Die Weltgeschichte fur die Jugend bis auf die neuesten Zeiten
Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1836. Softbound. XVI + 341 + 3 pp. Color frontis plus 22 pages of handcolored plates; 2 additional laid-in plates, supplementary to sheets 12 and 13 of the illustrations. This collation appears to agree with the copy found in the Georg-Eckert Institut. Covered with a home-made dj of grey-white wrapping paper illustratred with rabbits and squirrels. Fair. No spine but still bound together; otherwise complete with a few loose sheets and two plates bound out of order. Item #134296
Text is in old German script. (World History for Young People: Up to the Recent Times [as of 1836 !].The hand-colored plates are wonderful, if not lightly soiled. Representative of a contemporary color-illustrated German schoolbook. Worth rebinding. Lovely plates.
Price: $135.00