The Imperial Menagerie, made up of the ruminants, amphibians, carnivores and other budget eaters that devoured France for 20 years. In-8 (27.1 x 17.8 cm), leaves, publisher's red percaline folder, illustrated with a lithograph in colour pastedown. A famous and cruel collection of satirical cartoons, complete with 31 lithographed colour caricatures, zoomorphic portraits of the protagonists of the deposed imperial regime, in very good condition. Among them is the famous portrait-charge depicting Napoleon III as a vulture holding moribund France in its talons. Spine and corners of dust jacket slightly damaged, tiny marginal tears to some plates. Provenance Osenat sale, Christopher Forbes Collection, 6 March 2016, lot no. 46.