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Bibliothèque en miniature. Berquin. Variétés. - And: Démoustier. Mythologie. - And: Florian. Mélanges. - And: La Fontaine. Fables. - And: Millevoye. (Poems). - And: Voltaire. Poésies. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères for Marcilly, (ca. 1835). Together 6 booklets. Each booklet with a steel-engraved title with a vignette and a steel-engraved plate. Each booklet contains 1 lf., 24 pp. Miniature books (68 x 47 mm). Original decorated blue wrappers. Preserved in the original box (82 x 57 mm), of which the lid has a pasted on gilt floral border surrounding a lithographed title with a representation of the six booklets in the lower half, blue edges with a floral decoration in relief print (title of box slightly rubbed). (# 5029)

Welsh No. 1250. Bondy 75. Gumuchian No. 4062. Not in Spielmann. Rare to find together the complete set of six volumes preserved in the original case. A very nicely illustrated series of French miniature children's books, finely printed in a very small type by Firmin Didot Frères. Contains stories and verses drawn from famous French authors. - A very few leaves very slightly foxed, a fine set.

Bräutigam, Johann Jakob (1790-1868). Das Kind mit der Milch und der Schlange. (Sage). München, c. 1840. Etching on chine-collé, showing a child with a bowl of milk, sitting in a corn-field, the child raises a spoon, while a snake is drinking the milk, with etched title underneath and signed in the plate: Braütigam fecit. c. 12,5 x 10 cm. (# 5820)

Maillinger, Bilder-Chronik... München, II No. 2398. Lentner No. 12101. Johann Jakob Bräutigam was "Obermaler der kgl. Bayer. Porzellanmanufaktur". According to the ancient children's fairy tale, written down by the brothers Grimm: a snake drank the milk daily, one day the child took its little spoon and struck the snake gently on its head and said: eat the bread crumbs as well. - With blind stamp (not in Lugt), well preserved.