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Les Baigneurs. Une Facétie. Cocher! Cocher! Avez-vous deux places en lapins? (Plate 24)
Translation in English of title text: A PRACTICAL JOKE. Driver! Driver! Do you still have two seats in the rabbit section??LES BAIGNEURS (the bathers) is a series of 30 n...
Date: Paris, 30-31 07 1842
Frefser.
Etching by Jos Ströber after a design of Loder.
Date: Germany, ca. 1860
Tout ce qu'on voudra. Jeune et vieille garde...
TOUT CE QU'ON VOUDRA. (As you like it). This series consists of 94 lithographs published between March 28, 1847 and November 30, 1852 in the Charivari. Some of the plates...
Date: Paris, 1864
Un avocat qui évidemment est rempli de la conviction la plus intime.......... que son client le paiera bien.
Second state (of 2), with text, numbered 6. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Text below image : A...
Date: Paris, 1848
![[Game of the goose] Het nieuw vermakelijk ganzenspel. Le nouveau jeu d'Oie.](/uploads/cache/48365-250x250.jpg)
[Game of the goose] Het nieuw vermakelijk ganzenspel. Le nouveau jeu d'Oie.
Game of 63 boxes, spiral, counter clockwise. Goose board game with spiral with 63 numbered squares. In different boxes a representation of a goose. In a box on the center...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Turnhout, ca.1900
K.K. Österreichischer Platz Offizier und Stabs-Feld Arzt.
Rare hand-colored lithograph published in the work on the Austrian Military "Bildliche Darstellung der K. K. Österreichischen Armee". Figurs a military medical...
- $70 / ≈ €60
Date: Vienna, c. 1820
Officiers de santé. Médecin Adjoint - Chirurgien Major - Pharmacien Aide M.or.
Plate # 48 of the series "Uniformes de l'Armée Francaise en 1848", drawn and lithographed by Janet-Lange, printed by d'Aubert & C.ie. Figurs a medical offi...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, 1846
The Black Draught. (after Michael William Sharp).
Mezzotint by Henry Edward Dawe (Kentish Town 1790 - Windsor 1848) after a painting of Michael William Sharp (1776? – 1840). Showing a man seated beside table, inclined ...
- $75 / ≈ €65
Date: London, 1824
Caricature anti-cholérique. Oui Mr Patochard c'est la Révolution de Juyet qui nous a produit ce fleyeau!. (pl 9)
Lithographed caricature on hypochondria and protective measures against cholera: An overweight man seated in a chair surrounded by pitchers and bowls. In 1832, there was ...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Paris, c. 1832
Mon cher Monsieur, il m'est absolument impossible de plaider votre affaire..... il vous manque les pièces les plus importantes...... (à part) les pièces de cent sous!....
Second state (of 2), with text, numbered 20. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Text below image :...
- $400 / ≈ €345
Date: Paris, 1848
Quel dommage que cette charmante petite femme ne m'ait pas chargé de défendre sa cause...... comme je plaiderais que son mari est un gredin!....
Second state (of 2), with text, numbered 24. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Text below image :...
- $400 / ≈ €345
Date: Paris, 1848
Vous m'avez injurié dans votre plaidoirie, mais je saurai bien vous forcer à m'en rendre raison!... - Monsieur, apprenez que je ne vous crains pas!.. J'ai au plus haut degré, le courage civil ...
Second state (of 2), with text, numbered 9. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Text below image ...
- $300 / ≈ €259
Date: Paris, 1848
Et parlant à sa portière ainsi déclarée, lui ai signifié qu'il eut à obtempérer à la dite sommation, sinon et faute de ce faire,…
Third state (of 3), with text, numbered 10. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse, 29". Text below image :...
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: Paris, 1848
Ce qui m'chiffonne c'est que j'suis accusé de douze vols!.. - Il y en a douze... tant mieux... je plaiderai la monomanie!…
Second state (of 2), with text, numbered 19. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse, 29". Text below image ...
- $400 / ≈ €345
Date: Paris, 1848
Faut-y faire une lettre pour l'attendrir?....
Third state (of 3), with text, numbered 3. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Text below image : -...
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: Paris, 1848
Carte pour introduire à la chronologie et à trouver les années devant et après Jésus Christ par le moyen des périodes Iulienne, Dionysienne et par les trois cycles comme aussi pour trouver la fête de Pasque. . .
An engraved table showing the years before and after Jesus Christ through the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 – 1743) was a Huguenot pasto...
- $25 / ≈ €22
Date: Amsterdam, 1720-1732
Locataires et Propriétaires. La reconduite du propriétaire. (Pl 27)
A couple is saying goodbye to their landlord as he leaves their apartment. From "Locataires et Propriétaires" [Tenants and Landlords], number 27, published in ...
- $175 / ≈ €151
Date: Paris, Le Charivari, December 2, 1847
Mr. Joliv (Plate 346 in la Caricature).
Depicts a portrait of Mr. Adolphe Jollivet, an influential politician of the time. After the July Revolution and the reinstatement of the Freedom of the Press, CHARLES PH...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: Paris, La Caricature, November 20, 1833
Cortège du Commandant Général des Apothicaires, le prince Lancelot de Tricanule, à son entrée dans la Chambre de Pairs.
The print shows the procession of the General Command, the Pharmacist and Prince Lancelot moving into the Pairs Chamber (House of Lords). Chez Aubert, galerie véro dodat...
- $1200 / ≈ €1034
Date: Paris, August 1, 1833
Musee Grotesque No. 56
A charming and delightful hand colored etchings in the grand French style of the early nineteenth century. With title Maudits Bonbons ! (Damn Candies!) An infant is seen ...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Paris ca 1816-1820
![Fantaisie Funebre [ Funeral Fantasy.]](/uploads/cache/46336-250x250.jpg)
Fantaisie Funebre [ Funeral Fantasy.]
With text below the illustration "-Qui, parlons-en: vous faites un malade bien agréable... j'voudrais... qu'vous n'ayez personne à votre enterrement ! Design by Le...
- $80 / ≈ €69
Date: Paris, ca. 1880
Lapides Bezoar ex Hippototamo, vel Equo marino. Tab CXII.
Natural history aroused the passion of wealthy collectors in the 17th and 18th centuries. These constitute vast "cabinets of curiosities" and sometimes undertak...
- $90 / ≈ €78
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1740
Lapides Bezoardici Orientales. Tab CXI.
Natural history aroused the passion of wealthy collectors in the 17th and 18th centuries. These constitute vast "cabinets of curiosities" and sometimes undertak...
- $90 / ≈ €78
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1740
Lapides Porcini. Tab CXIII.
Natural history aroused the passion of wealthy collectors in the 17th and 18th centuries. These constitute vast "cabinets of curiosities" and sometimes undertak...
- $90 / ≈ €78
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1740
Pila Vitulina. Tab CXIV.
Natural history aroused the passion of wealthy collectors in the 17th and 18th centuries. These constitute vast "cabinets of curiosities" and sometimes undertak...
- $90 / ≈ €78
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1740
Pio Septimo Pont Max. Bonarum artium restitutori ac vindici D.D.D.
Engraving with etching reproducing the upper half of the north wall of the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican. Lettered with artists' names and dedication to Pope Pius V...
Date: Rome, 1772-1777
Vue & description de l'Eglise du Saint Sepulchre tant par dehors que dedans . . .
Shows various interiors and exterior views of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. From Chatelain's monumental 7 volume "Atlas Historique".Henri Abrah...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Paris fashion plate. (1212)
Uncommon Paris fashion plate from "Le Guide des Couturières et la France elégante Réunis", under direction of Abel Goubaud.In the later quarter of the 19th c...
Date: Paris, 1890
Va-t'en-voir s'ils viennent, Jean, ou Les Raretes.
[Go, see if they come John, or Rarities.] A nice fully colored litho print depicting a doctor examining an old man in an armchair from the eighteenth century. Behind the ...
Date: Paris, 1870
La Belle Bourbonnaise.
A lovely colorful lithograph illustration to accompany the song "The Beautiful Bourbonnaise". The lyrics to the song flank the print, which shows a woman bedrid...
Date: Paris ca 1875
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[No Title]
A small copperplate engraving showing an elderly lady sitting in her bed chamber, astride a camode , using a cylster, probably to administer an enema to herself. A not un...
Date: France, ca. 1780
Amateurs executant une courante.
A group of amateur musicians are seen performing/practicing inside a public restroom, using clysters and chamber pots as their musical instruments. A delightful 'toilet h...
Date: Paris, ca 1830
![[Satirical Cartoon] La difference qu'il y a entre un gendarme et de l'eau de Sedlitz?. . .](/uploads/cache/46539-250x250.jpg)
[Satirical Cartoon] La difference qu'il y a entre un gendarme et de l'eau de Sedlitz?. . .
A humorous French satirical cartoon asking the difference between a policeman and Eau de Sedlitz (a purgative liquid). The caption answers "one stops/arrests while t...
Date: Paris, ca 1870
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[No title.] Sixteen small engravings.
A nice set of sixteen French professions, or trades, or stage characters. The print is faint on some titles. Some of the characters are a soldier, a doctor, a nun, a lawy...
Date: Paris, ca. 1780
(Les battus payem l'ammende!!)
A French proverb - The beaten pay the fine. It looks like a French lawyer holds a large clyster with one hand, and a rolled document in the other. The French caption belo...
Date: Paris, ca. 1850
La Caricature (Journal) Ah! docteur, ce maudit siege m'a fait bien du mal.
[Ah! Doctor, this damn seat hurt me badly] A French lithograph showing a man dressed in a nightgown seated on a chair with a crest on the back. A stern faced doctor and a...
Date: Paris, 1870
Le beau commandant general des cannonniers hydrauliques.
[The beautiful general commander of the hydraulic gunners] A political lithograph showing a French officer ready to 'load' a cannon mounted clyster from a castle top. A b...
Date: Paris, 1834
Contes de la Fontaine. 'Le Remede'.
[The Cure]. An uncolored lithograph produced in Paris highlighting the woes of a young maiden, lying distraught in bed as a maid or servant comes to her bedside with a pi...
Date: Paris ca 1830
Les Metamorphoses du Jour. No.39
A humorous lithograph from the famous French caricaturist J-J. Grandeville. He drew scenes in which individuals with the bodies of men and faces of animals are made to pl...
Date: Paris, ca 1840
Comedies de Moliere . . .Le Malade Imaginaire.
A lovely colored lithograph of "The Imaginary Disease" or "The Hypochondriac", by Edouard Lievre, published in Paris mid way through the nineteenth ce...
Date: Paris, ca 1860?
La Science infuse, ou les Docteurs du jour.
Demonstrating the innate knowledge of science, a man is sitting backwards on a donkey holding its tail in one hand and a candle in the other, another man is about to admi...
Date: Paris, 1860
"On n'entre pas."
A beautiful mezzotint engraving of a lady issuing a stern instruction to a male at her bedroom door - "We do not enter." She has a syringe/clyster on the chair ...
Date: Paris, ca 1830
Secours à donner aux noyés.
Broad sheet etchings with two vignettes and extensive descriptive text about how to rescue a flooded person.Composed by François Chaussier and etched by L. Baltard. Fra...
Date: Paris, ca. 1825
Réjouissances du Peuple près de la Pyramide d'Illumination, élévée sur l'Esplanade de la Porte de Mars et Distribution de Vivres, fontaines de Vin , sous les Ordres de Mrs. Du Conseil de la Ville, à Reims le 27 Aoust 1765.
Engraved by Varin after Moreau Jr. The print shows a lightning spectacle held in Reims on 27 August 1765.
Date: Paris, 1771
Sphaerarum Artificialium Typica Repraesentatio. . .
Stunning engraving of Homann's terrestrial and celestial globes and armillary sphere, all with highly ornamented stands. Brief explanatory text.Johann Baptist Homann born...
Date: Nuremberg, 1740
Geometria, from The Seven Liberal Arts.
A female figure with a castle on her head measures a globe with a compass; representing geometry. Engraving by Johann Sadeler I after M. de Vos.
Date: Antwerp, 1570 - 1600
![Actualites. [News]](/uploads/cache/46547-250x250.jpg)
Actualites. [News]
A lithographic cartoon showing two tradesmen conversing. One says to the other: "Eh! Well jocker you're not working anymore!" "I have colic!" says the...
Date: Paris, ca 1840
![Aux grands maux les grands remedes. [To great ills great remedies]](/uploads/cache/46558-250x250.jpg)
Aux grands maux les grands remedes. [To great ills great remedies]
A humorous French lithograph showing a village scene where a small infant is held face down on his/her mother's lap, with clothing pulled up to reveal its bottom. An enor...
Date: Paris, ca 1850
La Galerie Comique.
A lithograph by Gustave Frison, showing three town inhabitants discussing a clyster or syringe found in a public place. They think it may be a musical instrument, without...
Date: Paris, ca 1870
La Galerie Comique.
Lithograph by Gustave Frison showing a man writing a letter "to Monsieur Battaupieu, Manufacturer of trumpets for the Last Judgment…." (which is written in fu...
Date: Paris, ca 1870
Lusus Lucrum Temporis Iactura.
Copper-plate engraving showing a group of fashionably dressed men and women playing cards. "Paulus Decker inv. et del.; Ioh. Christoph Steudner sculp.; Mart. Engelbr...
Date: Augsburg, 1700
![[Concert at time of Handel] Dulcissimum Melos Bona Fama.](/uploads/cache/47201-250x250.jpg)
[Concert at time of Handel] Dulcissimum Melos Bona Fama.
Copper-plate engraving of the rehearsal of a chamber cantata by Johann Christoph Steudner, after Paul Decker the elder, in the Handel-Haus, Halle. (Musikgeschichte in Bil...
Date: Augsburg, 1700
Moris Beneficio Comendatus Tabaci usus. Der durch die Mode beliebt gemachteTaback
Copper-plate engraving showing a group of fashionably dressed men and women smoking long-stemmed pipes around a table in front of a garden hedge. "Paulus Decker inv....
Date: Augsburg, 1700
Caricature anti-cholérique.
Lithography with underneath the illustration "Moi je traite le choléra par le champagne, c’est le système Mayeux, nom de D... ! "In 1832, there was a devast...
Date: Paris, ca. 1832
Caricature anti-cholérique La peur du mal donne le mal de la peur. (pl 1)
Caricature on hypochondria and protective measures against cholera. An overweight man seated in a chair surrounded by pitchers and bowls. In 1832, there was a devastating...
Date: Paris, ca. 1830
Toujours des sangsues!
Lithograph depicting a corpulent physician diagnoses more leeches for a young woman, who lies drained. In 1832, there was a devastating cholera epidemic in Paris.Publishe...
Date: Paris, c. 1832
Per telecopium exhibitio partis inferioris armamentarii. / Representation en perspective de la partie inferieure d'un arsenal. . .
RARE. Engraved optical print by Georg Balthasar Probst of a arsenal.
Date: Augsburg, 1750
Croquis d'expression. La maman - Est il gentil à manger son sucre d'orge . . . (Plate 31)
The mother: - Isn't he cute licking his barley sugar candy… one would think a young man of twenty years… He absolutely must become a lawyer!.Lithography published by ...
Date: Paris, 21 10 1838
Sul teatro della guerra (L'entusiasmo patriottico dei Russi) - Rana N. 10 (Cent.10) - Sur le théâtre de la guerre (enthousiasme patriotique des Russes).
Satirical depiction of the Russo-Japanese war, which began in February 1904,we can see the opposed armies of the Russian and those of the Japanese Empire for the control ...
Date: Bologna, 11 March 1904
Caricature anti-cholérique. Je sens les gargouillemens. (pl 2)
Original hand-colored lithographed caricature of a young woman dabs her eye as her mother looks askance as she suspects the onset of cholera. In 1832, there was a devas...
Date: Paris, c. 1832
Cecilia - Cecile.
Painted by Tho. Stothard and engraved by Masetti.
Date: London, 1794
Dites donc, confrère, vous allez soutenir aujourd'hui contre moi absolument ce que je plaidais il y a trois semaines, dans une cause identique... hé hé hé!.. c'est drôle!..
Second state (of 2), with text, numbered 14. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Translated text below...
Date: Paris, 1848
Musicien de la Chapelle. Mr. Lebeau premier trombone du Roi.
A humorous cartoon showing a rather surprised looking Mr. Lebeau - the portly, premier trombone player to the French king, 'playing' a clyster, with tube in mouth, and on...
Date: Paris, ca 1860
Mœurs conjugales. Le trépas du caniche. Oh mon Dieu . . . (Plate 28)
Translation in English of title text: The Demise of the Poodle. - Oh my God, my God, is it possible?.... My poor Zozore, my joy, my consolation, I shall never see him aga...
Date: Paris, 30 september 1840
Société du Clystère. Robert Macaire philantrope. Vois-tu Bertrand . . . Caricaturana (Plate 2)
Translation in English of text title: Robert Macaire, philanthropist. You see, Bertrand... We are moralists in actions (play on words: actions means stocks). .... In acti...
Date: Paris, 1838
Les plaisirs des Champs-Elysées. Un guerrier electrisé. Le Physicien: tel est…
Published by Bauger, rue du Croissant 16 (lower left). Printed by Imprimeurs d'Aubert & Cie at Aubert, Place de la Bourse. Text was written by Alphonse Jean LAURE...
Date: Paris, 1864
Les femmes socialistes. Comme vous vous faites belles. . . (Plate 2)
Translation in English of title text: You are really getting dressed up, my dear! - I am going to a banquet presided by Pierre Leroux. And you know how he enjoys beautifu...
Date: Paris, 23 April 1849
Robert Macaire. Excellent Placement. Comment Ernest . . . (Plate 14).
Translation in English of text title: An excellent investment. - What do you mean, Earnest, you have 100'000 Francs and you don't want to give them to me, you must have l...
Date: Paris, 1840-1841
Tout ce qu'on voudra. Moi aussi j'ai été jeune …(Plate 3)
Translation in English of title text: I have also been young . . . I have also been an amiable person . . .I have also been loved . . . And all this did not stop me from ...
Date: Paris, 1847
Robert Macaire. Inventaire chez un veuf. Mon Dieu! Messieurs . . . (Plate 9).
Translation in English of text title: Inventory at a widower's. My God, gentlemen, I must really apologize! Since the death of my poor wife I was so much in pain, so much...
Date: Paris, 1840-1841
Robert Macaire. Règlement de comptes. Monsieur de Macaire . . . (Plate 5).
Translation in English of text title: SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS. – Monsieur de Macaire, allow me to note that I find your accounts amazing. For a spy, who was charged to k...
Date: Paris, 1840-1841
Bureau de remplacemens militaires. Y a Marchandise …(Plate 38)
Macaire personified the clever business man, who was willing at any time to throw moral and ethical principles overboard for a quick buck. His personality fitted exactly ...
Date: Paris, 1864
Art arabe. - Mosquée d'El-Bordeyny.
Lithographed by Daumont. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire...". Emile Prisse d'Avennes, Orientalist and Muslim convert, obsessive i...
Date: Paris, 1877
Le Tambour Major de la garde - Wagram 1809
Militaria plate depicting a war scene and a man defending himself from another soldier threatening him. Lithographed by Vernier Ch. and printed by Auguste Bry, 114 rue du...
Date: Paris, chez Bequet, 1852
(Portrait of Joseph-Marie Jacquard).
A rare woven silk portrait of Joseph-Marie Jacquard after Bonnefonds, completed on the Jacquard punched-card loom. Woven by Carquillat in the silk factory of Didier Petit...
Date: France, ca. 1840
William Tecuseh Sherman The Great General of our small army.
Illustration of General William T. Sherman, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, holding binoculars, his sword resting on a campstool behind him. Published in Ne...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: New York, 1881
![[Game of the goose] Nieuw vermakelijk Ganzenspel.](/uploads/cache/48338-250x250.jpg)
[Game of the goose] Nieuw vermakelijk Ganzenspel.
Goose board game. Oval with boxes numbered from 1 to 63. Every box shows an image of a person, a goose, a building or dice. In the middle a large oval with a goose. Child...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: Weisenburg, ca.1910
![[Game of the goose] Het nieuw vermakelijk ganzenspel. Le nouveau jeu d'Oie.](/uploads/cache/48329-250x250.jpg)
[Game of the goose] Het nieuw vermakelijk ganzenspel. Le nouveau jeu d'Oie.
Game of 63 boxes, spiral, counter clockwise. Goose board game with spiral with 63 numbered squares. In different boxes a representation of a goose. In a box on the center...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: Turnhout, ca.1850
![[Game of the goose] Het nieuw vermakelijk ganzenspel. Le nouveau jeu d'Oie.](/uploads/cache/48331-250x250.jpg)
[Game of the goose] Het nieuw vermakelijk ganzenspel. Le nouveau jeu d'Oie.
Game of 63 boxes, spiral, counter clockwise. Goose board game with spiral with 63 numbered squares. In different boxes a representation of a goose. In a box on the center...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Turnhout, ca.1900
![[Game of the goose] Het apenspel.](/uploads/cache/48333-250x250.jpg)
[Game of the goose] Het apenspel.
Game of 73 boxes, spiral, counter clockwise. Goose board game. Outside the board images of monkeys. More about game boards and goose games. [+]
- $120 / ≈ €103
Date: Amsterdam, Senefelder, ca. 1890-1910
