After Rousseau (6 results)

25.5x19.5cm. First edition thus. With full-page colour illustrations after Redouté, a few other illustrations in black-and-white, and bibliography. Hardback / hard cover: marbled faux leather, spine titled in gilt; marbled endpapers. FINE copy in near FINE unclipped dust jacket.

P.J.Redoute (illustrator). First Edition. Rousseau's botanical letters and Notes towards a Dictionary of Botanical Terms. VG in dustjacket which is creased.

Condition: Good. Lithograph on chine colle. 32 x 45 cm (sheet). Very Good, light surface soiling in the margins.

Lithograph, from L'Artiste, a little spotting on surround,

Condition: Good. Two Etchings on rag paper. 50 x 33 cm. Marginal tears.After drawings from the 1830s and 1840s by Pierre Toussaint Bonnaire (1813-1882); Louis Lemet, (1779 - 1832); Paul Delaroche(1797-1856); Horace Vernet, (1789-1863); Adolphe Varin (1821-1897).Adolphe Martial Potémont aka A.-P. Martial, (Paris, 10 February 1828 - Paris, 14 October 1883) was a pupil of the painters Leon Coignet and Felix Brissot de Warville, followed a general training in landscape painting, but also studied historical painting and portraits. He exhibited his work at the Paris Salon in 1846 and 1882. He Is mainly known for his etchings, notably his views of Paris and its inhabitants before the city was transformed by Haussmann during the 1860s. Reference: Beraldi, II, no. 3.

Image featuring the various Dauphins du France, from the 14th to the late 17th century. Inscriptions on the top left and right corners.The historiographic research was conduced by Jacques-Louis Chevillard (1680-1751), who signed himself as Historiographe de France and Genealogiste du Roy.Signed on the bottom left: 'Gravé par T. Rousseau.' Etching and engraving on a very large sheet of paper; plate mark: 694 x 472 mm, total: 794 x 556 mm, folded into two; fraied most external margins, some rubbing and dirt, though in very good condition. Another copy is to be found at the National Library of France in Paris, in the Rotschild fund, 2493.20. Quite rare.