$3,690
Children's Books, American, 19th Century, Three Volumes. Including: Very Little Tales for Very Little Children; in Single Syllables of Three and Four Letters, First Series , Philadelphia & New York: Appleton, 1844, first American edition, small square format, with uncolored wood engraved vignettes, bound in contemporary cloth, spine perished, boards detached, 5 x 4 in. [Together with] The American Toilet , New York: Imbert's Lithographic Office, [c. 1827], twenty numbered pages (including the title) with nineteen flaps revealing moral lessons, all intact, in original marbled paper wrappers, 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. [And] A series of chapbooks bound together, with hand-colored illustrations throughout, printed in Philadelphia: by Morgan and Sons; Morgan and Yeager; and others, several titles bound together, engravings printed on one side only, contemporary half leather, boards detached, 5 x 4 1/4 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-11-15