Children’s Books

# 34401

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

Chimney Town

London : A. & C. Black, 1934. Octavo, publisher’s pictorial blue cloth boards, edges rubbed, 238 pp, illustrated throughout with full-page black and white plates, two colour plates, and drawings in the text, occasional light foxing, a very good copy of the first edition. Muir 1908.

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# 33706

THOMPSON, D. (Duncan) Lindsay

Blue Brander : a story of adventure and Australian school life

London and Melbourne : Ward Lock & Co., 1927. First edition. Thick octavo (190 x 130 mm), pictorial cloth (some flecking to to both boards, but otherwise bright and unmarked), front free-endpaper with school prize certificate dated 1946, pp 313, [6 publisher’s advertisements], illustrated with numerous b/w plates; light foxing to half title, else very …

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# 33707

BRUCE, Mary Grant (1878-1958)

Gray’s hollow

London and Melbourne : Ward, Lock & Co., [c.1920]. Thick octavo (190 x 130 mm), green textured cloth with pictorial onlay to front (boards only lightly rubbed, spine ends a little softened), front free-endpaper with gift inscription dated 1942, pp [1 publisher’s advertisement], 304 + [16 advertisements], illustrated with a b/w frontispiece (loss at top …

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# 34141

STRANG, Mrs. Herbert (pseud.)

Storytime : a little book for little people

London : Henry Frowde, [1912?] Quarto, decorated wrappers with pictorial inlay, stringboard, colour frontispiece by Arthur Rackham, pp. [38], colour plate by Rosa Petherick, numerous text illustrations, some with red block colour signed by L. A. Govey and L. Runoff, pale foxing, housed in the publisher’s original illustrated card envelope, with manuscript address dated 1913. …

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# 34046

Maker unknown.

[CHILDREN’S GAME] Histoire naturelle

[France : s.n., circa 1900]. Wooden box with hinged lid, 400 x 350 x 60 mm, original decorative paper covering with chromolithographed onlay to lid, with the title ‘Histoire naturelle‘ lettered in gold on red; the box contains 72 wooden puzzle cubes with chromolithographed paper surfaces, from which the child can potentially create a total …

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# 33644

[HABBERTON, John] ; STEAD, W. T. (editor)

Helen’s babies! With some account of their ways: innocent, crafty, angelic, impish, witching and repulsive.

Also a partial record of their actions during ten days of their existence. By their latest victim. (Abridged). Cover title: Helen’s Babies. By their latest victim. Melbourne : “Review of Reviews” Office, [c.1900]. Series: The Masterpiece Library. Popular 2d. Novels Series, vol. viii, no. 31. “Australasian edition”. Octavo (190 x 130 mm), original pictorial wrappers, pp 60, …

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# 21950

ELMS & SELLON

The Standish “No Brake” life size doll

New York : Elms & Sellon, circa 1910. Sheet of cloth, 715 x 855, printed with the image of a doll in the form of a girl, with two smaller dolls, for cutting, stuffing and sewing to make a play doll, instructions printed in English, German, French and Spanish, old folds, a very good example. …

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# 32907

SINNETT, Mrs. Percy

Hunters and fishers : or, sketches of primitive races in the lands beyond the sea

London : Chapman and Hall, 1846. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, gilt edges, corners rubbed, pp. 146, one section cracked and slightly loose, four chromolithograph plates (including a ‘Kangaroo Hunt in New South Wales’), lightly marked, a good copy. Includes a twenty-page chapter on Australian Aborigines with discussion of their customs and habits. Specific mention is made …

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# 30645

RENTOUL, Annie R. and RENTOUL, Ida S.

Mollie’s Bunyip.

Melbourne: Robert Jolley, 1904. First edition. Oblong quarto, illustrated green wrappers (a few chips to the yapp edges, silk ribbon tie replaced), 50 pp., 12 black and white plates plus illustrations in text, reproducing Annie’s handwritten script, foxing. The first book written by Annie and the first illustrated by Ida. Muir 6334.

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# 31174

LEGRAND, Augustin

Album de la jeunesse : mélange d’histoire naturelle, minéraux, plantes, animaux,

leur emploi dans la vie : quelques élémens des sciences exactes : tableaux astronomiques, cosmographiques et géographiques, costumes, naturels de diverses contrées du globe, anecdotes curieuses, chasses on pêches, d’après nos célèbres voyageurs, accompagné de courtes explications. Paris : Librairie de Gide fils, [1830?]. Oblong quarto, later papered boards with the front panel of the …

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# 31251

GILMORE, D.H. (David Hunter)

The tale of Christopher Cricket

Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1946. Quarto, illustrated papered boards in pictorial dust jacket (price clipped), pp 46, with numerous full-page plates (several in colour) and line drawings in the text; a fine copy. Muir 2823.

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# 31253

KOLB, C. F. A. (Christian Friedrich August)

[THYLACINE] Wilde Thiere aller Zonen. Ihre Gewohnheiten und Lebensweise, ihr Nutzen und Schaden

in 60 nach der Natur gezeichneten und gemalten Tafeln zum Anschauungs-Unterricht für Schulen und zur Belehrung und Unterhaltung für die Jugend. Esslingen : J.F. Schreiber, [1864?]. Folio, original cloth backed pictorial papered boards (reinforcements to corners); hinges strengthened with binder’s tape; pastedowns with publisher’s advertisements; unpaginated, but approximately 80 pages of text in double columns, with 60 …

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# 30679

FOUNIET, Ernest

Allan, le jeune déporté a Botany-Bay.

Paris : Martial Ardant, 1845. Third edition. Duodecimo, contemporary blue boards with embossed gilt ornament (rubbed), spine with gilt title and ornament (bumped at head and tail), engraved frontispiece, 260 pp, illustrated; text in French; scattered light foxing, a good copy. A very early children’s book set in Australia. Muir 2598.

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# 29176

RHEMREV, J. L. Th.; MULDER, P. J. (illustrator)

[JAVA] Serat Gurma Lelana : ri ngengga ing gambar 4 lembar.

Leiden : Brill, 1884. First edition. Octavo, original printed yellow wrappers, 92 pp, illustrated with [4] double-page chromolithograpic plates, including tiger, wild boar and deer hunting scenes and a native house on stilts; text in Javanese. A very good copy, partly unopened and clean throughout, the margins of the plates with some light foxing or …

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# 26420

PIRANI, Leila

Lazy the pig, and his Chinese adventures

Drawings by Joyce Janes. Melbourne : Ramsay Ware, [1945] Quarto, illustrated cards (light creasing and a coupe of marks), pp. 32, illustrated. Charming story of Lazy, the porcelain pig, who comes to life and has a series of Chinese adventures. Muir, 6014.

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# 29696

[ZAHN, August, editor]

Papua-Märchen : gesammelt von Missionaren der Neuendettelsauer Mission. 3 Teil.

Neuendettelsau, [Germany] : Verlag des Missionshauses 1923. Part 3. First edition. Series: Verlag des Missionshauses, Nr. 52. Octavo, (220 x 140 mm), original pictorial wrappers (detached) with illustrated front by Lina Burger and illustrated advertisement on rear for Das Kinderblatt (the Mission’s newspaper for children), pp 20, with line-drawn illustrations and decorations; contents very good. …

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