Art, Architecture & Photography / Caricature & Satire

RAMEAU, Pierre. Le maître a danser. Qui enseigne la maniere de faire tous les differens pas de danse dans toute la regularité de l'art, & de conduire les bras à chaque pas.
Paris, Jean Villette, 1725. 8vo. With etched frontispiece and 59 etched plates (including 3 double-page and 1 larger folding) showing 2 couples dancing the minuet before King Louis XV and his court, individuals and couples demonstrating dance positions, dance steps, positions and movements of the hands and arms during the dance, drawn and mostly etched by the author. Further with numerous charming woodcut headpieces and tailpieces (2 signed "V.LS" or "V.LS in"), woodcut decorated initials, and decorations built up from cast fleurons. Green morocco (ca. 1900?), gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled turn-ins, fillets on board edges, curl-marbled endpapers, gilt edges (stamp on endleaf: "Gloss. Elldt Jnr"?). XXIV, 272 pp. Full description

[REICHARD, Heinrich August O.]. Malerische Reise durch einen großen Theil der Schweiz vor und nach der Revolution.
Jena, H.W.Ch. Seidler, 1805. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece with 4 medallion portraits, engraved title-page with the title on a rock in an alpine scene, 54 numbered engraved plates (1 folding) and 2 folding leaves with built-up letterpress music. With the 4 costume plates hand-coloured. Later 19th-century half cloth. XVI, 414, [2] pp. Full description

REITZ, Johann Frederik, and others. Oude en nieuwe staat van't Russische of Moskovische Keizerryk, behelzende eene uitvoerige historie van Rusland en deszelfs groot-vorsten; benevens de beschryvinge van dat uitgestrekte ryk, de zeden en godsdienst der inwoneren: zyne opkomst en voortgang in koophandel, kunsten, land- en zeemacht, oproeren, oorlogen en verdere wisselvalligheden, tot dezen tegenwoordigen tydt toe.
Utrecht, Johannes Broedelet, 1744. 4 volumes. 4to. With 4 folding maps, 3 folding plates and a folding letterpress table. Early 19th-century half red sheepskin. [2], 296; [2], 200, 200a-200d; [2], 501; [2], 830 pp. Full description

[ROWLANDSON, Thomas]. The tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of the picturesque. A poem.
London, R. Ackermann, 1812. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 78 full-page hand-coloured aquatint plates and 2 hand-coloured aquatint vignettes. With: [ROWLANDSON, Thomas]. The second tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of consolation; a poem.
London, R. Ackermann, 1820.
[ROWLANDSON, Thomas]. The third tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of a wife, a poem.
London, R. Ackermann, 1821.
Late 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco by the Rivière Bindery. III, [3], 276; [6], 277, [1 blank]; [4], 279, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[SATIRE - FRENCH]. [Eight lithographs from La caricature journal].
[Paris], Aubert, [1831-1833]. Various sizes. With 8 lithographs. Including:
(1) PHILIPON, Charles. Misère toujours misère.
Paris, [1831].
(2) PHILIPON, Charles. Misère toujours misère.
Paris, [1831].
(3) PHILIPON, Charles. La Carcicature (journal) no. 59.
[Paris], on s'abonne chez Aubert, [1831].
(4) BOUQUET, Auguste. Père-scie.
[Paris], Aubert, [1832].
(5) DAUMIER, Honoré. Primo saignare, deinde purgare, postea clysterium donare.
[Paris], Aubert, [1833].
(6) DAUMIER, Honoré. La Cour du Roi Pétaud.
[Paris], Aubert, [1832]
(7) WILLIAMS, B. Laboratore infernal.
[Paris], Aubert, [1831].
(8) WILLIAMS, B. Laboratore infernal.
[Paris], Aubert, [1831].

Ads 3-4 are tipped in a white and gold passe-partout, ads 5-6 tipped in a white passe-partout. Full description

[DRAWING]. SAUNDERS, John. [John Sturges in Turkish costume with turban and gold-trimmed coat].
Peterborough, 1739. Pastel on paper, mounted on canvas (41 x 30.5 cm), stretched over (original?) wooden board. Full description

SCHÜTZERCRANTZ, Adolf Ulrik. Reseminnen från Orienten.
Stockholm, L.J. Hjerta, 1839. Folio. With 6 lithographed plates by Schützercrantz. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers mounted on a larger sheet serving as a folder. 4 pp. Full description

[SERMON ON KINGS AND WHORES]. Koninglyke dwaesheid, of het gevaer van de verleidingh der hoeren. Vertoont in een predikaetie uitgesprooken te Oxfordt, ... Uit het Engelsch vertaalt.
Haarlem, Jan van Lee, 1743. 4to. With a woodcut emblematic device on title-page. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. 21, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[SILVESTRE, Charles-François?]. l[']Art de bien dessiner a la plume nouvellement mis au jour pour l[']utilité de la jeunesse.
Including:
(2): [SILVESTRE, Charles François]. Diverses figures Turcs propre à dessiner a la plume.
(3): [SILVESTRE, Charles François]. Second livre de figures Turcs propre à déssiner à la plume.
(4): [SILVESTRE, Charles François?]. Diverses figures de caprice propre a dessigner a la plume.
[Paris?, ca. 1700?]. 4 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 16mo (13 x 16 cm). Each part with an engraved title page and each with 11 unnumbered engraved plates. Contemporary French sprinkled, gold-tooled calf. [12], [12], [12], [12] engr. ll. Full description

[SOMER, Paul (II) van (attributed)]. The scientific horned doctor, Father Peters, a great labourer; in works of darckness. Het stookhuys van Pater Peeters en de Jesuiten in Engeland, ontdekt door Eusebius en Simplicimus.
[London, Paul van Somer II, ca. 1689]. Ca. 56.5 x 41.8 cm. With an engraving and a decorated woodcut initial. The work has been tipped into a green pase-partout. [1] ll. Full description