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- Lot 347
CHARLET / LÉANDRE, VEBER & CADEL / LE PETIT - Set of 3 albums of caricatures. - Nicolas-Toussaint CHARLET - Lithographic album. Paris, Gihaut Frères, s.d. [Late 19th c.]. Album in-4 Italian style, 255 x 355 mm, blue cloth spine (redone), first cover illustrated with a vignette (cover damaged and restored). Album with 17 numbered plates in black (no plate 16) and plates 2, 3 and 18 repeated in colors. Scenes of the military or rural life. - C. LÉANDRE, Jean VEBER & CADEL - Musée des Souverains. Paris, Félix Juven, 1898. 325 x 255 mm, illustrated hardback cover (soiled and stained, grey cloth post back). Title, 12 plates, 1 f. of catalog in fine. Color caricatures of Queen Victoria, Leo XIII, Tsar Nicholas II, Leopold II... Traces of handling, verso of a plate reinforced. - Alfred LE PETIT - Flowers, fruits & vegetables of the day. Legends by H. BRIOLLET. Paris, Au Bureau de l'Éclipse, 1871. In-4, in sheets, 285 x 230 mm, in a green percaline folder, first cover remounted (cords torn off). Title and 31 lithographed plates in colors. Amusing album of caricatures in which different political personalities are represented as flowers or vegetables: Gambetta as a sun, Edgar Quinet as a violet, Garibaldi as a laurel, Thiers as a pear... According to Béraldi, in "Les graveurs du XIXe siècle", p. 137, about the caricatures of the war of 1871 and the Commune, "it is one of the most sought-after series." Scattered soiling and foxing. TOGETHER 3 ALBUMS, VARIOUS CONDITIONS.
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