Conjuring & Circus: - Bloomsbury Auctions

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BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 146
146. Chalon (John James) L’es C a m O t e u r, lithograph of a conjuror
performing with cards, coloured by hand, in heavy card mount,
402mm. by 290mm., Rodwell and Martin, 1820. £250 - £350
*** The lithograph was included in Costumes of Paris, 1822.
147. Comte (Louis Christian Emmanuel Apollinaire). un D e
m e s se C r e t s, article extracted from “Musée des Familles”, woodengraved
illustrations, including the Dantan sculpted portrait,
[1843] § Maurisset. Wood-engraving of Dantan’s sculpture of
Conte, 2 copies, [1839] § Album de Portraits Comiques, over 100
wood-engraved portraits, including the Dantan sculpture, slightly
damp-stained, original printed wrappers, oblong 8vo, Paris,
[c.1840] (4) £100 - £150
*** Comte was a conjuror as well as physician to Charles X.
148. Couché fils. Ch at e a u D’ea u, 1818; Palais de Justice, [1818?]
§ Martinet. Place Dauphine, [c.1820], three miniature engraved
views, the first coloured by hand, in heavy card mounts § L. (G.)
L’Oracle de Jardin de Tivoli, proof impression? on India paper,
London, 1821 § Russell Square, and the Statue of the Duke of
Bedford, engraved view by C. Motram after Thomas H. Shepherd,
2 copies, coloured by hand, one in heavy card mount, [1828?]; and
two others, various sizes (8) £150 - £200
149. Coudert (B.) La BO n n e av e n t u r e, Walter Frères, [c.1850]
§ Belin. L’Escamoteur [from “Les Petits Métiers”], [c.1850] §
L’Ane Savant - Les Saltimbanques, Epinal, Pellerin, [c.1860],
all lithographed § Het Plein der Bastille en de Juli-Kolom te
Parijs, large wood-engraved illustration extracted from a Dutch
periodical, [c.1870], all coloured by hand, all but the second in
heavy card mounts, and twelve other prints and illustrations, the
majority coloured by hand (16) £200 - £300
Lot 150
150. Daumier (Honoré) rO B e rt ma C a i r e Li B r a i r e, (Caricatura
no.14), lithograph coloured by hand, in heavy card mount, 341mm.
by 257mm., Paris, Aubert et Cie, [1836]. £200 - £300
151. Daumier (Honoré) rO B e rt ma C a i r e Li B r a i r e, (Caricatura
no.14), another copy, coloured by hand, margins discoloured,
in heavy card mount, 341mm. by 278mm., Paris, Aubert et Cie,
[1836]. £200 - £300
152. Daumier (Honoré) rO B e rt ma C a i r e Li B r a i r e, (Caricatura
no.14), another copy, uncoloured, a good clean copy, in heavy card
mount, 346mm. by 260mm., Paris, Aubert et Cie, [1836].
£150 - £200
153. Daumier (Honoré) rO B e rt ma C a i r e Li B r a i r e, (Les Robert-
Macaire no.17), lithograph coloured by hand, in heavy card mount,
276mm. by 212mm., Paris, Aubert et Cie, [c.1850]. £125 - £175
Lot 154
154. Daumier (Honoré) O m a i t r e Bi L B O g u e r…, lithograph from
“Les Saltimbanques”, an acrobat, cups-and-balls man and stilt
walker in the background, spotted, in heavy card mount, 258mm.
by 320mm., [Paris]. Aubert, [1839]. £125 - £175
154a. Daumier (Honoré) O m a i t r e Bi L B O g u e r…, lithograph from
“Fantaisies, 6 livraison 5”, an acrobat, cups-and-balls man and stilt
walker in the background, spotted, in paper mount, 253mm. by
328mm., [Paris]. Aubert, [1839?]. £100 - £150