Children’s Books

  • Miss Bobbie

    # 21955

    TURNER, Ethel (Mrs. H. R. Curlewis) (1870 - 1958)

    Miss Bobbie

    Illustrated by Harold Copping. London, Melbourne and Toronto : Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, n.d. [circa 1917]. Octavo, gilt-decorated pictorial cloth, foxing to edges and preliminaries, black and white frontispiece, pp. 316, black and white plates and text illustrations, a very good copy. Scarce edition Reference : Muir 7515 – 7519 this edition not recorded); …

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  • Tales about America and Australia

    # 20857

    [GOODRICH, Samuel]. PARLEY, Peter

    Tales about America and Australia

    London : Darton and Clark, circa 1840. Duodecimo, gilt-decorated cloth, two hand-coloured maps, pp. iv; 192; 36. A book for children by Goodrich under his moniker ‘Peter Parley’ with a particularly horrendous description of the Aboriginal population of New South Wales.  

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  • The young sailor, or the sea-life of Tom Bowline.

    # 20065

    The young sailor, or the sea-life of Tom Bowline.

    New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, n.d. [c. 1856]. Duodecimo, printed salmon wrappers with woodcut vignette, 16 pp., illustrated with wood-engravings including a title vignette, 1 text & 5 full-page illustrations.  “Third Series–No. 8” on the front wrapper. A crisp copy. Chapbook tale of young Tom, who is drawn to the sea, and sails on the ship …

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  • Australian nursery rimes selected from the Bulletin for the Children’s Hospital.

    # 19474

    [NORMAN LINDSAY; HARRY J. WESTON; B.E. MINNS et al]

    Australian nursery rimes selected from the Bulletin for the Children’s Hospital.

    Sydney : Brooks, [1917]. Square octavo, publisher’s pictorial linen wrappers with illustration by Harry Weston (mild foxing front and back, short split along spine), [12] pp (some foxing and staining), with colour and monochrome illustrations by Harry J Weston, D.H. Souter, Percy Leason, Norman Lindsay, David Low and B. E. Minns. A scarce and fragile …

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  • [COOK]. Costumes of different nations, in miniature, from drawings by Alfred Mills.

    # 19469

    MILLS, Alfred

    [COOK]. Costumes of different nations, in miniature, from drawings by Alfred Mills.

    London : Darton, Harvey, & Darton, and J. Harris,  1814. Miniature book, 62 x 62 mm., publisher’s roan (expertly rebacked), gilt-lettering to spine, child’s name to preliminary blank, 96 pp. with 47 copperplate illustrations of people of the world, a very good copy. A charming miniature being an ethnographical tour of different races of the …

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  • Betts’s new map of the world, neatly dissected

    # 10896

    BETTS, John

    Betts’s new map of the world, neatly dissected

    London : John Betts, c. 1850. Cedar box with sliding lid featuring an engraved vignette with people and animals from the four great continents, printed advertisement for Betts’s ‘Instructive juvenile games’ on underside, containing the engraved map ‘Betts’s school atlas of the world on Mercator’s projection’, measuring 295 x 450mm, laid on wood and dissected …

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  • Zweymal zwey und fünfzig auserlesene Biblische Historien aus dem Alten und Neuen Testamente, der Jugend zum Besten abgefasset ...

    # 18394

    Hübner, Johann

    Zweymal zwey und fünfzig auserlesene Biblische Historien aus dem Alten und Neuen Testamente, der Jugend zum Besten abgefasset …

    Sion : auf Kosten christlicher Eltern für die Jugend, 1786. Duodecimo, contemporary full red calf, upper and lower boards with ornate gilt borders (rubbed), spine in compartments with gilt ornament and contrasting leather title label lettered in gilt (somewhat faded), front hinge cracked, gold endpapers, first blank with original owner’s inscription in red ink ‘Johannes …

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  • The simple Jaggajay

    # 17334

    GAZE, Harold (1885 - 1962)

    The simple Jaggajay

    The Mite Merry Series. Melbourne : Whitcombe & Tombs, 1919. Quarto, illustrated card wrappers, cloth repair to spine, 30pp (mildly foxed), 3 tipped-in plates (2 colour, one monochrome), b/w line drawings, occasional foxing. Charming adventures of an imaginary bird, a gum-nut girl and their bush creature friends, in rhyming verse. Harold Gaze was born in …

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  • The voyage of the "Monsoon" : or, The adventures of a stowaway.

    # 17756

    McMILLAN, R. ("Gossip"); SOUTER, D.H. (illustrator)

    The voyage of the “Monsoon” : or, The adventures of a stowaway.

    Sydney : William Brooks & Co., 1900. Octavo, pictorial blue cloth boards, pp 167, [8 advertisements], with line drawings in the text and 3 black-and-white plates by D.H. Souter; a fine copy. Muir 4685.

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  • Marbles in my pocket. (Presentation copy)

    # 18203

    PENDER, Lydia; O'HARRIS, Pixie (illustrator)

    Marbles in my pocket. (Presentation copy)

    Illustrated by Pixie O’Harris. Sydney : The Writer’s Press [1958]. Octavo, decorated boards in pictorial dust jacket (pen scribbles to rear panel, otherwise good); a presentation copy, inscribed for ‘Mr. and Mrs. Hatrick’ and signed by the author, Lydia Pender, with a date of 26.4.1957 (perhaps the year is in error, as it exceeds the …

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  • The rainy day : gift book of the Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia

    # 18197

    WALL, Dorothy (1894-1942)

    The rainy day : gift book of the Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia

    “Story and illustrations by Dorothy Wall.” (p.[1]). [Sydney] : John Sands [for The Bank], [c.1925]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers in green and black (small loss to corner), [18] pp, monochrome and colour illustrations, a good copy. Muir, 7843, recorded only with green and black wrappers, we have also handled copies printed in pink and black. …

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  • The Other Side of Nowhere

    # 17258

    DASKEIN, Tarella Quin; OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (illustrator)

    The Other Side of Nowhere

    Illustrations by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens, 1934. Oblong quarto, illustrated blue cloth, lacking dustjacket, 171 pp., illustrated. Muir 1909.

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  • When the stars look down

    # 17437

    DALRYMPLE, Ethel

    When the stars look down

    Sydney : F. J. Thwaites, [1930?]. Small quarto, publisher’s cloth backed pictorial papered boards, front pastedown with later ex libris, front free-endpaper with two early child owner inscriptions, 62 pp, illustrated with 8 full-page colour plates and line drawings in the text; a fine copy. Muir 1867. Scarce. Five copies are recorded in Australian collections …

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  • A little boy lost

    # 17205

    HUDSON, W.H.

    A little boy lost

    London : Duckworth & Co., 1905. Octavo, cloth boards with print and gilt decoration (slightly rubbed), bookplate to front endpaper, pp. 201. Illustrated with plates by A.D. McCormick. Inscribed by Australian author and ornithologist Charles Barrett (1879-1959), dated 1913.

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  • Fiddle-de-dee : a book of verses for little children

    # 17431

    HILSON, Charles; SEYMOUR, Olive (illustrator)

    Fiddle-de-dee : a book of verses for little children

    Illustrated by Olive Seymour. Perth : Patersons Printing Press Ltd., [1939]. First edition. Small quarto, publisher’s cloth backed gold papered boards with illustration and lettering in black, front free-endpaper with early owner’s inscription excised, 48 pp, line illustrations in the text, introduction by George Mackaness; lightd handling marks to margins of a few leaves, else …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Australian songs for young and old

    # 17255

    RENTOUL, Annie R.; OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (Ill.)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Australian songs for young and old

    Melbourne: Allan & Co., [1924]. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers (the cover illustration the light brown and red version), staple bound, inscription inside front wrapper, 28 pp., illustrated. Imperial edition 335. First published 1907. Muir 6339.

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