[RIVER CROSSING PUZZLE].

(A wolf, goat and cabbage problem). Sweden about mid 19th century.

. A river crossing puzzle comprising coloured woodcut paper figures depicting a farmer, a boat, a wolf, a goat and a cabbage (complete). Housed in the original illustrated paper envelope (some staining). A printed instruction in Swedish is included. This kind of game dates back to the 9th century and has been found in the folklore of ethnic groups from different parts of the world. A charming puzzle, well-preserved.

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Book number: 120959

Keywords: , puzzle, game, children, swedish, sweden, svenskt, sverige, pussel, spel,

ADELBORG, OTTILIA (Ill.) [CHILDREN'S ALMANAC]

Almanacka 1890. Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt & Söner, 1889.

. 16mo. Pp (16). Original colour decorated boards. With the unusual dust jacket, some minor browning and small insignificant paper loss at lower edge. Ottilia Adelborg (1855-1936) was a Swedish artist and children's book illustrator. A charming calendar in exceptionally good condition.

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Book number: 121353

Catalogue: Old and Rare Books

Keywords: Old and Rare Books, children, barn, almenacka, almanac, calendar, juvenile, illustrated,

BALçZS, BÉLA / KOZMA, LAJOS (Ill.):

Testvérorszâg. A j— gyerekeknek mesélte karâcsonyra (Sister country. Told for the good children). Gyoma, Kner Izidor, 1918.

. 16mo. Size: 10 x 13.5 cm. Pp. 59. With six full-page coloured plates. Publisher's pictorial boards, cloth spine, rubbed. Some leaves with small corner loss. First edition of this unusual Hungarian children's book illustrated by Lajos Kozma in a characteristic Art Nouveau style. The book was issued by Kner Publishing House as one of a series of three children's books, of which another one is Anna Lezsnai's "Mese a bœtorok—l".Béla Balâzs was a Hungarian - Jewish film critic, writer and poet. He was the writer of the scenario for Bart—k's ballet "The Wooden Prince". Lajos Kozma was one of the foremost Hungarian architects and interior designers of the early 20th century. He joined "The Young Ones" a group of architects influenced by the "Vienna Secession". His early works were created in Art Nouveau style but later, through Art Deco, he found his way to the International Modernism.

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Book number: 120337

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Language, children, literature, art nouveau, juvenile, barnbok, hungry, hungrian, ungern

BARTO, AGNIYA:

Bratishki: Stikhi (Brothers: Poems). Moscow, Detgiz, 1934.

. Square 8vo. Pp. 16 including covers. With many coloured illustrations by Georgiy Echeistov (leading Soviet graphic artist). Text in Russian. Original coloured paper wrappers, spine chipped. Loose in binding. First published in 1928, reprinted many times.A lovely example of Interknizhka by one of the most famous Russian children's book authors at this time, Agniya Barto (1906-81). A collection of lullaby poems focused on children from different parts of the world: Chinese, African, Indian and Soviet babies. It was published as part of Proletarian Internationalism which formed the core of the 1920s Communist pedagogical doctrine by showing troubled lives of those living outside the Soviet Union.

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Book number: 120992

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, russia, russian, russe, children, illustrated, propaganda, interknizhka,

BRIAND, PIERRE CESAR:

Les jeunes voyageurs en Asie, ou description raisonnée des divers pays compirs dans cette belle partie du monde. Contenant des détails sur le sol, les productions, les curiosités, les moeurs et coutumes des habitans, les hommes célèbres, et des anecdotes curieuses. Eight volumes. Paris, Hivert, 1829.

. 12mo. Complete in eight volumes. With seven coloured maps and sixteen engraved plates. Contemporary red boards, gilt lettering on spines. Bindings rubbed, a few hinges are weak. First edition of this charming work on Asia written for young audiences. Comprises two parts, the first covers Turkey, Arabia, Persia and India. The second deals with China, Tibet, Japan, Korea, Tartary and the Asian part of Russia. The author was a Parisian bookseller who wrote several travel guides. Occasionally some light staining but overall a very good copy. Cordier BS 3027. Gumuchian 927.

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Book number: 121383

Catalogue: Asia general

Keywords: Asia general, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, voyage, children, juvenile,

BRONSON, WILFRID S.:

Paddlewings. The Penguin of Galâpagos. pictures by the Author. New York, Macmillan, (1937).

. Small square 4to. Pp. (xii including one blank leaf), 106. With three full-page coloured plates and numerous b/w illustrations in the text. Publisher's orange cloth printed in black, spine faded. Provenance: Brian Birley Roberts (1912-78), renowned British Polar ornithologist. Scarce children's book about the penguins and why they exist under the Equator, where they should not be. The author, a natural history artist explains the evolution of the bird and the ecosystems that supported the migration and maintenance of the species. First published in 1931. 

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Book number: 121511

Catalogue: Travel general

Keywords: Travel general, children, juvenile, galapagos, ecuador, south america, america, americas, travel, natural history, penguin,

CHANCE, LULU MAUD:

Bradley's Straight Line Picture Cut-Outs. Japanese Village. Springfield, Mass., Milton Bradley Co., ca 1920.

. Folio. Complete, unused set of eight printed leaves on heavy paper with cut-out figures, one colour plate and one printed instruction leaf. Some with small tears or chipped at corners, but overall it's well-kept. Housed in the original colour decorated envelope, chipped along edges. (Size: 38 x 29.5 cm). Bradley produced a series of village models for children which showed the people of a particular country and the houses they lived in.

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Book number: 121339

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, game, children, juvenile,

[PéRE CASTOR]. COEUR, FERDINAND:

Quinze Jeux sur Table. Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1936.

. 4to (24 x 28 cm). Pp. 16 and six coloured card board sheets (two with the cut-out parts missing). The text describes different kinds of card games. Publisher's pictorial coloured wrappers. First edition.

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Book number: 120864

Catalogue: Art Nouveau

Keywords: Art Nouveau, france, french, frankrike, spel, barn, children, jeux, illustrated,

EEKMAN, NICOLAS (Ill.) / GAUTHIER-VILLARS, MARGUERITE (Comp.):

Voyageur immobile. 33 petits poèmes dont un avec musique. Textes, dessins en couleurs et agréments de Eekman. Musique de Mlle. M. Gauthier-Villars. Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1933.

. Small 4to. (19 x 24.3 cm). Pp. 73, (1). With 16 colour lithographs, one coloured plate of music and 25 text illustrations. Publisher's coil binding, pictorial front cover, some light wear to covers. First edition of this charming book with poems for children together with lovely imaginative illustrations. (Not one of the signed copies). Nicolas Eekman, a Belgian-born artist who in 1921 settled in Paris and was a part of all the artistic movements of the time.

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Book number: 120865

Catalogue: Old & Rare Books

Keywords: Old & Rare Books, children, music, french, france, frankrike, barnbok, illustrated, avant garde,

HAHN, EMILY / WIESE, KURT (Artist):

The Picture Story of China. New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946.

. 4to. Pp. (48). Illustrated end papers. With many coloured illustrations throughout the text. Original blue cloth in the original pictorial dust jacket, un-clipped and priced $2.50. First edition. An amusing story about Deedee, a small Chinese boy, written for American children. Along with charming illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Emily Hahn, a prolific American writer, who lived an adventurous life in Shanghai and Hong Kong in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1945 she married Charles Boxer, head of the British Army Intelligence in Hong Kong. Kurt Wiese, German-born artist who lived in China from 1909 to 1915. A lovely copy, unusual with the dust-jacket.

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Book number: 121572

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chinese, kina, chine, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, children, exploration, travel,

[CHILDREN BOOK / MODERN ART]. HEERUP, HENRY:

Legedage (Playdays). K¿benhavn 1969.

. Royal folio. Size: 62.5 x 57.4 cm. Album including preface (one page) and eight brightly coloured lithographs mounted in passe-partout. Signed and numbered by Heerup. Publisher's half cloth portfolio with colour decorated boards, original ties. First edition, number 75 of 100 copies on vélin d'Arches. (Another twenty-five copies were issued for collaborators). Printed by J. Chr. S¿rensen and published by Centre Graphique in Copenhagen.An outstanding work by the great Danish artist Heerup illustrating his childhood. Henry Heerup (1907-99) worked all through his life with painting, sculpture, etching and drawing. He was not concerned with the need for originality in art, preferring instead to reach a wide public rather than creating superior art for museums. Heerup was a member of the Cobra movement and participated in its exhibitions at Amsterdam in 1949 and at Liège in 1952. Heerup first became famous for his junk sculptures. He created eccentric and strange figures made out of old bedposts, broken toys and old trash which he found on his daily bicycle rides. It was as a painter and graphic artist that Heerup gained his popular breakthrough. He developed his own unique and imaginative style where the fundamental source of his narrative is ordinary life; everyday settings including love, family, children, sex, etc. This work is devoted to Heerups' own childhood, illustrating: The young Henry playing with a huge dog, riding a bike when he lost a gramophone, beaten by the schoolmaster, dressed up as a knight battling bedbugs, dancing to a street organ, sharing the Christmas porridge with a cat, climbing up onto the roof of a tram, a policeman chasing naughty boys, etc. Rare. Collectors often frame the lithographs and very few complete copies of this book have thus survived. Ref. Holstebro Kunstmuseum and Arken Museum of Modern Art ("Henry Heerup: Faith, Hope and Charity" 2003).

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Book number: 120903

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, children, juvenalia, art, modern, cobra, illustrated, danish, denmark, danmark, lithograph,

HWANG, YUNTZE & SHUSIEN, HSIAO / SCHERCHEN, HERMANN:

Chinesische Kinderfreuden in Bild, Wort und Musik. Zurich, Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1946.

. Oblong 4to. Pp. (46). Text in Chinese and German. With 16 fullpage colour plates from painting by Hsiao Shu-fang. Publisher's cloth backed decorated paper boards. Contains music and poems for children delightfully illustrated with four colour plates for each of the four seasons.

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Book number: 99999

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chinese, kina, chine, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, music, exploration, poems, musical, children, kinder,

KLEEN, TYRA:

Ni Si Pleng. En historia om svarta barn berättad och ritad för vita barn. (A story about black children told and illustrated for white children). Uppsala, J.A. Lindblads förlag, 1924.

. 4to. Pp. 118. Text in Swedish. With one coloured plate and 49 illustrations in the text, of which many full page. Original pictorial wrappers bound in publisher's ivory coloured cloth with vignette on upper cover, title label on spine, corners rubbed. Small expertly repair to spine. Upper right corner lightly creased. First edition of this charming story about the young girl Ni Si Pleng and her adventurous life in Bali. Lovely illustrations by Tyra Kleen, Swedish artist who spent many years in Indonesia.

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Book number: 121426

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, indonesia, indonesien, bali, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, children, literature, juvenile,

MATSUOKA, SAIKIYO:

Waei Tsugo Phrases in English and Japanese, Elementary for the Children. Three parts in one volume. (Complete). Tokyo, Komondo, Meiji 5 (1872-73).

. Pp. (9) comprising title, preliminaries and colophon in Japanese, also a title in English. Followed by 85 leaves of parallel text in English and Japanese including Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana characters. Title leaves for parts two and three not present (?). Leaves folded and bound in the Japanese fashion (fukuro-toji). Original black wrappers, worn. Old bookstore label pasted in. With red Asian stamps on title. Partly with some minor wormholes, mainly in upper margin. First edition of an early comprehensive primer. In addition to the glossary, translated phrases are included. See: Osaka Joshi Daigaiku Library, Selected Catalogue on Dutch and English Studies (1991), no. C27.

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Book number: 99297

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, language, langue, east, eastern, oriental, primer, vocabulary

MAY, JACQUELINE:

MAY, JACQUELINE: Orange d'Or. Petite fille de l'Empire du Milieu. Illustrations de Ch. et Th. Delattre. Grenoble, Editions Dardelet et Cie, (about 1946).

. Small 4to. Pp. 60. With many lovely coloured illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial paper covered boards, cloth spine (small repair). Binding somewhat shaken but still firm. A charming children's book about a Chinese girl celebrating her 10th birthday describing the festivities, meals, tours and shows.

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Book number: 100603

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, chinese, kina, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, travel, exploration, children, story, fairy tale