AUTOMOBILE PANHARD & LEVASSOR - If they had had... Lot 242

AUTOMOBILE] PANHARD & LEVASSOR - If they had had the automobile. Texts found in 1912 by Paul AROSA. (Paris, Vidal & Coqueret, 1913). In-4, Italian style, marbled fawn boards, gilt medallion with title in the centre of the first plate (lower margin slightly insolated). [32] pp. 1913 catalogue presenting 8 models, each represented by a color hors-texte: Torpedo, Landaulet, Torpedo front coupe, 2-seat interior drive, 4-seat interior drive, double coupe, limousine and delivery car. Amusing historical parody imagined by Paul Arosa who diverted some famous episodes of history such as the soldier of the marathon, the Gauls at the Capitol... Louis XVI at Varennes who, "if they had had the car", would have known a different fate. The left page reproduces a "classic" engraving of the event, the right page evokes the same event by placing one of the Panhard-Levassor models. Slipped under a flap, on the back cover, an Italian-style in-8 catalogue, stapled, detailing the technical specifications of the models. Some page corners creased.