Cotsen Occasional Press, 2002. 6.1 x 5.8 inches. cloth. 24 pages. This beautiful facsimile volume represents the first ever printing of Andersen`s Fotograferede Bornegrupper in English. This book is a collaboration between Andersen, who wrote the verse, and the famous early Danish photographer Harald Paetz. The illustrations in the book are albumen prints of posed and costumed children and they depict scenes of play and home life. Little Rhymes is an extremely important book in..... READ MORE about LITTLE RHYMES BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, WITH LITTLE PHOTOS BY HARALD PAETZ

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Princeton: Princeton University Library, 2019. 9.4 x 12.6 inches. cloth, with gilt-stamped decoration on upper cover, title label on spines. 2 vol.: xi, 610 pages; xxxviii, 565 pages. "Turn to any page of the recently published, two-volume, folio-size Catalog of the Cotsen Children's Library: The Nineteenth Century -- say, page 24 of volume II -- and the bibliographical detail accompanying each entry and illustration are case studies in thoroughness. In my case, page 24 reveals..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE COTSEN CHILDREN'S LIBRARY: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, (VOLS. I & II

Price: $250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 133665

Princeton: Princeton University Library, 2003. 9.4 x 12.6 inches. cloth, with gilt-stamped decoration on upper cover, title label on spine. 818 pages. In fall 1996, the Cotsen staff began compiling a multi-volume book catalogue of the research collection, with support from the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections and the Technical Services Department of the Princeton University Library. Four volumes of the catalogue have been completed thus far. In May 2000, volume I, The..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE COTSEN CHILDREN'S LIBRARY: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, M-Z (VOL. II

Price: $90.00  other currencies  Order nr. 130128

Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 2000. 8.25 x 11.5 inches. stiff paper wrappers. 90 pages. The Chinese holdings of the Cotsen Children's Library consist of more than 35,000 items from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The collection comprises the entire range of printed matter a child might encounter in his or her daily life. Primers, textbooks, song books, arts and crafts handbooks, dictionaries, supplementary readers, wall posters and slides from the school classroom, comic..... READ MORE about VIRTUE BY DESIGN: ILLUSTRATED CHINESE CHILDREN’S BOOKS FROM THE COTSEN CHILDREN’S LIBRARY

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 130133

Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 2013. 8vo: 8.5 x 6.75 inches; miniatures: 3.625 x 2.25 inches.Clamshell box: 7.5 x 13 inches. hardcover: 8vo and clamshell box in cloth; miniatures in silk. xv, 121 pages; facsimiles: 68, 66, 66 pages. Limited edition of 500 copies of this boxed set which includes Alderson and Immel's scholarly work on the history and legacy of Tommy Thumb's Pretty Little Song Book (two volumes), and The Pretty Book, that includes..... READ MORE about TOMMY THUMB'S PRETTY SONG-BOOK, THE FIRST COLLECTION OF ENGLISH NURSERY RHYMES, A FACSIMILE...

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Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Publications, 2010. 4.2 x 5.5 inches. softcover with french flaps. 16 pages. Facsimile of an illustrated manuscript and of a contemporary letter providing its translation by Reverend Allan Salt. Introduction by Ivy Trent. The original was written in Ojibway and painted on birchbark by Soloman James, Sound of Thunder Ravens, Chief of the Shawanagaw Band of Ojibway Indians, for his son, Louis. The book illustrates hunting and way of life around..... READ MORE about LITTLE BOOK OF ANIMALS

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Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Publications, 1998. 13.6 x 17.3 inches. cloth. (56) leaves, (12) pages in pocket. This facsimile edition reproduces photographs, mostly attributed to Potter's father, amateur photographer Rupert Potter, in an arrangement telling the story of her life. The photographs range from studio photographs of Beatrix Potter as a baby and toddler, to one taken in the year preceding her death. The original photographs were in a variety of media, ranging from albumin..... READ MORE about MARSEILLES, GENOA & PISA: A BEATRIX POTTER PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM REPRESENTING A PICTORIAL BIOGRAPHY

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Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 1999. 9 x 7.5 (landscape). cloth. 40 pages. John Spilsbury, who styled himself an "Engraver and Map Dissector in Wood, in Order to Facilitate the Teaching of Geography," is credited with the invention of "dissected maps", hand-colored maps, printed from copper plates, which were mounted on thin sheets of mahogany and cut into pieces according to the political borders of the region mapped. The discovery of an extraordinary set of..... READ MORE about NEATLY DISSECTED FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF YOUNG LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF GEOGRAPHY:...

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Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 2003. 8.5 x 10.5 inches. paperback. 168 pages. Color photographs, illustrations, and reproductions. Taking as its starting point the set of sixteen dissected maps belonging to the children of George III and acquired by the Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University, this work examines the new trends in education exemplified by the practices of the royal nursery and its governess, Lady Charlotte Finch. The author establishes a relationship between Lady Charlotte..... READ MORE about SUCH CONSTANT AFFECTIONATE CARE: LADY CHARLOTTE FINCH - ROYAL GOVERNESS & THE CHILDREN OF...

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Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Publications, 2008. 10.2 x 12.6 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 282 pages. This richly illustrated publication by Mark Wilson comprises an introductory essay and catalogue of the nearly two hundred tablets from the Cotsen Collection of ancient school texts, the greater number of these dating from the Old Babylonian period. The first part tells the story of the "Eduba"; the tablet house, and the earliest known school. The curriculum of the eduba..... READ MORE about EDUCATION IN THE EARLIEST SCHOOLS

Price: $125.00  other currencies  Order nr. 130142