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FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this rare account of the Jardin des Plantes intended for juveniles, with 24 full-page lithographs by Albert Adam, each depicting numerous exotic animals in zoo settings. 3, 31 pp on thin wove paper + 24 lithographs printed on thick wove paper. Oblong 4to. Attractively bound in publisher's pebbled cloth, stamped in gilt. Minor wear to extremities of binding, but very solid. Text pages lightly discolored; lithographs FINE AND BRIGHT. Rare.…

First Edition. A Delightful and Extremely Scarce Equestrian Caricature Album Sixteen Fine Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates by Albert Adam, Son of the Celebrated Victor Adam ADAM, Albert, illustrator. Scènes Comiques d'après Nature. [Plates lithographed by Godard]. Paris: Hautecoeur Frères, [1860]. Oblong octavo (6 5/16 × 10 inches; 161 × 253 mm.). Hand-colored lithographed pictorial title-page and sixteen numbered hand-colored lithograph plates, many containing several individual scenes. Publisher's pictorial green paper boards, upper cover illustrated lithographically, neatly rebacked to style. Neat contemporary ink inscription dated 1860 on front free endpaper. An excellent example of this extremely scarce and delightfully humorous collection of equestrian caricatures, preserved in its original pictorial publisher's boards. Albert Adam's Scènes Comiques d'après Nature is a wonderfully entertaining series of humorous sketches depicting the trials and tribulations of horses, riders, coachmen, passengers, and other unfortunate participants in the hazards of nineteenth-century travel. The sixteen beautifully hand-colored lithographs contain numerous individual illustrations, frequently combining a principal composition with several smaller vignettes. Horses bolt, carriages overturn, riders are unceremoniously thrown from their mounts, and the supposedly dignified travelers of fashionable France find themselves in the most undignified predicaments. Adam's spirited draughtsmanship, keen observation of equine behavior, and delightful sense of humor are evident throughout. An Extremely Scarce Publisher's Album of Sixteen Hand-Colored Lithographs The present example contains the first sixteen consecutively numbered plates of Scènes Comiques d'après Nature, preserved in the publisher's original pictorial green boards. David Brass Rare Books previously handled a larger example (DB 04067) containing thirty-two numbered plates, comprising the same first sixteen compositions followed by a further sixteen numbered 17-32. A closely related publication, Tribulations Parisiennes et Campagnardes, also issued by Hautecoeur Frères and lithographed by Godard, presents thirty-two numbered compositions arranged two to a sheet on sixteen larger leaves. The first compositions correspond to those in the present album. See David Brass Rare Books, DB 04860, and Bibliotheca Hippologica Johan Dejager, no. 361. These surviving examples establish that Adam's illustrations circulated in different formats and arrangements. Whether Scènes Comiques d'après Nature was originally issued in separate sixteen-plate livraisons, or whether the smaller albums represent publisher's selections from a more extensive series, remains to be conclusively determined. Copies retaining their original pictorial boards are particularly desirable. Albert Adam (1833-1900) was a French draughtsman, caricaturist, and lithographer, the son of the celebrated painter and lithographer Jean-Victor Adam (1801-1866), with whom he frequently collaborated. Like his father, Albert specialized in equestrian subjects, demonstrating a particular talent for the depiction of horses in motion and the humorous mishaps of riders and travelers. His lively compositions capture both the elegance and the inherent absurdities of nineteenth-century sporting and social life. The Plates: Un Chien emporté (with two smaller scenes). Culbute à la Marche. Désagrément du Macadam (with two smaller scenes). Le Pot de fer et le Pot de terre (with two smaller scenes). Une Famille d'Allemands. Touché!!! (with three smaller scenes). Ces Messieurs s'amusent (with five smaller scenes). C'est celle-là! qui est une bête de premier mérite (with one smaller scene). Une branche de salut (with three smaller scenes). Une belle Famille (with four smaller scenes). Un accident imprévu (with two smaller scenes). Un Cheval qui a couru à la Marche (with five smaller scenes). Voiture à l'usage des amateurs de culbutes (with one smaller scene). Le Déjeuner interrompu. Arrosement public et gratis (with four smaller scenes). La Ruade (with five smaller scenes). A charming and remarkably uncommon example of mid-nineteenth-century French equestrian caricature, with delightful contemporary hand-coloring, preserved in the publisher's original illustrated green boards. Related reference: Bibliotheca Hippologica Johan Dejager, no. 361 (for the related Tribulations Parisiennes et Campagnardes). …