MINIATURE THEATER. - Lot 82

MINIATURE THEATER. Travel and news theater. Le Tour du monde par un petit Français en 24 tableaux. S.l.n.d. Red paper-covered wooden box (37 x 45.5 x 7.5 cm), large color lithographed front, gilded and embossed frame. Superb scrolling theater, adorned with 25 color lithographs (including one for the title) assembled end-to-end to form a scroll that is unwound by a crank inserted into a winder on the side of the box. A 24-panel account of little Lucien's adventures around the world. The young man, who dreams of going around the world, goes to the Gare Saint-Lazare (Paris) and hides in the luggage van of a train bound for Le Havre; once in Normandy, he boards a liner bound for America... His journey takes him to New York, the Klondike gold mines, the Rockies, Canada's Saguenay Falls, Greenland, Oceania, Peking, Bangkok, Benares on the Ganges, the Siberian steppes of Russia, Moscow, the Tuaregs of the Sahara, the Congo, Timbuktu, Algiers and more. Complete with crank handle. Restorations to first three plates, minor foxing to front cover. Traces of handling.