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Four "Atalaya" Caricature Advertising Cards with Fabric and Other Material Paste-ons
Berlin: Atalaya, 1922 and 1923. NA. Very Good. Each card is a folded leaf of medium weight card, with the humorous figure -- two are of bums, one, a bellhop, another, a waif -- on the front. These are all made using paper and fabric pastedowns, with no printing of the figures directly on the cards. The cards are promoting Atalaya's calendars and other novelty printed products in the Spanish market, with the text entirely in Spanish and the Spanish outpost located in Berlin. Given the...
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$200.00
Our Artist in Cuba. Fifty Drawings on Wood. Leaves from the Sketch-Book of a Traveler, During the Winter of 1864-5
by Carleton, George W
New York: Carleton, 1865. First Edition. Pebbled Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. 16.5 by 11 cm. viii, 50 pp., each with a comical illustration or two. Charming, if arguably Rascist. Probably capturing very well the common impressions of the tourists of the era, with noisome insects, heat and other afflictions sabotaging the pleasure of the visit. A clean, fresh copy, with the lightest of wear.
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$125.00
TESOUROS DA CARICATURA PORTUGUESA 1856-1928.
by MADEIRA RODRIGUES. (Paulo)
Soft Cover. A Política Portuguesa através da sátira ilustrada. Círculo de Leitores. S.l. 1979. De 28x20 cm. Com 173 págs. Encadernação do editor inteira a ouro, com estampagem a branco. Profusamente Ilustrado. Exemplar sem sobrecapa. Estudo da caricatura de tema político que floresceu em Portugal nos tempos conturbados do final da Monarquia e durante a República. Inclui bibliografia, listas de autores e lista de publicações periódicas. Foi um período de grande qualidade e acutilância,...
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€30.00
Vie en Rose
by Chatenay, E
Wraps. Very Good. 1902? Special issue of serial humor and caricature/cartoon publication issued from 1901 to 1903. Contributions by Radiguet, Jean Richepin, Bac, Louis Morin and others. This issue focused on poking fun at Bretons. 4to. 29 by 20.5 cm. 12 pp., plus wraps. Color cartoons on front and rear cover. Mostly page-sized cartoons, with also several songs and poems. Condition: cheap pulp paper predictably very age toned or browned. Small edge chip on cover, and minor edge staining.
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$50.00
CÓCÓ NO TRAÇO DE RAPHAEL BORDALLO PINHEIRO.
Soft Cover. No centenário da Morte de Rosa Araújo. 26 de Janeiro a 26 de Fevereiro '93. Beau Séjour - Gabinete de Estudos Olisiponenses. Câmara Municipal Lisboa. 1993. De 21x15 cm. Com 47 págs. Brochado. Ilustrado com fotografias a preto e branco de Pedro Boffa-Molinar. I-241-F-11
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€20.00
Specimens of Riding Near London
by ALKEN, Henry
London: Published by Thomas M'Lean, 1823. Alken's Rare Satire Successfully Transplants Horse's Ass to Rider's Seat ALKEN, Henry. Specimens of Riding Near London. Drawn from Life. London: Published by Thomas M'Lean,. Repository of Wit and Humour, No. 26, Haymarket, 1823. Second edition. Oblong folio (8 3/4 x 12 3/4 in; 222 x 323 mm). Printed title and eighteen hand-colored engraved plates. Late nineteenth century half red roan over red cloth boards, ruled in gilt. Rectangular red roan gilt...
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$6500.00
Cockney-Sportsmen
by GILLRAY, James
London: H. Humphrey, 1800. One of the Scarcest of all James Gillray's Works GILLRAY, James. Cockney-Sportsmen. London: H[annah] Humphrey, November 12th, 1800. Oblong folio (13 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches; 342 x 485 mm. Plate mark 10 1/8 x 14 1/8 inches; 254 x 358 mm.). Four magnificent hand-colored soft-ground etched aquatint plates. Chemised in a felt-lined half black morocco over red cloth clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments. A very fine set. "As we...
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$19500.00
"To Hold as 'Twere"
by Plunkett, Mrs. Joseph (Grace Vandeleur Plunkett) (1885-1955)
Dundalk: Tempest Dundagan Press, 1920. Wraps. Good. 4to. 26 by 18.5 cm. Unpaginated, 20 leaves, with 17 being caricature plates, plus title with vignettes. Grace Plunkett, nee Gifford, was a well-known artist and caricaturist who married Joseph Plunkett, martyr of the Easter 1916 Uprising, hours before his execution. This 1920 collection includes a good number of caricatures of the Irish rebels and other notables, including de Valera, Lady Gregory, John MacCormick, Countess Markievicz, etc. The...
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$1000.00
Les Centaures du Turf
by Bib et Roland [Breitel, Georges Auguste and Roland Carle Vernet]
Paris, 1931. Limited First Edition. Portfolio. . Near Fine. No. 51 of 700 copies on vélin Navarre, 732 copies issued in total. Scarce survivor -- only one institutional copy appearing on OCLC First Search, at the University of Virginia. Not in the BNF's Gallica catalogue. Oblong, 31 by 41 cm. 35 loose plates within portfolio, three of which are color plates. The clever caricatures depict one or more figures of the French racing world as centaurs, often with another equestrian nabob as a full...
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$850.00
Mixed Political Wares
by VANITY FAIR
London: Vanity Fair, 1892. Leslie Ward (Spy). Color lithograph. Sheet measures 15 x 30."<br/><br/> This supplement to Vanity Fair titled "Mixed Political Wares", dates to December 3, 1892 and features the caricatures of Gladstone, Harcourt, Lord Spencer, Lord Ripon, Campbell-Bannerman, and Henry Fowler..<br><br>The original artist was Sir Leslie Ward, otherwise known as "Spy," who was a British cartoonist celebrated for his satiric portraits. The print is...
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$200.00
CARICATURAS PORTUGUESAS DOS ANOS DE SALAZAR.
by MANTA. (João Abel)
Soft Cover. O Jornal. Lisboa. 1978. Livro oblongo de 21x30 cm. Com 141 págs. Brochado. Ilustrado a cores. Exemplar com sinais de manuseio nas capas. Data retirada do copyright. I-117-G-21
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€50.00
Commerce et Qualité
by Effel, Jean, cartoonist
Lyon: Consortium General de Publicite de Lyon. Printer: Les Presses des Audin, Automne, 1949. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. Unusual comical promotion for 15 varied luxury businesses based in Lyon, including a watchmaker, a jeweler, a furrier, a florist, a shirtmaker, a couturier, an optician, a ceramist/glassmaker, a high-end shoe store, a handbag and glove business, a music store. For each, the business name, address and type are written on the cover of a folded sheet, accompanied by a...
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$100.00
Le Trust des Perles Deauville 1921
by Chastel, Roger. Pochoir (colored) by Jean Saudé
Chez Jacoub Aulard & Cie., 1921. Limp Card. Paper pastedown on card. . Very Good. No. 58 of 300 copies, on "Grande Fibre de Bambou de Cochin-Chine". Folio, 38 cm square. 24 pochoir plates, 3 of which are double pages, with a brief introductory page and a limitation page at the end. Scarce, with only two institutional holdings reflected on OCLC First Search, both in France. Caricatures bear a superficial resemblance to those of Sem. The subject matter -- the rich, pampered, louche, effete -- come...
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$4500.00
Judge Magazine, July 7, 1888 - December 8, 1888
Volumes 14 & 15, 26 issues, whole numbers 351-376, plus 45 page Christmas Supplement. Half black calf over pebbled boards. Nice smyth sewn binding allowing for flat opening.
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$1260.00
Merton College Caricature Album
by Leather, R. S.; S. C. Deed; L.D. Fox; the Freak; G. J. M. Hardy; and others probably
Oxford, England, 1899-1904. Half Leather. Very Good. Madcap "salad days" from back when! 4to. 30 by 25.5 cm. Unpaginated, 20 pages with caricatures mounted onto card rectos. Additional blank card, and a number of drawings that are loose, some of which were probably always so. In total, 91 separate pieces of overwhelmingly, caricature, of varying size, and ranging from simple portraits, exaggerated in one way or another as called for by the medium, to multi-character cartoons, or...
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$1350.00
Nadar (Les Hommes d’aujourd’hui, No. 8. 1st. Novembre 1878). Cat. rais. pages 188-191.
by Gill, André (Louis Alexandre Gosset de Guines)
Paris, France: A. Cinqualbre, 1878.. Hand-colored lithograph. 28.5 x 20.3 cm. sheet. 1st Edition. Text by Félicien Champsaur. Very Good. Light toning. André Gill (1840-1885) was noted for the enlargement of his subjects' heads, which sat upon undersized bodies. His caricatures, in the form of large hand-colored, lithographic portraits, were considered very accurate and not very cruel. Many of Gill's famous contemporaries requested to be drawn by him, such as Sarah Bernhardt, Otto von Bismarck,...
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$250.00
Eleganza Femminile
by Rigone
1911. Cloth. Leather strap clasp. Ribbon tie binding. . Near Fine. Eleven masterfully executed humorous fashion plate caricatures mostly satirizing over-the-top hats. Oblong, 23 by 32.5 cm. The original artwork is done on white sheets which are then mounted onto the black album card, one caricature per leaf, with tissue guards for each album leaf. The artwork is all pen-and-ink and watercolored. With most of the renderings, the oversized hats entirely overwhelms the wearer's face. In all but...
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$2450.00
![[Trade Catalogue] La Mode chez Delion. Printemps et Eté 1903](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/608/341/1030341608.0.b.jpg)
[Trade Catalogue] La Mode chez Delion. Printemps et Eté 1903
by Illustrations by Noël Dorville
Paris: Devambez, 1903. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. 20 by 11.5 cm. 28 pp. Notable aspect of this thin catalogue is the eight pages devoted to caricature portraits of celebrities of the day -- Waldeck-Rousseau, Boni de Castellane, General Andre, etc. These drawings were done by Noël Dorville, a famous newspaper caricaturist of the day and a frequent contributor to the humor magazine, "L'Assiette au Beurre". The hats on offer range from top hats to bowlers, panamas,...
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$150.00
Le Diable Boiteux A Paris
by SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel; J.S
Paris: Chez Ostervald ainé, 1830. The Lame Devils of Paris" Exceptionally Rare Suite of Six Hand Colored Lithographed Plates [SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel]. J.S -. Le Diable Boiteux A Paris, Par Gabriel Scheffer. [Paris: Chez Ostervald ainé, 1830. First edition. Part one only (of two). Oblong quarto (9 1/8 x 12 3/8 inches; 232 x 315 mm.). Publisher's pictorial front wrapper and six (of twelve?) superb hand-colored plates (plain rear wrapper supplied in matching tan paper). An exceptionally fine copy....
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$3500.00
Diorama Anglais ou Promenades Pittoresques à Londres, renfermant les notes les plus exactes sur les caractères, les moeurs et usages de la nation anglaise, prises dans les différentes classes et la société
by Egan, Pierce. Jean-Baptiste Balthazar Sauvan. Illustrations by George and Robert Cruikshank
Paris: Chez Jules Didot l'Ainé and Badouin Freres, 1823. First edition. Full Calf. Very Good. A French adaptation of Egan's "Life in London" -- not a straightforward translation. 8vo. 21 by 14.5 cm. 235 pp. 24 hand-colored plates taken from the English work. Gorgeous full mottled calf binding. Foxing, heavy-ish at times, on the text leaves.
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$1250.00
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Ce qu'on dit et ce qu'on pense [What one says and what one thinks]
by [SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel] J.S-
Paris: Chez Gihaut Frères, 1829. 'What One Says And What One thinks' Sixty Fine Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates by Jean-Gabriel Scheffer [SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel]. Ce qu'on dit et ce qu'on pense [What one says and what one thinks]. Paris: Gihaut Frères, 1829. First edition. Complete. Oblong folio (9 3/4 x 13 inches; 248 x 330 mm.). Publisher's original tan pictorial lithograph front wrapper (as title-page) and sixty wonderful hand-colored lithograph plates numbered consecutively. Plates 1-12 are...
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$9500.00
Nautical Dictionary
by Heath, Henry
Charles Tilt, 1829, 1834. Quarter Morocco. Marbled Boards. . Fine. Oblong 4to., 26 by 36.5 cm. Six hand-colored plates of caricature, six to nine separate illustrations per plate or page. The suite of plates were included in a later collection, the Caricaturist's Scrap Book, but in this later form the plates were not hand-colored typically. In this collection of 45 caricature vignettes, the conceit is a humorous take on a "nautical" word or phrase. The resulting illustration may have nothing to...
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$2000.00
Miseries of Human Life
by ROWLANDSON, Thomas
London: R. Ackermann, 1808. Complete with the Rare 'Pall Mall' Plate ROWLANDSON, Thomas. Miseries of Human Life: Designed and Etched by T. Rowlandson... London: R. Ackermann, 1808. Oblong quarto (7 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches; 197 x 250 mm.). Hand colored engraved title-page and forty-nine hand colored engraved plates including the rare 'Pall Mall' plate which is missing from most copies. Seven of the plates watermarked 'J. Whatman 1811' and three watermarked 'J. Whatman 1812'. Some occasional light marginal...
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$6500.00
