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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
Complete set of French nineteenth-century children's alphabet blocks.
France: circa 1870.
Three-dimensional alphabet game
Game comprising 24 timber blocks, each papered with illustrations on each face, with six chromolithographic paper guiding sheets each measuring 177 x 262 mm., original box with papered lid. French alphabet blocks, comprising a game for children wherein the blocks are rearranged on their...
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #2909754
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
Les Buffon des Enfans ou Histoire des Animaux…
Paris: Martial Ardant freres, 1851. Small octavo, woodcuts throughout; original embossed boards. French natural history primer with two pages dedicated to the kangaroo.
Price (AUD):
$575.00
Ref: #2909748
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
Les Animaux Sauvages.
Paris: circa 1940.
A primer
Colour printed cloth book measuring 230 x 115, stitch sewn and folded to form four pages with illustrated covers. Vibrant French natural history primer for young children, with a kangaroo; old cloth books such as this example are typically worn and ravaged, making this fine example most unusual.
Price (AUD):
$275.00
Ref: #2810766
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 in very clean and crisp condition; completely uncut in the original orange paper wrappers. A handsome copy of this charming and popular French account of various voyages for...
Price (AUD):
$4,750.00
Ref: #3801448
Petits Voyages Pittoresques dans l'Asie, l'Afrique, l'Amerique, la Polynesie et les Terres Australes…
Paris: Chex Saintin, 1813.
Peoples of the world, including Botany Bay
Two volumes, square duodecimo, with a total of 32 plates including the frontispieces; recent marbled boards. A good copy of this scarce book which illustrates the native peoples of exotic and relatively recently discovered lands. It includes one section...
Price (AUD):
$2,750.00
Ref: #4011313
Nouvel Atlas des Enfans et des Commerçans…
Paris: Chez Saintin, 1811. Octavo, two hand-coloured plates and seven hand-coloured maps (four double-page, three folding), some loss to a few pages (seemingly original defects in the paper, and not affecting text); half calf, a little rubbed, bumped at corners, a handsome copy. A wonderful children's Atlas, with delightful depictions...
Price (AUD):
$4,500.00
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
Corsaire Triplex.
Paris: Ancienne Libraire Furne, circa 1870. Quarto, engraved title in red and black, extensively illustrated; a bright fine copy in the original lavishly decorated pictorial cloth with bevelled boards, all edges gilt. A fine copy of this beautifully illustrated deluxe edition of Corsaire Triplex, in which the daring heroes Armand...
Price (AUD):
$1,150.00
Ref: #3604461
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
Observations on the Poetics of Aristotle…
Sydney: Kemp & Fairfax, 1842.
Perhaps the earliest philosophical work printed in Sydney?
Small quarto; original embossed cloth boards with dark green calf spine gilt, partially unopened. Rare, and very fine: a presentation copy (inscribed on the front endpaper to Walter Wrottersley "from the translator") of an unusual publication for...
Price (AUD):
$1,500.00
Ref: #4208056
Santa Claus and a Sun-dial An Australian Christmas Fantasy.
Melbourne: George Robertson, 1909. Small quarto, illustrations throughout; in the original pictorial grey cloth. First edition of this scarce children's book, illustrated by Percy Lindsay in what was to become his characteristic "Bulletin" style, with full-page plates and marginal sketches on every page.
Price (AUD):
$325.00
Ref: #2306008
The Adventures of a Griffin on a Voyage of Discovery. Written by Himself.
London: Bell and Daldy, 1867. Octavo, wood-engraved illustrations including frontispiece;original dark brown gilt-decorated cloth. Scarce and attractive children's book, based on the experiences of Harden S. Melville on the Fly, with frontispiece and 29 other illustrations by Melville (the "Griffin") from his original sketches. Melville sailed with Francis Blackwood on...
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3709358
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
The Chewg-Um Blewg-Um.
Whitcombe & Tombes, circa 1919.
Lavish colour plates
Quarto, three tipped-in plates (two in full colour); a fine copy, stitch-sewn, with the pictorial wrappers tied on with the original blue ribbon. A fine copy of this book of poetry written and illustrated by Gaze, known for his 'distinct personal style'...
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
Ref: #3704939