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CHILDREN'S BOOKS] Group of six early children's books including Atlas des enfans, ou methode nouvelle Lyon: Jean Marie Bruyset, 1790. Contemporary calf. With engraved frontispiece and 24 folding maps, colored in outline; Manuel pour les jeunes princes et pour les jeunes seigneurs destinés a les entourer. Basel: Jean Schweighauser, 1775. Dutch gilt paper boards, as the Morgan copy. Apparently prepared by the private tutor of the heir of the house of Fürstenberg, landgraf of Baden, with an interesting section (pp. 254-55) denouncing the inhuman treatment of African slaves; BRUEL, J.[EAN] A.[UGUSTE]. Bibliotheque pour les enfans, ouvrage propre à leur inspirer l'amour pour la vertu & l'horreur pour le vice... Dresden: 1777. Mottled boards of the period; Abrégé de toutes les sciences et géographie a l'usage des enfans. Paris: P. Besson, 1802. Period calf, stamped with the name of the owner. Folding map and eight engraved plates; BERQUIN, ARNAUD. Idylles et romances, par Berquin. Paris: Levacher, 1802. half calf with paste-paper sides. Engravings throughout; Alphabet en Figures. Paris: Langlume and Peltier, n.d. Original decorative boards. A delightful alphabet book with hand-colored lithographs, including K for Kalmouks, S for Satan, T for Turc Fumant and similar oddities. The six volumes various sizes and paginations. Generally in very good or better condition, though the Abrégé with pale dampstain. C