Children's book about camels

[Camels]. Grandmamma Easy's Pretty Stories About the Camel.

[London], Dean & Co., [1854].

Large 8vo. (16) pp. (including original illustrated wrappers; 6 leaves printed on one side only). With 8 hand-coloured woodcut illustrations and a woodcut tailpiece. Sewn.

 850,00

Children's book about the various types of camels, their habits and uses, issued within the series of "Grandmamma Easy's new pictorial colored toy books". Includes pictures of a Bedouin camp, a desert caravan, the Holy Camel bearing the Qur'an on the pilgrimage to Mecca, a camel fight, and a two-humped camel exhibited on the streets of London.

Sewn with large stitches; tear to front cover mended by stiching; slight edge defects. Rare.

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OCLC 16800959.

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