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Fungus the Bogeyman Plop-Up Book Fungus the Bogeyman Plop-Up Book 
Raymond Briggs
Hamish Hamilton 1st edition 1982

Deep down underground, in the dark, dripping tunnels of bogeydom, live the bogeys, a vile collection of slimy, smelly creatures who revel in everything revolting. Fungus is a bogeyman-a particularly foul and fetid specimen. As he goes about his bogey business, the full horrors of bogeydom are revealed here in breath-taking Stereo-bogic three-dimensions!

4to. Glazed pictorial boards. Fully working in Fine condition. 415 gms. £30.00

The Human Body
A three-dimensional study
 Jonathan Miller & David Pelham
Jonathan Cape 1st edition 1983

Discover for yourself what happens inside your body. By operating the scale models employed in this unique book you can make a heart beat, lungs breathe and muscles contract.

The three-dimensional and movable illustrations enable you to experience the mechanisms by which you think, see, hear, move and stay alive. You will see as never before the workings of the human body.

4to. Glazed pictorial boards in Fine condition. 530 gms. £8.00		 The Human Body

Playtime Surprises

Playtime Surprises
with reproductions of antique changing pictures by Ernest Nister
Collins 1st edition 1985

Enchanting illustrations of Victorian children in the settings of yesteryear come to life with intricate "Venetian blind" changing picture mechanicals. These rare antique originals, first published by Ernest Lister of London in the 19th century, are exquisitely reproduced and accompanied by delightful verses of the day.

4to. Glazed pictorial boards. 6 pictures. Fine. 400 gms. £10.00

The Facts of Life - a three-dimensional study 
Jonathan Miller & David Pelham
Jonathan Cape 1st edition 1984

This remarkable book, from the creators of 'The Human Body', reveals in breathtaking
three-dimensional illustrations the miraculous story of life before birth. The human male
and female reproductive systems, the fertilisation of the egg and the subsequent development of the baby are described in outstanding detail.

4to. Glazed pictorial boards. 6 pop-ups. All pop-ups are in excellent working order and the book is in Fine condition. 510 gms. £12.00		 The Facts of Life - a three-dimensional study 

The Great Menagerie

The Great Menagerie
An adaptation of the antique pop-up book
 Kestrel Books 1st thus 1979

 This book pops up to reveal six entertaining scenes from a travelling menagerie show, popular during the nineteenth century. Anthea Bell has written a series of charming verses describing the acts.

The Great Menagerie was originally published in 1884 by J F Screiber of Esslingen, Germany.

4to. Glazed pictorial boards in Fine condition. 390 gms. £10.00


Halley's Comet Pop-Up Book
 Patrick Moore & Heather Couper
Deans International Publishing 1st edition 1985

From the rear of the book:

"The most famous of all comets is on its way back to the Sun, and after 76 years, in 1985 and 1986 we have our once-in-a-lifetime sighting.
The comet is named after Edmond Halley, an English astronomer who, observing it in 1682, realized it was the same as those seen in 1607 and 1531, and was the first correctly to predict its return, in 1758.
But we know Halley's Comet has been seen since at least 240 B.C. and probably before then. It has certainly been reported since 87 B.C.
This 1985-1986 visit is the most exciting ever, for space science has advanced so much that now one spaceprobe, the European `Giotto', to be launched in July 1985, will actually meet the comet head-on and enter the head, or coma. This spaceprobe is so-called after Giotto di Bondone, the Florentine painter who used the comet as a model for the Star of Bethlehem in `Adoration of the Magi'. It is hoped that before its almost inevitable destruction, Giotto will send back close-range pictures of the nucleus, and
tell scientists more about its whereabouts in the head, and its size. Three other probes, two Russian and one Japanese, will pass within 10,000 km (the two Vega probes), and 200,000 km (the Japanese Planet A) of the comet.
In this fascinating `Pop-Up' treatment, Patrick Moore and Heather Couper have conveyed their own intense enthusiasm and scholarship in the text; and Vic Duppa-Whyte's paper engineering shows the way the space probes will move about the comet, and the comet's orbit in relation to the Earth and the other planets.
One spread even incorporates a pop-up `telescope' and a film strip, showing artist's impressions of points in the comet's progress. Other spreads show something of the comet's history, impressions of the nucleus, and the path of the comet over the next 76 years.
This book really is to be an heirloom — for the next generation and the ones after that, who can beprepared for their sighting of Halley's Comet, next time around."

4to. Glazed pictorial boards in Fine condition. 520 gms. £10.00
 Halley's Comet Pop-Up Book

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