Feb 25, 2021 - Sale 2559

Sale 2559 - Lot 119

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) The Speaking Picture Book, a New Picture Book with Characteristic Voices. 8 chromolithograph plates as called for (occasional smudging and light staining), 9 small ivory knobs on fore-edge, which when pulled produce different noises (a cock, donkey, lamb, bird, cow, cuckoo, goat and two for children's voices), three of which are no longer in working order. Folio, original red cloth with decorative black borders surrounding a mounted color plate to front cover, wooden edges painted gold. "Made in Germany, For sale by F.A.O. Schwarz, New-York." [Nuremburg: H. Grevel & Co., circa 1880]