Lot 1706: EDMOND LAVRATE (French, 1829-1888). Important personal album of 58 original watercolor political and social cartoons, circa 1880. Each

EDMOND LAVRATE (French, 1829-1888). Important personal album of 58 original watercolor political and social cartoons, circa 1880. Each signed in ink "Lavrate". Satirical depictions especially targeting the military and local magistrates of various towns and villages in the environs of Paris. Each watercolor accompanied by a descriptive rhyme or pun in French, written in the artist's script. Hard-cover bound with leather spine tooled in gilt. - Each page, 12 in. x 10 in.