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1343 - ABC books Nouvel Abecedaire avec des Conversations sur l'His…
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Estimate €200 - €300
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ABC books Nouvel Abecedaire avec des Conversations sur l'Histoire des Animaux, illustrated with lovely engravings. With a coloured copper vignette and 4 engraved, coloured plates. – Zurich, Trachsler, (c. 1830). 72 pp. Contemporary paperback (scuffed and worn). Extremely rare; no copies currently available on the market to our knowledge. Only 1 copy in libraries worldwide (University Library of Zurich, PA 1476). - The *Nouvel abécédaire avec des conversations* forms part of Trachsler’s characteristic output of French-language textbooks and picture books intended for school use (and also distributed outside Switzerland): small-format primers, richly illustrated with woodcuts or copperplate engravings, which, in addition to the alphabet and initial reading exercises, offered short conversations – model dialogues for practising language and manners – for early foreign language and reading instruction. This genre of ‘abécédaire à conversations’ was widespread in the German-French border region of Switzerland and southern Germany, as it taught children both to read and simple French phrases. - pp. 19/20 with a half-page tear; otherwise a largely neat copy. With a coloured copper vignette and 4 engraved, coloured plates. – Zurich, Trachsler, (c. 1830). 72 pp. Contemporary paperback (scuffed and worn). Extremely rare; we have found no copies available on the market. Only one copy is held in libraries worldwide (University Library of Zurich, PA 1476). - The *Nouvel abécédaire avec des conversations* forms part of Trachsler’s characteristic output of French-language textbooks and picture books intended for use in schools (and distributed even outside Switzerland): small-format primers, richly illustrated with woodcuts or copperplate engravings, which, in addition to the alphabet and early reading exercises, featured short conversations—model dialogues for practising language and manners—for early foreign language and reading instruction. This genre of ‘abécédaire à conversations’ was widespread in the German-French border region of Switzerland and southern Germany, as it taught children both to read and to use simple French phrases. – pp. 19–20 with a half-page tear; otherwise, a largely neat copy.
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Auction time 10/24/2026 at 10:00 AM
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