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

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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.

Works of Monsieur Noverre by NOVERRE, Jean Georges

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Title: Works of Monsieur Noverre
Author: NOVERRE, Jean Georges
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: London: Sold by G. Robinson.., 1782. BALLET. . Translated from the French. London: Sold by G. Robinson..., [1782]-1783. First English edition. Three octavo volumes, bound in one (8 3/8 x 5 inches; 212 x 126 mm). [4], lxviii, 227, [5, index]; [4], 258; xi, [1, blank], 330 pp. Volume I not dated, the title-pages to volumes II and III are dated 1783. With frontispiece portrait. Half-title for each volume. This is very scarce as we could only find two other copies at auction in the past 50 years. Volumes I-II comprise: "An Essay on the Art of Dancing." Volume III comprise: The Danaides. Rinaldo and Armida. Adela of Ponthieu. The Graces. The Horatii and Curiatil. Agamemnon revenged. Apelles and Campaspe, or, The self-conquest of Alexander. The amours of Venus. Alceste. Modern blue morocco over marbled paper boards. Top edge dyed brown, others dyed red. Newer endpapers. Some minor foxing and toning, mainly to portrait. Some occasional pencil markings. Overall a very good copy. According the the ESTC, "a projected fourth volume was never published." "Noverre was born in Paris on 29 April 1727, and was expected to follow a military career like his Swiss father. Instead, though, the young Jean-Georges chose a vocation requiring equally rigorous discipline, studying dance with a M. Marcel and then with the famous Louis Dupre and making his debut at the Opera-Comique in Paris on 8 June 1743. This led to further engagements abroad; while still in his teens, Noverre performed at Fontainebleau, and in Berlin before Frederick II, at whose court he met Voltaire. The king's excessive thrift, however, led his maitre de ballet, Lany, and several of his colleagues to break their contracts and desert the Prussian court in 1747. Noverre became ballet master in Strasbourg and created his first great success, Les Fetes chinoises, there. He went on to Vienna, where he worked under Empress Maria Theresa and became maitre de danse to her 12-year-old daughter, the future Marie Antoinette, who later became his patron... In 1755, he went to London with his family and his company to work with David Garrick at the Drury Lane Theatre. He had access to Garrick's library, enabling him to study classical literature and draw on it for subjects for his ballets while developing his own methods of teaching dance and choreographing for the stage. It was here, in 1756, that he began to formulate his ideas in a treatise published four years later in Lyons... Noverre's innovatory ideas are preserved in his Lettres sur la danse, et sur les ballet...it was translated into English in 1782. Niles & Leslie. ESTC N25828 HBS 68756. $2,500.

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

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 by [RISTORI, Adelaide 1822-1906]

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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.

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