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05024Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. 1845. All is Fair in Love and War"<br/>Thirty-One Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates Presenting a Satirical View of the French in Algeria <br/><br/>CHAM Pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé. À la guerre comme à la guerre. Par Cham. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. n.d. 1845. <br/><br/>First edition. Oblong folio 9 15/16 x 12 15/16 inches; 253 x 329 mm. Pictorial hand colored lithograph title-page and thirty hand-colored lithographed plates heightened with gum Arabic presenting a satirical view of the life of the French contingent in Algeria. Publisher's sixteen page catalog bound in at end. Some light marginal soiling to a few plates otherwise near fine.<br/><br/>Contemporary half plum calf over patterned plum cloth smooth spine decoratively titled in gilt marbled endpapers and edges. An excellent example with vivid hand coloring. <br/><br/>CHAM pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé 1818-1879. "It is to be regretted that space will not serve to represent the caricaturists and depictors of manners who 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 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. His contributions to the Album du siège in which Daumier was his collaborator are typical of his work" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book pp. 155-156.<br/><br/>The plates:<br/><br/>Hand-colored pictorial title-page<br/>1. Ça ne vaut pas l'eau filtrée!!.<br/>2. Au diable les chevaux arabes!<br/>3. Quelle chance!!<br/>4. Pour faire un bon pot-au-feu.<br/>5. V'là soixante lieues d'avalées!<br/>6. Ces gueux d'arabes.<br/>7. Dites donc caporal.<br/>8. Une visite sous la tente.<br/>9. Encore quinze lieues à faire.<br/>10. Une razzia.<br/>11. C'est fort drôle conscrit!.<br/>12. Un héritage flambé.<br/>13. Allons bon!.<br/>14. Gueux de sauvages!<br/>15. Y a des gens qui ont du bonheur!<br/>16. Il est bon d'avoir des amis.<br/>17. C'est une flêche empoisonnée.<br/>18. En toute chose il ne faut jamais considérer la faim.<br/>19. Qué beau pays!!!<br/>20. Est-ce que tu attends l'omnibus.<br/>21. Pauvres camarades!<br/>22. Cristi! V'la mon paletot qui se déchire!<br/>23. Y a pas de bon sens!<br/>24. Cher papa et chère maman.<br/>25. Mon Général.<br/>26. C'est un coup superbe!<br/>27. Un petit homme a grandes passions.<br/>28. Marche de nuit.<br/>29. Un réveil désagréable.<br/>30. L'appétit est le meilleur cuisinier. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., 1845 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
1787256660New York: Samuel Loudon 1787. First. hardcover. very good. Illustrated with 2 plates one torn and one edgeworn and 1 table torn and with some paper loss. 602 pages with continuous pagination. Thick 8vo contemporary leather-backed boards with red label well-worn but sound and attractive. New York: Printed by Samuel Loudon and sold for the printer by Messieurs Berry and Rogers Hodge Campbell Allen and Greenleaf December 1787 - July 1788. 8 of 12 issues bound together. First editions. Some light toning and foxing and a handful of contemporary ink marginalia still a very good copy of these scarce American periodicals edited by Noah Webster. OCLC list NO physical copies in any library.<br/><br/> Issues include: moral fiction curiosities travel descriptions of unusual or exotic places science religion biographical anecdotes poetry etc. A section of European and American current events marriages and deaths concludes each issue.<br/><br/> Samuel Loudon unknown books
1842309481New Haven: Published by the Author. Sold by Crocker & Brewster Boston etc. . Printed by B.L. Hamlen 1842. Second edition first octavo edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. I by Asher Brown Durand after Samuel F.B. Morse no printer's name given. lxxvi 938; 1004 pp. 2 vols. Large 8vo 10-1/2 x 6 7/8 inches; 269 x 174 mm. Contemporary speckled sheep contrasting morocco spine labels marbled endpapers marbled edges. Covers scuffed joints worn some light spotting to text some worming to vol. I not affecting text. Morse Samuel French B. Second edition first octavo edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. I by Asher Brown Durand after Samuel F.B. Morse no printer's name given. lxxvi 938; 1004 pp. 2 vols. Large 8vo 10-1/2 x 6 7/8 inches; 269 x 174 mm. The Second Edition The First Unabridged Octavo Edition. A fine copy of the rare octavo edition of Webster's unabridged dictionary the last that Webster published before his death in 1843. This is the textually best edition published in Webster's lifetime incorporating his final revisions some 5000 new definitions and a preface and introduction "on the origin history and connection of the languages of western Asia and Europe with an explanation of the principles on which languages are formed." Skeel notes that 3000 copies of this edition were printed fewer than the 5 or 6 thousand that Webster wanted but more than the 2500 of the 1828 first edition. A prospectus Skeel 585 advertised the edition at $13 sheep and $14 calf gilt. The work was in the press for over a year; a note in Webster's hand on a copy in the Connecticut State Library states "First signature of this edition impressed Oct. 22 1839. Last sheet impressed January 30 1841 15 months & days." The edition sold slowly with nearly half of the run still in sheets at the time of Webster's death.<br/>An attractive copy bearing the ownership signatures of George W. Turner dated the year he bought the mansion and farm of Elmscourt now Elms Court in Natchez Mississippi. Skeel 586; cf. Grolier American 36; cf. PMM 291; cf. Sabin 102335. Provenance: George W. Turner of Elmscourt or Elms Court Natchez Mississippi inscription in both volumes dated 1842 Published by the Author. Sold by Crocker & Brewster, Boston, [etc.] ... Printed by B.L. Hamlen unknown books
17933069Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin 1793. First edition. Bound to style in modern quarter calf over marbled boards with morocco label to spine. Light scattered foxing largely concentrated at the preliminaries. Small tear to the blank inner corner of A2. Contemporary inscription to the footer of title page: "Sold in London by Chas. Delly price 1/6." Charles Delly a UK printer and bookseller active in the 1780s was clearly importing American titles to sell in his shop. Collates complete 5 6-56. An important and scarce work the only other copy to appear at auction came up disbound at Swann in 1982.<br/><br/>Best known as the lexicographer responsible for his American Dictionary of the English Language Noah Webster has been called "the father of American scholarship and education" Mason. He was also a committed abolitionist helping to found the Connecticut Society for the Abolition of Slavery in 1791. In the present work Webster argues that "slavery in all its forms and varieties is repugnant to private interest and public happiness of man." Providing a brief historical view of slavery Webster shows that across time and place the practice of enslaving people produces the same deleterious effects. "The actual produce of a country is nearly in an exact proportion to the degree of freedom enjoyed by its inhabitants." And he uses Ireland and Connecticut as examples that illustrate "the superior productiveness of the labor of freemen who work for their own benefit." Despite these progressive views Webster's essay is also heavily marked with the systemic racism that has undercut the momentum of many American social movements; and he problematically asserts the "laziness of slaves" in America commenting that "the blacks are so remarkable for their inaction their want of fore-sight and their disinclination to improvement." Unable to imagine the rich social movements that would emerge from enslaved people's descendants Webster places the responsibility for abolition on white Americans both for economic and moral good. "If that nation is the happiest which with industry enjoys a full supply of the comforts and conveniences of life then the government and those institutions which distribute and secure." <br/><br/>ESTC W31814. Evans 26448. Hudson and Goodwin unknown books
04875Paris: Maison Martinet 1856. Three of Cham's Rarest Works with Sixty Wonderful Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates<br/><br/>CHAM pseudonym of Amédée de Noé. Three complete works bound together in one volume - L'Art d'engraisser et de Maigrir a Volonté. & Mr. Papillon & Pincez-moi à la Campagne!!<br/><br/>First editions. Folio 12 11/16 x 9 7/8 inches; 326 x 251 mm. Three pictorial hand colored lithograph title-pages and a total of sixty hand colored lithograph plates heightened with gum arabic. Plates lithographed by Fernique & Destouches.<br/><br/>Bound together in late nineteenth century olive green buckram over boards marbled endpapers. Spine a little rubbed the plates bright and fresh with superb hand-coloring.<br/><br/>The Art of Gaining Weight and The Art of Losing Weight<br/>Twenty Highly Amusing Multi-Image Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Cham<br/><br/>CHAM Pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé. L'Art d'Engraisser et de Maigrir a Volonté. The art of gaining and losing weight with willpower. Paris: Maison Martinet 1857. <br/><br/>Pictorial hand colored lithograph title-page and twenty hand colored lithograph plates heightened with gum Arabic and containing seventy-nine images. Plates lithographed by Fernique.<br/><br/>A highly amusing album depicting the adventures of the very thin Mr. Lesec who wants to gain weight and the rather plump Mr. Legras who wants to lose weight. Both Mr. Lesec and Mr. Legras are getting married and there is much going on in their households. They leave jointly for Algeria and go lion hunting. this adventure unfortunately causes Mr. Legras to gain weight and Mr. Lesec to lose several kilos. The same thing happens during a subsequent adventure with a camel. Unfortunately the two friends leave Algeria for Italy then for Turkey Crimea India where they live multiple adventures that leave them in their respective physical states. They both decide to return to France Mr Legras dies from being severely overweight - and the very depressed Mr Lesec just gets thinner and thinner and eventually also dies.<br/><br/>Somewhat scarce with OCLC locating just four colored copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: The Morgan Library & Museum NY; University of Chicago IL; Boston Public Library MA; Victoria & Albert Museum London UK. There are also two other 'uncolored' copies: Kunstbiblio Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin Germany & National Library of Poland Biblioteka Naro Poland.<br/><br/><br/>Mr. Papillon's Highly Amusing Voyage Around the World <br/>Love and Romance in Various Countries<br/><br/>CHAM Pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé. Mr. Papillon ou L'Amour Autour du Monde. Paris: Maison Martinet 1856. <br/><br/>Pictorial hand-colored lithograph title-page and twenty hand-colored lithograph plates heightened with gum Arabic and containing sixty-eight amusing images. The plates clean and fresh with superb hand coloring. Plates lithographed by Fernique.<br/><br/>Mr. Papillon's highly amusing voyage around the world depicting love and romance in different countries.<br/><br/>Rare. OCLC locates just one copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: Bibliotheque Nationale de France.<br/><br/><br/>Pinch Me I'm In the Country!!<br/>Now Get Me Out of Here<br/>The Scarcest Cham of All<br/><br/>CHAM pseud. of Amédée de Noé. Pincez-moi a la campagne!! Paris: Maison Martinet n.d. c. 1860. <br/><br/>Pictorial hand-colored lithographed title-page and twenty hand-colored lithographed plates heightened with gum Arabic and containing eighty-six humorous scenes with captions. Plates lithographed by Destouches.<br/><br/>Original quarter green pebble-cloth over green grained-paper boards with blindstamped decoration and gilt lettering. <br/><br/>Of 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 The Art of the French Illustrated Book pp. 155-156.<br/><br/>In the ninety-seven years since 1923 that ABPC has been recording auction results not a single copy of this work has fallen under the hammer. All albums by Cham are scarce; the volume under notice is extremely so. Only eight copies survive in institutional holdings worldwide.<br/><br/>The gently amusing trials of an urban gentleman preparing for a vacation in the French countryside and the hilarious tribulations once he arrives. In essence Woody Allen leaves Manhattan for the Catskills and copes with nature and rural life.<br/><br/>CHAM pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé 1818-1879. "It is to be regretted that space will not serve to represent the caricaturists and depictors of manners who 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 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. His contributions to the Album du siège in which Daumier was his collaborator are typical of his work" <br/>Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book pp. 155-156. Paris: Maison Martinet, 1856 unknown books
1828140938425New York: S. Converse Printed by Hezekiah Howe New Haven 1828. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Complete in two volumes. Contemporary mottled calf with black morocco spine labels lettered in gilt with the "Additions and Corrections" leaf bound at the end of Volume II; November 28 Advertisement absent as is nearly always the case. Engraved frontis provided in sympathetic facsimile lacking tissue guard. Internally Very Good with offsetting and several instances of penciled marginalia. Previous owner name in light pencil on title page. One of only 2500 copies. An extremely important early declaration of American cultural identity which heralded the nation's linguistic independence from Britain inspiring the many dictionaries that to this day carry Webster's name. S. Converse, Printed by Hezekiah Howe, New Haven unknown books
1828102755New York: Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe 1828. Rare first edition of Webster's monumental American Dictionary one of only 2500 copies with <span class="glossaryQtip qTip">frontispiece</span> portrait of the pioneering lexicographer in full contemporary calf. Quarto two volumes bound in full contemporary calf marbled endpapers illustrated frontispiece tissue guard present. In near fine condition light toning to the text. Most rare and desirable bound in contemporary calf. An exceptional example most rare without any restoration. In 1807 Webster began compiling a fully comprehensive dictionary An American Dictionary of the English Language; it took twenty-eight years to complete. To evaluate the etymology of words Webster learned twenty-six languages including Old English Anglo-Saxon Greek Hebrew and Latin. Webster completed his dictionary during his year abroad in 1825 in Paris France and at the University of Cambridge. His book contained seventy thousand words of which twelve thousand had never appeared in a published dictionary before. As a spelling reformer Webster believed that English spelling rules were unnecessarily complex so his dictionary introduced American English spellings replacing colour with color substituting wagon for waggon and printing center instead of center. He also added American words like skunk and squash that did not appear in British dictionaries. At the age of seventy Webster published his dictionary in 1828 registering the copyright on April 14. Webster did all this in an effort to standardize the American language. "This dictionary which almost at once became and has remained the standard English dictionary in the United States was the end-product of a stream of spelling books grammars readers and dcitionaries which flowed from the pen of the industrious Noah Webster.Webster's great dictionary all the 70000 entries of which he wrote with his own hand has been reprinted and brought up to date innumerable times.the book marked a definite advance in modern lexicography as it included many non-literary terms and paid great attention to the language actually spoken. Moreover his definitions of the meaning of words were accurate and concise.and have for the greater part stood the test of time superbly well" Printing and the Mind of Man. "As a whole Webster's American Dictionary was a scholarly achievement of the first order richly deserving of its great reputation at home and abroad" DAB. With definitions for "some 70000 words--15000 more than any previous English lexicon. Although only 2500 copies of the first edition were printed the work established Webster as a lexicographer of international repute" Lathem 76 United Statesiana 9. Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe unknown books
