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	These represent choice from among  the first 18 titles in my unpublished 
juvenile catalog, which includes 875 items. A larger selection of titles 
from it in English may be seen on my Antiqbook website, included in books 
in English under the letter "C" for Children's Books. The Asian catalog 
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1.	AESOP. ; BELLEGARDE,; M. L'ABBE DE; (JEAN BAPTISTE MORVAIN); tr.; 
Filelfo, Francesco Avianus. ; Babrius. ; Plato. ; Protagoras.; French.; 
Bellegarde. : LES FABLES D'ESOPE PHRIGIEN, avec celles de 
Philelphe.  Traduction nouvelle, enriche de discours moraux & historiques, 
& de quatrains à la fin de chaque discours. On a joint à cette nouvelle 
traduction les Fables diverses de Gabrias, d'Avienus, & Les contes 
d'Esope.[Aesop's Fables, French]  Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier, 1708   2 
Vols.. p., Fronts., 117 half page engravings, 16 cm. [12], 297, [8]; [4], 
287, [5]'  Contents Include : La vie d'Esope, ecrit en grec par Planudes. 
Les fables d'Esope. Les fables d'Esope [cont'd.] Les fables de Philelphe. 
Fables diverses tire'es d'Esope; et mises en vers latins par Gabrias, & par 
Avienus. Les contes d'Esope. Cette narration est tirée d'un dialogue de 
Platon, intitulé, Protagoras, ou, Les sophistes.  This wonderful compendium 
of fables is here in the first edition of this translation. Graesse P. 35, 
noting that there were many reprints. OCLC notes only 2 copies [YUS, PUL] 
or Yale and Princeton.   The excellent plates are strong and fine pulls 
from the plates in Fine condition. The original full calf has had repairs 
to the hinges. There are new Mro. labels, gilt, OW Very Good.  $775.00

2.	AESOP : [ARMENIAN] Translated from the French by Father Minasbezushkian, 
Venezia,  Island of St. Lazare Monastery Press, 1827. [4], 540 Pp.19.5 cm., 
Engraved Frontispiece of Aesop and the animals, and added, engraved title 
page. 14 inserted etched plates, six scenes on each plate. Second 
Illustrated Edition in Armenian. The First was issued in 1810, and is found 
only in a private Armnenian library in California. The Edition Princeps 
[unillustrated] may be found only at the Gulbenkian Foundation.  Unnoted in 
OCLC, RLIN, KVK, BL, BN, HLS, LC, CIC, Melvyl. Original full calf, gilt 
decorative borders and spine with puce Mro. title label, AEG. The plates 
are particularly charming and provincial in character.  A Very Good copy, 
some wear to corners and at crown and foot of spine. $1750.00


3.	ANDERSEN, H. C. (HANS CHRISTIAN)  :  FAIRY TALES BY HANS CHRISTIAN 
ANDERSEN. Illustrated by 10 large designs in colour after original drawings 
by E.V.B. Newly translated by H.L.D.[Harry Leigh Douglas] Ward and Augusta 
Plesner ...  New York, Scribner & Welford, ND,1880[?].  vi, 76 Pp. col. 
ill. 32 cm.  Half-title. E.V. B. is the Honorable ELEANOR VERE 
BOYLE.[Gordon] Besides being an excellent translation, this edition 
features the lovely illustrations which are Pre-Raphaelite in quality 
of  the Hon. Eleanor Vere Boyle, wife of the Reverend Richard Boyle lived 
in the Maidenhead area and exhibited figure subjects at the Grosvenor 
Gallery and elsewhere from 1878-81. She Illustrateded  many children's 
books using the initials EVB. Most of them were printed in color by chromo- 
lithography, as here,  by Emrik & Singer, Chromolith. East London. See 
Dictionary of Victorian Painters.  Original glazed, pictorial boards, 
showing another design not repeated within, corners worn, inner rear hinge 
repaired. Inscribed on the Fr. Fr. EP "Miss Lizzie Mullan Christmas 1885" 
in a large round hand. ]. Both the English and this American issue are 
rare. Unnoted by OCLC,  Melvyl, CIC, H, Y, KVK, NYPL, BL,  COPAC, Opie, 
Osborne[ the last four lacking the English Edition]. This, unlike the 
English edition is printed onm ordinary paper, and although the plates are 
identical in size, they are hardly larger than the text pages.  An About 
Very Good copy.  $450.00

4.	ANDERSEN, H. C. (Hans Christian); BONER, CHARLES: TALES FROM 
DENMARK.  London: Joseph Cundall, 1847. vii, [171], 174 Pp. : ill. ; 18 cm. 
Translated by Charles Boner with fifty illustrations by the Count Pocci. 
First English Edition, thus. Pocci was the greatest Romantic German 
illustrator of children's books. Cundall, of course was the first publisher 
of childrens' books to purposefully try to make them beautiful by hiring 
known English artists as illustrators. He also tried to use texts of 
distinction. Either contemporary works of real imagination, or reprints of 
classic tales and ballads rewritten for children.  Unnoted at COPAC, OCLC, 
4 Locs in the USA,  [ALM, AZS, FUG, WAU] 1 in the UK [AVA]. Not in Mclean. 
Original full green Mro., double ruled gilt lines enclosing the boards, 
within a triple range of gilt lines one with massed fleurons and cyma 
curves. Complex gilt spine, divided into 6 boxes, five filled with 
ornament, the six the title, gilt doublures, marbled EPs. All full-page 
plates printed in light tan tint and dark brown lines, with numerous 
vignettes in black and white among the text. Binding worn at all 
extremities and with bumped corners. Faint tide marks in some blank borders 
to the plates. One page slightly soiled, OW VG. $500.00


5.	ANON.  : A COMPENDIOUS HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT Extracted 
from the Holy Bible and adapted to all capacities : whereby the Reader may 
be enabled, in an Easy, Pleasant, and Speedy manner, to become learned in 
the SACRED SCRIPTURES : interspersed with suitable reflections : and 
adorned with 120 curious Copper-Plate Cuts, lively representing each 
History.  The Seventh Edition, corrected.  Published:  London : Printed by 
Assignment from W. Baker, for John Staples, At the Bible and Star, 
Fronting  Stationers-Hall. [ND] [Price Bound Two Shillings]   [68] p., [31] 
leaves of plates,  with two etchings on each side for a total of 120 Genre 
scenes, plus a full page portrait of George the III as Frontispiece.  This 
is a juvenile series of bible stories with a series of lovely small 
etchings printed two per side, exactly the right size for copying in thumb 
bibles, which indeed was done many times over. The portrait of King George 
still bears the engraved  rubric "Sold by W & D. Baker at the Bible  and 
Star Near Ludgate London."    The Bodleian Library has a Fifth Edition of 
1750 and the British Museum has a 6th Edition of 1750.  I surmise that this 
must be an edition of 1751 or very little later.  Since the ESTC does not 
locate any copies of this issue, it is unique. The ninth edition by a 
different publisher [see below] is assigned the date of 1780.  The total 
number of copies not in England is 5.  UCLA possesses a copy of the ninth 
edition, London : printed for Thomas Caslon, [1780?], ESTCN55585.  A 
defective copy at the State Library of Queensland in Brisbane 1742, 
ESTCT204345, 1734 at Duke ESTCN55584,  Harvard and UCLA have 1726, 
ESTCT119124.  Original calf, both boards on cords, spine present but 
detached at the boards, some plates now loose but all plates and text 
present in clean and unfoxed condition, the whole laid in a simple, fitted 
box. A rare, very early, illustrated English juvenile.  $ 1275.00

6.	ANON :THE DOGS' DINNER PARTY [Cover states "The Dogs' Grand Dinner 
Party."] London: Dean & Son. Ca 1855.  8 ff. p., ill., 24 x 16 cm. [6d 
each, 13 sorts, see back cover].  The hand-colored  cuts on each page are 
noted by OCLC as  by Calvert or by R.C. West after J.V. Barret. The entire 
book is written in poetic form, but not the same poem as the Routledge 
version of the 1870s.[Osborne]. The rear wrap advertises 9 series with up 
to 14 titles in each, but not noting this work. The only copies noted are 
of the version sold at a shilling  in the list of Dean's One Shilling 
Untearable books .  Of this version, 3 locations are found, VAU, and AVA in 
London, and in Osborne II P. 633.  There are no copies noted in the USA at 
the following : OCLC, CIC, Melvyl, Baldwin, LC, Y, NYPL, DeGr'd, Brown.  No 
ordinary copies on plain paper are reported.  The most spectacular piece of 
fantasy I have yet seen among the Dean books. It is certainly the most 
charming based on dogs. The waiters are monkeys, otherwise all the 
participants are dogs in human garb at a banquet.  Although the book opens 
with a double page color plate the high point is the double page at the 
center, with the banquet in full sway. All pages are printed on one side 
only.  A fresh and lovely copy, but with repaired spine with transparent 
gummed tape in the pre "Scotch Tape" era and holding well. $550.00

7.	ANON : THE KEEPSAKE; OR, POEMS AND PICTURES FOR CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH.  A 
Gift book for children entirely in verse with examples of good child 
behavior and some moralizing thrown in, but often about childish games and 
pastimes which are well illustrated.  London, Printed for Darton, Harvey, 
and Darton ..., 1818.  [4], 44 p., [20] leaves of etched plates : ill. ; 
12º.  Plates include, making a snowman [a giant like Gog and Magog], 
gathering autumn fruit, Summer [raking hay], the gardeners [with tools], 
Putting on shoes, the Cuckoo, Impatient Julia, Two brothers, a child saved 
from a frozen pond.  Child protagonists in each plate.  Not in Osborne, Op. 
III, 1442 [hand colored but lacking 3 plates], OCLC, 2 Locs. [Opie gift : 
EQU, CLU], COPAC finds the Opie copy only.  Given to Thomas Towhet Burnaby 
by his sister Emma on his birthday 17th Octr. 1818. VG in original Mbld. 
boards, Mro. backstrip, gilt ruled lines and title.  $ 375.00


8.	ANON. :  LIVRE DES ENFANS.  Paris, Louis Janet Libraire, rue St. Jacques 
5g. De L'Imprimerie de Rignoux, rue des Francs-Bourgeois-S.-Michel, no 8. 
[ND Circa 1830]  [Front board titled Le Livre des Enfants.] Oblong 12mo, 14 
x 10 cm. 140 Pp., Pictorial TP + 6 FP engravings, tan, printed, decorative 
boards, old repair with tasteful dull orange cloth. Includes a series of 
tales for children : Les Polichinelles [with cut of child performance], Le 
Soldat invisible, Talent passe richesses, La Bague enchantt'ee, Les Dangers 
de l'inhumanit'e. [Slave revolt], Le Cornet d'e'tain, Les petits enfans 
dans le bois, Le Bucheron port'ee, Agathe et Eulalie. Le Petit 
Gourmand.  Unlocated at the BN, National Lib. Of Canada, vCuc, KVK, OCLC, 
BL, COPAC, NYPL, Melvyl, LC, Brown, Newberry, UT Aus.;  Unnoted in 
Gumuchian. Loosely inserted is a catalog listing from Herodisch, January 
1974, describing this copy. Repair noted,  a light rippling in many pages, 
however clean white tight copy, very good. Inner front board with inked 
inscription "Collectanea Juvenilia / Wille Gerdes Van  Sanden." $375.00

9.	[ANON.] LUCIE ET MELANIE SUIVIE CLARIE HISTOIRE ANGLAISE, Ornees de 
quatre gravures, d'apres les dessins de M. Moreau le jeune.  A Hambourg, 
chez Fauche, A Paris, Chez Lepetit. 1792. Frontis. [plus 3 FP etched 
plates] [1]-162. Bound in full calf, gilt rules lines and gilt Dec. spine, 
contrasting label. AEG, marbled EPs. I have had this little book for many 
years. It always slips from my memory, because it is so enigmatic 
bibliographically. There is no copy in Gumuchian, Osborne [nor could a part 
of any work of the eighteenth century be, when translated,  this work]. Not 
in NUC, OCLC, RLin, and none in Canada [ in no Quebec library], Not in any 
German library[KVK], not at BN! This  is, for some reason,  the rarest 
eighteenth century French juvenile, of which I am aware. These are small 
scale social dramas, one is about love, another vocation [Melanie is a 
nun], the third about death and its effects on a little girl survivor. The 
words "Histoire Anglaise", must be taken to mean in the "English Manner," 
much as the words "Jardin Anglaise" used during the same period, was a 
similar usage.   "Melanie" is very unlikely as a translation from the 
English at that time, since it is about the vocation of a Catholic nun. 
Moreau's French classicizing plates, also seem to bow a bit in the 
direction of Stothard. Binding worn but solid, a G/VG copy. $ 700.00

10.	ANON : MASKS'S HISTORY OF AN APPLE PIE. London : Published by J. L. 
Marks, 91, Long Lane, Smithfield, [Ca.1835-1857 ]. [8] leaves : hand 
colored  col. Illustrations, 18 cm. The entire text of the alphabet follows 
: A Apple  Pie. B Bit it.  C Cried for it.  D Danced For it .  E Eyed 
it.  F Fiddled for it.  G Gobbled it.  H Hid it.   I inspected it.  J 
Jumped for it.  K Kicked it.  L Laughed at it.  M Mourned for it. N Nodded 
for it.  O Opened it.  P Peeped at it.  Q Quized.  R Rode for it. S Skipt 
for it.  T Took it.  U Upset it.  V Viewed it.  W Warbled for it.   X 
Xerxes Drew his Sword for it.  Y Yarned for it.  Z zealous that all Good 
Boys and Girls should be Acquainted with his Family sat down and wrote the 
History of it. The illustrations are just as charming as the text. 
Approximate dates established from Brown, P. "London publishers and 
printers c. 1800-1870", p. 123.  OCLC finds one location, UCLA. Not in 
Osborne, nor Opie. This issue is different from  that at UCLA in which the 
"u" in publication is missing.  Oversewn at fold, tiny rear inner corner 
gone affecting no text nor illustration. $350.00

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