SEM (Georges GOURSAT) MARSEILLE Album 2nd Series.1899 20... Lot 90

SEM (Georges GOURSAT) MARSEILLE Album 2nd Series.1899 20 plates of lithographs in colors, 4 of which are double-page spreads: types and trades of Marseille, lawyers, shows, veterinarian... In-folio (49 x 35,5 cm), hardback binding with laces, a preface sheet. Soiling on the boards of the binding in used condition, interior boards in good condition. These sketches (need I say it?) do not pretend to be portraits... nor even expressly "caricatures". I have simply tried to fix, to synthesize in a few sharp strokes and not without a slight sense of humor, the "familiar aspect" of the most famous people of the world of theaters, cafés, circles, races, the bar or the stock exchange... One will perhaps find later with some interest on these sheets, if Mistral does not take them away, all the most interesting types of the Marseilles of that time, several of whom are already, or will become, local glories, Marseilles April 12, 1899, SEM.