Children’s Books

  • # 46683

    BRIGHTWELL, L[eonard] R[obert] F.Z.S. (1889 - 1983)

    Wild Friends at Home (original cover art)

    Gouache on paper, measures 430 x 310mm, being the original painting illustrating the cover of E. Chivers Davies’ ‘Wild Friends at Home’ (London : 1920). In this volume a little boy enters the imaginary worlds of the wild animals whose pictures decorate the walls of his nursery. The fifteen short tales include his adventure with …

  • # 46530

    Maker unknown.

    The Game of Spellicans

    [English, probably 1890-1900]. Wooden box, 120 x 46 x 23 mm; sliding lid with printed label worded ‘The Game of Spellicans. Round wood. This game may be played by two or more persons. The game does not only afford a source of amusement, but at the same time conveys instruction with it.‘; no maker’s imprint; …

  • # 46559

    RENTOUL, Annie R.; OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (illustrator); PETERSON, Georgette (music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] More Australian songs for young and old

    Words by Annie R. Rentoul. Music by Georgette Peterson. Pictures by I. Rentoul Outhwaite. Melbourne: George Robertson & Company, [1913]. Oblong quarto (245 x 310 mm), pictorial wrappers with original ties (wrappers very lightly foxed, lengthy paper split along spine), title page with early gift inscription, 36 pp., illustrated.; internally very good. Muir 6349.

  • # 46693

    JONES, Luke

    Australian Toys

    Melbourne : Melbourne : Books, 2019. Quarto, laminated pictorial boards, pp. 358, illustrated. ‘Australian Toys is an illustrated history of Australian manufactured toys from 1900-1965, drawing on the author’s authoritative collection. The book documents the production of each toy with beautiful colour photographs accompanied by relevant text about the toy and manufacturer.’

  • # 46567

    HOUFE, Simon

    The dictionary of British book illustrators and caricaturists 1800 – 1914

    London: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1978 (revised edition 1981). Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 520, illustrated. A comprehensive reference.

  • # 46568

    GIBBS, May (1877-1969)

    Bib and Bub : their adventures.

    Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Quarto (240 x 210 mm), publisher’s blue cloth decorated in black (boards discoloured and very slightly warped), pictorial endpapers (front endpaper with off-setting), half-title, title, pp. 79, (1), colour panelled (i.e. comic strip format) illustrations throughout; contents with occasional toning and scattered foxing (more pronounced on preliminaries and last …

  • # 46563

    RENTOUL, Annie R.; RENTOUL, Ida S. (illustrator)

    The lady of the blue beads

    / Her book, being an account of her first blue moon spent on Sun Island. Melbourne: George Robertson & Co., [1908]. Quarto (280 x 220 mm), publisher’s oatmeal cloth boards, the upper board decorated in orange and blue (bright and unrubbed); pp. 102, with 13 full-page monochrome plates and in-text illustrations and decorations by Ida …

  • # 46558

    RENTOUL, Annie R.; RENTOUL [OUTHWAITE], Ida S. (illustrator); PETERSON, Georgette (music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Australian songs for young and old

    Words by Annie R. Rentoul. Music by Georgette Peterson. Illustrations by Ida S. Rentoul. Melbourne: Allan & Co., [1924]. Imperial edition 335. Oblong quarto (230 x 310 mm), pictorial wrappers (light brown and red version, with early ownership inscription to upper wrapper; paper split to head of spine, lower wrapper with a few marks), staple …

  • # 40913

    SIBLEY, Irena (1943-2009)

    Rainbow

    Albert Park, Vic. : Lilly Pilly Books, 1988. Second edition. Folio, bound by Richard Griffin in contrasting red and yellow embossed morocco, with inset linoleum block print to upper board, red endpapers; [42] pp of linoleum block-print plates and calligraphic text (calligraphy by Irene Sibley); all edges uncut, in fine condition. “67 copies of ‘Rainbow’ …

  • # 44506

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    The Magic Pudding (first edition, first issue)

    Being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1918. Quarto, quarter-cloth over papered boards (a couple of small stains), lettered in gilt on the spine, in unrestored original illustrated dust jacket (lightly foxed, a couple of small edge tears), patterned green A & R …

  • # 46025

    NATIONAL GAME COMPANY

    [BOARD GAME] Boy scouts. For any number of players.

    [Ballarat and Melbourne : National Game Co., c.1920]. “Copyright no. 3273”. Thick board, 310 x 475 mm, folding, original cloth backstrip, fold-out game board printed in colour, small split to fold, exterior sunned, edges rubbed, title label perished, a good copy. The design features the Australian Red Ensign with seven-pointed Commonwealth star. The Red Ensign was …

  • # 29410

    HUDSPETH, B. M.

    Santa Claus and the shadow

    Sydney : S. T. Leigh & Co., circa 1892. Quarto, lithographed papered boards, lithographed title page (reproducing the cover). pp. 69, text in sepia with border rule, a fine copy. A collection of Christmas stories for children by  ‘Miss B..M. Hudspeth, of Hobart, a lady who has already favourably established her name as an acceptable contributor to current Australian …

  • # 41190

    MILLING, Jessie J. (compiler)

    Monogram album compiled in the late 1860s by a young Englishwoman, Jessie J. Milling.

    Small quarto (200 x 160 mm), original gilt-ruled red morocco, upper board stamped in gilt ‘Arms, Crests and Monograms’ (expertly rebacked, boards a little scuffed); moire endpapers, the front free-endpaper with ownership signature and date of ‘Jessie. J. Milling, July 9th 1867’, with off-setting from the front pastedown which has a tipped-in pencil portrait of …

  • # 42551

    DEAN & SON

    Mirthful moments; or, how to enjoy holidays.

    A new book of games and forfeits : with plain directions for crying the forfeits, and a number of amusing and diverting penances for little ladies and gentlemen. London : Thomas Dean & Son, [c.1860]. Octavo, decorated wrappers, pp. 31, engraved illustrations. A charming book of children’s parlour games for the Christmas holiday season.

  • # 45339

    SMITH, Thomas

    Le Cabinet du jeune naturaliste, ou Tableaux intéressants de l’histoire des animaux … …

    Paris : chez Maradan, libraire, rue des Grands Augustins, no. 9, 1810. Six volumes, octavo, uniform contemporary bindings of green straight-grain morocco, boards with double-gilt rule, spines with titles, volume numbers and animal vignettes in gilt; pastedowns all with the beautiful illustrated ex libris of Jean-Marie-Philippe Sauzey, avocat, pastedown of first volume also with ticket …

  • # 44525

    G. N. RAYMOND PTY. LTD. (Melbourne)

    [GAME] Crazy Post.

    Indoors or out, a kind of treasure hunt! For young & old. Collingwood, Vic. : G. N. Raymond Pty. Ltd., by arrangement with Universal Publications Ltd., London, [1941]. Publisher’s box with pictorial lid, 180 x 120 x 35 mm, containing 12 destination cards each printed with the detachable names of 32 Australian towns including Bunbury, …