May 25, 2006 - Sale 2081

Sale 2081 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 201
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) Henkel, Ambrose. Das Kleine ABC-Buch . . . zweite auflage. Woodcut alphabet and illustrations of animals. 12mo, original pictorial boards, early rebacking in dotted cloth, loss at spine ends and a few other holes along spine, soiled; browned, scattered light soiling and child's pencil scribbles. New Market, Va., 1819

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Printed by Solomon and Ambrose Henkel in New Market, Virginia, the furthest south of all German-American presses. Henkel taught himself to make the woodcuts. Shaw & Shoemaker 48208; Bötte & Tannhof, 2369.