German Toy Sample Book for Spanish Market

marbleized paper covered boards and leather binding, partial paper label on cover, hand written in violet ink on reverse of first page "Todos os artigo marcados d'un ponto sao moveis - Os. Precos neste livro entendem se com 10% d'abat." suggesting this sample book was used by a Spanish wholesaler; this is an amazing resource for studying 19th century German toys as it is comprised of 47 finely lithographed double sided pages - thus 94 plates in all tightly bound in the book, in addition there are 8 loose pages with hand colored lithography plates; all manner of toys are presented here: squeak toys, dolls, mechanical, pull toys, stables, etc., the color plates have some explanatory notes written by hand in Spanish; in all more than 1000 toys are pictured in these pages
Size: 8.5" x 11"

very good to excellent