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Antiquarian Books JUSTIN CROFT Antiquarian Books exhibiting at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair 2016 booth A33 Justin Croft Antiquarian Books Ltd, ABA, ILAB, 7 West Street, Faversham, Kent, ME137JE, UK, [email protected] +44 1795 591111 mobile: +44 7725 845275 ECLIPSE OF THE SUN KING 1. [ALLARD, Carel]. Koninglyke Almanach: beginnende, met den aanvang der oorlogh, van anno 1701... waer in... de loop der zon der ongeregtigheid... door XVIII zinnebeelden in koopere plaaten vertoond word...; Almanach Royal. Commencement avec la guerre de l’an 1701. ‘Paris: Imprimerie Royale’, [but Amsterdam, c. 1706]. $4500 Small folio (319 × 200 mm), engraved title (in Dutch and French) and 18 plates (of which 12 are double page) with engraved or letterpress text, plus 6 additional plates loosely inserted, the called-for plates neatly mounted on guards in early (probably eighteenth-century) marbled wrappers. Former collector’s neat numbering to lower forecorners. Spine defective, a few plates slightly creased or dusty at margins. But overall very crisp and clean. FIRST EDITION of this collection of violently satirical plates directed against Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon and Philip V of Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession, several linking their fortunes to solar eclipse of 1706. The plates are mostly by Carel Allard (1648-1709) and were etched and published separately as broadsides more or less simultaneously with the depicted contemporary events; and published as a collection c. 1706. Several of the plates have been attributed to Romeyn de Hooghe, though not securely. Both the broadsides and the collection are rare, held by only a few institutions. The Rijksmuseum holds a set apparently corresponding with ours (though theirs apparently without title page); there is no copy in the British Library and OCLC lists no US locations. Bibliographically complex, Brunet, Graesse and Cohen (28) call for a frontispiece and 17 plates, though there is evidently some variation in the very few copies we have located, with plates and accompanying text (both engraved and letterpress) in different states. Our copy is especially interesting having been augmented by a connoisseur adding related plates and additional states. Father and son Carel and Abraham Allard were based in Amsterdam with a shop among other publishers and sellers of books and prints in Kalverstraat. Carel was one of the major publishers of prints and maps of the Golden Age in the Netherlands and after his death in 1709 his son Abraham took over the business. Justin Croft Antiquarian Books Ltd, 7 West Street, Faversham, Kent, ME137JE, UK [email protected] +44 1795 591111 mobile: +44 7725 845275 Both father and son acquired notoriety, with accusations of copyright infringement and publication of obscene images (the latter born out by the prints of the present collection). Contents: Engraved title title in Dutch and French, followed by plates: 1. Kalendarium Regum Solis Cursum. 2. T Franse Hoff in Allarm. 3. Beklaaglyke Franse audientie. 4. Propheetise droon van de Zon-Eclips. 5. De Fransche en Spaansche huylebalken. 6. Castillen oostenryks. 7. Al-arm t Versailles. Letterpress text, double page. 8. Wapen-kreet van Ludofricus. Letterpress text, double page. 9. Boere-Ban en Arrier-Ban. Repeating the previous image, with letterpress text, double page. 10. Metamorphose Nouvelle, 1706. Letterpresss text below (minor repair to letterpress title with parts of 4 letters supplied in manuscript), double page. 11. De Omkeringe van de Algemene Monarchie. Letterpresss text below, double page. 12. De Verschyninge van Jupiter. Letterpresss text below, double page. 13. De Groote Eclipsis in de Zon. Letterpresss text below, double page. 14. De Vervelde ban der heeer Van Beyeren. Letterpresss text, double page. Dated 1706. 15. Oostenryk zegen-praalende aan’t Hof van Spanje, 1706. Letterpresss text, double page. 16. Het Klaagend Vrankryk. Letterpresss text, double page. 17. De Papire Koning. Letterpresss text , double page. 18. Harpagon den Ouden Schrok. Letterpresss text, double page. Additional plates: —Triumfen in vlucht Kastelen inde Luchte, engraved (without letterpress text found in some versions). —Castillen oostenryks, engraved, variant version, the image from another plate to the above plate 6 without integral text. —Al-arm t Versailles, variant similar to plate 7 above, but without the Duke of Berwick and the Old Pretender, (numbered 6 & 7 on plate 7 above) and different letterpress ‘Vacarme au Trianon’. — [De Grooten Waereld Verdeelder] Engraved, letterpress text, from Der Groot Tafereel, [1706]. —Another version of 14 above entitled ‘Het hof van Magnus Augustus’. —Another version of 16 above with engraved text. 2. (AVIATION). LANUSSE, Jean. Quelques avions. Chartres, 1940-41. $980 4to (320 × 236 mm), title-page and 17 full-page ink drawings on 17 leaves, each signed, some dated. Paper covered wrappers. Slightly soiled. British and German aircraft drawn by an accomplished amateur during the first year of the German occupation. The aircraft include a Vickers Wellington, Miles Magister, Westland Lysander, Short Sunderland seaplane, Fairey Battle, Messerschmidt 109 and Heinkel He. 112. THE GAME OF PAUL ET VIRGINIE 3. [BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE, Jacques-Henri]. Grand jeu de l’histoire de Paul et Virginie avec figures coloriées. [France, c. 1830]. $3000 Single engraved sheet (535 × 445 mm) with 25 illustrated playing cards and one title cartouche in 4 rows, with contemporary hand-colouring. Lightly browned. A RARE UNCUT SHEET OF ENGRAVED PLAYING CARDS for a game based on the story of Paul et Virginie (1787), two orphan children brought up in Justin Croft Antiquarian Books Ltd, 7 West Street, Faversham, Kent, ME137JE, UK [email protected] +44 1795 591111 mobile: +44 7725 845275 poverty and innocence among the native people of Mauritius. Hugely popular and influential in the French debate over slavery (which was not finally abolished in France until 1848) the novel produced numerous spin-offs, including many games. This set of playing cards is undated: the entry for the sole location in OCLC (Cary collection, Yale, also undated) suggests 1815 as a publication, but this is likely to be too early since the watermark (present in our sheet) is of the Dambricourt frères, whose papermill was not operational until the 1830s. 4. BERTALL (pseudonym of Charles Albert d’Arnoux.) [91 proof wood-engraved plates on fine paper]. [Paris: 1851-2]. $3000 4to (290 × 198 mm), pp. [32], to which are tipped 91 wood-engraved proofs on fine paper, various sizes (c. 75 × 65 to 195 × 136 mm), contemporary manuscript captions in French. Album leaves very slightly yellowed, the prints fine. Stitched in original blue paper wrappers, upper cover lettered in manuscript ‘Bertall’. Very slightly rubbed and soiled, but overall fine and fresh. A WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF CARICATURES IN PROOF, MANY OF LIFE IN LONDON, AT THE TIME OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION, by the celebrated comic artist Bertall. They were published in Le Journal pour Rire in 1851-2, but these examples are proofs (fumés) printed on fine paper without text, the latter added in contemporary manuscript on the album leaves. Using lamp black (encre de fumée) applied by hand to the block, fumés were habitually printed in a very few copies each (less than 5) usually for the benefit of the publisher and artist. They represent the best possible impressions of blocks then used for many thousands of subsequent impressions. Of the 91 images here, 56 are scenes in London and environs and are from Bertall’s front-page series Voyage dans le rues de Londres. The first group shows tavern life and other low-life scenes, caricaturing the English taste for drink (beer, port, gin and champagne). There is a fine scene of the twin bores of the new Thames Tunnel designed by Brunel (’un des meilleurs charges qu’un français ait jamais faite aux anglais’), a chilly coach-ride to the racecourses of Royal Ascot, the Royal Family (glanced through a coach window), a Great Exhibition sequence and two boxing scenes. The Exhibition sequence provides Bertall with the opportunity to anatomise English society in depicting the members of the various admission-price entrants (gentry and nobility at 5 shillings, magistrates and merchants at 2 shillings, cockneys and countrymen at 1 shilling). Charles Albert d’Arnoux (1820-1882), called ‘Bertall, was one of the most prolific illustrators of the day, providing thousands of images for contemporary books (including works of Balzac and Dumas) and newspapers. He later pioneered the use of photography in publishing. Henri Beraldi wrote of him ‘Il nous est impossible de fixer le nombre de dessins publiés par cet artiste très original et sans méchanceté; un de ces hommes précieux qui ont eu le rare privilège de distraire et d’amuser leurs contemporains, ce dont il leur faut être bien reconnaissant; il y en a tant qui les ennuient!’ (Graveurs du XIXe siècle, II, 1885, p. 45-49). 5. (BERTHAULD, Claude-Louis, abbé). ALÉXANDRE, editor. Le Quadrille des Enfans, par feu M. Berthaud, avec lequel, par le moyen de quatre-vingt-quatre figures, & sans épeler, ils peuvent, à l’âge de quatre ou cinq ans, & au-dessous, être mis en état de lire à l’ouverture de toutes sortes de livres, en trois ou quatre mois, même plutôt ... nouvelle édition ... Paris: Imprimerie de Couturier, et se vend chez la veuve Berthaud, 1783. $900 8vo (230 × 160 mm), pp. [2], 124, [4], plus 4 engraved plates printed on heavy bluish paper. Uncut and partially unopened in original pain grey wrapper. Spine slightly torn without loss. An appealing unsophisticated copy. Berthauld’s early-years reading system, using images proved influential. Les Quadrilles des Enfans was first published in 1773 and again in several eighteenth-century editions. This Justin Croft Antiquarian Books Ltd, 7 West Street, Faversham, Kent, ME137JE, UK [email protected] +44 1795 591111 mobile: +44 7725 845275 edition, by one Aléxandre used the same plates and was available for sale by Berthauld’s widow at the Pension Académique du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
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