BECOURT, A. de

[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

Paris: Audot, Editeur, rue des maçons-sorbonne, no. 11, 1828. Wrappers. 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. Fine. Item #BB2386

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