LADOVY VESELE UCEBNICE. BROUCI A HMYZ III. [Lada's Cheerful Textbooks. Beetles and Insects III.]

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(Anthropomorphic Insects) LADOVY VESELE UCEBNICE. BROUCI A HMYZ III. [Lada's Cheerful Textbooks. Beetle and Insects III.] V Praze: Nakladem Melantricha, 1932. FIRST EDITION. 4to - 10-1/2" x 8-9/16". Perfect bound color pictorial sandy brown heavy paper wrappers with a single closed tear 3/4" long to bottom edge of front wrapper and discolored lower fore edge corner tip on front wrapper for what otherwise is an as new copy of the book. [48] pp. Book III of Lada's Cheerful Textbooks is illustrated with twenty-four full color, three-quarter page drawings of anthropomorphic insects by the famed Czech painter, illustrator and writer, Josef Lada; evidently smoking among anthropomorphic insects was rampant in 1932 as fully one-quarter of Lada's drawings depict pipe smoking insects; Lada's illustrations are supplemented with Josef Foltyn's verses and scientific notes by Prof. Victor Jedlicka; internally the book is without flaw. The condition of the book is FINE. Only two copies (New York Public Library System; Princeton University Library) located on OCLC/WorldCat. EXCEEDINGLY RARE and a fabulous children's picture book in near perfect condition. N° de ref. del artículo 000741

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