Children’s Books

  • Voyages et naufrages curieux en Océanie.

    # 41879

    DELATTRE, Charles

    Voyages et naufrages curieux en Océanie.

    Paris ; Limoges : Martial Ardent, 1850. Octavo (187 x 11 3 mm), publisher’s original embossed cloth over boards gilt (corners worn, spine with small loss at head and with loss to cloth at tail), front paste-down with original owner’s name, lithographed frontispiece with ethnic types of the Americas and Oceania (including natives of the …

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  • Youth Annual : December 1930.

    # 43956

    Youth Annual : December 1930.

    Sydney : W. H. Honey, 1 December 1930. Special number of the children’s periodical “Youth”. Large quarto (310 x 255 mm), publisher’s paper wrappers with French flaps (chipped edges, small loss around foot of spine, rear flap with split); pp. 82, texts by various Australian writers including Ed Dyson, Zora Cross, J. H. M. Abbott, …

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  • Untitled [bunny rabbit with dancing elves]

    # 43855

    OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (1888 - 1960)

    Untitled [bunny rabbit with dancing elves]

    Pen and ink on card, 225 x 145mm (mount line), signed lower right I.R.O., untitled, numbered ’24’ upper left, framed. A charming original work by one of Australia’s most beloved children’s illustrators. The pencilled titles and number indicate it was most likely prepared for publication. Provenance : private collection, Melbourne, since the 1970s  

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  • The platypus sang a duet

    # 43852

    OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (1888 - 1960)

    The platypus sang a duet

    Pen and ink on card, 110 x 178 mm (mount line), signed lower right I.R.O., titled in the image in pencil, numbered ’17’ upper left, framed. A charming original work by one of Australia’s most beloved children’s illustrators. The pencilled titles and number indicate it was most likely prepared for publication. Provenance : private collection, …

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  • I keep my baby in my pocket!

    # 43851

    OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (1888 - 1960)

    I keep my baby in my pocket!

    Pen and ink on card, 140 x 175mm (mount line), signed lower right I.R.O., titled in the image in pencil, numbered ‘1’ upper left, framed. A charming original work by one of Australia’s most beloved children’s illustrators. The pencilled titles and number indicate it was most likely prepared for publication. Provenance : private collection, Melbourne, …

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  • The Flying Ace [and] The Chariot Race

    # 43849

    OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (1888 - 1960)

    The Flying Ace [and] The Chariot Race

    Pen and ink on card, 270 x 188 mm (mount line), the lower illustration cut out as a rondelle, signed lower right I.R.O., titled in the image in pencil, numbered ’13’ upper left, framed. A charming original work by one of Australia’s most beloved children’s illustrators. The pencilled titles and number indicate it was most …

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  • [LAW] Truant Bunny

    # 42550

    DEAN & SON

    [LAW] Truant Bunny

    London : Dean & Son, c. 1860. “Papa Lovechild’s series”. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, short split to bottom of spine; pp. 8, printed on one side only, full-page illustrations throughout, with original hand colouring; a very good to fine copy. To modern sensibilities – and probably for children of the time – this morality tale about …

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  • Squire Gray's Fruit Feast :

    # 42552

    'M. J. C."

    Squire Gray’s Fruit Feast :

    With an account of how he entertained all his young friends; and some of the pretty tales he gave to them as prizes. With twelve elegant engravings. London : Thomas Dean & Son, c. 1850. Octavo, decorated wrappers, pp. 31, engraved illustrations. A charming book of children’s stories.

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  • A pair of printed bookmarks in the shape of gumleaves

    # 25706

    [GIBBS, May, after]

    A pair of printed bookmarks in the shape of gumleaves

    [Sydney? : Effarbees Series, circa 1940]. A matching pair of diecut printed bookmarks in the shape of gumleaves, printed on coated card stock, versos blank, each showing a gum nut baby inspired by May Gibbs, printed with the word ‘BOOKMARK’, 155 mm tall with folding printed panels with greeting sentiment, inscribed to two different recipients …

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  • Abrégé de géographie pour les écoles.

    # 26028

    LAMP, Jean-Frédéric

    Abrégé de géographie pour les écoles.

    Par J. F. Lamp. A Paris : Chez F. G. Levrault, libraire, rue de la Harpe, no. 81 ; Strasbourg : rue des Juifs, no. 33, 1833. Troisième édition. Duodecimo (165 x 105 mm), original pink paper-covered boards printed in black, the upper board with vignette illustration of a globe, lower board with publisher’s advertisements, …

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  • Seahawk

    # 42619

    BRUCE, Mary Grant (1878 - 1958)

    Seahawk

    London : Ward, Lock & Co., 1934. First edition. Octavo, pictorial cloth, illustrated dustjacket (price-clipped, edges chipped with small areas of loss to edges and spine, foxed), frontispiece and illustrations, pp. 256, a few spots of foxing.

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  • Goat on a boat (original cover art for the publication)

    # 42931

    HOUGHTON, Suzanne

    Goat on a boat (original cover art for the publication)

    Colour pencil and watercolour on artist’s card, 310 x 295 mm, signed lower right, accompanied by a signed letter and related ephemera. The original cover illustration for the children’s book Goat on a boat (Sydney : Omnibus, 2019), written by Nick Dent and illustrated by Suzanne Houghton. ‘When a goat arrives on a rocky island, the …

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  • Reise nach der Verbrecher-Colonie Neu-Südwales

    # 42697

    KELL, Julius

    Reise nach der Verbrecher-Colonie Neu-Südwales

    [=Voyage to the penal colony of New South Wales]. Series: Neueren Entdeckungsreisen Nach grösseren Reisewerken für die Jugend; Band 3. Leipzig : Julius Meissner, 1848. Small octavo, contemporary half blue morocco over marbled papered boards, 240 pp, illustrated with [4] steel-engraved plates, scattered foxing and browning (particularly to the plates), a small faint damp stain …

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  • The Wendy Calendar by Arthur Rackham

    # 42700

    RACKHAM, Arthur

    The Wendy Calendar by Arthur Rackham

    London : Hodder & Stoughton [1911]. Thick card envelope (284 x 367 mm, some stains and edge wear), printed title and tipped-on colour plate by Rackham, containing The Wendy Calendar, consisting of six cards printed in colour, each card with a pasted on colour plate by Rackham and a small calendar for two months of …

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  • An autobiography of a laughing jackass

    # 42868

    BOOTHBY, Mabel F. (1870 - 1944)

    An autobiography of a laughing jackass

    Melbourne : P.T. Law & Co., [1916]. Second edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (light edge wear), string bound, a few marks to the lower wrapper, gift inscription to title page, dated 1916, pp. 12, one colour and one folding black and white plate, light toning, a good example. A charming children’s book about the daily life …

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  • The cousin from town

    # 17121

    BRUCE, Mary Grant (1878-1958)

    The cousin from town

    … For children aged 10 to 12 years. Melbourne : Whitcombe and Tombs, [1939]. Series: Whitcombe’s story books ; no. 522. Small octavo, publisher’s pictorial wrappers with original Whitcombe and Tombs sticker to front, frontispiece illustration by Esther Paterson, 108 pp; an exceptional copy. Muir 1110.

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