[Satire and caricature] Three French language works: (1) Histoire complète et véritable de M. Mayeux,

suivie de son Traité de paix avec la Juste-Milieu et de ses aventures belliqueuses pendant les Journées des 5 et 6 juin, racontée par lui-même, nom de Dieu! Paris, Marchands de Nouveautés, 1834, 2 parts in 1 vol., 107 p., w. handcol. engr. frontisp and title-p. (Vie politique, civile, militaire & privée de Mr. Mayeux), followed by two larger sized identical series of lithogr. plates (plate 1, the portrait of Mr. Mayeux only present once) of 48 plates (one series mounted w. one margin verso of the other series), orig. printed boards. Text vol. (vaguely) waterst. throughout, plates foxed. the mounted series of plates waterst. Covers browned and rebacked w. cloth w. renewed endpapers. From the library of L.H. Dorrenboom, w. his bookplate on upper pastedown. Very rare. (2) Cham. Un génie incompris. Paris, Aubert & Cie., (1841), 47 lithogr. plates followed by (8) letterpress p. w. publisher's adverts, orig. lithogr. wr., obl. large 8vo. Wr. w. owner's entry dated 1844 in pen, dustsoiled and lacking sm. portions. Very rare, early work by Cham (1818-1879). -and 1 other.

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