BERTUCH, Friedrich Justin (editor, 1747-1822).  Bilderbuch für Kinder enthaltend eine angenehme Sammlung von Thieren, Pflanzen, Blumen, Früchten, Mineralien, Trachten ...  [French: Porte-Feuille des Enfans], Weimar: au Bureau d' Industrie, 1796-1805.
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BERTUCH, Friedrich Justin (editor, 1747-1822). Bilderbuch für Kinder enthaltend eine angenehme Sammlung von Thieren, Pflanzen, Blumen, Früchten, Mineralien, Trachten ... [French: Porte-Feuille des Enfans], Weimar: au Bureau d' Industrie, 1796-1805.

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BERTUCH, Friedrich Justin (editor, 1747-1822). Bilderbuch für Kinder enthaltend eine angenehme Sammlung von Thieren, Pflanzen, Blumen, Früchten, Mineralien, Trachten ... [French: Porte-Feuille des Enfans], Weimar: au Bureau d' Industrie, 1796-1805.

Volumes I - VII only (of 12), 4° (232 x 192mm.), text in German, French, English and Italian, 648 engraved plates, almost all hand-coloured, a few printed in colour (vol. VI lacking title, one plate torn with slight loss, one plate torn without loss, one plate laid down, a few plates repaired on versos, occasional spotting), 19th-century half roan (rubbed and scuffed, vol. VI split at upper inner hinges).

Mixed editions. Brunet IV, 827; cf. Gumuchian 611: "Les gravures d' oiseaux, de poissons, d' aérostats, etc. sont remarquables à plusieurs titres;" Nissen ZBI 340. (7)
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