[Origami] [Juvenile] [Geometry] [Paper-Modeling] Art de fabriquer toutes sortes d'ouvrages en papier, pour l'instruction et l'amusement des jeunes gens des deux sexes
by BECOURT, A. de
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About This Item
Paris: Audot, Editeur, rue des maçons-sorbonne, no. 11, 1828. Wrappers. Fine. A charming juvenile, with directions, patterns, and finished views for the construction of paper and cardboard toys—a sentry box, a thatched cottage, furniture, a bridge, a windmill, a medieval tower, and more—intended to teach elementary geometric concepts. 12mo (146 x 89mm). vii,[1],9-106,12[advertisements]pp, with hand-colored frontispiece and 21 further numbered folding plates (not bound in numerical order, but correctly placed with respect to pages to which the drawings correspond). Original stitched wrappers printed in black. A superb uncut copy (light scattered foxing throughout) in publisher's original printed wrappers. NUC pre-l956: 42:561. Gumuchian 508. Second Edition (so stated), first published earlier the same year. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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- Bookseller
- Fine Editions Ltd (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BB2386
- Title
- [Origami] [Juvenile] [Geometry] [Paper-Modeling] Art de fabriquer toutes sortes d'ouvrages en papier, pour l'instruction et l'amusement des jeunes gens des deux sexes
- Author
- BECOURT, A. de
- Format/Binding
- Wrappers
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Audot, Editeur, rue des maçons-sorbonne, no. 11
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1828
- Bookseller catalogs
- XIX CENTURY;
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Glossary
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...