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Australia. Kangaroo Hunt.
83 x 83 mm., numbered in the plate at top left, partially obscured by more recent label neatly applied along top edge. A rare magic lantern slide of a kangaroo hunt. Nineteenth-century magic lantern slides are uncommon anyway, partly on account of their fragility, and much sought-after; to find one.....
Price (AUD):
$435.00
Ref: #3611687
The Badger, the Opossum, the Kangaroo…
London: [Printed for the proprietor by W. Lewis, No. 2, Paternoster-Row; and sold by Champante and Whitrow], July 1, 1804.
the "Kanguroo" and the Opossum
13.5 x 21 cm. A curious and interesting hand-coloured engraving from An universal system of natural history including the natural history of man, published in.....
Price (AUD):
$185.00
Ref: #4505070
Wolliger Kanguruh.
Germany: circa 1860.
Kangaroo and Pangolin
Lithograph, 205 x 290 mm. Handsomely executed lithograph of a kangaroo from a mid-nineteenth century German zoological handbook; also depicted is a Javanese pangolin (scaly ant-eater).
Price (AUD):
$250.00
Ref: #2904308
The Picture Alphabet.
Houndsditch: Bishop & Co., circa 1840.
Alphabet oddities
Duodecimo, 12 pp. in total, woodcut illustrations throughout; original green printed wrappers, folded (not sewn) as issued. A delightful woodcut alphabet. Here are many favourites - the Fox, the Goose, and the Lamb - but where necessary, the publisher's evidently felt capable.....
Price (AUD):
$700.00
Ref: #3706051
An Alphabet of Quadrupeds…
London: Joseph Cundall, 1844.
Handsome chapter initials
Small square octavo, frontispiece and 24 sepia plates, all edges gilt; in the original blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt, First edition, uncommon. An attractive illustrated alphabet, with a charming image of a Kangaroo. Among the other plates are etchings after Rembrandt and.....
Price (AUD):
$1,750.00
Ref: #3706047
Child's blank-ruled exercise book with decorated Kangaroo covers.
Denmark: circa 1880.
Australian idyll and a Hyena's feast
Slim lined booklet, writing exercises completed in a cursive hand, original decorated wrappers. Charming children's exercise book with engraved illustrated covers depicting a group of five kangaroos titled "Kaempekaenguru". This idyllic bushland scene, complete with a joey and its mother and.....
Price (AUD):
$375.00
Ref: #4303379
A Modern System of Natural History…
London: F. Newberry, 1775.
First children's book to include the kangaroo
Twelve duodecimo volumes, with 117 engraved plates (of 118, lacking single plate); preliminaries thumbed, title of one volume perforated and another significantly browned, one leaf of text ink-stained, general foxing and offsetting; worn contemporary sheep, scuffed with split hinges;.....
Price (AUD):
$3,800.00
Ref: #4402888
Reports of the Council and Auditors of the Zoological Society of London…
London: Printed by Richard Taylor, 1835.
Kangaroos in London
Octavo, 26 pp., damage to the top edge, otherwise very good, stitch-sewn as issued. A good early report of the Zoological Society of London which had been founded only nine years earlier in 1826. The report does not merely provide financial.....
Price (AUD):
$675.00
Ref: #4103468