119 - HUART (Louis). The Paris Museum: A Physiological, Picturesque, Philosophical, and Grotesque History of All the Curious Beasts of Paris and Its Suburbs. P., Beauger, 1841. Large 8vo, Lavallière half-maroquine, corners, spine with 5 ribs richly gilt and red maroquine band, untrimmed edges, illustrated cover and spine in good condition (Champs).

HUART (Louis). The Paris Museum: A Physiological, Picturesque, Philosophical, and Grotesque History of All the Curious Beasts of Paris and Its Suburbs. P., Beauger, 1841. Large 8vo, Lavallière half-maroquine, corners, spine with 5 ribs richly gilt and red maroquine band, untrimmed edges, illustrated cover and spine in good condition (Champs). First edition illustrated with 350 woodcut vignettes in the text by Grandville, Gavarni, Daumier (approximately 130), Traviès, Monnier, etc. “All the Parisian types are personified and examined in this highly entertaining volume, a veritable menagerie in which no animal—whether more or less wild, more or less tame—is missing” (Lacombe). Louis Adrien Huart (1813–1865), writer and theater director, one of the principal editors of *Le Charivari* under Philipon’s direction, published *The Physiology of the Journalist* in 1840. A VERY BEAUTIFUL, UNTRIMMED COPY with its covers in pristine condition, in a binding by Victor Champs from Victor Mercier and Paul Gavault. Carteret III, 298. Lacombe, *Bibliographie parisienne*, no. 740. Vicaire, IV, 221.