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184847737Paris: Binet 1848. First Edition. Original oversized pictorial broadside 52.5x78cm.; adorned with calendars for the years 1849 and 1850 on left and right margins and eleven steel-engraved vignettes of scenes from the February Revolution in Paris 1848. Previous folds with some subsequent splitting touching text and images without loss general wrinkling and a few soil spots else Very Good overall. The movement to overthrow the July Monarchy burst on the scene following the highly unpopular outlawing of political campaign banquets a tradition used by middle class oppositionists to circumvent the laws banning political meetings and public demonstrations. When all political banquets were banned in February 1848 Republicans and Orleanists alike descended on the city of Paris quickly ousting Louis-Philippe I and establishing the Second Republic. The present calendar broadside is adorned with several momentous scenes from the days of the 22nd to the 24th including the capturing of the Place de la Concorde; the Chateau d'Eau now the Place de la République; the Tuileries; and the hotel de Ville. Also includes depictions of the transportation of a crucifix from the captured Tuileries to St. Roch as a symbol of its liberation from the captivity of the monarchy; and the Duchess of Orléans with her two young sons at the Chamber of Deputies unsuccessfully arguing that her young son Louis grandson of Louis-Philippe I be named the new monarch. Between eight small vignettes are three larger scenes of Lamartine declaring the Second Republic; a group portrait of the leading figures of the new government and the Revolution; and la Marianne uniting French citizens whether they be clergymen soldiers middle class laboring class white or black. We find none in commerce or the auction records as of February 2020 nor separately catalogued in OCLC. Binet unknown
1848Cat360New York: Atwill 201 Broadway 1848. Folio. Complete at 9 pages. Two songs with lithographic portrait of Lola Montez by Sarony & Major. Soft rag paper. Light foxing else very good. A likely very early American printing of two pieces tied directly to the upheavals of 1848 issued just as news and personalities of the European revolutions were electrifying American audiences. The first “Der Lieben Warnun†Love’s Warning is attributed to Ludwig I King of Bavaria whose abdication in March 1848 followed the political scandal surrounding his relationship with Lola Montez. The second “Les Girondins: Mourir pour la Patrie†with text by Alexandre Dumas and music by Alphonse Varney is one of the most popular revolutionary hymns of the period here presented in English and French. At center is the finely printed lithographic portrait of Lola Montez born Eliza Rosanna Gilbert 1821–1861 identified as “Countess of Landsfeld.†Produced by Sarony & Major the image reflects her brief but consequential position in Bavaria where Ludwig elevated her to the nobility and granted her influence at court. Her presence became politically explosive; student unrest and ministerial crisis forced both her exile and the King’s abdication making her a widely discussed celebrity at the time. <br /> <br /> Montez arrived in the United States in late 1848 quickly converting this notoriety into a touring career. She performed her “Spanish dances†including the sensational “Spider Dance†on stages from New York to New Orleans and later turned to lecturing advertising appearances on “Heroines of History†beauty and personal independence. During the early 1850s she followed the western circuit appearing in San Francisco during the Gold Rush where she commanded high fees and played to packed houses of miners and merchants. She toured through Australia in 1855–56 before returning to the United States where she settled in New York and shifted increasingly toward writing and reform-minded lectures before her death in 1861 possibly of syphilis. The piece was published by Joseph Atwill at his 201 Broadway location which he would abandon soon after to board the steamer Crescent City to Chagres eventually making his way to San Francisco and opening Atwill’s Music Store on Washington St. possibly San Francisco’s first music store before heading off to the mines and then returning to San Francisco a year later to open another music store. OCLC #904564957 locating a single copy at Goucher College. Atwill, 201 Broadway unknown
186888893Paris: E. Picard 1868. Sixth expanded edition. Two quarto volumes; original morocco-backed cloth over boards; 480552xxxii pp; 10 unnumbered leaves of plates portraits; text illustrations printed in colors. Unobtrusive rippling to endpapers; faint foxing to prelims; mild external rubbing - a complete clean and attractive set. <br /> <br /> Essential reference to the printed street propaganda of the 1848 Revolution in France including broadsides posters proclamations etc; with hundreds of examples illustrated reproduced in their original colors. This edition includes portraits of a number of the movement's main protagonists - Louis-Philippe Proudhon Louis Blanc etc. Delvau's preface to this edition is dated at its conclusion 1868. Not an uncommon set but seldom found in the U.S. E. Picard unknown
