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The Speaking Picture Book. A Special Book with Picture, Rhyme and Sound for Little People.

By: N/A

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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Pretty Farm Pictures. A Big Book for the Little Ones.

By: N/A

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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Chromolithographic Outer Walls of a Go Fishing Game

By: N/A

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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Panoramic Pictures at the Zoo

By: N/A

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company:

Seller ID: 002004

Binding: Leporello

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1920s. Oblong leporello with six pop-up cages housing lions, tigers, camels, zebras, deer and bears. Behind the cage bars lie a more naturalistic setting, as opposed to the stone and brick of standard zoo architecture of the era. The front cover depicts a zoo elephant ride, with tots sitting aloft, and the rear board features buffalo. A most charming toy book, which stands easily upright, allowing for the cage pop-ups to be opened to a more three dimensional viewing. The panels are attached by strips of red cloth. On the opposite side from the cage pop-ups are descriptions of...
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Unsere Lieblingstiere Ein Bilderbuch mit acht feinen Farbdruckbildern und vielen mit schwarzen Bildern illustrierten Versen

By: N/A

Price: $165.00

Publisher: Esslingen bei Stuttgart, J. F. Schreiber:

Seller ID: 002020

Binding: Paper pastedowns on boards

Condition: Fair

N.d., circa 1880s. Oblong, 11.5 by 8.75 inches, 29 by 22 cm. With eight delightful bright chromolithographs depicting horses, chickens, cats, storks, dogs, ducks, cows and pigeons, with parrots on the front board. Most facing pages feature verse, in German, along with line drawings of animals and children interacting with them. Scarce juvenile title, with only copy found on Worldcat a mid-20th century probable reprint, and not in Wegehaupt, Alte deutsche Kinderbuecher. The leaves are of a heavy card -- they are in essence all boards. Disbound, with later tabs not holding, and otiose reba...
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Album of Animal Photographs, Circa 1930

By: N/A

Price: $195.00

Seller ID: 005706

Binding: Hardcover. Cloth. String ties.

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1930. Oblong, 23.5 by 28.5 cm. 14 large amusing or curious photographs, each with a caption, showing a wide variety of animals at the London Zoo, the Whipanade Zoo, by the docks, a dog show at Olumpia, a farm. Included are turtles, a polar bear, a seal, an antelope, giraffes, terriers, cats and a Golden Retriever, a lamb, a bear, penguins, bulldogs. The tone is one of breezy levity. The animals are shown as cuddly, cute or funny, all of them, entertainers in essence. This album can be viewed as a homemade photobook. It has an irresistible charm.
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Les Petites Familles

By: N/A

Price: $1,450.00

Publisher: Paris, Le Fuel: 1820

Seller ID: 005578

Binding: Hardcover. Cartonnage. Slipcase.

Condition: Near Fine

Scarce, with a single copy found on OCLC at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. (We believe the BNF has a copy as well.) Anomalous is that this copy is shown as issued in 1819 yet our copy has the calendar for 1821, which suggests strongly an issuance in 1820. Either the OCLC listing is in error, or the same book was issued with eight new pages in its back. 18mo. 11.5 by 7.5 cm. 180, [8] pp. Hand-colored frontis, title page vignette, and ten other hand-colored plates of birds and mammals, all done exquisitely, and in this copy, with exceptional brightness. Indeed, the sharpness of the pla...
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Image for Recreations Utiles ou Collection de 30 Petits Exemples de Dessin Fort Jolis, et Tres-Faciles a Copier a la Plume ou au Crayon; Pour l"amusement des Enfans; Accompagnee de la Description Interessante des Animaux qui se Trouvent dans Chaque Exemple.

Recreations Utiles ou Collection de 30 Petits Exemples de Dessin Fort Jolis, et Tres-Faciles a Copier a la Plume ou au Crayon; Pour l"amusement des Enfans; Accompagnee de la Description Interessante des Animaux qui se Trouvent dans Chaque Exemple.

By: N/A

Price: $975.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Saintin, Libraire de la Cour: 1823

Seller ID: 005950

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

12mo. 133 by 112 mm. ii, 128 pp. Sixteen plates, thirteen of which are hand-colored, and each of these thirteen have two images. Comparatively scarce, with four copies showing up on OCLC First Search (three of an 1813 edition), and none of these copies appear to have hand-coloring going on. Other than frontis which depicts a boy painting a girl standing as his model, all the hand-colored illustrations are of animals, and the text describes these animals, with some emphasis placed on aspects of relevance to the artist. The final three plates, all non-colored, concern human characteristics...
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Album of Original Watercolored Drawings of Birds, Mammals and Insects Drawn from the Museum at Manchester, England

By: Atkinson, F.

Price: $1,800.00

Seller ID: 003326

Binding: Full Blindstamped Morocco

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1870s, based on style of album (which is that of an earlier decade) and when the collection would have been accessible. 8vo. 24 by 19 cm. 48 pages of watercolors, plus three pages of a table listing the species represented and their locations. Blank leaves are scattered throughout the album, as the norm with an artist's album; the album still reads as filled up. Depicted are 55 species, mostly one per painting but a few paintings with two or three. The artistic style, and perhaps also proficiency, is not entirely consistent. Some of the paintings are decidedly naive, while ...
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Projets. 4 Annee

By: Buy, Francine de

Price: $575.00

Seller ID: 006529

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 21 by 16.5 cm. Unpaginated, 41 pages with visual content. 131 vignette drawings, done in pencil, pen-and-ink and 54 of which are watercolored, of animals, mostly real, and a few other things. Animals include elephants, fish, birds (flamingos, cranes, ducks), bears, goats, lambs, horses, cats, rabbits, foxes, giraffes, dragons. Also waves, signage (some with animals), trees. These drawings were done on graph paper, which facilitated the young artist's efforts to scale the drawings accurately undoubtedly. Yet the drawings in our view transcend the expectations one might have for such ...
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Image for Abhandlung von den Land- und Flusschnecken, oder von Solchen Conchylien, welche nicht im Meere sondern auf der Erde und in sussen Wassern zu leben pflegen Mit zwanzig nach der Natur gemalten und durch lebendige Farben erleuchteten Kupfertafeln.

Abhandlung von den Land- und Flusschnecken, oder von Solchen Conchylien, welche nicht im Meere sondern auf der Erde und in sussen Wassern zu leben pflegen Mit zwanzig nach der Natur gemalten und durch lebendige Farben erleuchteten Kupfertafeln.

By: Chemnitz, Johann Hieronymus

Price: $4,750.00

Publisher: Nurnberg, Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe: 1786

Seller ID: 001720

Binding: Cloth over Marbled Boards

Condition: Very Good Plus

4to. xxvi, 194 pp. With 20 hand-colored plates. The text pages have a light ink-blot-like foxing in many of the leaves where the text is. Most will not find this disconcerting, as since it seldom shows up in the margins, it is surely the result of a chemical reaction involving the paper composition and the ink over an extended period of time. In other words, it is to be found probably in virtually all extant copies. The plates are not only spared this, but they are immaculate, their coloring breathtaking.
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British Entomology; (Four Volumes) Being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects Found in Great Britain and Ireland; Containing Coloured Figures from Nature of the Most Rare and Beautiful Species, and in Many Instances of the Plants Upon which They are Found

By: Curtis, John

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: London, Printed for the author and sold by Sherwood, Jones and Co.;FW. Wetton; etc.: 1824-7

Seller ID: 003809

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 24 by 15.5 cm. 194 hand-colored plates. The plates are sensitively and sublimely realized and impart something visually that no photograph of the many insect species represented here could ever achieve. Hand-written two page exigesis on preserving specimens on two preliminary blanks of first volume, along with an insert piece of scrap paper with two sketches of insects -- we would consider these accretions a plus. Calf on spines with cracking, rubbing and wear, with a loss of one spine label, and the gilt detailing on one compartment of one volume is now lost with plain calf repair. ...
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Le Buffon des Petits Enfants Premieres Connaissances, Aussi Amusantes que Curieuses Pour Apprendre l'Histoire Naturelle

By: Delattre, Charles

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Paris, Bibliotheque d'Education de Desiree Eymery: 1841

Seller ID: 003807

Condition: Good

Scarce, with no copies of this edition on OCLC FirstSearch, and the earliest copy on OCLC being four years later, with fewer plates and the plates apparently not hand-colored. 12mo. 14 by 9 cm. 169 pp. 12 hand-colored plates, including frontis genre scene at the Jardins des Plants. Text is presented in a dialogue format between a father and son. Besides the scarcity of this juvenile zoological plate book, it is unusual to find a color printed pastedown on the cover of a book of this vintage. Moderately to heavily soiled cover, with the pastedown imagery heavily rubbed -- the imagery is...
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Unsere Haustiere Ein Tier-Bilderbuch. No. 7204

By: Fritz Baumgarten (1883-1966)

Price: $300.00

Seller ID: 002163

Binding: Heavy Card Boards

Condition: Very Good Plus

Five leaves of thick card, including the covers, and with eight pages of color illustrations of domestic animals, two per page, plus the illustration on the cover. Scarce. A few copies turn up on OCLC, but these are all later editions except possibly one, which is dated 1936. This copy is undated, given the use of Suetterlin Schrift on the front cover, a type of cursive pushed in German schools between 1935 and 1941, when it became officially banned, this is almost certainly the same edition, although the appearance of the book otherwise would suggest a slightly earlier issue. While the Su...
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Image for Le Aurelien: ou, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Anglois; Mommement, Les Phalenes et Papillons; Avec les Plantes sur lesquelles ils se nourrissent; . . .

Le Aurelien: ou, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Anglois; Mommement, Les Phalenes et Papillons; Avec les Plantes sur lesquelles ils se nourrissent; . . .

By: Harris, Moise, illustrator and author [Moses Harris]

Price: $12,000.00

Publisher: London, J. Robson: 1778

Seller ID: 006437

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

One of the true milestones of entomological literature, with truly magnificent and sublime color plates. Folio, 37 by 29 cm. Copper engraved frontis, xv, [1], 90 pp., and one anatomical plate plus 44 magnificent hand-colored copper engraved plates. Text in English and French, with the two languages side by side on each page. Moses Harris (1730-1785) was both an entomologist and engraver and artist. Modern full burgundy morocco, with gilt floral centerpiece and spine decoration. Endpapers are modern and somewhat odd, looking more like wrapping paper than a proper endpaper. Usual offsetti...
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Histoire Naturelles

By: Jules Renard. Illustrations by Pierre Bonnard

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Paris, Ernest Flammarion. Imprimerie Hemmerle, Petit et Cie.:

Seller ID: 002149

Binding: Half Morocco over Boards with Decorated Paper Past

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1910. 12mo. 346 pp. Although Renard's work inspired a number of famous artists, Bonnard's simple, deliberately naive-styled line drawings perfectly match the highly economic whimsy of the prose. Original wraps are bound in. The binding is particularly lovely, with half green morocco and boards covered with a modernist abstract design. Minor rubbing along the joints. The pages are age toned. Overall, a tight and clean copy.
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Image for Natural-Historia för Hemmet Och Skolan. Beskrifningar och Afbildningar af föremål utur Alla Naturens Riken. [Natural History for Home and School.] Efter tillförlitliga källor bearbetad. Med öfver 400 kolorerade Figurer. [Over 400 colored illustrations]

Natural-Historia för Hemmet Och Skolan. Beskrifningar och Afbildningar af föremål utur Alla Naturens Riken. [Natural History for Home and School.] Efter tillförlitliga källor bearbetad. Med öfver 400 kolorerade Figurer. [Over 400 colored illustrations]

By: Kröningssvärd, Carl Gustaf

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: Stockholm, P. A. Huldberg: 1853

Seller ID: 005626

Binding: Hardcover. Marbled paper on boards.

Condition: Very Good

Scarce juvenile natural history color plate book, with only copies known at National Library of Sweden and Princeton. Oblong, 22 by 35.5 cm. 34 hand-colored plates, followed by title page, 101 pages of text. The plates are loosely in the style of the Schreiber/Schubert "Naturgeschichte" published in Esslingen, but here they are hand-colored, as was done in earlier German juvenile zoological and botanical plate books, and some of the images have a more baroque sensibility to them, such as the plates depicting swans and storks or that depicting a peacock. We would also note that so...
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Image for Petit Buffon Illustre. Histoire Naturelle Des Quadrupedes, Des Oiseaux, Des Reptiles, Des Poissons et Des Insectes. (4 volumes) Par Le Bibliophile Jacob

Petit Buffon Illustre. Histoire Naturelle Des Quadrupedes, Des Oiseaux, Des Reptiles, Des Poissons et Des Insectes. (4 volumes) Par Le Bibliophile Jacob

By: Lacroix, Paul

Price: $800.00

Publisher: Paris, Didier: 1841

Seller ID: 002241

Binding: Quarter Calf, over Marbled Boards, with Slipc

Condition: Very Good

With 62 hand-colored plates, in a work generally encountered without coloring. 12mo. 13 by 9 cm. Gumuchian 3551. Almost identical to the first edition of this work issued three years earlier except for addition in this edition of four wood engraved half titles. In any case, scarce to find an early children's Buffon such as this with the full complement of plates, not to mention with color. The first two volumes have a very light dampstain, nearly inconspicuous. Otherwise, light occasional foxing but generally clean. The contemporary calf spine head of volume 1 has chip and slight chewi...
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Les Poemes Barbares Vingt-six eaux-fortes originales dessinees et gravees par Odette Denis

By: Lisle, Leconte de. Illustrations by Odette Denis

Price: $950.00

Publisher: Paris, Le Livre de Plantin: 1948

Seller ID: 003849

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Near Fine

This is No. IX of 15 copies produced "hors commerce" intended for the collaborators on the project and of a total limitation of 205 copies. The leaves in this copy are of a heavy card. 4to. 32 by 25 cm. Unpaginated. 42 leaves, with full page plates blank on versos and other leaves, including ones with illustrations, printed on both sides. The animal illustrations are very much of the best "Animalier" tradition, as in Bayre, Bonheur and the like, with a fine attention to detail without fussiness and a freedom of hand that captures compelling a sense of movement. The illus...
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Zoologie du Jeune Age

By: M. Lereboullet

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Strasbourg, Derivaux: 1860

Seller ID: 002461

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

4to. vii, 329, [1] pp. With 33 hand-colored plates of animals, with each plate featuring six to twelve small images of animals. Light occasional soiling. Foxing on some tissue guards. Wear to the cloth along the edges, with some minor loss of cloth.
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Category: Zoology