchère 1821-1880.L’illustration comporte plusieurs vignettes en noir et en bistre gravées sur bois ainsi que 45 superbes planches d’oiseaux en chromotypographie en couleurs. .LITERATURE:.Nissen IVB 109; Ronsil 1574; Souhart 277; Schwerdt 1:294; Thiébaud 538.; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:7391892940.PROVENANCE; Bookplate of H. Gallice: Henri Gallice was a third-generation owner and director of Champagne Perrier-Jouët stepping into leadership after tis uncle Charles Perrier passed away in 1878. While Henri managed the winery operations in Épernay Octave his brother spent time in Paris where he was heavily involved in the Belle Époque art.The H. Gallice bookplate dates to the fin de siècle. It is a design in the Art Nouveau or Liberty style .Second bookplate of Marcel Jeanson born June 2 1885 in Paris; died May 6 1942 in Paris was a French industrialist and passionate collector of hunting literature.Alongside his professional activities he was a dedicated bibliophile and built one of the most important private hunting libraries in France.Expertise by : Gaëlle CAMBON. Paris : J. Rothschild, 1876. unknown

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STRASBOURG, Siege of, 1870Biblio.com

From upper cover: Belagerung von Strassburg 1870. 20 Blätter photographischer Aufnahmen der Breschen Uebergänge Thore und anderer militairisch bedeutender Ansichten…Aufgenommen in den Tagen vom 1 bis 3ten October 1870 unter Leitung des Ingenieur Majors Albrecht

rif. 6927Complete set of 20 original albumen photographs image sizes: 170 x 250 mm. & 230 x 190 mm. by Charles David Winter mounted on card boards 440 x 350 mm. Folio orig. portfolio with large printed title pasted on upper cover cloth spine a little worn some rubbing to boards orig. cloth ties. Strasbourg: Winter Fassoli 1870. A fine set of this extremely rare portfolio of 20 albumen photographs by the Strasbourg photographer Charles David Winter 1821-1904. These photographs reveal the devastation that took place during the siege of Strasbourg in August and September 1870 by Germany in the Franco-Prussian War. This siege was the first example of “total war” a new kind of warfare with indiscriminate violence. Winter began his career as a lithographer but later turned to photography and opened his own daguerreotype studio in 1848. By 1852 he was making salted paper prints and using the collodion process. Winter made portraits landscapes and studies of sculptures. The photographs in this album were made in October 1870 under the supervision of the German engineer Major Albrecht. “Winter’s greatest accomplishments however are his photographs documenting the urban transformation of Strasbourg in the second half of the nineteenth century including the building and demolition in the city center 1855-1880 the construction of a railroad bridge over the Rhine 1858-61 and the restoration of the Cathedral in 1857-59. Striking for both their large size and their fine detail his photographs revealed the formal beauty in new forms of architecture and engineering. Winter also recorded in wrenching detail the devastating destruction of Strasbourg following the Franco-Prussian war of 1870.”â€“Sarah Kennel in John Hannavy ed. Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography p. 1501. “In contrast to Germany’s triumphal framing of Strasbourg’s damaged cityscape Charles Winter one of France’s most eminent nineteenth-century photographers provided an alternative Alsatian perspective on the disfigured city in his album of the Siege of Strasbourg the present work. The album’s photographs silent witnesses to Strasbourg’s devastation offered a dark premonition of the total wars to envelop Europe in the twentieth century.”â€“Dunlop Cartophilia p. 172. Apart from some dustiness to the covers and boards a fine and complete set of photographs with strong tonality. The boards are a little foxed. unknown

Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. · Stati Uniti9500,00 USD≈ 8487,45 €