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Modern Voyages:
Dublin: Chamberlaine and Rice, P. Wogan and others, 1790.
Rare poetic epitaph for Captain Cook
Two volumes, with both half-titles; contemporary mottled calf, flat spines gilt and with double red and green morocco labels. A fine and attractively bound set of voyages collected and edited for the enlightenment of younger.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3810914
Set of letter blocks.
England: circa 1800-1850.
Spelling set
Alphabet set of 179 pieces of bone, each approx. 15 x 18 mm., letters incised and filled in with black ink by hand; original cedar box with 18 internal compartments and a sliding lid, 256 x 153 mm. A fine, early alphabet set, consisting of.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3202191
A Plane Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection, With the Tracks & Discoveries of the Principal and most recent Navigators…
London: John Harris, 1832. Engraved map, 315 x 432 mm. (image size), original hand-colouring. An attractive children's educational map of the World The map is based on the work of the Abbé Gaultier, an educationalist originally from Piedmont, who had settled in France in 1780 and later fled the revolution.....
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #3809892
Aardrijkskunde: Prenten-Magazijn voor de jeugd.
Leiden: Van D. Noothoven Van Goor, 1860.
Information on Java for Dutch children
Single printed leaf, 440 x 310 mm., simply handcoloured. Scarce news-sheet publication for Dutch children. One of a long series (this is number 78), this is devoted to information about Java, with a map and three views.....
Price (AUD):
$175.00
Ref: #2903295
Le Robinson de Douze Ans…
Paris: E. Ducrocq, 1850.
French Robinsonade
Octavo, with eight chromolithographs (including frontispiece); in the original black grained cloth, spine ornately gilt, all edges gilt. A good example of one of the later Robinsonades. First published around the same time as the now more famous Swiss Family Robinson tales by Wyss.....
Price (AUD):
$485.00
Ref: #3103121
Alfred Dudley; or, The Australian Settlers.
London: Harvey & Darton, 1830. Duodecimo, with an engraved frontispiece and three plates;, in the original quarter red roan with marbled boards, First edition: considered the first novel of Australia. This is an exemplary copy of the very scarce first edition, bound with the advertisements in the publisher's roan-backed marbled.....
Price (AUD):
$6,750.00
Ref: #3308859
Scenes in Asia: For the Amusement & Instruction of Little Tarry-At-Home Travellers.
London: Harris, 1821. Octavo with a folding frontispice map, 84 hand-coloured engravings on 28 plates (three on each); original printed boards. Second edition of this children's study of Asian lands. Each engraving is numbered and complimented by a corresponding description. The pictures and text cover a number of Asian countries.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #3002961
Simple Abstract of the Geography and History of Tasmania…
Launceston: Hudson & Hopwood, circa 1871. Octavo, frontispiece folding colour map, author's presentation dated 1872; original green cloth. Author's presentation copy of this rare Launceston-printed primer on the history and geography of Tasmania. The author begins by describing the physical characteristics of the Island, flora and fauna. Then goes on.....
Price (AUD):
$885.00
Ref: #3006546
Le Cook de la Jeunesse…
Paris: no publisher, 1808. Two volumes, duodecimo, three folding engraved plates after John Webber, charming early printed prize label to front endpapers; in original tree calf, ornate gilt spines with black morocco labels. A beautiful set of this charming and popular French account of various voyages for children. As the.....
Price (AUD):
$4,750.00
Ref: #4302369
Le Cook de la Jeunesse…
Paris: n.p., 1808.
With some fifty pages devoted to Hawaii
Two volumes, duodecimo, the three wide folding engraved plates after John Webber; uncut in the original orange paper wrappers. A very good copy of this charming and popular French account of various voyages for children. As the title suggests, most.....
Price (AUD):
$4,750.00
Ref: #3801448
Petits Voyages Pittoresques dans l'Asie, l'Afrique, l'Amerique, la Polynesie et les Terres Australes…
Paris: chez Saintin, Libraire de S.M. l'Imperatrice, 1813.
Peoples of the world, including Botany Bay
Two volumes, square duodecimo, with a total of 32 plates including the frontispieces; recent marbled boards. Scarce ethnological handbook with beautifully engraved plates depicting the native peoples of the Pacific, New Holland and the Americas.....
Price (AUD):
$2,400.00
Ref: #4011313
Nouvel Atlas des Enfans et des Commerçans…
Paris: Chez Saintin, 1811.
Children's atlas
Octavo, two hand-coloured plates and seven hand-coloured maps (four double-page, three folding), a handsome copy. A charming children's atlas, with delightful depictions of Tahiti, New Zealand and Hawaii. Although much reprinted and very popular, this work is now rare in any edition. Two exquisite.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3702899
The Christmas Box. An annual present for children.
London: William Harrison Ainsworth, 1828.
A Voyage to New Holland for children
Octavo, illustrated throughout with wood-engravings; half calf gilt, marbled boards. The first Christmas annual for children and scarce, this contains a twelve-page account of a Voyage to New Holland. The author notes that '... in time New Holland.....
Price (AUD):
$800.00
Ref: #4504196
The Book of Birds and Beasts…
London: William Darton, n.d. but, 1827.
With the kangaroo of "New Holland".
Square duodecimo, printed title-page, 48 hand-coloured plates with letterpress description verso, final 2 pp. advertisements, extant captions dated 26 August 1826, early manuscript presentation dated 1827; in publisher's binding of red calf, lettered in gilt to front board.....
Price (AUD):
$4,850.00
Ref: #3706048
Le Monde a Vol d'Oiseau: Jeu de Societe Instructif.
Berlin: A.Sala, circa 1910. Game consisting of 4 pp. instructions, six colour printed boards of the continents, 120 colour printed pictorial playing cards; contained within the original box (330 x 390 x 25 mm.), with colour printed pictorial label on upper lid. A question and answer game of geography for.....
Price (AUD):
$5,250.00
Ref: #3202174
Nouveau Jeu de Loto Géographique et Universel…
Paris: Chromol de Engelmann et Graf, circa 1860. Loto Game, consisting of 18 pictorial game cards, each illustrated with five lithographic scenes, one small cloth bag containing glass counters, one large cloth bag containing 90 numbered circular timber tokens, folio rule sheet printed on yellow paper; all contained in the.....
Price (AUD):
$6,250.00
Ref: #3112137
Aventures les plus curieuses des Voyageurs…
Paris: Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, 1847.
Original version of the scene in Kealekakua
Two volumes, octavo, frontispiece in each volume and 38 black & white plates in the text; in contemporary quarter morocco. A very detailed illustrated history of the grands voyages for children, including La Pérouse and the third voyage.....
Price (AUD):
$2,150.00
Ref: #3605470
Aventures les plus curieuses des Voyageurs…
Paris: Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, 1847. Two volumes, octavo, frontispiece in each volume plus 38 plates in the text; in original blue cloth, with elaborate gilt decorations. A very detailed illustrated history of the grands voyages for children including La Pérouse, Dumont d'Urville and the third voyage of James Cook with.....
Price (AUD):
$2,750.00
Ref: #2711285
Delectus Sententiarum Graecarum, usum tironum accommodatus…
London: Valpy, 1824.
Early Australian schoolbook
Duodecimo, owner's inscription on title-page and front free endpaper; in original plain roan binding. A charming relic of early Australian education. This classical Greek textbook in its seventh edition, is in its original colonial binding and was originally owned by William Howe, member of.....
Price (AUD):
$1,100.00
Ref: #4401807
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
Christopher Columbus Genuensis and Santa Maria.
Czechoslavakia: Bancroft & Co., circa 1960.
Columbus pop-up book
Small folio, 7 p. story with vignette, folding colour pop-up of Columbus' three ships; illustrated boards. A delightful example of the renowned Czech illustrator and paper engineer Vojtech Kubasta. With a double-page pop-up diorama depicting Columbus' three ships, the Niña, the.....
Price (AUD):
$850.00
Ref: #3710486
La Science Populaire… Voyage de La Perouse autour de monde.
Paris: Jules Renouard, 1839.
I, Claudius
Duodecimo, unopened and untrimmed, in the original printed wrappers, Charming account of the La Pérouse voyage for children, with notice of the later discoveries relating to the great French mariner, including chapters on d'Entrecasteaux, Dumont d'Urville and Peter Dillon. These concluding sections concentrate on.....
Price (AUD):
$600.00
Ref: #4211256
Adventures in Australia…
London: Grant and Griffith, 1851. Small octavo, with four steel-engraved plates; good in original blue cloth, blind blocked boards and ornate gilt spine. First edition of an imaginary travelogue for children featuring detailed yet entirely concocted descriptions of Aboriginal life in the Australian wilderness. The tale follows the dashing Captain.....
Price (AUD):
$785.00
Ref: #2708017
Album de la jeunesse…
Paris: Gide Fils, circa 1830.
With plates based on "Foreign Field Sports"
Oblong quarto, with 60 engravings; an attractive copy in original printed boards. A rare and beautiful French children's book, with wonderful Australian plates including six based closely on Clark's Foreign Field Sports. This work is not recorded by.....
Price (AUD):
$4,750.00
Ref: #2711295