Prentjes Almanak voor Kinderen; Voor het Jaar 1826
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Amsterdam: Hendrik Houtgraaff, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. Paper pastedown. . Very Good. Delightful Biedermeier era hand-colored plates depicting such things as blindman's bluff, pillow making, a shipwreck, each accompanying a verse text. 24mo. 10 by 8 cm. [xvi] 47 pp. With 15 hand-colored plates. Scarce, with no copies located on OCLC outside of the Netherlands, and Harvard and the Morgan Library each have a single copy of another year from the series according to this database. Original printed boards are scuffed. Chipping to joints. Cracking of spine. Nice modern custom cloth clamshell box.
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Details
- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005587
- Title
- Prentjes Almanak voor Kinderen; Voor het Jaar 1826
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. Paper pastedown.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hendrik Houtgraaff
- Place of Publication
- Amsterdam
- Date Published
- 1825
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Biblio member since 2010
New York, New York
About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Clamshell Box
- A protective box designed for storing and preserving a bound book or loose sheets. A clamshell box is hinged on one side, with...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....