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Extremely rare German children's book on the various peoples of the world
[COSTUMES - WORLD].Kleine Völker Gallerie für Kinder in unterhaltenden Erzählungen von den Sitten, Meinungen, Gebräuchen und Kleidungen fremder Nationen.      Cologne, Vom Verfasser der unterhaltenden Erzählungen für das erste Kindesalter, 1811. Small 12mo. Later half red morocco, gilt spine. With 24 engraved illustrations, all coloured in a contemporary hand. Each engraving (ca. 70 x 30 mm) is mounted on a leaf of laid paper. 170 (4) pp. Very rare work teaching geography to children in the form of short stories on the customs and costumes of the various peoples of the world. It presents 24 nations and/or peoples throughout the world, a chapter dedicated to each of them: two chapters cover Africa, describing the people of the 'Hottentoten' and the inhabitants of Guinea. The next seven chapters are dedicated to the Americas (North, South and the West Indies) describing the peoples from the Caribbean, Florida, Mexico, the 'Eskimos', the 'Greenlanders', the 'Patagonians' and the 'Pescherans'. Two chapters on Oceania follow, describing two Australian nations, the 'New Zealanders' and the 'New Hollanders', better known as the Aboriginals. Hereafter follow eight chapters describing nations and peoples in Asia: Java, Amboina & Makassar, the Moguls, the Bucharans, the Chinese, the Kalmyk, the Mongols and the Buryatians. The last five chapters are devoted to four Syberian nations, Tungus, Kamchatka, Ostiaka and the Samoyed, and finally the northern European nation Lapland. Each nation is illustrated with a beautiful engraving, depicting an inhabitant of that region, finely coloured by a contemporary hand. In his preface the author states that he has used the engravings which had been published before by prof. Stoy at Nürnberg in the Neue Bildersammlung für die Jugend, depicting the various nations of the world. The rights to publish these engravings had been acquired by his "Freund B***" who had asked him -the author of the present work- to write an explanatory text to each of these plates. We could trace only one copy of the edition Nürnberg, 1810. Beautiful copy.
Not in Lipperheide, Colas or Berlin Kat. (neither in 'Stoy'); not in Wegehaupt, Osborne collection, NUC, OCLC, Brüggemann Sammlung or Bilderwelt; not in Jahrbuch Auktionspreise nor in the KVK.
Related Subjects: Africa America [Caribbean Islands] America, North Asia Australia & New Zealand Cartography Children's Books China Colour Platebooks Costumes Europe Geography Indonesia Siberia Add to Shopping cart |
€ 15.000,00
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