Catalogue 32 - Marilyn Braiterman

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49. LEFUEL, HECTOR.
BOUTIQUES PARISIENNES
DU PREMIER EMPIRE.
(Paris): Éditions Albert Morancé
(1925). In series “Documents
d’Architecture”. 4to, portfolio,
embossed decoration on front
cover. Spine a bit ravelled at upper
joint else a very nice, fresh copy.
Fourteen page text and 32 very
pretty pochoir colored plates
49.
(hand-colored through a stencil)
after copper engravings produced between 1806 and 1828, originally
published as Collection des Maisons de Commerce de Paris et des
Intérieurs les Mieux Décorés.
The First Empire shops include pharmacies, perfumers, gold and
silversmiths, jewelers, clockmakers, cafés, dress shops, etc. – and a
beautiful butcher shop. $700
Political satire against Louis-
Philippe using characters of the
commedia dell’arte, Polichinel and
Pierrot. Louis-Philippe was brought
to the throne as a constitutional
monarch after the 1830 revolution.
He was known as the “bourgeois
monarch” or “citizen king”, but
the monarchy became increasingly
conservative and unresolved
problems of the middle class and
working classes led to his overthrow
in the 1848 revolution.
Vicaire V, 393. According to a
51.
penciled note on an endpaper by a
previous bookseller, this is the copy that Vicaire describes. $1575
ART DECO
GRAVESTONE
DESIGNS
50. LINDEN, KARL AUGUST.
DIE FORM MODERNER
GRABSTEINE MIT BRONZE
UND EISEN VORWORT
VON GEORG KUHK,
GARTENBAUARCHITEKT .
50.
Berlin: Otto Baumgärtel (1930).
4to, tan board portfolio with cover label. Backstrip neatly replaced.
Forty plates, each with one or two drawings of bronze or iron
gravestones by the architect, Karl August Linden. $750
POLITICAL CARICATURE
51. LORENTZ (ALCIDE-JOSEPH). POLICHINEL: EX-ROI
DES MARIONNETTES DEVENU PHILOSOPHE.
Paris: Willermy, 1848. Tall 8vo, contemporary gilt-decorated and
banded red morocco spine and marbled boards by Galette (signed
at foot of spine). A little rubbed; few pages with professional repairs
to clean tears. An excellent copy. First edition, first state. With 21
full page illustrations and a vignette on nearly every page of text
by Lorentz, who contributed drawings and wood-engravings to La
Caricature, Journal pour Rire, the Revue Comique de 1848 and other
publications.
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52. LUGAR, ROBERT. ARCHITECTURAL SKETCHES
FOR COTTAGES, RURAL DWELLINGS, AND VILLAS,
IN THE GRECIAN, GOTHIC AND FANCY STYLES WITH
PLANS; SUITABLE TO PERSONS OF GENTEEL LIFE AND
MODERATE FORTUNE.
London: J. Taylor at the Architectural Library, 1823. 4to, original
embossed purple cloth with gilt-stamped title on cover. Neatly
rebacked, finely hand-colored plates. Lugar’s first book, originally
published in 1805 with uncolored plates.
Title, dedication and preface leaves, chapter on “Observations on
the Style and Character of Buildings”, and Explanation of the Plates.
With 38 aquatint plates of which 23 are hand-colored (the others are
black and white plans). Bound in at rear are two unsigned manuscript
architectural drawings in ink with sepia wash, a printed floor plan
from another work, and two floor plans drawn in ink, one of which is
a photocopy with the original, trimmed and loosely laid in.
Marilyn Braiterman