CHAM / BAC - Croquades..../ Comédie Féminine 170 planches,.380 dessins XIXème E.O - 1850

CHAM and BAC. Caricatures and humor. Set of 2 nineteenth-century works totaling 170 plates for 380 drawings. Details below:

Cham. Croquades. Doodles... Charivari. 280 drawings, 70 plates. 1850.
Rare set of 280 drawings by Cham gathered in a volume of 70 plates drawn from 5 albums published by Charivari, a satirical review from the mid-19th century.
In 4to of 23 / 18 cm, half-leather binding titled.
In detail:
• Croquades, 16 pages, including title page.
• Illustrated Grammar. 16 pages, including title page. rare
• Nouvelles inventions (the representatives on vacation?) 15 pages.
• Nouvelles croquades. 7 pages
• Coup de crayon. 15 pages, including title page. rare
Cham or Amédée de Noé, 1818/1869, is a famous French caricaturist.
State: cover with scuffs, interior: 6 plates yellowed, one with a small tear without loss and consolidated, otherwise good and fresh.

BAC Ferdinand: The Women’s Comedy, 100 unpublished drawings - 1899
1899. BAC Ferdinand The Women’s Comedy, containing 100 unpublished drawings. Paris, Simonis Empis, 1899; Original edition. In-12 of 19 / 13.5 cm, Beautiful half-red leather binding, spine decorated with gold tooling, top edge gilt. VII pages and 100 plates in black. Printed on good coated paper of heavy grammage. First title page in color preserved. With a dedication from the donor to his friends on the endpaper.
In very good condition. Beautiful book that would have a hard time appearing today.

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