Histoire Et Voyages De La Petite Nanette Stocker, Et De Jean Hauptman. [Stocker, Nanette.]

8vo, pp. 15, [1 (blank)]; printed on blue paper, woodcut vignette depicting a rooster and a reading child to title-page; trimmed; a very good copy, pamphlet-stitched.First edition, very rare, of this pamphlet detailing the life and travels of Nanette Stocker and Jean Hauptmann, travelling musicians and performers with dwarfism.Born in Kammer, Austria (1781-1819), the thirty-three-inch Nanette Stocker began touring at the age of sixteen, travelling from her native Austria to Germany, Hungary, Poland, and France and meeting with monarchs, bishops, mayors, and nobles. Whilst in Bouxwiller, she encountered the twenty-year-old Jean Hauptmann, with whom she would later perform throughout Europe (Stocker playing the pianoforte and Hauptmann, the violin). The work was later expanded to include details of their later travels through France and England; the last date mentioned here is their meeting with Napoleon on 16 March 1802, or le 26 Ventôse, four days before the pair's first public appearance in Paris. We find further editions printed at Liège(1804), Toulouse (1806), Lyons (1807), Anvers, (1812), and Paris (1814), all of which are extremely rare; an expanded version provided the basis for an English translation c. 1814.OCLC and CCfr find only two copies of this edition (BnF, Princeton).