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L’Hospitalité ou la Cabane du Paria.
L’Hospitalité ou la Cabane du Paria. Le Docteur jouissait du plaisir d’être ensûreté au milieu de la tempête...En fin jusqu’au chien prenait part au bonheur commun; couché avec un chat, auprès du fue, il entre-ouvrait de temps en temps les yeux et soupirait en regardant son maître. Voyez la Chaumiere indienne, Page 75. Par Jacques-Bernardin Henri de St. Pierre.
Challiou delineavit. Mariage sculpsit.
à Paris chez Bance ainé, Md. d’Estampes, rue St. Denis, No.214. [n.d. c.1800.]
Stipple with small margins, rare. Plate 560 x 412mm (22 x16¼").
A scene from 'La Chaumiere Indienne' ("The Indian Cottage"), by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre in 1790. A traveller finds wisdom in the cottage of an Indian outcast.
for another print from the same series see ref. 1193
[Ref: 28897]   £350.00  
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[Scene from classical mythology.]
[Scene from classical mythology.]
perin del. mariage sculp.
[Paris: n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple and etching, scratched letter proof, 390 x 320mm. 15¼ x 12½". Light staining/spotting. One rust spot to image upper centre.
Very faint trace of some scratched letters of title visible; illegible. Print made by Louis François Mariage (1785 - 1828; fl.), stipple and line engraver.
[Ref: 10317]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Les Simples Souvenirs Ou L'Echange Modeste,  Le Docteur  dit au paria….et le fourneau de terre cuite.
Les Simples Souvenirs Ou L'Echange Modeste, Le Docteur dit au paria….et le fourneau de terre cuite.
Challiou del. Mariage sculp.
a Paris chez Bance... [illegible] Md. D'Estampes, rue St. Denis, No.214.
Fine stipple engraving, printed in colours. 570 x 412mm (22¾ x 16¼") Repaired tears and occasional restored holes in paper, largely in margins with one patch repair lower right of title area.
The French inscription tells of the European Doctors attempt to give a gift to the poor native who refuses as he explains to the foreigner a belief that poverty protects the poor from envy. If the individual has no valuables then there is nothing for any criminal to steal. They exchange pipes as an alternative.
[Ref: 1193]   £650.00  
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[The Incas.] Naufrage de Télasco et d'Amazili.
[The Incas.] Naufrage de Télasco et d'Amazili.
Le Barbié pinx.t. Mariage sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1780.]
A fine colour-printed stipple. Sheet 425 x 540mm (16¾ x 21¼"). Trimmed into text in title, repaired holes in image in sky, nicks in edges.
A scene from 'Les Incas, ou la destruction de l'empire du Perou', a 1770 novel by Jean-François Marmontel (1723-1799). A group of Incans, including Telasco and his fiancée Princess Amazili, reach the shore of a Pacific Island after being shipwrecked in a Spanish ship.
[Ref: 53388]   £360.00   (£432.00 incl.VAT)
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