stiff paper wrappers
1984 · London
London: Sotheby's, 1984. stiff paper wrappers. Children's Books. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. 3 volumes. Three- volume catalogue for a sale held in three parts of noted Dutch bibliophile Coenraad Frederick van Veen's collection of children's literature. The first sale, held in London on February 28, 1984, comprised 342 lots of French, English and German books and juvenilia. Part II took place in Amsterdam on June 25, 1984 and listed 510 lots of Dutch children's books; part III, also in Amsterdam, on November 28, 1984 with 323 lots of "catchpenny prints, table games, writing sheets and scrapbooks". All three volumes profusely illustrated; some (truncated)