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Un an de la vie d'une jeune fille

Un an de la vie d'une jeune fille by WATTIER, Émile

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Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
Title
Un an de la vie d'une jeune fille
Author
WATTIER, Émile
Seller
David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
Paris: Chez G. Engelmann [et] Gihaut, 1824. The Life of a Young Girl who Follows the Wrong Path and Loses her Honor... Depicted in Seventeen Hand Colored Lithographs by Émile Wattier WATTIER, Émile, illustrator. Un An de la vie d'une jeune fille, Roman Historique en XVII chapitres, écrits par son confident et lithographiés par M. Wattier. Paris: Chez G. Engelmann [et] Gihaut, 1824. First edition. Large quarto (13 1/4 x 10 inches; 335 x 254 mm.). Facsimile cover title. Seventeen hand-colored lithographed plates by Engelmann after Wattier. Modern maroon cloth, front cover with facsimile title pasted on. The seventeen charming plates by Émile Wattier (1800-1868) depict a young girl meeting and falling in love with a handsome young man, her liaison with him, and subsequent pregnancy, her receiving a letter saying that he has gone away, and finally her arranged marriage to a much older man. Scarce. No copies have appeared at auction over the past 100 years; OCLC locates just four copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: Library of Congress (DC, USA); Morgan Library & Museum (NY, USA); Bibliotheque Nationale de France, and the Kunstbiblio Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. In over fifty-five years we have only ever handled one other copy which we sold to a private collector in 2001. The plates: "Chap. I. Mais, voyez donc comme il me suit." Chap. II. Vous êtes bien hardi!" "Chap. III. Serez-vous inexorable" "Chap. IV. Comme il dit bien!" "Chap. V. Que lui répondre?" "Chap. VI. Il est charmant!" "Chap VII. Il m'attendait!" "Chap. VIII. Ah! si maman me voyait..." "Chap. IX. Cher ami!!" "Chap: X. Helas." "Chap: XI. Il ne vient points?" "Chap: XII. Il est parti!..." "Chap: XIII. Vains regrets." "Chap. XIV: Elle y entre." "Chap: XV. Elle en sort" "Chap: XVI. On la marie." "Chap: XVII. Je suis... heureux, C'est sur!" Émile Wattier (1800-1868). French painter and lithographer. "Wattier published this book in the same year as Victor Adam issued Un an de la vie d'un jeune homme: Histoire véritable en 17 Chapiteres. Paris: Sazerac et Duval, 1824, which follows a similar trajectory but with Adam's hero being a young man. There are evident parallels between the two works in that both titles seem to have been influenced by William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress." (Bobins). Bobins V 1556; Lipperheide 3695; Rahir, p. 364.
[Manuscript Letter, Signed, from the Spanish Consulate in Gibraltar to the Governor General of Cuba Discussing Cargo and Shipping]

[Manuscript Letter, Signed, from the Spanish Consulate in Gibraltar to the Governor General of Cuba Discussing Cargo and Shipping] by [Cuba]. [Trade]

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Seller: McBride Rare Books
Title
[Manuscript Letter, Signed, from the Spanish Consulate in Gibraltar to the Governor General of Cuba Discussing Cargo and Shipping]
Author
[Cuba]. [Trade]
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McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Good.
Description
Gibraltar, 1828. Good.. [3]pp., on a bifolium. Previously folded, with separations. Tanned, somewhat brittle. An interesting example of official communications concerning trade between colonial Cuba and the Spanish mainland. In this manuscript letter, date March 14, 1828, the new Spanish Vice Consul in Gibraltar writes to the Governor General of Cuba concerning several topics. These include the regulation of shipping to Cuba, and by implication the rest of the Caribbean, through Gibraltar, particularly of French ships leaving Mediterranean ports. Also discussed is keeping track of individuals, particularly merchants going to Cuba by means of identification papers and other documents. The consul also reminds the colonial government of the importance of documenting duties and tariffs paid for shipping cargo and goods.
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Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles, 1957-87. by ASHBERY, John.

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Title
Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles, 1957-87.
Author
ASHBERY, John.
Seller
Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description
NY: Knopf,, 1989.. Uncorrected proof.. 404 pp. Promotional sheet taped to front free endpaper, else fine in printed green wrappers with a few tiny pale to top edge. Edited and introduced by David Bergman.
Program for The Globe Theatre featuring Ristori in a performance of Paolo Giacometti's Marie Antoinette

Program for The Globe Theatre featuring Ristori in a performance of Paolo Giacometti's Marie Antoinette by [RISTORI, Adelaide 1822-1906]

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Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC
Title
Program for The Globe Theatre featuring Ristori in a performance of Paolo Giacometti's Marie Antoinette
Author
[RISTORI, Adelaide 1822-1906]
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
No binding. Very Good. [4 pp.] Ca. 277 x 211 mm. Dated Boston, April 3, 1875. Creased at folds, with one small short tear; some browning and light wear.