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04953Paris: Léopold Pannier et Cie. 1841. An Exceptionally Rare Daumier Album<br/>Seven Series Complete Containing Fifty Humorous Lithographs<br/><br/>DAUMIER Honoré illustrator. Variétés Drolatiques. Vulgarités. - Les Musiciens de Paris. - Proverbes de famille. - Proverbes et Maximes. - La Peche. - La Journée du Celibataire. - Les Saltimbanques. 50 Planches. Paris: Léopold Pannier et Cie. 1841. <br/><br/>Vulgarités. 10 plates DR 905-914<br/>Les Musiciens de Paris. 6 plates DR 919-924<br/>Proverbes de famille. 2 plates DR 797-798<br/>Proverbes et Maximes. 12 plates DR 803-814<br/>La Peche. 7 plates DR 815-821<br/>La Journée du Celibataire. 12 plates DR 607-618<br/>Les Saltimbanques. 1 plate DR 620<br/><br/>Total 50 plates complete.<br/><br/>"Pannier published a separate album with the title "Variétés Drolatiques" par Daumier Paris 1 vol. in-4° demi chagr. It contains the following complete seriessur blanc bringing the total of prints to 50:Vulgarités Musiciens de Paris Proverbes de Famille Proverbes et Maximes La Pêche Journée du Célibataire und Les Saltimbanques."<br/><br/>This album can be considered rare." Daumier Register.<br/><br/>OCLC locates just three of the plates from Proverbes Maximes. Nos. 6 9 and 11 all at Washington University OR USA. We located just one copy at auction - sold between October 1898 and July 1899!!!<br/><br/>The only plate that appears in the Armand Hammer Daumier collection is the second plate of La Peche p.67<br/><br/>Bound together with:<br/><br/>Exceedingly Rare Daumier Histoire Ancienne <br/>Complete with Fifty Superb Lithographs<br/><br/>DAUMIER Honoré. illustrator. PHILIPON Charles. Histoire Ancienne. Paris: Chez Aubert 1841-1843. <br/><br/>Folio 13 3/16 x 10 inches; 335 x 254 mm. Fifty superb lithograph plates. Some intermittent mainly marginal foxing.<br/><br/>Together 100 fine lithograph plates containing two of Daumier's rarest suites both complete.<br/><br/>Contemporary quarter dark brown morocco over marbled boards spine with four raised bands ruled in blind and lettered in gilt marbled end-papers.<br/><br/>A near fine and complete example of two of Honoré Daumier's finest and rarest works.<br/><br/>There is only one copy of Histoire Ancienne located in libraries and institutions worldwide The Bibliotheque Nationale de France.<br/><br/>"This series of 50 lithos on characters in ancient history and mythology appeared between 1841 and 1843. Daumier's irreverent satirizing of the sacred characters in Greek and Roman mythology contributed to the Romantic attack upon the Classical school in the continuing battle waged in the theater literature and the arts. Philipon's contrived poems as captions to the series contain many veiled allusions to Louis-Philippe and individuals in his reign." <br/><br/>Plate no. 22. "Le Baptême D'Achille." The baptism of Achilles; As one tempers a weapon of war Thetis wishing to make a hero of her brat dipped him in the Styx as soon as he saw the light which proves that a bath is good for all purposes. - On the Influence of Baths poem by Mr. Vigier. Deltail # 946.<br/><br/>Plate no. 46. "La Mère des Gracques." The mother of the Gracchi: One day when a gay lady was shamelessly praising her jewels which were worth a few cents this Roman mother showing her two young sons the hope of the country said "Behold my only jewels!" - Plutarch. Deltail # 970. This well-known story provided Daumier the chance to portray two typical Frenchwomen with typical unruly children. Deltail # 970.<br/><br/>Plate no. 47. "Pygmalion." O triumph of the arts! What was your amazement great sculptor when you saw your marble come to life and in a chaste and gentle manner slowly bow down to ask you for a pinch of snuff. - Count Siméon. Deltail # 971.<br/>Charles F. Ramus editor. Daumier 120 Great Lithographs<br/><br/>Histoire Ancienne is a series consisting of 50 numbered lithographs DR. 925-974 which appeared in the Charivari between December 1841 and January 1843. Between December 1841 and January 1843 Honoré Daumier in the Charivari published a series devoted to ancient history: fifty plates to antique themes seventeen of which illustrating the Iliad the Odyssey and Telemachus of Fenelon. "Alone without scientific mission Daumier traveled Greece drawing where a beautiful feeling attached him crying where a touching tradition was waiting. Drawing day and night he finally found the original Greek sense." says the satirical newspaper. The cartoonist wants to infuse "life movement privacy anything that lacked" the Greek hero petrified by ancient sculpture. Some illustrations comic relief reminiscent of Greek tombstones Daumier modernized by the effects of perspective or shortcuts. For each board a comment from a few to a "translation" of Homer crazy "light poetry" underline the ironic look worn by Daumier on antiquity.<br/><br/>"A quarrel between painters of the classic and romantic schools had fully flared up. Delacroix asked the "loaded" question: "Qui me délivrera des Grecs et des Romains" Who redeems us from the Greeks and Romans. Daumier succeeded to answer it his own way by showing historic personalities such as Hercules Pygmalion or Agamemnon in absurd situations. It was his method to put history into perspective.<br/><br/>In December 1841 the Charivari announced the arrival of this series as follows: "We have sent Monsieur Daumier to Greece alone and without any scientific support. He worked day and night to reveal the Greek soul of the past. Daumier brings antiquity back to us".<br/><br/>The lithographs of the series "Histoire Ancienne" were published between 1841 and 1843. Daumier was far ahead of his time when he started as one of the first to show how relative the importance of Greek and Roman Mythology can be in a modern world. The admirers of ancient history especially in Arts however were not dissipated easily. It would take another 15 years until Baudelaire in literature and Offenbach in music de-mystified the "old Greeks" and removed the centuries old dust from them." The Daumier Registry<br/><br/>Deltail. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre lithographées de Honoré Daumier 925-974; Beraldi Les Graveurs du XIX siècle V p. 126; Ramus p. 126. Paris: Léopold Pannier et Cie., 1841 unknown books
04944Paris: Chez Aubert et Cie 1839. An Exceptionally Rare Original Hand-Colored Copy<br/><br/>DAUMIER Honoré illustrator. PHILIPON Charles. Les Cent et Un Robert-Macaire composés et dessinés par M. H. Daumier sur les Idées et les Légendes de M. Ch. Philipon réduits et lithographiés par MM; Texte par MM. Maurice Alhoy et Louis Huart. Paris: Chez Aubert et Cie 1839. <br/><br/>First Quarto Edition Hand Colored Issue. Two quarto volumes bound in one. 10 3/8 x 8 inches; 264 x 203 mm. viii 200 1 1 blank 4 advertisements ; viii 202 1 1 blank 4 advertisements pp. With 101 magnificent hand-colored lithographed plates heightened with gum Arabic. A few text leaves with toning some light scattered foxing which generally only affects the blank plate margins still a very good copy of the excessively rare hand-colored issue.<br/><br/>Contemporary red chagrin over silk paper boards stamped in gilt. Smooth spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt all edges gilt. Front pastedowns with the engraved bookplate of "AM". <br/><br/>"Les Robert-Macaire remains Daumier's best-known series.Baudelaire chose it along with Histoire ancienne 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 600 two-volume sets of reduced copies called Les cent-et-un Robert-Macaire were published in 1839.When politics became a forbidden topic in Le charivari where Caricaturana Les Robert-Macaire 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 Frédérick Lemaître had created in a hack melodrama called L'Auberge des adrets they showed him and his inseparable companion the dejected and meager Bertrand 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. Macaire is equally persuasive in the encounters of private life where no situation finds him at a loss for an appropriate flower of sentiment.Though Daumier's designs are superb in themselves particularly in the variety of supple and telling poses.that he conceives for Macaire and Bertrand they would be incomplete without the unfailing wit and point of Philipon's captions" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book pp. 234-236.<br/><br/>"These reduced and for the most part reversed copies of Daumier's lithographs apparently drawn by Menut Alophe are greatly inferior to the originals. Unlike Caricaturana the series is not often found colored" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book p. 236.<br/><br/>Carteret III p.187. Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 162. Vicaire III cols. 31-32 under Alhoy and V cols. 572-573 under Philipon. Paris: Chez Aubert et Cie, , 1839 unknown books
02253Paris: Chez Aubert 1839. With 150 Hand-Colored Lithographs<br/>including Forty-Five by Honoré Daumier and Forty-Two by Gavarni<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>"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.<br/><br/>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'". <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 164. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1839 unknown books
04761Paris: Charivari and Martinet 1859. The Moroccan Sultan Monsieur Prudhomme a Stereotypical Bourgeois and the Chinese Emperor<br/>Thirty Fine Humorous Lithographs by Honoré Daumier<br/><br/>DAUMIER Honoré. Album des Charges du Jour. 30 Lithographies par H. Daumier. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari.et chez Martinet 1859-60. <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>Publisher's pictorial lithographed yellow paper wrappers spine very slightly chipped at extremities otherwise fine.<br/>A Wonderful example.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>OCLC locates just two copies in libraries and institutions worldwide New York Public Library NY USA & The Morgan Library & Museum NY USA.<br/><br/>The Plates:<br/>1. - Dire que nous v'la Parisiens!. <br/>Unbelievable. we are Parisians now too! DR #3235; Actualités<br/><br/>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. <br/>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 .<br/>DR #10945; Actualités 141<br/><br/>3. Le Diamant Magnétiseur. Nouveau divertissement des soirées. - ou manière de s'amuser et de se faire loucher en société sans se fâcher.<br/>The Diamond Hypnotist.<br/>A new pastime at evening parties - or how to have fun and get someone to squint without getting into trouble. <br/>DR #3227; Actualités 134<br/><br/>4. Une Application Utile du Diamant Magnétiseur. <br/>- Ma femme est bien magnétisée!. je peux filer tranquillement pour le bal de l'opéra. dors bien bobonne!.<br/>Practical Application for a Diamond Hypnotist. <br/>My wife is hypnotized. now I can quietly leave for the opera ball. sleep well my dear! DR #3230; Actualités 140<br/><br/>5. Toujours les merveilles du diamant magnétiseur. - ou manière en société de faire prendre aux dames des poses non moins fatigantes que disgracieuses.<br/>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<br/><br/>6. - Mon ami. viens donc voir ces jolis diamants!. <br/>- Ne regarde pas cela. imprudente!. ça te ferait loucher!!.<br/>- My dear come and have a look at these beautiful diamonds! <br/>- Don't even look at them you careless woman. they'll make you cross-eyed! DR #3229; Actualités 138<br/><br/>7. La Chiromancie Nouveau Passe Temps Des Bons Parisiens. <br/>- 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!.<br/>Palmistry New Parisian Pastime. <br/>- 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<br/><br/>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.<br/>- 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<br/><br/>9. L'empereur du maroc consultant le celèbre sorcier desbarolles.<br/>- Voici une petite ligne qui m'indique que vous êtes destiné à recevoir une grande raclée!.<br/>The Emperor of Morocco in consultation with the Famous Magician Desbarolles.<br/>- This small line here indicates to me that you are going to get a royal thrashing! DR #3225<br/><br/>10. À Tanger<br/>- 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 ! . <br/>- Laisse-moi donc tranquille Belboul avec mon parasol . . . . en ce moment-ci j'aimerais mieux avoir un Pare-à -balle ! . . . . . . <br/>In Tangiers.<br/>- 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! <br/>- Leave me alone with your umbrella Belboul. I would rather like to have an umbrella protecting me from their bullets. DR #3223<br/><br/>11. Le Cid se mettant aussi en campagne pour aller combattre les Maures.<br/>El Cid also takes to the field to fight against the Moors. DR #3233<br/><br/>12. Combat singulier entre le Cid et l'Empereur du Maroc.<br/>A unusual battle between El Cid and the emperor of Morocco. DR #3234<br/><br/>13. Un parasol dans une position difficile.<br/>An umbrella in a difficult position. DR #3224<br/><br/>14. - Voilà un vent qui va joliment contrarier le débarquement des Espagnols!. <br/>- Oui. mais c'est aussi un bien fichu temps pour mon parasol .<br/>- This wind will give the Spanish a hard time when disembarking. <br/>- Sure but look at what it is doing at my umbrella! DR #3226<br/><br/>15. - Dire que c'est là ce que les Français appellent des chinois!.<br/>Strange. this is what the French call "Chinois". DR #3120<br/><br/>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!.<br/>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<br/><br/>17. Patrouille chinoise en reconnaissance.<br/>Chinese reconnaissance unit in action. DR #3117<br/><br/>18. - Tiens regarde cette caisse. elle renferme les envoyés Américains qui se rendent à Pékin!. <br/>- On dirait que cette voiture contient des animaux curieux. <br/>- Ma foi! s'ils sont curieux. tant pis pour eux car ils ne voient pas beaucoup le pays qu'ils traversent!<br/>- Look at that box - it contains the American envoys on the way to Peking! <br/>- Anyone would say it was a coach full of curious animals. <br/>- 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<br/><br/>19. Arrivée à Pékin des ambassadeurs Américains.<br/>Arrival of the American Ambassador in Beijing. DR #3115<br/><br/>20. L'envoyé américain obtenant une audience de l'Empereur de la Chine.<br/>The Emperor of China receives the American Ambassador. DR #3116<br/><br/>21. - Tchinn-tchinn. tu m'apportes une bonne nouvelle!. je t'accorde l'insigne honneur de baiser l'auguste poussière de mes augustes souliers!.<br/>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<br/><br/>22. La Chine se civilisant.<br/>- 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.<br/>China on its way to become civilized.<br/>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<br/><br/>23. Fonctionnaires chinois veillant au salut de l'empire ! .<br/>Chinese civil servants diligently guarding over the welfare of the nation. DR #3123<br/><br/>24. -Tenez je viens de tuer un magnifique coq de bruyère!. <br/>-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!.<br/>- Look! I just killed this magnificent grouse! . <br/>- 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<br/><br/>25. - Eh! bien. as-tu l'intention de rester là . <br/>- Non certes!. je t'attendais pour que tu me transportes sur ton dos jusqu'au village. <br/>- Merci à une lieue et demie d'ici!!. es-tu fou. <br/>- Allons!. voyons mon ami. fais comme si tu avais tué un chevreuil et que tu sois obligé de le rapporter chez toi!.<br/>- What about it. are you planning to stay here all day <br/>- Surely not. I thought you were going to carry me to the next village! <br/>- You must be joking. one and a half leagues. you must be crazy! <br/>- Oh come on. just pretend I were a stag you shot you would have had to carry him too. DR #3217<br/><br/>26. - Eh! bien. allons-nous continuer notre chasse malgré le vilain temps . . . . . <br/>- 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 ! . . . . . .<br/>- Now what Are we going to continue hunting during the rain <br/>- 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<br/><br/>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 ! . . . . . <br/>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! . . . . .<br/>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. <br/>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<br/><br/>28. Les Eunuques Réformés par le Bey de Tunis.<br/>- Qu'allons-nous devenir. nous voilà mis à pied!. <br/>- Nous n'avons plus qu'à nous faire cochers de Constantinople!.<br/>Eunuchs reformed by the Bey of Tunis.<br/>- What's going to become of us. we have been fired. <br/>- The only thing we can do is go to Constantinople and become coachmen. DR #3237<br/><br/>29. Le nouveau costume des cochers turcs à Constantinople - Ni hommes ni femmes. tous eunuques!. <br/>Extrait de la nouvelle ordonnance.<br/>The new uniform of the Turkish coachmen in Constantinople. neither male nor female. all eunuchs. <br/>from the new ordinances. DR #3238<br/><br/>30. Une position difficile. - Tiraillé entre la civilisation et le parti rétograde.<br/>A difficult position. <br/>Torn between civilization and the conservative party. DR #3221. Paris: Charivari and Martinet, 1859 unknown books
04977Paris: Aux Bureaux du Charivari 1871. Thirty-Nine Wonderfully Satiric Images by Daumier & Cham<br/>of the Siege of Paris by the Prussian army in the Winter of 1870-1871<br/><br/>CHAM pseudonym of Amédée de Noé. DAUMIER Honoré. Album du Siége Par Cham et Daumier. Recueil de Caricatures publiées pendant Le Siege dans Le Charivari. Paris: Aux Bureaux du Charivari 1871. <br/><br/>First edition. Large quarto 12 x 9 5/8 inches; 305 x 244 mm. Pictorial lithograph title-page Cham and thirty-nine fine lithograph plates ten of which are by Honoré Daumier and the rest by Cham. <br/><br/>Publisher's red pebbled cloth over boards front cover lettered in gilt marbled endpapers. <br/><br/>Thirty-nine wonderfully satiric images of the siege of Paris by the Prussian army in the winter of 1870-1871 originally published in Le Charivari and reprinted as an album in 1871 with a new image used for the title page.<br/><br/>OCLC locates just sixteen copies in libraries and institutions worldwide nine in the USA four in the Netherlands two in Germany and one in Australia ten of these appear to be bound without the pictorial title. It would seem that this volume was only issued with uncolored plates.<br/><br/>"For many of Daumier's admirers his lithographs of 1870-1871 represent the peak of his achievement. They are in his last style massive stripped down direct which speaks as nothing else could for this tragic period in France's history. <br/><br/>The Siege of Paris - that took place from 19th September 1870 to 28th January 1871 and the consequent capture of the city by Prussian force - culminated in France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and the establishment of both the German Empire and the Paris Commune - the radical socialist anti-religious and revolutionary government that ruled Paris from 18th March to 28th May 1871. The Franco-Prussian War had led to the capture of Emperor Napoleon III in September 1870 the collapse of the Second French Empire and the beginning of the Third Republic.<br/><br/>The Plates:<br/><br/>1. Pictorial title-page Cham<br/>2. Modes Parisiennes en prévision du bombardment Cham 112<br/>3. Le bombardment Cham 5<br/>4. La valeur Prussienne n'attendant pas le nombre des années Cham 8<br/>5. Ceci a tué cela Daumier 3845<br/>6. Plus de Gaz Cham 127<br/>7. Préparant les éntrennes pour son peuple Cham <br/>8. Pour ne pas être bléssé je n'ai qu'a mettre ce plastron Oui monsieur en ayant soin bien entendu de ne pas sortir de chez vous Cham 107<br/>9. Un paysage en 1870 Daumier 3828<br/>10. Laissez appuyer moâ sur le bras à vôs! Fallait pas me laisser amputer Cham 129<br/>11. T'allais jamais à l'Église autrefois Pour le pain bénit on ne fait pas la queue Cham 18<br/>12. Tu t'es mis un faux ventre! Pour faire des sorties pour montrer à l'ennemi que nous avons beaucoup de vivres Cham 106<br/>13. Les animaux du jardin des plantes faisant queue comme tout le monde pour avoir leur viande Cham 110<br/>14. Square Napoléon Daumier 3824<br/>15. Je me suis mis dans les volontaires! Animal! Tu n'as pas 35 ans! On va dire que nous ne sommes pas mariés! Cham 121<br/>16. Ce pauvre Henri IV voyant emmener son cheval chez le boucher Cham 130<br/>17. Épouvantée de l'héritage Daumier 3838<br/>18. Madame Putois j/aurais tout de même jamais cru que vous tueriez votre chien pour nous en faire manger - Il a bien fallu. il était enrage! Cham 17<br/>19. Maintenant j'adore les gens grêlés ils me rappellent le gruyere! Cham 120<br/>20. Plus de viande! Allons donc! Cham 123<br/>21. Rationnement du pain - un monsieur allant diner en ville Cham 16<br/>22. Les Nouveaux Gardiens de Paris Cham 111<br/>23. Six heures et demie - les chevaux de Madame la Marquise sont sur la table Cham 104<br/>24. Le danger de manger de la souris est qu'ensuite votre chat ne coure après Cham 119<br/>25. On aurait pu profiter de passage du ballon-poste pour surprendre l'ennemi Cham 96<br/>26. L'empire c'est la paix Daumier 3814<br/>27. Ils auront beau emporter les pendules ils n'empêcheront pas l'heure de la vengeance de sonner Cham 138<br/>28. Nous ne nous serions jamais doutés tout de même que nous naviguerions un jour sur ce vaisseau-là Daumier 3819<br/>29. Le nouveau char de la victoire Daumier 3849<br/>30. Le revers de la médaille de Sainte-Hélène Cham 108<br/>31. Soldats! Il fait très froid; mais si l'on est content de vous on donnera un paletot fourré. au maréchal Fritz Cham 122<br/>32. La queue pour la viande de rats Cham 124<br/>33. Pauvre France!. le tronc est foudroyé mais les raciness tiennent bon! Daumier 3843<br/>34. Tant bis! Il aurait brobablement ennuyé blu tard les enfants de Fritz Cham 6<br/>35. J'ai besoin de quitter Paris - Pour rejoinder votre femme - Au contraire; voila cinq mois qu'elle ne m'a pas quitté Cham 27<br/>36. L'unité allemande Daumier 3831<br/>37. Les Prussiens m'ont donné un cigare! - C'est bien le moins alors qu'un Francais te donne aussi quelque chose Cham 28<br/>38. Aveugle! C'est triste mais c'est encore de la chance dans ce moment-ci! Cham 22<br/>39. Moi je suis ravitaillé!. le rests m'est égal Daumier 3851<br/>40. Après le Siége Cham 113<br/><br/>"Particularly to be noted are his bitter reflections on the legend which Charlet Bellangé Raffet and their imitators had helped to create. The desolate battleground of "The empire means peace" no. 26 offers an ironic commentary on an epigram uttered by Napoleon III in 1852. His "Square Napoleon" no. 14 displays the gravestones of those for whose death the Emperor has been responsible beginning with the Boulevard Monmartre in the winter of 1851 and ending with Sedan in 1870. In Cham's "The reverse of the Saint Helena medal" no. 30 indeed the country's disaster is attributed specifically to Napoleon Bonaparte as well as to Napoleon III. Daumier's first plate for 1871 showing France "Appalled by her heritage" no. 17 is bleak indeed but a later design offers a gleam of hope: "Poor France!. The trunk blasted but the roots hold fast" no. 33.<br/><br/>It should be mentioned that Cham's contributions to this album though trivial in comparison with Daumier's monumental compositions are by no means negligible. He provides the detail that Daumier omitted. The horrors of the bombardment are recorded in his plates but so too is the black humor of Parisian life during the siege. For example he shows the population pursuing food in any form - horses cats rats even a large woman regarded with speculation by an impudent boy: "No more meat! - Let's go then!" no. 20.<br/><br/>The plates included in Album du siège were transferred to zinc for engraving by Gillot's process rather than printed directly from Daumier's lithographic stones." Gordon N. Ray. The Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914 p. 245. Paris: Aux Bureaux du Charivari, 1871 unknown books
02254Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. 1850. Love These Children!<br/> But the Joys and Sweets of Fatherhood<br/>Are Extremely Scarce<br/><br/>DAUMIER Honoré. Henri-Daniel Plattel. Jules Platier. Ces Amours d'enfans. Joies et Douceurs de la Paternité. Paris: Aubert & Cie n.d. ca. 1850. <br/><br/>Oblong octavo. Hand-colored lithographed title by Auguste Belin and sixteen hand-colored lithographed plates heightened with gum arabic eight by Daumier the remaining by Plattel or Platier. 16 pp. at rear as Aubert catalog.<br/><br/>Publishers blind-stamped leather-grain red cloth over boards spine lettered in gilt "121" in gilt to upper cover. <br/>A very clean. bright and fine copy.<br/><br/>Reversed restrikes from the Aubert series Croquis D'Expressions 100 lithographed prints originally appearing in Le Charivari 1838-1839 fifty-five of which were executed by Daumier the remainder by Henri-Daniel Plattel and Jules Platier. All artist signatures have been removed and the hand-coloring is far more bright and vivid than the original issue prints that we have seen.<br/><br/>Croquis D'Expressions was never formally collected by Chez Aubert into an album. There are no copies of this later issue by Aubert collected under this new title in institutional holdings worldwide nor auction records. <br/><br/>The Plates with Daumier Registry # where applicable:<br/><br/>1. Est-il gentil notre bibi! il a déja un petit air scélérat le gueux! Daumier DR #470.<br/>2. Crie donc mátin!.égosille toi donc. et que çca finisse.ne pas fermer l'oeil pour un méchant moutard!.le diable emporte es enfans je n'en veux plus Daumier DR# 467.<br/>3. Oh! ce Chérubin comme il dort gentiment! Tiens Gustave c'est ton portrait tout craché! Daumier DR# 513.<br/>4. Allons bon les voilá tous trois partis.travaillez donc au milieu de ce charivari.chiens d'enfans! Daumier DR# 491.<br/>5. Vous allex voir!.vous allez voir ça va arréter le sang comme avec la main!! Daumier DR# 497.<br/>6. Oui ma chére laissez-moi lui donner cette petite soupe aux choux et vous verrez que ça lui vaudra mieux que tous leux drogues de médicine Plattel or Platier.<br/>7. Hein! quelle jolie tournure!///faudra en faire in avocat pas vrai.ou ben un grand artiste. Plattel or Platier.<br/>8. Puisuq tu es si riche ma tante vent bien t'epouser quoi que tu es bien laid et que tu n'as pas d'esprit du tout.c'est égal à ma tante.n'est ce pas ma tante Daumier DR# 505.<br/>9. Appuyez fort gna rien de meyeur our les coupe ou les tombres as pas peur Guguste ca te guérira ti va voir Daumer DR# 492.<br/>10. Tenez vous un peu tranquilles mes enfans vous finiriez peut-etre par ennuyer monsieur.Plattel or Platier.<br/>11. Le Maitre: Qu entendez vous par l'axe d'un cercle. Plattel or Platier.<br/>12. Lolo qu'aime tu mieux de ton papa ou de la maman - J'aime mieux les confitures Daumier DR# 500.<br/>13. C'est vrai aussi vous la contrariez toujours cet enfant! Plattel or Platier.<br/>14. Y disait comme ça: ton vieux grigou de père nous l'avons bien mis dedans. Plattel or Platier.<br/>15. Allons bon! tu me fais porter le petit porter ton cabas tu me fais mouller.tu gardes le parapluie et tute plains Plattel or Platier.<br/>16. Comment méchant vous pleurez vous criez toute la nuit.voulez vous bien vous taire et faire une petite risette à papa.Plattel or Platier. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., 1850 unknown books
18331153Dec. 5 1833. Hand-colored lithograph printed on white wove paper Sur Blanc. Lithograph with contemporary hand coloring. Delteil 73 as pub. in La Caricature No.161 pl. 337 & 338. 13 ¼ x 17 3/8 with full margins. Chez Aubert, La Caricature books
18331221833. Lithograph with contemporary hand coloring sur blanc. Dec. 5 1833. Ref: Delteil 73 as published in La Caricature No. 161 pl. 337 and 338. 131.4mm x173.8mm. 13 x17. With full margins. Chez Aubert, La Caricature books
11591845. Hand colored lithograph on white wove paper from the most desirable series Daumier ever published. Delteil 1358ii. 10 ¾ x 7 ¾. Plate 22 from "Les Gens de Justice". Framed. unknown books
1920401776Paris: Jules Meynal 1920. From the Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow. Letterpress title and 36 wood-engravings loose as issued in four cloth portfolios each print with Schmied's chopmark and numbered in pencil "2/25" tipped to mount and matted. Overall 475 x 328 mm. SCARCE LIMITED EDITION number 2 of 25 copies on Chine monté there were also 75 copies on Japon the plates printed by François-Louis Schmied from Daumier's original blocks. The blocks were distributed to the subscribers whitened in such a way as to prevent future impressions. <br/><br/> Jules Meynal hardcover books
04829Paris: Chez Aubert 1839. With 50 Hand-Colored Lithographs<br/>including Nine by Honoré Daumier and Fifteen by Gavarni<br/><br/>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<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>A reasonably priced album containing fine hand-colored lithographs of Bouchot Daumier & Gavarni etc. etc.<br/><br/>"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.<br/><br/>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'". <br/><br/>Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 164. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1839 unknown books
11541837. Hand-colored lithograph printed on white wove paper Sur Blanc. Delteil 346 only state. 11 3/8 x 9 1/8. Plate 21 from "Galerie Physionomique". Light foxing otherwise fine. unknown books
18441791844. Sur Blanc. Lithograph. From Les Etrangers à Paris pl. 16. D. 1287 ii/ii. Image: 8 x 7½. Margins: 13¾ x 10¼. Some foxing. Aubert books
401758From the Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow. Vulgarités. Paris: Aubert n.d. 1841-42. 10 lithographs 354 x 262 mm and smaller. D.905-914. La Chasse. Paris: Aubert for Pannier n.d. 1843-44. 12 lithographs 354 x 267 mm and smaller. D.1072-1083. Both suites are assembled sets some prints formerly bound or framed some with gilt edges. Occasional chipping at edges occasional soiling. Boxed with: A collection of 32 lithographs by Daumier mostly taken from "La Caricature" including one colored. Included is the scarce "La Tentation" D.101 state I Daumier's parody of David Teniers le jeune's "La Tentation de Saint Antoine.". <br/><br/> unknown books
18441781844. Sur Blanc. Lithograph. From Las Bas Blues pl. 12. D. 1232 ii/iii very rare in this state. Image: 9 x 7½. Margins: 13¾ x 10¼. Aubert books
1841316512Paris: Beauger et Cie 1841. First edition. 350 wood-engraved vignettes by Granville Gavarni Daumier Traviès Lécurieux and Monnier. iv 395 pp. 8vo. Contemporary full red pebbled morocco gilt a.e.g. Head of spine and joint repaired foxing dampstain to top margin and portion of text still an attractive copy in a contemporary French romantic binding. Bookplate. First edition. 350 wood-engraved vignettes by Granville Gavarni Daumier Traviès Lécurieux and Monnier. iv 395 pp. 8vo. "Rare en belle condition importante par son texte sur Paris et par son illustration due à une belle pléiade d'artistes" Carteret. Carteret III pp. 297-8 Beauger et Cie unknown books
18471801847. Sur Blanc. Lithograph with contemporary hand-coloring. D. 1527iii/iii. From Les Bons Bourgeois. Plate 51. Image: 10½ x 8½. Margins: 13 x 10 . Chez Aubert books
18395976Paris: Chez Aubert 1839-40. First edition. The great Parisian caricaturists of the mid-19th-century: Daumier Gavarni Grandville Travies and others represented with original lithographs illustrating short prose pieces by Alhoy Huart and Philipon. 27 cm; 3 volumes in two. 150 lithographs including 45 by Daumier among them 27 from "Croquis d'expression" and 42 by Gavarni. Half titles present. Plates not colored in. Bound in recent green crushed morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt; spines titled in gilt. Marbled edges. Endleaves foxed; some scattered toning. Overall a clean copy. References: Ray #164 "one of the freshest and most attractive of romantic illustrated books"; Carteret III 426-27. Chez Aubert hardcover books
18571821857. Sur Blanc. Lithograph. As published in Le Charivari. D. 2967 ii. Prov: unidentified collector's stamp on verso. Image: 8¼ x 10. Margins: 10 x 13½. Detouches books
1842177Sur Blanc. Lithograph with contemporary hand-coloring. 1842. As published in La Caricature. D. 986 ii/iii. Image: 8¼ x 7 . Margins: 9 x 14 . Aubert books
184125111841. Lithograph. Ingrate patrie tu nauras pas mon oeuvre! Ungrateful country you shall not have my work! D.719. From Emotions Parisienne . 253 x 210mm 5333 x 277. books
0257<br/><br/>Daumier Honore. Un rappel de chanteuse scene de haute comedie. Paris: Martine 1857. Original lithograph on paper newspaper print on verso as issued. D2905 iii of 3. HD 1427; D2905. 10 3/4 x 8" with margins. Matted. Very good condition. From Croquis Dramatiques. Printed by Destouches. unknown books
11551839. Hand color lithograph printed on white wove paper Sur blanc. Delteil 628 iii. Plate 5 as published in the series "Moeurs Conjugales". 13 x 9¾ sheet size. unknown books
1836296442Paris: Chez Aubert 1836. hardcover. Lithograph with original hand coloring. 10 x 13 1/4 inches. Plate 23. Some scuffs foxing and toning on left of image and margins but luminous coloring.<br/><br/> Text below in French."Example: Buy a new process it doesn't matter which or whether it's good or bad buy it for 600F 500F 25F for as little as possible. Create 500'000F worth of shares as many as possible. Make out monster advertisements monster posters monster promises. Make the capital pocket it put the key under the door file your bankruptcy papers that's to say the company's papers. that's the end of that little game. You then go on to another." From the rare album of 100 caricatures called Caricaturana Les Cent Robert-Macaire.This collaboration with Philipon takes aim at French society through satire behind the vehicle of invented swindler Robert Macaire.<br/><br/> Chez Aubert unknown books
1836296439Paris: Chez Aubert 1836. hardcover. Lithograph with original hand coloring. 10 x 13 1/4 inches. Plate 22. Some scuffs foxing and toning on margins but luminous coloring.<br/><br/> The lion's share.from the rare album of 100 caricatures called Caricaturana Les Cent Robert-Macaire.This collaboration with Philipon takes aim at French society through satire behind the vehicle of invented swindler Robert Macaire.<br/><br/> Chez Aubert unknown books
