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The Pamela Harer Collection of Rare & Antiquarian Children's Books – Part I

Among the highlights:

• The History of Little Goody Twoshoes. First Worcester Edition, printed by Isaiah Thomas in 1787. Estimate: $3,000/5,000. 

• Early hornbook, stamped with the effigy of Charles II on Horseback. One of six lots of hornbooks included in this auction. Estimate: $1,500/2,500.

* First English Edition of A Primer for the Use of the Mohawk Children. London, 1786. 

• Exceedingly rare. Estimate: $15,000/20,000. 

• The privately printed first edition of Beatrix Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester. One of only 500 copies printed for the author in 1902. Estimate: $3,000/5,000. 

• Curiöser Spiegel… Delightful hand-colored depictions of life from the cradle to the grave, printed from the 17th century blocks in 1824. Estimate: $7,000/10,000. 

• Lewis Carrol's The Nursery Alice. One of only 12 copies bound as samples for the American market, 1889. Estimate $7,000/10,000. 

• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. First edition of the author's best known work. The winner of the Caldecott Medal in 1964. Estimate $5,000/8,000. 

• Cris de St. Petersbourg. 14 hand-colored cards depicting the tradesmen and tradeswomen of St. Petersburg, 1834. Estimate: $5,000/8,000. 

• First edition of the Curiosities in the Tower of London (1741) the third of Thomas Boreman's miniature "Gigantick Histories", an unrecorded variant. Estimate: $5,000/8,000.

Each lot illustrated in the online version of the catalogue.
Bid directly from the site. Now available in the Bid Live Now section

Please visit our website to view a select group of 187 lots of rare and antiquarian children's books and juvenile literature from the 17th through 20th centuries, Tom Thumb and Goody Two-Shoes to Dr. Seuss and Maurice Sendak. Included are seven original hornbooks, for early training in the alphabet; miniature books; abécédaires; alphabet books; almanacs; and much more. In addition, there are nearly 30 lots of Pamela Harer's reference books for children's literature, a key resource in forming her collection. Part II of the collection is scheduled for sale on February 19, 2015.

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Gutenberg Bible

A copy of Europe’s first printed book, the Gutenberg Bible, is to form part of an exhibition at Cambridge University Library, charting the history of the first century of print, and how books were used by their owners.

'Private Lives of Print' has just opened, and will include many rare books which have never before been displayed.

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