Chagall by Chagall, Marc (Artist); Jacques Lassainge - 1957

Fine delicate engravings by Chretien de Mechel or Christian von Mechel (and Bartholomaus Hubner) after works by the Renaissance master Hans Holbein.
Incomplete copy of the first edition of these suites of engravings and sepia aquatints.
Three complete suites (Dance of Death*, the Passion of Christ and Portraits), plus several additional plates, altogether 40 engraved plates and two engraved vignettes.
Title page, 14 pages of descriptive text to the Triumph of Death with two engraved vignettes, 47 engravings on 12 plates of the Triumph of Death (Le Triomphe de la Mort) and two plates entitled Triumph of Wealth (Triumphus Divitiarum) and Triumph of Poverty (Triumphus Paupertatus); frontispiece and 12 plates to The Passion of Our Lord (La Passion de Notre Seigneur); 2 double-page fold-out engravings A Scene of the Insurrection of the Peasants and The Prophet Samuel Declared to Saul; 1 plate of the costume of a young woman of Basel from Costumes d'hommes et de femmes du seizième siècle; and 10 plates of… Read More

Good copy of the 1931 re-issue of this rare suite of engravings
Complete with all 115 plates newly engraved by E. Doisteau, printed by R. Tanburro and hand-coloured in pochoir (stencil) by J. Saude
After the original hand-coloured plates by Georges-Jacques Gatine, Nicolas Schencker and others after designs by artists Horace Vernet, Louis-Marie Lanté, Dominique Bosio, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Dutailly, etc.
Example No. 490 of a print run of 750 numbered copies and ten copies hors commerce numbered I to X.
The plates were sold individually from 1811, then the first 104 plates were collected and published in a suite with explanatory text in 1817. A second edition was published in 1827 with an additional 11 plates (for a total of 115 plates) with 24 pages of Observations by Pierre de la Mésangère.
The magnificent caricatures depict not only the belles and dandies of the Empire and Restoration eras, but also Parisian public entertainment, street performers, masquerade balls, the latest dance crazes (the… Read More

Very good copy of the first volume of Massard's Costumes Francais (French Costumes)
With all 160 hand-coloured lithographs drawn and lithographed by Leopold Massard (one uncoloured)
First volume of a four-volume set that is very hard to find complete
Plates numbered 1-160 in the index, but 1-60, 1-16 of the second series, and 77-160 within the plates.
Very vibrantly hand-coloured plates of 1,000 years of French fashions from the time of Clovis I (5th century) to Charles V (14th century). Subjects include a wide range of society from royalty to peasants, and include kings and queens, dukes and ladies, servants, maids, soldiers, bourgeois, falconer, troubadours, archers, soldiers, crossbowmen, knights, crusaders, executioner, etc. Royal portrait plates include Clovis I, Chlotar I, Charlemagne, Lothair I, Philip the Bold, Henry III, Philip IV, Charles IV, Jean II, Charles V, Louis II, etc.
Leopold Massard (1812-1889) was a French artist, miniaturist, engraver and lithographer. Grandson of the engraver… Read More

Suite of a 25 hand-coloured etchings of British fashions of the Georgian era
Elegant fashion plates depicting Regency belles and dandies from the pages of a Jane Austen novel
Ball gowns, court fashions, promenading clothes, and more
The etchings by A. Guillaumot Fils (Auguste Etienne Guillaumot Jr.) based on contemporary prints in the collection of the writer Victorien Sardou
While many are signed only by the etcher, a few of the gentlemens' costume plates include the name of the original artist, Horace VernetAuguste Etienne Guillaumot (1844-1890) was the son of architect and printmaker Auguste Alexandre Guillaumot (1815-1892), and published several books of architectural views and costume plates including Costumes du XVIIIe Siecle after paintings by Watteau, Desrais and others (1873), Costumes du XVIIIe Siecle taken from Sardou's musical play Les Pres-Saint Gervais (1874), Costumes du Directoire (1875), Costumes de la Revolution (1879), Costumes de l'Opera (1883), Costumes des Ballets du Roy (1885)… Read More

Very good copy of the Insects and Crustaceans part from Cuvier's huge Dictionary of Natural Sciences
Complete with all 118 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates of entomology and carcinology
All the illustrations by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, under the direction of Pierre Jean François Turpin, and engraved by Louis Massard, Victor, Prudhon, Madame Guyot, Forestier, Joyeau, etc.
Insectes et Crustacés: Title page, 16pp (tables of plates, index), 60 handcoloured engraved plates of insects, beetles and butterflies, 58 handcoloured engraved plates of crabs and shrimp.
Part of Cuvier's massive Dictionary of Natural Sciences that was published in 60 text volumes and 13 plate volumes from 1816 to 1830.
Jean-Gabriel Prêtre (1768-1849) was a Swiss-French natural history painter who illustrated a large number of books for Cuvier, Louis Pierre Vieillot, René Primevère Lesson, Comte de Lacépède, Richard Achille, and many other French zoologists.
Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775-1840) was a French botanist and… Read More

Fine delicate engravings by Chretien de Mechel or Christian von Mechel (and Bartholomaus Hubner) after works by the Renaissance master Hans Holbein.
Incomplete copy of the first edition of these suites of engravings and sepia aquatints.
Three complete suites (Dance of Death*, the Passion of Christ and Portraits), plus several additional plates, altogether 40 engraved plates and two engraved vignettes.
Title page, 14 pages of descriptive text to the Triumph of Death with two engraved vignettes, 47 engravings on 12 plates of the Triumph of Death (Le Triomphe de la Mort) and two plates entitled Triumph of Wealth (Triumphus Divitiarum) and Triumph of Poverty (Triumphus Paupertatus); frontispiece and 12 plates to The Passion of Our Lord (La Passion de Notre Seigneur); 2 double-page fold-out engravings A Scene of the Insurrection of the Peasants and The Prophet Samuel Declared to Saul; 1 plate of the costume of a young woman of Basel from Costumes d'hommes et de femmes du seizième siècle; and 10 plates of… Read More

Good copy of the 1931 re-issue of this rare suite of engravings
Complete with all 115 plates newly engraved by E. Doisteau, printed by R. Tanburro and hand-coloured in pochoir (stencil) by J. Saude
After the original hand-coloured plates by Georges-Jacques Gatine, Nicolas Schencker and others after designs by artists Horace Vernet, Louis-Marie Lanté, Dominique Bosio, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Dutailly, etc.
Example No. 490 of a print run of 750 numbered copies and ten copies hors commerce numbered I to X.
The plates were sold individually from 1811, then the first 104 plates were collected and published in a suite with explanatory text in 1817. A second edition was published in 1827 with an additional 11 plates (for a total of 115 plates) with 24 pages of Observations by Pierre de la Mésangère.
The magnificent caricatures depict not only the belles and dandies of the Empire and Restoration eras, but also Parisian public entertainment, street performers, masquerade balls, the latest dance crazes (the… Read More

Very good copy of the first volume of Massard's Costumes Francais (French Costumes)
With all 160 hand-coloured lithographs drawn and lithographed by Leopold Massard (one uncoloured)
First volume of a four-volume set that is very hard to find complete
Plates numbered 1-160 in the index, but 1-60, 1-16 of the second series, and 77-160 within the plates.
Very vibrantly hand-coloured plates of 1,000 years of French fashions from the time of Clovis I (5th century) to Charles V (14th century). Subjects include a wide range of society from royalty to peasants, and include kings and queens, dukes and ladies, servants, maids, soldiers, bourgeois, falconer, troubadours, archers, soldiers, crossbowmen, knights, crusaders, executioner, etc. Royal portrait plates include Clovis I, Chlotar I, Charlemagne, Lothair I, Philip the Bold, Henry III, Philip IV, Charles IV, Jean II, Charles V, Louis II, etc.
Leopold Massard (1812-1889) was a French artist, miniaturist, engraver and lithographer. Grandson of the engraver… Read More

Suite of a 25 hand-coloured etchings of British fashions of the Georgian era
Elegant fashion plates depicting Regency belles and dandies from the pages of a Jane Austen novel
Ball gowns, court fashions, promenading clothes, and more
The etchings by A. Guillaumot Fils (Auguste Etienne Guillaumot Jr.) based on contemporary prints in the collection of the writer Victorien Sardou
While many are signed only by the etcher, a few of the gentlemens' costume plates include the name of the original artist, Horace VernetAuguste Etienne Guillaumot (1844-1890) was the son of architect and printmaker Auguste Alexandre Guillaumot (1815-1892), and published several books of architectural views and costume plates including Costumes du XVIIIe Siecle after paintings by Watteau, Desrais and others (1873), Costumes du XVIIIe Siecle taken from Sardou's musical play Les Pres-Saint Gervais (1874), Costumes du Directoire (1875), Costumes de la Revolution (1879), Costumes de l'Opera (1883), Costumes des Ballets du Roy (1885)… Read More

Very good copy of the Insects and Crustaceans part from Cuvier's huge Dictionary of Natural Sciences
Complete with all 118 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates of entomology and carcinology
All the illustrations by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, under the direction of Pierre Jean François Turpin, and engraved by Louis Massard, Victor, Prudhon, Madame Guyot, Forestier, Joyeau, etc.
Insectes et Crustacés: Title page, 16pp (tables of plates, index), 60 handcoloured engraved plates of insects, beetles and butterflies, 58 handcoloured engraved plates of crabs and shrimp.
Part of Cuvier's massive Dictionary of Natural Sciences that was published in 60 text volumes and 13 plate volumes from 1816 to 1830.
Jean-Gabriel Prêtre (1768-1849) was a Swiss-French natural history painter who illustrated a large number of books for Cuvier, Louis Pierre Vieillot, René Primevère Lesson, Comte de Lacépède, Richard Achille, and many other French zoologists.
Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775-1840) was a French botanist and… Read More