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London: Published by Henry Bohn, 1837. The Coronation of King George the Fourth Forty-Two Magnificent Hand Colored Plates NAYLER, Sir George. The Coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty King George the Fourth solemnized in the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter Westminster upon the Nineteenth Day of July MDCCCXXI. Undertaken by His Majesty's Especial Command, by the Late Sir George Nayler, Garter Principal King at Arms, and since his Decease Completed from the Official Documents. London: Published by Henry George Bohn, 1837. Large folio (22 1/2 x16 1/2 inches; 571 x 419 mm.). [6], lvi, 134, [8, indexes], [1, list of plates], [1, blank] pp. With forty-five plates, of which forty-two are mezzotint, stipple, and aquatint, beautifully colored by hand, and three are uncolored outline plates. All plates interleaved. Text watermarked 1824. Two of the plates watermarked 1824 and one 1837. Small newspaper report of the sale of another copy in 1902 tipped onto title-page. Publisher's three-quarter red… Read More

London: Messrs. Fores, 1845. A Unique Copy With Henry Alken's Original Pencil and Watercolor Drawing And Etched Proof (Hand Colored by Henry Alken) For the Pictorial Title-Page NEWHOUSE, C[harles].B. [&] [ALKEN, Henry]. The Roadsters' Album. London: Messrs. Fores, Jan. 2nd, 1845. Second edition. Hand-colored aquatint pictorial title-page [by Henry Alken] and sixteen fine hand-colored aquatints by C.B. Newhouse. Eight pages of advertisements at end. Folio (14 7/8 x 10 1/2 in; 379 x 268 mm.). Sixteen hand-colored aquatints, printed on artboard. Each plate marked, C.B. Newhouse delt. and London: Published by Messrs. Fores, 41, Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St. Jany 2nd 1845. Recently rebound to contemporary style in full dark green morocco. Covers with gilt ruled borders enclosing a decorative gilt border and blind-stamped diamond. Spine richly gilt decorated and lettered in compartments, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled end-papers. A unique copy with Henry Alken's original pencil and… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1925. The Bookman Special Christmas Number 1925," with "The Bookman Portfolio" Containing Three Color Plates by Kay Nielsen [NIELSEN, Kay, contributor]. The Bookman. [Special] Christmas Number 1925. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1925. First edition. Large quarto (13 3/16 x 8 3/4 inches; 335 x 222 mm.). xxiv, [12, publisher's advertisements on yellow paper], [2, publisher's advertisements on blue paper], [3], 144-196, [2, publisher's advertisement], 208 ("Supplement to The Bookman Christmas 1925"), xxv-xxxiv [publisher's advertisements] pp. Six mounted color plates (including frontispiece) by Charles Robinson, Lionel Edwards, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, Kitty Shannon, and Winifred Brunton, numerous additional color and black and white plates by E.H. Shepard, Willebeek Le Mair, Mead Schaeffer, E.O. Hoppé, Donald Maxwell, and others. Text illustrations. Original cream-colored wrappers printed in green with mounted color plate on front wrapper. A near fine copy. Loosely… Read More

London: William Holland, 1797. A Medley of Characters A Wonderful 'Frieze' by John [Colley] Nixon NIXON, John [Colley] A Medley of Characters. Drawn by J. Nixon, engraved by Ziegler. London: William Holland, [31, January 1797]. Oblong quarto (28 1/2 x 10 7/8 inches; 276 x 723 mm.). Large landscape hand-colored aquatint engraving on four sheets. Total size 10 3/4 x 114 inches; 277 x 2892 mm. Four numbered sheets, all with "Drawn by J. Nixon Esq.r' / A Medley of Characters / Engraved by Ziegler / London Pub. by Willm. Holland Cockspur Street". Small closed tear to blank margin of first plate not affecting image; neatly repaired 3 1/8 inch tear to lower right hand edge just touching image, otherwise an excellent complete suite of this exceptionally rare panorama showing John Nixon's gentle satire. Chemised in a quarter black morocco clamshell case (measuring 12 x 30 inches; 305 x 762 mm.), spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments. This panorama works as a kind of… Read More

Paris: Arnauld De Vresse, 1850. Exceedingly Scarce Highly Amusing Hand-Colored Caricatures Showing "The Crazy's of the Day" [CHAM, illustrator, pseud. of Charles Amédée de Noé]. Les Toqués Du Jour. Paris: Arnauld De Vresse, [n.d., ca. 1847]. First edition. Large folio (13 3/4 x 10 5/16 inches; 349 x 261 mm.). Hand-colored lithographed title and thirty-six comical scenes on eighteen fine hand-colored lithographed plates heightened with gum arabic. Each scene with printed caption below. Publisher's brown ribbed cloth, bordered in blind, front cover lettered in gilt. Expertly rebacked to style at an early date. Inner hinges cracked but sound, corners very slightly rubbed. A near fine copy of this exceedingly scarce album. A highly amusing collection of lithographs by Cham (1819-1879) satirizing the varieties of Les Toqués Du Jour (The Crazy's of the Day). Of Charles 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.… Read More

Paris: Mon. Martinet, 1860. The Trial of Jean Bidoux in his Military Career CHAM [Pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé]. Les Tâtonnements de Jean Bidoux dans la Carrière Militaire. (The trials of Jean Bidoux in his Military Career). Par Cham. Paris: Mon. Martinet, [1860]. Large quarto (13 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches; 336 x 250 mm.). Pictorial lithograph title-page and eighteen lithograph plates with sixty-five amusing images. Publisher's quarter red roan over blind stamped red cloth, front cover decoratively titled in gilt. Small stain to top margin of last plate, otherwise a fine copy.

Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., 1850. Jokes in Poor Taste CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé). Turlupinades Contrariétés et Autres Amusemens Négatifs [Jokes in Poor Taste], Par Cham. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., [ca. 1850]. First edition. Folio (13 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches; 337 x 251 mm.). Hand-colored lithographed title and fifteen full-page, hand-colored lithographed plates with captions. Advertisement leaf at end (Maison de Commission. Des Modes Parisiennes). Publisher's pictorial glazed green boards, lower portion of spine renewed, inner front hinge cracked, some light wear to corners. An excellent copy. OCLC locates just four copies worldwide: Morgan Library & Museum; New York Public Library; Getty Institute; University of Illinois. CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé) (1818-1879). French caricaturist and lithographer, published his first book Monsieur Lajeunesse in 1839 and from 1843 began to be regularly published in illustrated magazines such as Le Charivari (which in 1835 focused primarily on… Read More

Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., 1846. A Satirical View of the French in Algeria CHAM [Pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé]. [À la guerre comme à la guerre. Variantes lithographiques, sur le thême bien connu: Ah! quel plaisir d'être soldat. Par Cham]. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., [n.d., 1846]. Oblong folio (10 1/4 x 13 1/8 inches; 260 x 334 mm.). Twenty-seven (of thirty-one) 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. Bound without the pictorial title-page and plates 1, 29 & 30. Ten plates with short lower marginal tears. Twentieth century tan cloth over boards, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. A very good, albeit incomplete example. The plates: 2. Au diable les chevaux arabes! 3. Quelle chance!! 4. Pour faire un bon pot-au-feu. 5. V'là soixante lieues d'avalées! 6. Ces gueux d'arabes. 7. Dites donc, caporal. 8. Une visite sous la tente. 9.… Read More

Paris: Au Bureau du Journal L'Eclipse, [1871]. Irony and Biting Satire on the 4th French Revolution CHAM (pseud. of Amédée de Noé). Les Folies de la Commune. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal L'Eclipse, n.d. [1871]. First edition, complete. Quarto (13 x 9 3/4 inches; 330 x 247 mm.). Hand-colored lithographed title leaf and nineteen hand-colored lithographed plates. Plates 18 & 19 slightly shorter at lower and fore-edge. Modern green cloth, front cover with dark green morocco label lettered in gilt. A near fine copy. Created and published in the immediate wake of high political drama in France - the Paris Commune aka the Fourth French Revolution, when the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War led to the fall of Emperor Louis Napoleon III's Second French Empire, the establishment of the Third French Republic, and near immediate popular workers' ("communards") insurrection in concert with the citizen's National Guard against the forces of Versailles which, though Republican, held direct rule over… Read More

Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., 1850. Jokes in Poor Taste CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé). Turlupinades Contrariétés et Autres Amusemens Négatifs [Jokes in Poor Taste], Par Cham. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., [ca. 1850]. First edition. Folio (13 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches; 337 x 251 mm.). Hand-colored lithographed title and fifteen full-page, hand-colored lithographed plates with captions. Advertisement leaf at end (Maison de Commission. Des Modes Parisiennes). Publisher's pictorial glazed green boards. Original? glassine wrapper. A superb example. OCLC locates just four copies worldwide: Morgan Library & Museum; New York Public Library; Getty Institute; University of Illinois. CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé) (1818-1879). French caricaturist and lithographer, published his first book Monsieur Lajeunesse in 1839 and from 1843 began to be regularly published in illustrated magazines such as Le Charivari (which in 1835 focused primarily on publishing satires of everyday life), thereafter becoming one… Read More

Paris: Maison Martinet / Hautecoeur Frères, 1860. Oh, What Fun To Travel! (Not) In Twenty Hand Colored Lithographs CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé). Ah quel plaisir de voyager! Paris: Maison Martinet / Hautecoeur Frères, n.d. [ca. 1860]. First edition. Folio (13 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches; 349 x 261 mm.). Hand colored pictorial lithographed title and twenty hand colored lithographed plates, with sixty-two humorous scenes with captions limning the downside to travel. Publishers dark brown patterned cloth, front cover decoratively lettered in gilt, spine slightly faded. Pictorial title a little foxed in blank margins, otherwise clean. Extremities of spine and corners expertly restored, front free endpaper replaced. An excellent example of a rather scarce Cham title. Only eight copies in institutional holdings worldwide. No copies have come to auction since ABPC began indexing results in 1923. Of Amédée de Noé, "known as Cham (that is, Ham, the son of Noah)...it was said that he had ‘an idea… Read More

Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., 1845. All is Fair in Love and War" Thirty-One Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates Presenting a Satirical View of the French in Algeria CHAM [Pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé]. À la guerre comme à la guerre. Par Cham. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., [n.d., 1845]. 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. 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. 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… Read More

Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., 1850. Amusing Memories from a French Military Post... With Thirty Finely Hand-Colored Comical Scenes... [CHAM, illustrator, pseud. of Charles Amédée de Noé]. Souvenirs de Garnison et des plaisirs attachés a la chose. Paris: Chez Aubert, n.d. [ca. 1850]. First edition. Large oblong quarto (10 1/8 x 12 7/8 inches; 258 x 327 mm). Pictorial lithographed title and thirty fine comical hand-colored lithographed plates all heightened with gum arabic. Each plate with printed caption below. Publisher's tan lithographed boards. Rebacked to style. Boards a little soiled, corners and extremities a little worn, inner hinges strengthened. Some occasional light and mainly marginal foxing, still an excellent copy of this extremely rare Cham title. A highly amusing collection of lithographs by Cham... his comic view of the French military. Although this title is sometimes seen with the plates uncolored - this hand colored edition is somewhat scarce - we have only handled one other… Read More

Paris: Maison Martinet / Hautecoeur Frères, 1860. Oh, What Fun To Travel! (Not) In Twenty Scarce Lithographs CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé). Ah quel plaisir de voyager! Paris: Maison Martinet / Hautecoeur Frères, n.d. [ca. 1860]. First edition. Folio (13 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches; 349 x 261 mm.). Pictorial lithographed title and twenty lithographed plates, with sixty-two humorous scenes with captions limning the downside to travel. Publishers dark blue patterned cloth, front cover decoratively lettered in gilt, spine slightly faded. A few plates with light, mainly marginal foxing. Plate numbers 1, 7, 8, 14 & 17 with partial and minimal coloring. An excellent example of a rather scarce Cham title. Only eight copies in institutional holdings worldwide. No copies have come to auction since ABPC began indexing results in 1923. 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… Read More

Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie.,, [1846]. The Pleasures of Youth... Young Parisian Gentlemen At Play CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé). Nos Gentils Hommes a Gout. Tournure, Elégance, Moeurs et Plaisirs de la Jeunesse Dorée. Par Cham Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., n.d. [1846]. First (only) edition, complete. Folio (13 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches; 336 x 250 mm.). Hand-colored lithographed title page and twenty hand-colored lithographed plates. Pictorial lithographed advertisement and Aubert et Cie., catalogue (16 pp.) at rear. Original pictorial lithographed green boards. Later dark green pebbled cloth spine and endpapers. Board edges and corners a little rubbed, some light, mainly marginal foxing. Small repaired tear to outer margin of lithographed advertisement leaf. An excellent example. With the bookplate of Joel Spitz on front paste-down. Provenance: purchased in Paris, 1947. Rare, with OCLC recording only six copies in institutional holdings worldwide, and no auction records since 1923. We have only… Read More

Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie.,, 1846. The Pleasures of Youth... Young Parisian Gentlemen At Play CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé). Nos Gentils Hommes a Gout. Tournure, Elégance, Moeurs et Plaisirs de la Jeunesse Dorée. Par Cham Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., n.d. [1846]. First (only) edition, complete. Folio (13 x 9 5/8 inches; 330 x 245 mm.). Hand-colored lithographed title page and twenty hand-colored lithographed plates, all heightened with gum arabic. Original pictorial lithographed green boards. Minimal rubbing to board edges and corners, near fine. Rare, with OCLC recording only six copies in institutional holdings worldwide, and only one auction record since 1923. We have only seen one other copy of this title. A satire of the bustle, behavior, customs, and pleasures of young, Parisian gentlemen - golden youth. 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… Read More

Paris: Maison Martinet, 1856. Three of Cham's Rarest Works with Sixty Wonderful Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates 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!! 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. 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. The Art of Gaining Weight and The Art of Losing Weight Twenty Highly Amusing Multi-Image Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Cham 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,… Read More

Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., 1850. Fifteen Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates Caricaturing the British [CHAM, illustrator]. MÅ“urs Britanniques. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., [n.d., ca. 1850]. Large folio (12 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches; 327 x 244 mm.). Hand-colored lithographed title and fifteen numbered hand-colored lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic. Publisher's advertisement leaf at end. Small neat (1 1/8 inch) repair to top margin of plate 12 (not affecting image), some minor and mainly marginal scattered foxing, otherwise an excellent example. Contemporary quarter dark brown ribbed cloth over marbled boards. Some wear to corners and edges of boards. The plates are captioned: "Une femme bien attachée;" "Le Quaker;" "Le Recruteur;" "Visite au Musée;" "Mariage d'inclination;" "Les Hauts grades;" "Philanthropie. Bien entendue," "Les Boxeurs;" "L'Écossais;" "Un Costume national;" "Baragouin Britannique;" "In the Stocks;" "Le Péage du turn-pike;" "L'Invalide de Chelsea;" and "Smithfied Market."… Read More

London: Printed for the Nonesuch Press by Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd., Bungay, 1927. James Lever's "Stitch in Time" [NONESUCH PRESS]. LAVER, James. A Stitch in Time; or Pride Prevents a Fall. London: Printed for the Nonesuch Press by Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd., Bungay, 1927. First edition. Limited to 1,525 copies. Small folio (11 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches; 292 x 191 mm). 27, [1 colophon], [1 blank] pp. Printed on Arches cream laid paper in 18pt Caslon. Sewn into semi-stiff boards loosely covered with predominantly brown, green, and yellow marbled paper folded over inside. Printed paper label on front cover. A near fine copy. In the original (worn) glassine dust wrapper. "James Laver (1899-1975) matriculated at Oxford in 1917. In 1921 he won the Newdigate Prize for a poem on Cervantes, and in 1922 he was appointed an assistant keeper in the Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where he was to remain for 37 years" (Dreyfus). Laver wrote in his autobiography,… Read More

Antwerp: ex Officina Petri Belleri, 1645. Diaeteticon - Containing Everything that the Ancients Wrote about Food NONNIUS, Ludovicus. Diaeteticon sive de Re Cibaria libri IV. Secunda editio et Auctior. Antuerpiae, ex Officina Petri Belleri, MDCXLV (Antwerp, 1645). Second edition. Small quarto (7 1/2 x 6 inches; 191 x 152 mm.). xxix, 526, [2, colophon, verso blank] pp. Paper faults in lower blank margins of Ff3 pp. 29/230; Oo4 pp. 295/296 & Ss4 pp. 327/328. Lower blank corner (7/8 x 1 3/8 inch) of Nnn3 pp. 469/470 torn away, some light lower marginal staining affecting the last fifty pages. Contemporary vellum, lettered on spine in manuscript. Armorial bookplate of Westbury on front paste-down. Covers a little spotted. A very good copy. "The treatise is divided into 4 books, the first on the repast in general and fruits and legumes; the second on animals, fowl and game; the third on fish; and the fourth on beverages." (Bitting p. 344) First published in 1627, Ludovicus Nonnius's Diaeteticon was… Read More