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SATIRE. 6 satirical works:
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SATIRE.
6 satirical works:
1. GYP (SIBYLLE RIQUETI DE MIRABEAU). Une Election a Tigre-Sur-Mer. Paris: Édition du Gaulois, [1890]. Oblong folio. 36 full-page cartoons, some in color. Contemporary red pebbled cloth with applied color illustration on upper cover. Wear to extremities. "Gyp" was an extremist right-wing female anarchist, anti-semite, and royalist, and a follower of reactionary general Georges Boulanger who threatened to stage a coup and establish himself as dictator.
2. LORENTZ, ALCIDE-JOSEPH. Polichinel: ex-Roi des Marionettes devenu philosophe. Paris: Willermy, 1848. Tall 8vo. 21 full-page illustrations. Contemporary red morocco gilt and marbled boards by Galette. Rubbed, a few repaired tears to leaves. First edition, first state. Political satire in the style of the commedia dell'arte.
3. [WEBER, PIERRE and JEAN.] Les Veber's Paris: Émile Testard, 1895. 4to. Publisher's color pictorial wrappers. Number 4 of 25 on Japon Imperial, of a total edition of 50.
4. ---. La Joviale Comédie par les Veber's. Paris: H. Simonis Empis, 1896. 4to. Black and white illustrations in text. Green cloth boards with paper cover label, publisher's color pictorial wrappers bound in. Number 7 of 20 on Japon. Belle Epoque caricature of notable figures.
5. WORTH, THOMAS. Plutarch Restored: an Anachronatic Metempsychosis Illustrating the Illustrious of Greece and Rome. New York: George Ward Nichols, 1862. Oblong 4to. 24 lithographic plates. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettered on cover. Wear to extremities and corners, front inner hinge cracked. Caricatures of contemporary political figures and African Americans, cast as characters from antiquity. The author was known for his racist "Darktown" comics.
6. [Parfumerie Oriza.] Album Du Carnaval. N.p.: c. 1875. 4to. 12 color lithographic plates by E. Girard of women in provocative costume, including Scottish and Islamic motifs. Contemporary purple cloth, gilt lettered on spine. Bookplate of Wilhelm, Duke of Braunschweig (1806-1884). Slightly rubbed. Fancy dress and political satire alluding to Ismail Pasha, the Khedive (Ottoman Viceroy) of Egypt, with a role in opening the Suez Canal.
1. GYP (SIBYLLE RIQUETI DE MIRABEAU). Une Election a Tigre-Sur-Mer. Paris: Édition du Gaulois, [1890]. Oblong folio. 36 full-page cartoons, some in color. Contemporary red pebbled cloth with applied color illustration on upper cover. Wear to extremities. "Gyp" was an extremist right-wing female anarchist, anti-semite, and royalist, and a follower of reactionary general Georges Boulanger who threatened to stage a coup and establish himself as dictator.
2. LORENTZ, ALCIDE-JOSEPH. Polichinel: ex-Roi des Marionettes devenu philosophe. Paris: Willermy, 1848. Tall 8vo. 21 full-page illustrations. Contemporary red morocco gilt and marbled boards by Galette. Rubbed, a few repaired tears to leaves. First edition, first state. Political satire in the style of the commedia dell'arte.
3. [WEBER, PIERRE and JEAN.] Les Veber's Paris: Émile Testard, 1895. 4to. Publisher's color pictorial wrappers. Number 4 of 25 on Japon Imperial, of a total edition of 50.
4. ---. La Joviale Comédie par les Veber's. Paris: H. Simonis Empis, 1896. 4to. Black and white illustrations in text. Green cloth boards with paper cover label, publisher's color pictorial wrappers bound in. Number 7 of 20 on Japon. Belle Epoque caricature of notable figures.
5. WORTH, THOMAS. Plutarch Restored: an Anachronatic Metempsychosis Illustrating the Illustrious of Greece and Rome. New York: George Ward Nichols, 1862. Oblong 4to. 24 lithographic plates. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettered on cover. Wear to extremities and corners, front inner hinge cracked. Caricatures of contemporary political figures and African Americans, cast as characters from antiquity. The author was known for his racist "Darktown" comics.
6. [Parfumerie Oriza.] Album Du Carnaval. N.p.: c. 1875. 4to. 12 color lithographic plates by E. Girard of women in provocative costume, including Scottish and Islamic motifs. Contemporary purple cloth, gilt lettered on spine. Bookplate of Wilhelm, Duke of Braunschweig (1806-1884). Slightly rubbed. Fancy dress and political satire alluding to Ismail Pasha, the Khedive (Ottoman Viceroy) of Egypt, with a role in opening the Suez Canal.