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Le Petit Benjamin. Paris: Louis Janet, [c.1810]. Oblong 12° (98 x 134mm). Half title, hand-coloured wood-engraved title vignette and 4 hand-coloured plates (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Later half calf and marbled boards (lightly rubbed).
With 18 other early 19th-century French illustrated books including M. A. Blanchard's La Récompense des Enfants (Paris, [n.d.], fine hand-coloured plates), Curiosités des Moeurs et Coutumes des Peuples (Paris, [n.d.], fine hand-coloured plates, ex-library copy), Fables de la Fontaine choisies pour les enfants (Paris, [n.d.], fine hand-coloured plates), Petite Galerie des Découvertes et Inventions Utiles et Curieuses (Paris, [n.d.], fine hand-coloured plates) and Madame Mallès de Beaulieu's Le La Bruyère des Jeunes Demoiselles (Gand, 1822, plates). (18)
With 18 other early 19th-century French illustrated books including M. A. Blanchard's La Récompense des Enfants (Paris, [n.d.], fine hand-coloured plates), Curiosités des Moeurs et Coutumes des Peuples (Paris, [n.d.], fine hand-coloured plates, ex-library copy), Fables de la Fontaine choisies pour les enfants (Paris, [n.d.], fine hand-coloured plates), Petite Galerie des Découvertes et Inventions Utiles et Curieuses (Paris, [n.d.], fine hand-coloured plates) and Madame Mallès de Beaulieu's Le La Bruyère des Jeunes Demoiselles (Gand, 1822, plates). (18)
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