Category: Chromolithography

"Violets." A Calendar 1898

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston, L. Prang & Co. : 1897

Seller ID: 003736

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Oblong, 9.5 by 17.5 cm. Five cards bound with ribbon from above. Three months per card below title card. Varied violet ornamentation on each card. Light soiling of top, title card, and on back of bottom card.
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Card-Houses

Price: $250.00

Seller ID: 001630

Binding: Box

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa late 1800s. With 96 pictorial (chromolithographic) cards, and 38 blank cards. An folded instruction sheet as well as instructions pasted onto the underside of the box lid. Pictorial cards are interlocking so that they can be arranged to build various structures, and hence the name of the game, "Card-Houses". The game is in essence a precursor of Lego blocks. Of equal interest is the bright chromolithographic imagery of cats, children, roosters, other animals. The cards are each 4 by 2.5 inches, and they are clean and appropriately stiff. The box housing the cards has...
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Chromolithographic Outer Walls of a Go Fishing Game

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: 004058

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1890. The boards of the four linked walls collapse to lay flat. The object of the game was to attempt to fish out small fish from within the well. None of these fish but one, nor the rods used, are now present, but the outer panels remain highly decorative with their illustration of fish, frogs, a kingfisher, lily pads and shore grasses. The four sides are in fact identical. The sides are oblong, each being 31.5 by 34 cm.
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Fireside Card Games. Highly Enameled and Finished. Catalogue No. 1.--England

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio, The Fireside Game Co. The United States Playing Card Company : 1897

Seller ID: 006740

Binding: Card. (Stiff wraps).

Condition: Very Good

Scarce card game trade catalogue, with only a single catalogue of this line found on OCLC First Search, and that particular catalogue is for a later year (1899) and somewhat smaller as well. (Held by the Ohio Historical Connection.) Oblong, 12 by 16.5 cm. Title page, price list and 18 chromolithograph plates. The card games being promoted in this catalogue all have a supposed educational benefit. The games are called "Strange People"; "Election"; "Wild Animals"; "Oak Leaves"; "The Pines"; "Maple Grove"; "Our Union"; "Populatio...
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Five Au Bon Marché Cards from the Series "La Vie Maritime" Depicting Children in the Navy

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: 005686

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1900. Noted on cards is that the store was on the jury at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 -- it isn't clear whether these cards were issued in conjunction with the fair. Cards measure 10.5 by 15 cm. The full series, we believe, was six, meaning we lack one from the series. One card with evidence on text side of having been pasted into an album. A few closed tears, all but one miniscule, and the longer one is inconspicuous in our view.
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Floral Seasons. A Calendar for 1899.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London and New York, Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton, respectively : 1898

Seller ID: 003731

Binding: Wraps, with original box

Condition: Fine

Highly colorful chromolithograpically illustrated calendar in pristine condition. The original box, a highly unusual survivor for this kind of thing, measures 25.5 by 16.5 cm, oblong, and this is essentially the outer dimensions of this "shaped" booklet. The shaping is the delicate outline of a wreath, if you will, of roses. Six card stock pages, each presenting two months and decorated with flowers, and these are bound together with ribbon. The box has a few tears on the lower sides.
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Funny Folks Album. Master Chubb and his Dog

Price: $175.00

Seller ID: 006251

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

N.p., no publisher given, N.d., circa 1890. Eight paneled leporello, each with a chromolithographic illustration, and six lines of rhymed verse telling the story of the mishievous dog who simply can't contain himself when he espies geese, a boy, cattle, etc. Only the sight of a whip at the end brings contrition, which we trust is ephemeral. The dog looks most like a dachshund, although the breed isn't specified, and one can't be sure that is what the artist intended. Closed, oblong, 7 by 12 cm. Opening to be 81 cm long. Scarce, with three copies found on OCLC First Search (Melbourne, Mona...
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Geschiedenis van Jan Klaassen Geschenk voor de Jeugd. Met 6 Plaatjes.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Utrecht, J.H. van Wees Jr. (not listed in the book itself)

Seller ID: 002626

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good Plus

N.d., circa 1870. Unpaginated, 12 pp., including wraps which are bound in, followed by 33 leaves, all blank, of card thickness, giving the slender volume some thickness. 18 by 12 cm. Scarce, with only one copy located on OCLC (at the University of Leiden). The plates depict Punch and Judy, with a baby, throwing the infant in the air, Judy clubbing Punch, a circus dog biting Punch's nose, a hangman and Punch. Accompanying the rather elegant chromolithographs, which are framed with a decorative puppet stage box, is a narrative poem telling of the doings, and this is rendered in Dutch. The ...
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Japanese Lacquer Album and Music Box Housing a Collection of Liebig Cards

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: London, Liebig Company

Seller ID: 003367

Binding: Lacquer

A highly unusual album with a splendid collection of Liebig cards. N.d. The cards were produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and the lacquer album itself is from the mid-twentieth century -- it could be from the twenties to the fifties -- but since it is probably that the collection of Liebig cards dates to the earlier part of that range, the album itself is surely from the earlier part of that range. 60 leaves, containing 180 Liebig chromolithographic cards, six per leaf, plus a larger chromo, or overlay of a few chromos, on first card leaf, featuring a Caucasion...
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My Mother

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: 003659

Binding: Blindstamped Cloth

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1860. Unpaginated, without copyright page and no publication info. Title, followed by ten leaves, with contents on only one side of each, with the chromo vignettes and short verse, or four line, caption on pages with content, and these pages are always facing. The oval vignettes show mother and child from infancy to maturity. Very sweet, Victorian sentimentalia. Presumed scarce relic. Moderate wear and soiling to cover.
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Pretty Farm Pictures. A Big Book for the Little Ones.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London and New York, Ernest Nister and E. P. Dutton & Co.

Seller ID: 001600

Binding: Boards attached by cloth spine

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1890. With 19 large chromolithographs, including title, of animals and some children in bucolic settings, all on heavy card which gives the book real heft and durability. The size, 11 by 12 inches each, and prettiness of the illustrations sets this juvenile farm animal compilation from the common fare of the day, and surely the endearing cuteness of the images has led many a time to this book being broken for the purpose of framing the prints. Some soiling of the covers. The red cloth used on the spine has some fraying and weakening. Minor soiling of some margins within, but m...
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Sweet Pansies Calendar for 1899

Price: $50.00

Publisher: : 1898

Seller ID: 006171

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

Four die-cut chromolithographic panels, with four months on the top and bottom panels, two months each on the other two, and pretty illustration of pansies surrounding the small boxes (made to look like scrolled pages) for the months. The panels were intended to be displayed vertically, so the top and bottom panels have more jagged shaping to their top and bottom edges, respectively. The panels are meant to be held together by silk ribbon. The original ribbon here survives but is torn, and so the panels are now completely separate pieces. Otherwise, the intricate jags along the edges, whic...
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Talismanic Flowers

Price: $400.00

Publisher: : 1880

Seller ID: 002253

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Very Good

With 14 pages of chromolithographic die-cuts. Twelve of these pages are of flowers representing each of the months, the thirteenth is of an elaborate bouquet, and the final leaf is an assortment of nine die-cuts of flowers and children such as one might find in a more common Victorian album. Each of the monthly floral die-cut leaves is accompanied by poetry entitled "The Legend of" whatever the particular flower is as well as a four-line stanza dedicated to the same month. The thirteenth leaf comes with a long poem called "Nature' Cathedral". Separate from all this are n...
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The Boudoir Portfolio. With Postal Regulations, Convenient Dictionary and Speller

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Keokuk, Iowa, J. C. Hubinger Bros. Co.

Seller ID: 006514

Binding: Hardcover. Cloth spine. Paper pastedowns on

Condition: Very Good

Scarce -- no copies located on OCLC or elsewhere. N.d., circa 1899. 4to. 25.5 by 21 cm. 16 pp., plus 8 pages of blank card in the center. With front pockets, one large, almost the size of the entire front board, and a smaller pocket above, to be used to store various slips of papers, notes, receipts, etc., as customary in a compact work-oriented organizer/portfolio. With an advertisement for Elastic Starch, the actual product being promoted by the issuance of this Portfolio, on the rear inside cover. Chromolithograhic cover and rear, the front depicting a pretty young woman dressed in ...
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The Christian Garland; Or, A companion for Leisure Hours: Consisting of Original and Selected Pieces in Poetry and Prose. A New Edition.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, The Religious Tract Society

Seller ID: 001653

Binding: Blindstamped and gilded cloth

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1870. 12mo. v, 252 pp. With eight chromolithographic color plates of bouquets of flowers, fruits and shells. Plates engraved by Kronheim. Some fading of gilt on spine. Light wear to blue blindstamped cloth. Minor crack by frontis. One plate with small corner dampstain. Generally clean.
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The Daisy Basket Calendar for 1892

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Paris, New York, Raphael Tuck & Sons : 1891

Seller ID: 003732

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Shaped book calendar with lovely chromolithographic illustration. 14 by 10 cm at outer points. Ten unpaginated leaves, with two months or three on a page with a lovely bucolic or floral chromo on the facing page. Center with two facing chromo plates. Small chip on front cover. Light, inconspicuous fox marks on front cover.
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The Lancaster Fan. 1906

Price: $200.00

Publisher: International Art Publishing Co. : 1902

Seller ID: 003741

Binding: NA

Condition: Near Fine

Lovely fan with roses serving as pictorial decoration. 23 cm tall, each of seven panels 8 cm at widest, and the fan is 40 cm wide when fully opened. Light soiling to surface.
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The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York [Calendar for] 1890

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, : 1889

Seller ID: 003739

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Tiny calendar booklet, measuring 6 by 4 cm. 16 pp., plus wraps. One month per page, with delicate chromo vignette atop each month. Memo pages in back. Lovely peacock feather decoration on front and back. Company info and promo is only on inside of wraps. Closed tear along hinge fold. Moderate wear besides.
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The Poppy. Calendar 1903

Price: $200.00

Publisher: : 1902

Seller ID: 003740

Binding: NA

Condition: Near Fine

Lovely fan with poppies and other flowers serving as pictorial decoration. 24 cm tall, each of seven panels 8 cm at widest, and the fan is 43 cm wide when fully opened. Light soiling to surface.
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The Speaking Picture Book. A Special Book with Picture, Rhyme and Sound for Little People.

Price: $1,800.00

Seller ID: 001450

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

N.d., circa 1890s. Sixteenth Edition. With nine ivory tassels or pulls with strings attached, which when pulled out from the fore-edge or side of the box, produce various sounds: a cock crowling, birds chirping, a donkey bray, a bleat, a moo, a coo, etc. Described by Peter Haining as "The piece de resistance of any collection of movables, or toy-books for that matter". See Haining "Movable Books", New English Library, 1979, p. 136. (Note Haining has in illustration a copy of 17th Edition and he dates the book circa 1893.) The book was produced in Nuremberg by an unknown firm, according ...
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Category: Chromolithography