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Amsterdam: F. Kaal, [ca. 1820]. First Edition. 12mo. Original drab paper wrappers with woodcut and border design on both covers. Complete with 12 hand-colored full-page engravings. Separated into multiple sets of signatures, but a very presentable copy of a rare and attractive early children's book.102pp. (Item #3289)

Paris: Rene Touret, 1950. Quarto. Color pictorial paper covered boards with large portion of front cover in shiny silver. Superb color plates. Very good. (Item #3309)

Amsterdam: Schalekamp en van de Grampel, [1825]. 12mo. Original yellow printed paper over card boards, 123pp. Superb hand-colored vignette on title-page and two exquisite hand-colored engravings. (Item #3301)

Amsterdam: B. Ouwerkerk, 1816. First edition. 12mo. Original or contemporary paper covered card wrappers. Superbly engraved title-page and 9 hand-colored full-page engravings. Only a few copies cited. Spine virtually lost, very good internally. A most scarce and desirable early hand-colored children's book. (Item #3300)

Boston: de Wolfe, Fiske, 1890. First edition. Original cloth-backed glazed paper-covered boards, floral endpapers, in the publisherís printed and pictorial paper dust-wrapper; unpaginated, ìillustrated throughout in color and photogravure.î Tiny bit of rubbing at board edges, but essentially fine; jacket with chunks out at spine ends and corners, toning to..... (Item #4317)

Boston: Copeland & Day, 1897. First edition thus. 12mo. Superb binding by Marian Lane [signed in gilt pallet rear dentelle, "Marian Lane," in full blue crushed morocco with central double gilt ruling and lettering surrounded by leaf and blossom design on both covers, gilt ruled raised bands on spine, similar... (Item #2151)

Oblong 12mo. Bastian Brothers, Rochester, NY, 1934. Original color pictorial cover printed on plastic containg superb and classic Art Deco designs. An unused notebook containing note pages of different colors, with a striking Deco cover of red, black and silver glassine and 1934-1935 calendars over a grey ìmetallicî sheet).3 x...... (Item #3240)

Amsterodami: Danielis Elzevirii (Elzevir Press), 1671. Thin 12mo. 18th century full calf, all edges red, marbled endsheets. Superb engraved title page. Binding somewhat rubbed, internally very nice. (Item #3921)

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. n.d. (ca. 1880). First edition. 4to. Cloth backed color pictorial paper covered boards. Illustrations throughout in color by Rosina Emmet. Edges and corners chipped, very good internally. (Item #332)

Offered here is a superb Pre-Raphaelite style watercolor painting by Sir Luke Fildes (1842 1927), and dated 1875, entitled ìSophia,î (not on painting, but per an earlier auction description). Watercolor, heightened with white, signed and dated by the artist, lower left, with his monogram ìL. F.î, 1875.î 15 x 10... (Item #3082)

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4pp. 1936. Printed on handmade paper with lettering in red and black on cover, green logo illustration design on cover. Specimen page on p.2 has two fawn in four-color lithography. Very attractive. (Item #3131)