SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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GIBASS, Carl.
Skizzen-Buch. in Wort und Bild von Carl Gibass.

Rare children's book (only three copies at Worldcat, Germany only) containing ten illustrated stories: The poor souls in purgatory. - The practical joke. - The gold coin. - The surprise. - The bag with pearls. - The wrong suspicion. - The wild hunter. - Guardian spirit. - The tambourine boy. - Secret hunt.

Published
Stuttgart: Rudolph Chelius. 1853.
Plates
11
Binding/Size
M=4to
Value
0-5000
Published
Stuttgart: Rudolph Chelius. 1853.
Ref
1487

[A sketch book. in words and pictures] Oblong quarto. (21.5 x 34.5 cm.) pp. 20+(1). Original printed pink paper-covered boards with brown cloth spine. Original hand-coloured lithographed pictorial title and ten other hand-coloured lithographs depicting figures in pastoral or rural settings. The First four lithographs signed 'Rigal,' subsequent six unsigned. Rubbing to boards and spine. The spine slightly faded. Light spotting to some plates. Coloured plates in order: 1. Title page. 2. Die armen Seelen in Fegefeuer. 3. Der Schabernack. 4. Das Stuck Gold. 5. Die Ueberrasching. 6. Der Sack mit Perlen. 7. Der falsche Verdacht. 8. Der wilde Jager. 9. Der Schutzgeist. 10 Der Tambourin-Knabe. 11. Jagdgeheimnisse.