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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS; containing A Variety of Facts Selected from several Writers, and intended for the Amusement and Instruction of Children. With Copper Plates. In Six Parts.
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES, and of reptiles, Insects, Waters, Earths, Fossils, Minerals, and Vegetables, compiled from the best authorities, and illustrated by a great variety of copper plates, comprising near one hundred figures, accurately drawn from Nature, and beautifully engraved.
London: E. Newbery, 1795. viii, 208 pages. 40 engraved leaves of plates. Original green sheep-backed marbled paper boards; printed paper label to spine. 137 x 91 mm. First edition. Binding worn and spine cracked; lacks front endpaper; few ink smudges; else a very good copy of a scarce title, one of series of natural history work by this author. Roscoe J194 (2) Roscoe believes there to be an edition of 1793, but this seems highly unlikely, and this, the edition of 1795, is in fact the true first edition.
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THE NEW ABBEY GIRLS. Illustrated by Elsie Wood.
London: Collins' Clear-type Press, No date [1923]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 312, [8 ad's] pages. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and two black & white plates. Original blue cloth with pictorial design in green, black, white, and pink. Octavo. First edition. Slight wear to head & heel of spine; else a very good, clean copy without inscriptions or prize labels.
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THE NEW ADVENTURES OF FOXY GRANDPA.
London: W. & R. Chambers Limited, No date [inscribed 1906]. Title and 30 leaves of coloured illustrations, all printed on one side only. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Oblong: 260 x 400 mm. Inscription on blank verso of front cover; else a near fine copy.
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THE NEW ADVENTURES OF RUPERT.
London: "Daily Express" Publication. 1985 (Facsimile of 1936 Edition). Hardcover. Original pictorial dust-wrapper and seller's band. Facsimile edition. Numbered edition 1686. Slight fading and blueing to wrapper spine; else a near fine copy in like wrapper.
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The New and Diverting Game of “GOLLIWOGG” consisting of Forty-eight Pictorial Cards Depicting the most famous characters and scenes in the above works. Adapted, drawn in facsimile and elaborately rendered in Colours from Florence K. Upton’s original designs.
London: Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd, No date [circa 1900]. Four page rule card, plus 48 full-colour pictorial cards, all contained in the original cardboard slipcase with mounted pictorial label. Very slight wear to the box; else a fine set.
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THE NEW CHALET SCHOOL. Illustrated by Nina K. Brisley.
London: W. & R. Chambers, Ltd, 1938. 320 pages. Frontispiece. Original blue cloth. Facsimile dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Ownership name and Christmas greetings, dated 1940, on front flyleaf; some light spotting the fore-edges; else very good copy.
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THE NEW & FAVORITE GAME of MOTHER GOOSE and the GOLDEN EGG.
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THE NEW GAME of VIRTUE REWARDED and VICE PUNISHED, For the Amusement of Youth Of both Sexes. By T. Newton, inventor of the New Game of the Mansion of Bliss.
London: Wm. Darton. 58, Holborn Hill, No date [circa 1818]. A hand-coloured engraving, divided into twelve and mounted on linen. Unfolded: 568 x 440 mm. Folds into a paper-covered slipcase with a mounted title label top the front panel and another, smaller label, to the lower. Lacks the original eight-page book of rules, which are supplied in manuscript. Some wear to the slipcase with a small loss of paper; else very good. The book of rules states, ‘It is designed with a view to promoting progressive Improvement of the Juvenile Mind, and to deter them from pursuing the dangerous Paths of Vice.’
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THE NEW HIEROGLYPHICAL BIBLE: or, select portions of scripture familiarly explained, and embellished with two hundred and twenty neat and appropriate engravings. Intended as a pleasing inducement to children, to read the Holy Bible.
London: Dean & Munday, No date [circa 1845]. Price One Shilling. 108 pages. Illustrated throughout with wood-engravings. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. 148 x 98 mm. Ownership inscription on endpaper; boards a little rubbed; else a very good copy.
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THE NEW HIEROGLYPHICAL BIBLE: or, Select Portions of Scripture Familiarly Explained, and embellished with two hundred and twenty neat and appropriate engravings: intended as pleasing inducement to children, to read the Holy Bible.
London: Dean & Son, No date [circa 1840s]. 72 pages. Illustrated throughout with wood-engravings. Original pictorial blue wrappers. Old crease-mark in corner of front wrapper/frontispiece; slight wear to foot of spine else a near fine copy.
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THE NEW HISTORY OF VALENTINE AND ORSON, Abstracted from the French, and the best English Originals. With a new set of Figures more Expressive of the Story, and better Adapted to the Entertainment of the Reader, than any yet Extant.
London: Tho. Norris, at the Looking-glass on London-bridge, 1724. 162, plus [6 ‘contents’] pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece and many cuts within the text. Contemporary plain sheep, sometime re-backed in calf. Bookplate; some browning; but a very good copy.
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THE NEW NOAH'S ARK.
London: John Lane. The Bodley Head, 1899. Illustrated in colour by Charles Robinson, but not acknowledged. 64 pages. Original pictorial embossed cloth by Charles Robinson. Quarto. First edition. Re-backed with the original spine laid down; a few amrks; else very good. Very scarce.
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THE NEW PICTORIAL BIBLE.
Glasgow: Published by F. Orr and Sons, No date [circa 1850]. 24 pages. Woodcut to title/wrapper, and 46 other wood-engravings. 160 x 96 mm. Front wrapper creased at lower outer corner; small paper flaw in blank margin of the last leaf; else very good. This copy has never been sewn or cut and still unfolds as a single sheet.
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THE NEW PICTURE BOOK being pictorial lessons on form, comparison, and number, for children under seven years of age. With explanations.
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1867. Fourth Edition. Printed title, preface leaf, and 36 full-page hand-coloured lithographed pages, printed on rectos only, 24 of which bear three strip illustrations, the remaining 12, have two strip illustrations. Original cloth-backed hand-coloured pictorial boards. Oblong folio. Cover rubbed and worn at corners and edges; cloth spine renewed, endpapers replaced; one leaf with a tear in the blank margin; some light marking and text-block browning; else a very good copy of this important children's book first published in Edinburgh in 1858.
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THE NEW PICTURE BOOK being pictorial lessons on form, comparison, and number, for children under seven years of age. With explanations by Nicholas Bohny.
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1858. Printed title, preface leaf, and 36 full-page hand-coloured lithographed pages, printed on rectos only, 24 of which bear three strip illustrations, the remaining 12, have two strip illustrations. Original cloth-backed hand-coloured pictorial boards. Oblong folio. First U. K. edition. Covers rubbed and worn at corners and edges, and dust-soiled; lacking endpapers; name on title; title and Preface leaf spotted; else a very good copy of this important children's book, the hand-coloured illustrations clean and fresh.
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THE NEW PICTURE BOOK. [Whittington and His Cat].
Derby: J. Rosewarne, No date [circa 1835/40]. [8] pages. Illustrated with 8 poorly printed/worn wood-engravings. Original printed blue wrappers with wood-engravings to both panels. 90 x 65. Unstitched as issued. Small corner loss from upper corner of front wrapper; else very good. A scarce chapbook.
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THE NEW READING MADE EASY; Being one of the best Books extant for teaching the First Rudiments of Reading & Spelling. A New Edition.
Lincoln: W. Brooke, 1803. 72 pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved alphabet. Original printed boards, sometime re-backed in calf. 134 x 84 mm. A very good copy. A scarce provincial printing of this classic text.
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THE NEW ROBINSON CRUSOE; an instructive and entertaining history.
Dublin: William Espy, 1822. 180 pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece, vignette on title, and 5 other full-page wood-engravings. Contemporary sheep with gilt banding. Worn at head of spine; else a very good copy.
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THE NEW ROBINSON CRUSOE. An Instructive and Entertaining History, for the use of Children of both Sexes. Translated from the French. Embellished with Thirty-two beautiful Cuts. Second edition.
London: John Stockdale, 1789. Four volumes bound as two as issued. 173; 156; 137; 177, [1 ad'] pages. Illustrated with thirty full-page wood-engravings by John Bewick. Bound in slightly later half-pebbled cloth over marbled boards. Lacks 8 pages of ad's to the last volume [removed when re-bound]; else a very good clean set of a scarce book. First published in Hamburg 1779-80, and in London in 1788. See Tattersfield JB44.
More details Price: £875.00