Dumas Alex. and Hoffmann [Ernest Theodor], Historya nutcracker. With woodcuts by Bertall. Volumes 1-2 in one volume.

Leipzig, J. N. Bobrowicz Publishers, by the Foreign Bookstore, 1846 Series: A picturesque library of the funniest novels for children in French and Polish collected from the best authors by J. N. Bobrowicz.

18.5 cm, pp. [8], 159, [1]; [8], 158, [2], in leather binding.

Piece complete, two-page print with parallel text in French and Polish, illustrated with some 238 woodcuts in the text, a striking rare edition of a classic of children's literature preserved in very good condition.

Minor pen inventory numbers on title pages of volumes, some pages with local discoloration. Volume after conservation review and bound in a richly decorated bibliophilic binding in the atelier of Antiquarian Poland.