Album comique de pathologie pittoresque, recueil de vingt caricatures médicales. Paris: Huzard-Courcier for Ambroise Tardieu, 1823.
Oblong 2o (246 x 320 mm). Half-title, wood-engraved title vignette and tailpieces, 20 hand-colored lithographic plates by Aubry, Antoine Chazal, Colin, Hippolyte Bellang, and Edm Jean Pigal, all lithographed by Langlum, each plate accompanied by two pages of text. (Some marginal soiling, occasional small marginal tears to text leaves.) Original lavender glazed paper board cartonnage, original colored lithographic title mounted on upper cover, spine gilt-paneled and lettered (rubbed and somewhat soiled, tears to backstrip.) Provenance: Haskell F. Norman Copy (bookplate; his sale Christie's New York, 29 October 1998, lot 889).
Probable First Edition. Caricatures of various diseases as social satire. The illnesses lampooned include gout, vapors, indigestion, colic, apoplexy, madness, St-Guy's dance, asthma, jaundice, smallpox, tics, and migraine. RARE. Norman 30.
Album comique de pathologie pittoresque, recueil de vingt caricatures médicales. Paris: Huzard-Courcier for Ambroise Tardieu, 1823.
Oblong 2o (246 x 320 mm). Half-title, wood-engraved title vignette and tailpieces, 20 hand-colored lithographic plates by Aubry, Antoine Chazal, Colin, Hippolyte Bellang, and Edm Jean Pigal, all lithographed by Langlum, each plate accompanied by two pages of text. (Some marginal soiling, occasional small marginal tears to text leaves.) Original lavender glazed paper board cartonnage, original colored lithographic title mounted on upper cover, spine gilt-paneled and lettered (rubbed and somewhat soiled, tears to backstrip.) Provenance: Haskell F. Norman Copy (bookplate; his sale Christie's New York, 29 October 1998, lot 889).
Probable First Edition. Caricatures of various diseases as social satire. The illnesses lampooned include gout, vapors, indigestion, colic, apoplexy, madness, St-Guy's dance, asthma, jaundice, smallpox, tics, and migraine. RARE. Norman 30.
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