- Contents fine. Lacks backstrip; covers loosening; covers sl. smudged/ stained and w. some sm. tears.
AND 11 other works with illustrations by CARAN D'ACHE, i.a. PAGES D'HISTOIRE. Album par Caran D'Ache (Paris, (±1904), richly illustrated, orig. pict. boards, folio) and N. BÉNAR, A la découverte de la Russie (Paris, (1889), num. ills. by CARAN D'ACHE and A. GUILLAUME, orig. boards, obl. sm. folio).
- Contents sl. yellowed; edges of loose issues and one vol. (partly) sl. frayed. Extremities (sl.) rubbed; corners sl. dam.
= Comprises: vol. LIV (1871), nos. 1329-1354; vol. LVIII (1873), nos. 1433-1458; vol. LXXIX (1883), nos. 1981-2004 (lacks two issues); ±50 loose issues: from vol. 149 (1918), nos. 3826-3831; vol. 150 (1919), nos. 3832-3838, 3840-3857; vol. 151 (1919), nos. 3858-3875, 3878; vol. 152 (1920), no. 3889.
- Lacks title; partly foxed. Bookblock loose; spine dam.
AND 7 others in 10 vols., all by/ on P. GAVARNI, i.a. IDEM. Le Diable à Paris. Paris et les Parisiens. Moeurs et coutumes, caractères et portraits des habitants de Paris (...) (Paris, 1845/ 1846, 1st ed., 2 vols., frontisp., num. woodengr. plates and ills. after P. GAVARNI and A. BERTALL by i.a. CHAMPIN, D'AUBIGNY, contemp. unif. hmor., 4to) and IDEM. La Mascarade Humaine. 100 Grandes Compositions par Gavarni (Paris, 1881, 16 textp., 100 plates (verso blank), orig. gilt and dec. cl., sm. folio).
- Some blue offsetting on title-p. and verso of final plate; partly sl. dampst.; photogr. plate w. tear in upper blank margin and left upper corner. Portfolio sl. worn along extremities and (sl.) stained on front cover.
Lods, A. André Gill. Sa vie. Bibliographie de ses oeuvres. Paris, Leon Vanier, 1887, (4),132p., lithogr. plates, orig. publ. wrs., sm. 8vo.
- (Sl.) yellowed; occas. trifle foxed. Spine-ends sl. worn/ dam.
AND 2 others.
- Edges partly (sl.) frayed; occas. trifle/ sl. foxed.
= Comprises: (La Lune) No. 40, 53, 59, 61, 75, 79, 90, 95 and 98; (L'Eclipse) No. 19, 22, 24, 31, 46, 51, 74-76, 80, 109, 135, 149, 166, 128, 181, 185, 189, 200, 207, 311, 315 and 2 unnumbered issues.
AND ±20 issues of other French periodicals, i.a. 14 issues of PSST...! (Paris, 1898-1899, lithogr. ills. by FORAIN and CARAN D'ACHE).
- Occas. sl. frayed w. closed tears. Wr. frayed/ dam.
= With nice caricatural plates of i.a. the model-husband, -wife, -bachelor, -mother in law, -member of parliament, -dandy, -baby.
= Very rare complete run of this influential periodical and its precursor. Sold as a periodical, not subject to return.
- A few worn spots on spines.
- Sl. browned; occas. trifle foxed.
- Covers sl. soiled. = Rare original dissertation. A book by the same author on this topic followed in 2014.
Vuille, C. L'Affaire Raemaekers. Compte-rendu du procès intenté a Me. Charles Vuille (...). Paris & Neuchatel, Attinger Frères (ed.), (±1918), 244,(3)p., frontisp. portrait and several plates, orig. publ. wr., sm. 8vo (rare).
- Contents sl. yellowed; trifle foxed; sl. later (?) owner's entry in col. pencil on htitle. Wr. trifle soiled and w. some creases.
AND 28 others in 29 vols. on/ by L. RAEMAEKERS, i.a. L. RAEMAEKERS, L'Album Raemaekers du Phare (Nantes, 1922, num. lithogr. plates by the author, orig. hcl., 4to).
- Two vols. w. a few lvs. cut out; occas. cut (sl.) short in the upper or lower margin w. loss of text; a few lvs. w. sm. tears; occas. sl. browned. One vol. rebound w. use of orig. backstrip; two vols. joints weak, spine-ends sl. dam. and corners rubbed. Not collated, sold as a periodical, not subject to return.
= Also includes two issues of Le Rire Belge from 1901. Nice art nouveau illustrations by various artists, including M. RADIGUET, A. GUILLAUME, L. MÉTIVET, C. LÉANDRE, P.-G. JEANNIOT and L. CAPPIELLO.
AND 1 other: LE JOURNAL AMUSANT. JOURNAL HUMORISTIQUE ((Paris), 1899, No. 1-27, num. (col.) lithogr. plates, contemp. hcl., folio).
- Year 2 incomplete. Contents (sl.) yellowed/ browned; edges of loose issues trifle frayed/ brittle. Most vols. hinges weak/ broken; all vols. backstrip dam. or partly lacking; one vol. bookblock broken.
= Some issues incl. "Beiblatt
Eulenspiegel. No. 1-5 and 7-26. Stuttg., L. Pfau and J. Nisle, 1848, 25 issues in 1 vol., 104,(2)p., num. woodengr. ills. by X.A. and A. MAUCH, contemp. plain boards, 4to.
- Lacks issue 6; trifle/ sl. foxed; one leaf sm. tear. Upper joint nearly broken; lacks most of backstrip.
= The first half-year only of this weekly periodical. With at the end the "Extra-Blatt zum Eulenspiegel". Hinz 1558.
- All vols. (sl.) browned; a few vols. w. sl. frayed edges. Corners and spine-ends rubbed/ sl. dam. on most vols.; covers occas. sl. stained.
- An almost complete run, lacks final issue no.125.
= Flemish satirical weekly with many cartoons and caricatures. I.a. mocking Belgian and international politics. With contributions by i.a. Herman Brusselmans, Tom Lanoye, Jan Mulder, Jan Blokker, Jeroen Brouwers, Hugo Claus. Cartoons by i.a. Quirit, Zak, Luc vandenVijver.
- Manuscript annot. on first free endpaper. Dustwr. trifle yellowed. = Sorlier 40.
- Occas. sl. foxed, mainly first and last lvs.; a few uncut lvs.
= Monogrammed "GC" by the publisher on the colophon. Monod 6206; Carteret IV, p.210. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIV.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper. Traces of silverfish nibbling on covers; corners and spine-ends trifle rubbed; bookplate at foot of spine.
= Enlarged edition with coloured plates.
- One vol. rubbed spot at top of spine. = Copy printed on name of M.B.B. Nijkerk.
La Tour du Pin, P. de. Lettres de faire-part. Paris, La Compagnie Typographique, 1974, (77)p., printed in black and red in 103 numb. copies on Vélin de Rives (88), orig. calfbacked boards w. gilt vignette on both covers, orig. wr. pres., 4to.
= Copy printed on name of M.B.B. Nijkerk.
- Endpapers occas. sl. browned. Backstrips sl. chafed.
= Van Dijk 308. Final volume printed on name of M.B.B. Nijkerk.