Children’s Books

# 50629

MUIR, Marcie and HOLDEN, Robert

The Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Sydney : Craftsman House, 1985. First edition. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket (light sunning to spine), 171 pp. extensively illustrated. The definitive reference on Outhwaite, one of Australia’s and Britain’s most loved children’s authors and illustrators. A very good copy of the first edition.

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# 50439

OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul and OUTHWAITE, Grenbry

The enchanted forest (de luxe edition)

London : A. & C. Black, 1921. The de luxe edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. Quarto, gilt-lettered and decorated white buckram (very lightly marked, but a crisp, clean copy), illustrated endpapers, 93 pp, occasional light scattered foxing and offsetting, short tear to margin of pp. 61-62, 16 colour and 15 black and white plates, …

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# 49746

HEARN, Lafcadio and CHAMBERLAIN, Basil Hall (translators); KASON, Suzuki (illustrator)

Japanese Fairy Tale series. Nos. 1-20.

Tokyo : T. Hasegawa (printed at the Tsukiji Type Foundry), Meiji 25 [1892]. (Date and place from colophon to No. 20). Twenty crepe-paper books (chirimen-bon), bound with silk stab ties as issued in four volumes, duodecimo, comprising nos. 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, and 16-20; printed in colour by hand from Japanese wood blocks on crepe paper …

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# 49951

LUCAS, E. V.

Playtime & Company

Pictures by E. H. Shepherd. Quarto, quarter-cloth over papered boards, lightly marked, printed title label, pp. 95, mostly unopened, edges uncut, beautifully illustrated by Ernest Shepherd, best known for his enchanting illustrations for the Winnie-the-Pooh series. The deluxe edition, on fine hand-made paper, limited to 100 copies signed by both the artist and author.

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# 49991

GUYOT, Charles; RACKHAM, Arthur

Le printemps sur la neige, et d’autres contes du bon vieux temps

Illustrations de A. Rackham. Paris : l’Editions d’Art, 1922. Quarto, finely bound in half crushed levant morocco over marbled papered boards, ruled in gilt, the spine in compartments with prominent raised bands, lettered in gilt with ornamentation and contrasting morocco leather inlays, small chips to head and food of spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, …

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# 50000

"PUCK"

Puck’s Yule Faggot. A selection from Puck’s Post-bag for 1871 & 1872

Winchester : James Pamplin, 1873. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, pink endpapers, hand-coloured illustrated title page, letterpress title, illustrated contents leaf, pp. viii; hand coloured plates, scattered foxing. Uncommon collection of short stories, verse with charming illustrations, for enjoyment by a Victorian family at Christmastime.

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# 49999

de CHATELAIN, Madame (translator)

Tales and fairy stories by Hans Christian Anderson

Illustrated by Henry Warren. London : George Routledge, 1853. First edition, second issue of this English translation (some issues have the date of 1852). Duodecimo, half calf over marbled papered boards (recased, the original spine laid down, edges rubbed), bookplate to front pastedown, pp. iv; 401, engraved plates with tissue guards, internally fine, a very …

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# 50015

OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (1888-1960)

Fairyland of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Verses by Annie R. Rentoul. Stories by Grenbry Outhwaite and Annie R. Rentoul. London : A. & C. Black, 1931. Folio, lettered cloth (corners rubbed, slightly flecked, slightly frayed at head and foot of spine), illustrated endpapers, 128 pp, 50 tipped-in colour and black and white plates (one detached, a couple of the black and …

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# 49865

CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich

[COOK] Nuttig en leerzaam onderhoud, in fraaije verhalen, voor de lieve jeugd; door J. H. Campe.

Amsterdam : Ten Brink & De Vries, 1827. Second edition. Small octavo (160 x 100 mm), contemporary marbled papered boards (rubbed and worn at corners and spine ends); pp. viii, 96; title with engraved vignette, illustrated with [2] engraved plates; text in Dutch; includes a ‘true account of a curious event on Cook’s last voyage’ …

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# 49780

MOORE, Alice and Richard LANDON

All in the golden afternoon : the inventions of Lewis Carroll.

An exhibition selected from the Joseph Brabant Collection by Alice Moore and Richard Landon. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 20 September1999 – 28 January 2000. Toronto : Thomas Fisher rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 1999. Quarto (280 x 190 mm), pictorial wrappers, pp. 108, profusely illustrated in colour and b/w; an excellent copy …

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# 22602

PETERS ICE CREAM

The story of the boundless universe and all it’s [sic] wondrous worlds.

A series of sixteen announcements giving interesting facts about this world and the universe. Presented with the compliments of Peters Ice Cream (Vic.) Ltd. [Melbourne] : Peters Ice Cream, circa 1950. Quarto, printed wrappers (lightly marked), pp, [16], illustrated; a good copy. Post-war promotional booklet for Peters Ice Cream, ‘the health food of a nation’. Aimed …

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# 47313

[HOFMANN, Karl Friedrich]

L’homme cultivé, ou Tableau des différentes périodes de culture et de civilisation,

que le genre humain a parcourues depuis l’origine des sociétés jusqu’à nos jours. Ouvrage destiné à entretenir la jeunesse en l’instruisant et en lui formant le coeur. Enrichi de 50 gravures enluminées et de deux Cartes géographiques. Traduit de l’allemand d’après la seconde edition revue et augmentée. Leipzig : Bruder et Hofmann, [1812]. Square duodecimo (140 x 120 …

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# 40135

WAGNER, Hermann; LEUTEMANN, Heinrich (1824-1905) (illustrator)

Zonen-Bilder. Nach Aquarellen von Heinrich Leutemann.

Mit erklärenden Schilderungen für die Jugend von Hermann Wagner. Stuttgart : K. Thienemann’s Verlag (Jul. Hoffmann), [1867]. First edition. Oblong quarto (230 x 290 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial papered boards (superb), pp. [4], 40 (text in German in Fraktur), plus [20] magnificent chromolithographic plates of animals from different regions around the globe; pristine throughout. An …

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# 35516

BUSSIÈRE (publisher); MATENET, Jules Xavier (designer); COUDERT, B. (illustrator); JANNIN, H. (lithographer)

[CHILDREN’S GAME] Voyage dans les cinq parties du monde.

Paris : Bussière, [between 1870 and 1880]. Original cartonnage box, 235 x 295 x 40 mm, the lid with hand-coloured lithographic onlay of a scene on the Amazon with printed game title above and picture caption below, along with the publisher’s imprint ‘Bussière, Ed. Paris’, framed by an embossed paper border (scattered silver fishing at …

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# 47388

"NORROY" [pseud. of H. F. BROWNE]

A Tale of a Whale.

/ Written and illustrated by “Norroy”. London : Dean & Son, [1884]. [BOUND WITH] The Strange Adventures of a Carp. By “Norroy”, author of A Tale of a Whale. London : Dean & Son, [1884]. Two works bound in one, octavo (190 x 145 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial boards (rubbed and with light edge wear), …

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# 19520

DELISLE, Ferdinand; LEUTEMANN, Heinrich Gottlieb (Henrik) (illustrator)

Excursions chez les peuples étranges : causeries ethnographiques

/ avec une préface de A.Quatrefages, membre de l’institut-professeur au muséum d’histoire naturelle; illustrations en couleur par H.Leutemann. Paris : Librairie de Théodore Lefèvre et Cie., Emile Guérin, éditeur, [1889]. First edition. Quarto (315 x 210 mm), original cloth-backed pictorial papered boards (lightly rubbed), pp vi, 71, [1 table of contents], with 12 double-leaf chromolithographic …

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