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Lot 353

Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-307
Nov 9, 2021 4:00AM CT
Lots 308-687
Nov 10, 2021 4:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$500 - 700
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$563
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[CHILDREN’S] -- A group of 18 chapbooks in 23 volumes, all likely Rosenbach remainders, comprising: 

 
SHERWOOD, Mary Martha. The History of Little Henry and his Bearer. Catskill: Croswell & Son for Nathan Elliot, 1818. With another copy. Original tan printed papers (chipped). Third American Edition. Rosenbach 571. -- G., J. A Small Help, Offered to Heads of Families, for Instructing Children and Servants. Morris-Town: J. Mann for P.A. Johnson, 1814. Original wrappers (minor chipping). Rosenbach 489. -- London Cries for Children: With Twenty Elegant Wood Cuts. Philadelphia: John Bouvier for Johnson & Warner, 1810. Original printed stiffened wrappers (spine defective, some staining). Rosenbach 421; Welch 249.12. -- The Tragi-Comic History of the Burial of Cock Robin. Philadelphia: S. Probasco for Benjamin Warner, 1821. Plain stiff wrappers (spine defective, chipped, frontispiece and final plate laid-down to inside covers). Rosenbach 616. – SENDAK, Maurice. Ten Little Rabbits A Counting Book with Mino the Magician. Philadelphia: Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1970. Original blue marbled wrappers with mounted pictorial paper label to front cover. Blue wrappers preceded the red (Hanrahan). Hanrahan A76. – WOOD, Samuel. The Young Child's A,B,C; or First Book. New York: Samuel Wood & Sons, 1806. With another copy, 24mo. Original printed pictorial wrappers (some creasing). FIRST EDITION and Later Edition. -- COBB, Lyman. Cobb’s Toys. Second Series, Nos. 3-6. Lewistown, PA: Hickok & Stark, 1835. 4 volumes. Contemporary plain colored paper wrappers (some chipping, some creasing). Rosenbach 794.  -- And 11 others. Together, 18 works in 23 volumes, all 12mo except where noted, condition generally good. Provenance for the lot: John F. Fleming (1910-1987).
 

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