[Meggendorfer- Movable Children's Book] Zum Zeitvertrieb f¸r brave Knaben & M‰dchen (Sporting Play for Good Boys and Girls)

Munchen: Braun & Schneider, [1885].

First edition. Large folio size (13 x 9 1/4 inches). Original color pictorial paper covered boards, cloth spine. The scarce and magnificent first edition of this Lothar Meggendorfer designed and illustrated masterpiece, featuring eight super full-page pulling tab movable scenes of Meggendorfer, with superb transforming images such as three women with spyglass, a butterfly catcher, a clown ordering a meal with his menu, upon moving, revealing prices, and a lad clubbing another who is trying to enter a window to obtain an apple treat. One plate not functioning properly (but easily restorable); upper hinge partly splitting; very slight soiling. A near fine copy, rarely seen thus in the first edition, which is known to be extremely rare.

Price: $1,750.00   Item #4663