Alophe ill (4 risultati)

rigide. Condizione: Bon. Vignettes de MM. Alophe et Maurisset, 1 vol. in-32 reliure bradel XXe demi-chagrin maroquiné vert, couvertures et dos conservés, tête dorée, Aubert et Cie, Lavigne, Paris, s.d. [ 1841 ], 2 ff., 122 pp. et 1 f. n. ch. (annonces) Les "Physiologies" connurent une grande vogue de 1840 à 1845. Bon exemplaire (qq. rouss., dos passé, bel exemplaire par ailleurs). Vicaire, VI, 600 Langue: Français.…

rigide. Condizione: Bon. Vignettes de MM. Alophe et Janet-Lange, 1 vol. in-32 reliure bradel XXe demi-chagrin havane, couvertures conservées, tête dorée, Aubert et Cie, Lavigne, Paris, s.d. [ 1841 ], 127 pp. Les "Physiologies" connurent une grande vogue de 1840 à 1845. Bon exemplaire (qq. rouss., dos passé, bel exemplaire par ailleurs). Vicaire, VI, 604 Langue: Français. …

FIRST EDITION. Wood engravings throughout. Original printed wrappers bound into later half sheep over marbled boards. In excellent condition. First edition, an illustrated satirical typology of students. Describing university attendees living in the Latin Quarter, the author attests to their constant eating and drinking, smoking of cigarettes, and dancing like ancient philosophers. He goes on to address their penchant for fancy clothes and lizards, with whom they must be friends for how much time they spend sprawled in grassy parks. One chapter is devoted to medical students, who allegedly only learn about six illnesses (one being death), and will cut people open and drain their blood just to diagnose them with a cough. For all their selfishness, however, students remember to send letters to their parents, including a bill for the semester's revels. This copy retains the publisher's advertisements on the wrappers and final text leaf.…

31,5x23,5 cm. 14 coloured lithographed plates (each with protective leaf). Near contemporary half calf, original green front cover bound in. Spine and extremeties a bit worn, plates in very good condition.