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Cailhava (D'Estandoux, J.Fr.) De l'Art de la comédie, nouvelle édition. Paris, Ph. D. Pierres, 1786. 2 vols. 12, 403 pp.; 2 lvs., 427, 1 pp. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, triple gilt fillets on sides, richly gilt backs with labels, gilt edges (spine-ends and corners slightly damaged). (# 1393)

Quérard, la France Litt. II, 15. Second, corrected edition. The second volume is devoted entirely to 'l'Imitation'. Jean François Cailhava (1731-1813), was one of the best comic authors of his time. - A well preserved copy.

Callot, Jacques (1592-Nancy-1635), after. Balli di Sfessania. After 1622. Series of 7 etchings, each representing two street-performers, dancers, musicians, or actors in carnival dress with masks, plumed hats, fighting, dancing, playing the lute and hurdy-gurdy; lettered with names of characters and one plate at bottom left 'Iacques Callot In'. Each c. 5,6 x 7 cm. (# 5924)

Rare etchings. Jacques Callot's original series of twenty-four plates was most likely published in Nancy around 1622, after compositions designed in Florence (see: Meaume Nos. 641-664). Rather than characters from the commedia dell' arte, the figures are to be identified as street-performers engaged in a dance called 'Sfessania'. Sfessania is a Neapolitan dialect word for a moresca dance, including elements of a local Neapolitan dance and song, the 'Lucia Canazza'. Two of the etchings are loose copies in reverse after Callot, one etching is an adaptation. The other four etchings are own inventions of the anonymous artist, incorporating characters depicted by Callot: Che buoua (buona) mi sa/Cap. Cerimonia; with plate-number 1 in right lower corner Metzetin/Cicho Sgarra Maramao/Cap. Cardoni (copy in reverse of Meaume No. 662) Cucurucu/Razullo (copy in reverse of Meaume No. 659) Meo Squaquara/Bernovalla Cucuba/Cap. Babeo (variant in reverse of Meaume No. 656) Cap. Bellavita/Gian Fritello; lettered at bottom left 'Iacques Callot In'. - Cut to the border-lines and mounted on 1 sheet of paper, a few repairs mainly in blank parts of plates, one tiny hole in lower blank part; some brown spots, framed under glass.

Goez, J.F. von (Hermannstadt 1754-Regensburg 1815) 16 etchings of actors on stage. (Germany, München, Regensburg), 1781 - 1797. 16 very fine etchings of actors, male and female, performing on stage, in very nice costumes and decors, signed and part of them dated. Small 8vo. (# 5802)

Joseph Franz von Goez, Götz or Goetz, a German painter, etcher and engraver, was called by his enthousiastic contemporaries the German Hogarth. He also wrote and directed theater plays and musical drama and made numerous etchings and engravings of actors on stage, while playing in these and other theatre performances. The present etchings are very probably designed after particular stage performances. They are very interesting as Goez observed the various characters played by the actors very thoroughly and depicted all the details very accurately. They give very important information on 18th century German melodrama. Goez lived from 1779 - 1783 in München, then in Augsburg, from 1785 - 1791 in München again, and from 1791 - 1815 in Regensburg; 3 etchings are dated 1781, so made in München; one etching is dated 1793 and one 1797, so both made in Regensburg. - Mounted of old, sharp impressions with margins; waterstains to 2 plates, lightly foxed. - Added: Gradmann, Johannes (Active in Regensburg 1778). Etching showing a drunk man sitting on a barrel, numbered 1, signed Joh.s Gradmann exc. A.V. (Augsburg). Small 8vo. - And added: S.D.R. Sc., after Loutherburg. Fine etching signed S.D.R. Sc. showing a woman with vegetables in her raised skirt, to the right a basket with vegetables. Small 8vo. As described by Nagler, Monogrammisten IV, No. 4038, 4.

Horn, Fr. Shakespeare's Schauspiele, erläutert. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1823 - 1831. 5 parts in 3 volumes. Contemporary half calf, back gilt with label (small hole in 1 front-cover, a little rubbed). (# 5027)

First edition of this learned German elucidation of Shakespeare's plays. Franz Christoph Horn (Braunschweig 1781 - Berlin 1837) was author and historian of literature. - Some leaves slightly foxed.

Lessing, G.E. Lustspiele. Carlsruhe, Chr. G. Schmieder, 1777. 2 parts in 1 volume. 1 lf., 299 pp.; 1 lf., 484 pp. 8vo. Old boards (rebacked, worn). (# 5240)

Goedeke IV.1, 395 No. 100. Contains: Der junge Gelehrte, Die Juden, De Misogyn, Der Freygeist, Der Schatz, Minna von Barnhelm, Damon, Die alte Jungfer. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729 - 1781) was a German dramatist, philosopher, and critic. He was one of the outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment in Germany. One of Lessing's earliest literary ventures was Die Juden, a one-act comedy in which for the first time a Jew was presented on the German stage in a reasonably objective manner (See: Enc. Judaica 11, 49). - Bound at the end an incomplete copy of Lessing's Trauerspiele. Occasionally foxed.

Regnard, (J.Fr.) Oeuvres. Edition stéréotype d'après le procédé de Firmin Didot. Paris, P. Didot l'ainé et F. Didot, an X (1801). 5 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary half leather, backs gilt, with labels (slightly rubbed, corners slightly worn). (# 3849)

The 5th volume contains the author's travel descriptions: 'Voyage de Flandre et de Hollande, Du Danemarck, De la Suède', 'Voyage de Lapponie', 'Voyage de Pologne', 'Voyage d'Allemagne' and the short story 'La Provençale', describing his life as a slave in Algeria. Jean François Regnard (1655 - 1709) is considered the best French comedy-writer after Molière. - Slight waterstain in the 3rd volume.

Sophocles and Aristophanes. Oedipe, tragédie de Sophocle, et les oiseaux, comédie d'Aristophane. Traduites par Jean Boivin. Paris, Didot, chez J.-L Nyon, 1729. 2 lvs., 405 pp., 1 lf. - Bound with: (Bougeant, G.H.) La femme docteur, ou la théologie Janseniste tombée en quenouille. Comédie. Amsterdam, E.J. Ledet & Compagnie, 1731. Engraved vignette on title. 15, 1, 151 pp. - Bound with: Boissy, L. de. Le François à Londres, comédie. La Haye (The Hague), Fr. Moselagen, 1731. Sphere on title. 1 lf., 56 pp. Together 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary calf, back gilt (spine-ends damaged, rubbed, hole in back-cover). (# 4617)

Ad I: Hoffmann III, 615. Quérard IX, 213. First edition of these fables in the French translation of Jean Boivin. Ad II: De Backer-Sommervogel I, 1875-1876. Cf. Willaert No. 9974. Famous comedie dealing with the quarrels between the 'molinistes' and Jansenists. The Jesuit Guillaume Hyacinthe Bougeant (Quimper 1690 - Paris 1743) teached at Caen, Nevers and Paris. Ad III: Rather rare edition. L. de Boissy (Vie 1694 - Paris 1758) was author of many theater plays.

Théophile (de Viau). Les oeuvres, divisées en trois parties. Premiere partie, contenant l'immortalité de l'ame, avec plusieurs autres pieces. La seconde, les Tragedies. Et la troisiesme, les pieces qu'il a faites pendant sa prison. Dernière édition. Paris, widow of E. Pepingué, 1656. 3 parts in 1 volume (part 2 and 3 with continous pagination). 269 pp.; pp. (1) - 138; pp. (139) - 303. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gilt back with label (rather rubbed). (# 5402)

Cf. Tchemerzine X, 360 ff. Cf. Haag IX, 477 ff. Neither bibliography mentions this edition. The French poet Théophile de Viau (1591 - 1626) was a Huguenot and a freethinker. He was banished and persecuted several times. Besides 'Pyramus & Thisbe' his works include a paraphrase, half verse, half prose, of the Phaedo. - On fly-leaf old bibliographical note; old ownership entry on title. Very lightly browned.