Category: Africa

Photo Album of Kenya, Circa 1940s

Price: $350.00

Seller ID: 007328

Condition: Very Good

Striking photos of wild animals -- giraffes, zebras, baboons, antelopes, etc. -- and natives -- children, playing instruments, dancing in ceremonial rites, working on crafts. Dating based on car seen in one photo, among other things. One photo showing a woman in safari dress 4to. 28 by 23 cm. 18 leaves of mid-weight card, with photographs pasted down on rectos only. All but one leaf with a single large photo print, generally 19 cm square. A single leaf contains nine smaller photos. Cover contains a printed color fun map of Kenya, with attractions and animals rendered in small vignettes. ...
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Neue Bunte-Bilder aud dem Jugenleben Ein unterhaltendes und belehrendes Lesebuch für Knaben und Mädchen von 10 bis 13 Jahren

By: Schoppe, Amalia. Illustrator: Christian Gotthelf Strassberger. Engraver: Böttger.

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Verlag von Taubert'schen Buchhandlung : 1829

Seller ID: 005539

Binding: Half Calf, Marbled Boards

Condition: Very Good

12mo. 16 by 10.5 cm. 238 pp. Five hand-colored copper engraved plates, plus hand-colored vignette illustration on title page. A story within a story, the one within being about Africa and a brave boy there. Moderate wear to binding. Scattered soiling of leaves. Plates remain bright.
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Bilder zum Anschauungs-Unterricht fur die Jugend

By: Walther, Eduard. Illustrators include Lothar Meggendorfer.

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Esslingen and München, Verlag von J. F. Schreiber

Seller ID: 005029

Binding: Hardcover. Front board: pictorial paper pastedown

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptionally clean and bright copy of this juvenile audience plate book depicting geography and domestic and work life. N.d., circa 1870s. Small folio. 32 by 21.5 cm. [5], 7, [1] pp followed by 30 double-sided hand-colored plates. Each plate measures 32 by 40 cm. The plates depict the home, rural and urban, the city, the farm, a vineyard, tools, a church interior, a city market, a winter skating scene, a mountain landscape, a railroad station, a forest, etc. The point was to educate children about the features of all these places and spaces, and incidentally impart the vocabulary --...
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Category: Africa

Photo Album of Kenya, Circa 1940s

Neue Bunte-Bilder aud dem Jugenleben Ein unterhaltendes und belehrendes Lesebuch für Knaben und Mädchen von 10 bis 13 Jahren

Bilder zum Anschauungs-Unterricht fur die Jugend