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Description:
Collection of Miniature Books. London: Charles Tilt, c. 1840. Seven volumes including Town Sights for Little Folks, Robinson Crusoe, May's British Birds, May's British Quadrupeds, Childs' Picture Bible, Childs' Picture Testament, and Surrey Zoological Gardens, bound in colored cloth, gilt lettering and stamping to front covers and spines, full gilt edges, illustrated throughout, all housed in publisher's wood and leather case, (fading and sunning to cloth bindings, loss to leather of case),3 x 2 3/4 in.
Estimate $300-500
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Robinson Crusoe, LondonJohn Dorfman
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