Jun 23, 2022 - Sale 2610

Sale 2610 - Lot 278

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(JUVENILE ERUDITION.) [Polytechnographie. Modèles Brevetés d'Ecriture Cursive et de Dessin]. Calligraphic ink [title] leaf, 104 engraved pages of cursive script on varied subjects (52 with illustrated vignettes). Oblong folio, 6x17 inches, contemporary boards, rebacked, light wear; scattered foxing and soiling. [Paris, circa 1837-1838]

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Some of the lesson subjects include writing and penmanship, celestial sciences, geography and travel, marine navigation, meteorology, geometry, architecture and building technology, classical mythology, botany, history, physics, world cultures, agriculture, industrial and mechanical innovation, ornithology, entomology, and natural history, fine arts, language arts, intellectual exercises, and commercial bookkeeping.