Childrens

[ALPHABET].
Alphabet de L'Histoire des Animaux, orné de 27 gravures.
Paris, Brianchon Libraire, c. 1820.

Octavo, 6 pp., handcoloured engravings throughout; dampstained along outer margin, outer edge slightly chipped,...

Very early fully engraved Abecedaire for children. With an illustration of the kangaroo after Stubbs.

The back...

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[ALPHABET BOOK] ANON.
The Alphabet of Animals.
London, Frederick Warne and Co., circa, 1890.

Quarto, chromolithographs; very good in original pictorial wrappers.

Charming animal-themed alphabet book for children:

K is a kangaroo hopping along;
L stands for Lions,...

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ALPHABET SET.
Set of letter blocks.
England, circa 1800- 1850.

Alphabet set of 179 pieces of bone, each approx. 15 x 18 mm., letters incised and filled in with black ink by hand;...

A fine, early alphabet set, consisting of rectangular bone letter tiles in a well made wooden box; used in education...

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[AUSTRALIAN POST] STRANG, Mrs Herbert (ed.).
Storytime A Little Book for Little People.
London, Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, circa, 1906.

Small quarto, full colour frontispiece and one plate, 18 leaves, illustrated, printed in red and black; a pristine copy...

A lovely and attractive rarity: an almost unrecorded Rackham title, in pristine condition and still with its original...

Not in Gumuchian.

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[BATAVIA] CATCH-PENNY PRINT.
Aardrijkskunde: Prenten-Magazijn voor de jeugd.
Leiden, Van D. Noothoven Van Goor, 1860.

Single printed leaf, 440 x 310 mm., simply handcoloured; in good condition.

Scarce news-sheet publication for Dutch children. One of a long series (this is number 78), this is devoted to...

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BEAULIEU, Mme Malles de.
Le Robinson de Douze Ans...
Paris, E. Ducrocq, 1850.

Octavo, with eight chromolithographs (including frontispiece); a fine copy in the original black grained cloth, spine...

A good example of one of the later Robinsonades. First published around the same time as the now more famous Swiss...

Gumuchian, 4949.

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BLAKE, H.S.
A Back-Answer with all good wishes...
Sydney, Angus & Robertson, n.d. 1932.

Oblong octavo, handcoloured illustrations; fine in original wrappers.

Booklet of humorous verses, designed to be sent to the "Old Country" from new immigrants to Australia. This copy, sent...

Muir, 724.

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BOYS AND GIRLS LIBRARY.
Natural History of Fishes [and] The Peace Maker.
Worcester, Lazell, circa, 1830.

16mo, with wood-engravings; slight damage to spine but a very good copy in the original stiff pictorial wrappers.

Two works in one. The first, The Natural History of Fishes, is a primer for children describing twelve species...

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[CHILDREN] ALPHABET BLOCKS.
Set of Children's Blocks.
France, circa, 1880.

24 timber blocks, chromolithgraphed with five3 paper guides, some a little creased; original box.

French children's alphabet blocks with a Kangourou. A remarkably complete set for such an early and obviously well-used...

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[CHILDREN] ESPIESSE, A.
Les Buffon des Enfans ou Histoire des Animaux...
Paris, Martial Ardant freres, 1851.

Small octavo, woodcuts throughout; fine in original embossed boards.

French natural history primer with two pages dedicated to the kangaroo.

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