Album de la jeunesse…
Album de la Jeunesse, Mélange d'Histoire Naturelle, Minéraux, Plantes, Animaux, leur Emploi dans la Vie; Quelques Élémens des Sciences Exactes; Tableaux Astronomiques, Cosmographiques et Géographiques, Costumes, Naturels de Diverses Contrées du Globe, Anecdotes Curieuses, Chasses ou Pêches, d'après nos Célèbres Voyages.
Paris: Gide Fils, circa 1830.
Oblong quarto, with 60 engravings; an attractive copy in original printed boards.
A rare and profusely illustrated educational work.
A rare and beautiful French children's book, with wonderful Australian plates including six based closely on Clark's Foreign Field Sports; not recorded by either Ferguson or Muir; this copy belonged at one time to Paul Gavault, editor of the Gumuchian catalogue of children's books, and has his bookplate.
A rare and beautiful French children's book, with wonderful Australian plates including six based closely on Clark's Foreign Field Sports; not recorded by either Ferguson or Muir; this copy belonged at one time to Paul Gavault, editor of the Gumuchian catalogue of children's books, and has his bookplate.
Legrand's Album was a fine production, and a relatively early one for books of this illustrated, educational nature. The chapters on natural history, whaling (with four plates), botany, ethnography, geography, and minerals, are profusely illustrated with 60 full-page engravings, including a double-hemisphere world map with geological features in the lower margin, and an astronomical chart with a pretty volvelle showing the earth orbiting the sun. The work includes six Australian scenes of Aborigines hunting and fishing.
Provenance: Paul Gavault (1867–1951, with his bookplate; French playwright, collector of children's books, contributor to "Les livres de l'enfance du XVe au XIXe siècle" (1930), the seminal two-volume bibliography of rare children's books).
Gumuchian, 3689; not in Ferguson; not in Muir.
Condition Report: A little foxing; professionally strengthened at the hinges.
Price (AUD): $3,200.00
US$2,242.70 Other currencies