Children's Books, American, 19th Century, Three Volumes.

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Children's Books, American, 19th Century, Three Volumes.
Including: Very Little Tales for Very Little Children; in Single Syllables of Three and Four Letters, First Series, Philadelphia & New York: Appleton, 1844, first American edition, small square format, with uncolored wood engraved vignettes, bound in contemporary cloth, spine perished, boards detached, 5 x 4 in.
[Together with] The American Toilet, New York: Imbert's Lithographic Office, [c. 1827], twenty numbered pages (including the title) with nineteen flaps revealing moral lessons, all intact, in original marbled paper wrappers, 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
[And] A series of chapbooks bound together, with hand-colored illustrations throughout, printed in Philadelphia: by Morgan and Sons; Morgan and Yeager; and others, several titles bound together, engravings printed on one side only, contemporary half leather, boards detached, 5 x 4 1/4 in.
Estimate $400-600


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