Beheer

LOT 61
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[Two AB books in one volume] Abécédaire utile,

ou petit tableau des arts et métiers; augmenté de pensées et de reflexions morales; ouvrage où les Enfans peuvent, en apprenant à lire, puiser quelques idées de la Société. Orné de 24 figures gravées. Nouvelle édition. The Hague, J.C. Leeuwestyn, n.d. (1802), 102,(2) p., with various letterpress alphabets and 24 handpcoloured illustrations of professions with each letter on 6 engraved plates, with accompanying descriptive text, contemporary half leather, small 8vo (some traces of use).

Lovely and rare AB book, two copies in PiCarta (both hand-coloured). Bound along with: A. Legrand. Le livre du premier age, contenant des pièces de lecture raisonné; une idée du calcul et de l'écriture (...). Troisième édition. Paris, Genets jeune, 1806, 72 p., with various letterpress alphabets, with engraved frontispiece and 11 plates (one leaf lacks small part of blank margin, here and there cut slightly short). Extremely rare, Worldcat lists only one copy of the 1801 edition - at the French Bibliothèque Nationale! Contains lovely, slightly naive images of weather conditions, animals, plants, livestock and professions (total of 2 in one volume).

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