Highlights

[ALMANAC - ZEELAND]. Cadsandria, jaarboekje voor 1854 (-1859).
Comprising:
(1) Cadsandria, jaarboekje voor 1854.
(2) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch-Vlaamsch jaarboekje voor 1855.
(3) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch-Vlaamsch jaarboekje voor het schrikkeljaar 1856.
(4) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch-Vlaamsch jaarboekje voor het jaar 1857.
(5) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch jaarboekje voor 1858.
(6) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch jaarboekje voor 1859.
Schoondijke, A.J. Bronswijk (volumes 2-3 printed by J.C. & W. Altorffer at Middelburg), [1853-1858]. 6 volumes. 12mo. With 5 lithographed plates (1 folding, 4 full-page), 1 in each in volumes 2-6. Later quarter black buckram, marbled paper sides, with the original front wrapper pasted to the front board. XLIII, 152; XXXVI, 182, [2]; XXXVI, 151, [2]; XXXVI, 226, [2]; XLIV, 240; XLIV, 176 pp. Full description

[BALL BOOK]. [Tortoiseshell ball book].
Paris, chez l'editeur, [ca. 1840]. Ca. 4 x 5.4 cm. With 3 full-page engravings. Contemporary or earlier tortoiseshell wrappers ornamented with gilded brass and lined with pink silk, an oval mirror on the front, three pink silk loops on the fore edge, and a wooden pencil used to fasten the work through these loops, gilt edges. Full description

[BOTTLE IN BOOK FORM]. Esprit de Francklin ... Le B[on].homme Richard.
Chalonnes sur Loire, Fremy frères, Bottrel et Cie., [ca. 1830]. Blown glass bottle made in the form of a book (15 x 10 x 3 cm plus 1.5 cm neck and lip). The "spine" is covered with gold-tooled red morocco, with 7 horizontal rolls dividing it into 5 fields plus a smaller 6th at the foot, the title and the French form of Franklin's pen-name in fields 3 and 4 and a decoration in fields 1, 3 and 5, the "boards" covered with paper, each with an lithographed rectangular decorative border enclosing an oval laurel wreath around an oval paper overlay with a lithographed view, that on the front board showing Benjamin Franklin and that on the back board showing a man in the distillery, each with accompanying texts above and below the wreath. The paper sides (but not their overlays) have a slight reddish cast. Full description

[BRITISH-INDIA - MADRAS ALMANAC]. The Madras almanac for the year of our lord 1829, calculated for the meridian of Port St. George. To which are added: lists of the civil, judicial and medical establishments, and of the Europeans not in the King's or Company's service. With other matters of useful information.
Madras, Asylum Press, [1828?]. 8vo. With 1 engraved hand-coloured folding plate showing different kinds of ships flags. Lacking 2 leaves.Contemporary red sheepskin, sprinkled edges. Rebacked in calf, red sheepskin spine label, blue paper pasted over the sides. [1 blank], [2], [1 blank], VI, 1-146, [2], 147-361, [1] blank, XXX, VIII pp. (lacking pp. 19-22). Full description

[CARD GAME]. Cloris en Roosje. Verkeerd apropos-spel. Met 42 gekleurde naïve vignetten voor vrienden van vrolijkheid en scherts.
Amsterdam, Steendrukkerij van C. Goos, [ca. 1840]. Set of 42 lithographed miniature playing cards, 21 for Cloris, printed in grey, and 21 for Roosje, printed in blue. The cards are kept in the original publisher's marbled slipcase (ca. 4.8 x 7.2 cm) with 2 engraved labels, one with the title and imprint, and one with the rules of the game. Full description

[CHILDREN'S BOOK]. Le petit conteur d'anecdotes.
Paris, chez Marcilly (printed by A. Firmin Didot), [ca. 1820]. Oblong 32mo (ca. 4.2 x 5.5 cm). With a finely engraved title showing a merry company in the woods, and 6 full-page engraved plates of costumes and professions. Original lithographed pink boards, with the title on the spine, gilt edges. The work is preserved in the original lithographed matching pink slipcase. 95, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[CHILDREN'S BOOK]. Le petit naturaliste.
Paris, chez Marcilly; imprimerie de A. Firmin Didot, [1829]. Oblong (ca. 4.8 x 6.7 cm). With an engraved, hand coloured title page, and 11 full-page hand coloured engravings. Contemporary printed paper boards, gilt edges. Housed in the original matching printed paper slipcase. 127, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[CHILDREN'S BOOK]. Souvenirs d'un petit voyageur.
Paris, Marcilly (printed by A. Pinard), [1836]. 24mo. With a steel-engraved title with a vignette, and 4 full-page steel-engraved plates. Contemporary gold-tooled half green morocco, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, brown paper sides. [2], 122 pp. Full description

[CHILDREN'S BOOK]. Les quatre elemens.
Comprising:
(1) La terre.
(2) L'air.
(3) L'eau.
(4) Le feu.
[Paris], Imprimerie de Maulde et Renou, [ca. 1840]. 4 volumes. 32mo. With 8 full-page steel-engraved plates (2 in each volume). Original publisher's glazed pastel boards (light blue, yellow, pink, or light green), with the title and a steel-engraved illustration of one of the four elements in the centre of the front board, within an embossed ornamental border. Each 24 pp. Full description

[CHILDREN'S BOOK - FRENCH]. Les plaisirs de la campagne.
Paris, Marcilly, imprimerie Maulde et Renou, [ca. 1825]. Oblong 32mo. With an engraved vignette on the title page, and 7 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary green boards, with the title printed in black on the front, surrounded by an ornamental embossed border. The work is housed in a contemporary green paper slipcase. 96 pp. Full description