ALPHABET. ABÉCÉDAIRE du Marechal Petain. [28] ff., illustrated throughout. Square 8vo, 140 x 140 mm., original illustrated wrappers in a new linen box with black label. n.p.: Bureau de Documentation du Chef de l'Etat, 1943.
One of the strange alphabets, but a perfect insight into the creation of Petain as saviour.....
Item nr. 169969
Price: $1,750.00
BLANDIN, André. ABCD. 27 pp., including 27 colored lithographs. 260 x 222 mm., publisher's illustrated cloth-backed boards. Brussels: Imprimerie scientifique Charles Bulens, Editeur, 1913.
A delightful cubist alphabet whose fame has been eclipsed by the Cubies' ABC, which was published in the same year, but which directly satirized the contemporary art.....
Item nr. 172185
Price: $4,750.00
[ALPHABET]. ITALIAN CALLIGRAPHIC MANUAL. Cinquanta tavole alfabetiche. 51 ff., includes 50 engraved b&w plates. 145 x 400 mm., contemporary half-cloth over marbled boards. Bologna: Vendibile da Zecchi, [ca. 1845].
A charming Italian alphabet with illustrations by Carlo Lenzi, Giuseppe Lanzani, Francesco Franceschini, Victor Adam, Gaetano Canuti, Fillipo Camisana, A Magnaron, Pietro.....
Item nr. 171649
Price: $4,500.00
[ALPHABET]. ALPHABET OF EXERCISES. Alphabet gymnastique. 72 pp., including 4 b&w plates of engravings in intaglio. 158 x 102 mm., red morocco boards. Paris: Locard-Davi, 1850.
A delightful alphabet with charming plates showing children participating in various passtimes, noy all of them seeming to require physical energy.A few marginal paper repairs.....
Item nr. 171633
Price: $3,750.00
HELLÉ, André. Alphabet de la grande guerre. [Alphabet of the Great War 1914-1916]. Folio, 315 x 240 mm, publisher's illustrated boards. Paris-Nancy: Berger-Levrault, (1916).
Colour lithographed covers, the first, under a calligraphic title in capital letters, depicting gunners behind a cannon, flags on the second, guards illustrated with flags. A title.....
Item nr. 170373
Price: $2,500.00
COPPIN, A. Alphabet des Alphabets. 600 Sujets varies. 21 Leaves. Small folio. Publisher's decorated cloth. Paris: Mon. Martinet, 1864
A fine copy of this unusual and scarce French alphabet book. Each leaf features a letter or letters and words beginning with that letter, accompanied by illustrations. Most leaves contain only one.....
Item nr. 169583
Price: $2,750.00
[ALPHABET]. LESESTRE, Jean Théophile Gustave. Alphabet avec exercices méthodiques sur les principa les difficultés de la lecture. 1 frontispiece, (32) pp., including 7 lithographed plates in color. 176 x 132 mm., publisher's boards, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Amédée Bédelet, [ca. 1850].
A delightful French nineteenth century alphabet still.....
Item nr. 171629
Price: $1,750.00
STAHL, Emil. Deutsches Kriegs ABC. [25] color plates. 210 x 170 mm., publisher's illustrated boards, in a new cloth folding box. Munich: Holbein-Verlag, 1915.
A surreal and bizarrely attractive German alphabet produced in the middle of the war by the future Nazi artist and politician Emil Stahl. In fine condition with.....
Item nr. 171719
Price: $2,250.00
PEDERSEN, Hans. ABC: . [32] pp., illustrated throughout. 337 x 265 mm., publisher's illustrated boards, stab bound, in a new cloth folding box. [Copenhagen]: Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, [ca. 1925].
An extremely attractive alphabet consisting of poems by Pedersen accompanied by illustrations by Hansen. A fine copy with just the slightest.....
Item nr. 171717
Price: $1,750.00
NIKÉ. ABC des petits soldats. [24] pp., colour illustrations throughout. 192 x 198 mm., publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards, in a new cloth folding box. [Paris]: N.p., [ca. 1916].
A charming Great War alphabet, which gives no clue as to the horrors currently taking place. The attractive illustrations from Artilleur to Zouave.....
Item nr. 171712
Price: $2,750.00
BROWN, A. Syllabaire anglais et français. [6], 7-64, 18, [3], 68-99, [1], 1-44 pp., with 18 color plates. 142 x 90 mm., publisher's paper boards, in a later morocco-backed folding box. Paris: Librairie française et anglaise de Truchy, 1836.
The second edition. A stunning little book, still in its fragile boards.....
Item nr. 171682
Price: $3,750.00
[ALPHABET]. BLANCHARD, Pierre. Abécédaire en estampes. 74 pp., including 25 engraved and hand coloured plates. 117 x 181 mm., later binding in blonde calf. Paris: Bellavoine & Lecerf; Blanchard, 1815.
A delightful alphabet with the engravings depicting Parisian trades, some of them quite unusual such as vinaigrier, tondeur de chiens and.....
Item nr. 171619
Price: $4,750.00
DUTCH PRIMERS. Nieuw prenteboekje voor de lieve kleinen. 2 volumes. Volume 1: 16 pp., including 7 hand-coloured woodcut plates. Volume 2: 16 pp., including 7 hand-coloured woodcut plates. 166 x 125 mm., 160 x 126 mm., wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Franeker: G. Ypma, 1826.
Complete set of two.....
Item nr. 171657
Price: $875.00
ROGERS, Peter. Manner of forming the Alphabet for the Deaf and Dumb. Broadside. 360 x 310 mm. NP. ND. [1830s].
A handsome broadside showing the hand gestures equivalent to letters of the alphabet.
The broadside is date 183 , the exact year to be filled in by hand. The broadside is inscribed.....
Item nr. 171753
Price: $4,500.00
[ALPHABET]. PRIMER OF ARTS AND TRADES. Abécédaire utile ou Petit tableau des arts et métiers. 88 pp., including 6 plates containing a total of 24 coloured and engraved figures. 157 x 100 mm., later 19th century binding of marbled paper boards with cloth covered spine, in a new cloth folding.....
Item nr. 171622
Price: $3,500.00
ADAM, V. Nouvel Abecedaire en Enigmes. Original front wrapper and 27 illustrated leaves. Folio, 349 x 259 mm., bound in contemporary full morocco. Paris: Rittner and Goupil, 1840.
A wonderfully imaginative and appealing alphabet by the prolific French illustrator Victor Adam. Despite considerable foxing, it is still an extremely appealing work.....
Item nr. 172177
Price: $2,500.00
CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich. Abeze-und Lesebuch. 200 pp. with 24 plates in contemporary hand colouring. Small 8vo., modern half morocco over boards. Braunschweig: Verlag der Schulbuchhandlung, 1831.
An exquisite German alphabet by a Campe, who was a major figure in the German enlightenment, and an important contributor to the devlopment of children's.....
Item nr. 171880
Price: $3,750.00
DUFRENOY, Adélaïde-Gillette. Abécédaire des petits gourmands. [1], vii, 109, [2] pp., including 26 black and white plates. Later half-morocco. Paris: Lefuel, [1822].
A delightful and rare alphabet book for "little gourmands," devoted to children and their love of food (chiefly sweets). The plates depict young girls and boys eating, stealing, spilling.....
Item nr. 171685
Price: $5,850.00
VOGELER, Heinrich. Mein ABC. 28 pp., first cover illustrated with a lithograph in black and enhanced with gold. 160 x 145 mm., publisher's boards, in a new cloth folding box. Offenbach am Main: Gebrüder Klingspor, 1908.
An immaculate copy of this exquisite art nouveau alphabet with the illustrations by Heinrich Vogeler.....
Item nr. 171672
Price: $1,750.00
BECKER, Léon. Alphabet des insectes. 24 ff., 8 pp. of publisher's catalogue, including 23 b&w engravings with text in red. 275 x 185 mm., publisher's boards, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Bibliothèque d'éducation et de récréation. Hetzel & Cie, [1883].
A wonderful late nineteenth-century alphabet conjuring up the work.....
Item nr. 171666
Price: $4,750.00
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ADAM, Victor. Charades [alphabet]. 25 coloured and gummed lithographic plates. 268 x 340 mm., Publisher's blue moiré percaline boards, in a new cloth folding box. [Paris]: Aubert, [ca. 1850].
A truly spectacular large scale alphabet with the stunning plates by Victor Adam, exquisitely hand coloured. The book was clearly intended for.....
Item nr. 171661
Price: $7,500.00
DE BRY, Johann Theodor and J. I. DE BRY. Nova Alphati Effictio histories ad singulas literas correspondentibus, et toreumate Bryanaeo artificiose in aes incises illustrate…. Engraved title-page, 24 elaborately engraved plates of letters, all with grotesque Mannerist ornamentation. 4to., 325 x 212 mm, bound by Rivière in full crushed brown.....
Item nr. 148318
Price: $18,750.00
ADAM, Victor. Les Synonymes en Action. Contents include: hand-coloured lithographed title and twenty-four hand-colored lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic, (W, X & Y on one plate). Folio, 337 x 250 mm., bound in publisher's blind stamped red cloth over boards, front cover decorated and lettered in gilt, expertly rebacked.....
Item nr. 170270
Price: $8,500.00
BENHAM, W. Gurney and Frank ADAMS. Arthur and the Boilybird. An A.B.C. Story. Unpaginated, with colour illustrations throughout by Frank Adams. Oblong 4to, 215 x 278 mm., publisher's colour illustrated boards with cloth spine. London: Blackie & Son, [1909].
A delightful and scarce early twentieth century children's ABC book in unusually.....
Item nr. 165808
Price: $2,500.00
BRUNHOFF, Jean de. A.B.C. de Babar. [48] pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. 8vo., 210 x 162 mm, bound in original publisher's decorated boards, decorated endpapers, in a new yellow cloth folding box. Paris: Editions du Jardin des Modes, 1934.
First Edition. A number of Babar's friends may be seen herein among.....
Item nr. 145089
Price: $1,250.00