Search Results: CHILDRENS from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Paris: Societe l'edition et de Librairie. Hardcover. ND, ca. 1880. 4to, vii, 243pp, 4 tinted full page plates & illustrations in text. Orig. red cloth with a fabulous pictorial cover stamped in silver, gold, white, blue & gray, of walrus, penguins, polar bear (whoops!), and a balloon over the glacier. All edges gilt. A wonderful example of French children's books in their grand style, in the manner of Jules Verne.

London: George Routledge and Co., 1852. Wraps. Good +. Child's Picture Book with hand colored wood engravings, including an Indian elephant with palanquin, bell ringing and bull fighting, with descriptive text below. Routledge worked from 2 Farringdon Street London from 1852-58, but since there is no New York address, it may indicate 1852-1853. (Thank you Chris Browne). 8vo, 8pp complete, illustrated cloth wraps, title in black, with advertising for George Routledge 'New Juvenile Works' at rear cover. Covers dusty and rubbed; internally page 1 with some loss of text, page edges foxed.

London: Edward Stanford, 1928. Very good condition. Map of Australia, part of the smallest Atlas ever published, reproduced from the original made for Her Majesty Queen Mary's Doll House. Queen Mary's doll house was built by leading British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens between 1921 and 1924. Printed color map, 1 6/8 x 1 2/3", matted 14 x 11". Printed color with country emblem in corner.

Melbourne: Allan & Co., 1924. Imperial edition No. 335. Paperback. Otherwise very good condition. First published in 1907, this book generated the beloved songs learned by Australian children and adults alike. Charming pictures by I. Rentoul Outhwaite; words by Annie R. Rentoul; music by Georgette Peterson. Oblong 4to, 28pp including 9 pp b&w ills. by Outhwaite, 12 x 10". Muir 6339. Colored pic. stiff paper covers, orig. string tie. Corners bumped, wrapper cracked at hinge but holding, one chip on bottom edge of front cover, closed tear on back cover at hinge. Interior clean.

Sydney: Edwards, Dunlop and Co., 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Good -. A classic Australian children's picture book showcasing the birds and animals of the country. 'In this little book my endeavour has been to describe as briefly, and in as simple a manner as possible, some of the most remarkable of the Australian Animals. ... my chief object being to enlist the interest of my little countrymen and countrywomen in the natural history of the beautiful birds and other animals of their own "Sunny Land."' Features text and b&w illustrations by W. Anderson, i.e., The Blackman, Cockatoo, Swan, Talegalla, Cuckoo, Platypus, Spotted Bower Bird, Robin, Magpie, Dollar Bird, Opossum, Jabiru, Kangaroo, Lyre bird, Coburra (Kookaburra), Australian Hedgehog, Ibis, Dingo, Emu, Finch, Vampire Bat, Crested Oreoica, Warbling Grass Parrakeet, Wombat, Xerophila. 6 x 10", heavy tan card covers with black illustrated title, cloth spine, staple bound contents. Unpaginated, 54 pp (missing last few pp); 25 of 26 plates… Read More

Paris: Librarie Garnier, 1910. Sewn Binding. Good + condition. Beautifully illustrated by H. Aurrens [1873 - 1934], this children's primer with a poirot clown and a young lady on the front cover looking at lanterns illuminated with the letters A, B, C. Each subsequent page is illustrated in color, mostly 2-3 letters per page, with animals, people and places such as a kangaroo and cockatoo on the 'K' page, and Tigre riding a Tortue on 'T'. 4to (approx 32 x 24.5 cm.),12pp, stiff paper wrappers, chipped on lower corners, water mark lower margin of most pages not affecting images. Some pencil marks in cover margin.

New York: Random House, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. First French language edition printed at the same time as the edition printed in France. Concludes with a lovely double spread illustration of Babar and family and Pere Noel encircling a candle lit Christmas tree. Folio, [38]pp. Quarter yellow cloth and illustrated paper covered hard boards. Boards rubbed at edges; pages bright and clean. Dust jacket chipped at edges and spine with some loss, with triangular section missing at top of front panel, with loss to the letter "B" in the title. The book in very good condition; the dust jacket in good - condition.

Chicago: Donohue Henneberry & Co, 1896. Original paper wraps. Very good condition. Children's book featuring nursery rhymes and color and b&w illustrations,and a classic cover illustration by Walter Crane. Part of the 'Ye Baby's Olden Time Series.' Sm 4to,12pp, 4 color ills, b&w ills throughout, stiff illustrated boards with a full page advertisment for the Chicago Great Western Railway's Maple Leaf Route on the rear cover. Spine slt. rubbed. OCLC: 44717285 cites this as an 1896 edition.

New York and Akron: Anderson & Stoner, 1908. Cloth. 4to, 81/2 by 11", 14 pages (unpaginated). Decorative cloth children's book with small girl in rocking chair reading a book at front cover, and child in tub at back cover, and hand stitched cloth spine. Covers slt dusty; internally very good. Color illustrations throughout, with an illustration for each letter of the alphabet (with an illustration for the letter R "radish" of a row of carrots); also, with arabic and roman numerals.

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1915. Very good condition. Charming chromolitho color plates and illustrations printed in brown, including a kangaroo illustration for the letter "K". From Father Tuck's Play and Pleasure series A. B. C. Presentation copy from Geraldine Hatch to L. Cabot, a merry Christmas, 1915. 8vo, 10pp, 4 color illustrations. Other animals and flowers pictured include: lambs, albatross, eagle, fowls, fox, geranium, heron, ichneumon, ibis, jay, jasmine, linnet, lily, otter, monkey, nightingale, orange blossom, owl, pig, poppy, thrush, thistle, urchin, wolf, wren, vulture and violet. Pictorial linen wrappers and pages ("untearable linen") with title in blue and red on light green front cover. Covers bright and fresh, very good + condition.

Imagerie Pellerin, 1910. Very good condition. Printed expressly for the Humoristic Publishing Co., Kansas City, Mo". French hand coloured illustrated picture sheet, a sort of graphic short story with illustrations and text below. 11 3/4 x 16

Concord, New Hampshire: Rufus Merrill and Co, 1855. Reissue. Pamphlet. Very good condition. Eleven birds are illustrated including an Australian lyrebird. Descriptions of eight birds appear, including the swallow, the Lyre bird, Boat-Bill (of Brazil), the Roseate Spoonbill, blue jay, hoopoe, robin, belted kingfisher & the dove. 12mo pamphlet, stitched binding, 16pp & orig. tan printed wrappers entitled "Book about Birds". With ads for a general assortment of Merrill publications on the back wrapper.

Concord, New Hampshire: Rufus Merrill and Co, 1850. Wraps. Very good condition. Eleven birds of the world are illustrated including a full page woodblock illustration of an Australian lyrebird. Descriptions of eight birds appear, including the swallow, the Boat-Bill (of Brazil), the Roseate Spoonbill, blue jay, hoopoe, robin, belted kingfisher & the dove. 12mo, 16pp. Original pale green printed wrappers entitled "Book about Birds", with the original hand stitching. Publisher's advertisement on the back wrapper. Good impression, the woodblock illustrations dark and crisp. Wrappers slightly marked, short diagonal split at rear wrapper.

Concord, New Hampshire: Rufus Merrill and Co, 1845. Pamphlet. Children's chapbook entitled "Book about Birds". With advertisements for a general assortment of Merrill publications on the back wrapper. Eleven birds are illustrated including an Australian lyrebird. Descriptions of eight birds appear, including the swallow, the Boat-Bill (of Brazil), the Roseate Spoonbill, bluejay, hoopoe, robin, belted kingfisher & the dove. 12mo pamphlet, with stitching, 16pp & original tan printed wrappers. Slight watermark on all pages except for the front wrapper. Housed in a handsome small brown cloth slipcase with gilt title on the front board.

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by H. M. Brock. 4to, color frontis, xxxix, 279 pp, color and b&w illus throughout. Medium brown cloth covers with gilt title at front cover and at spine. Gilt at spine somewhat faded. Spine rubbed at top and base. Covers dusty at lower right hand corner and small spots at lower back cover. Internally, pages unopened and uncut and only lightly toned; illustrated end papers. Includes Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne, Chevy Chace, and Sir Lancelot du Lake.

France, 1900. An exceptionally rare and unusual French children's game using small metal boomerangs to knock down pins with an unusual launching apparatus. The game was manufactured in France, most likely for the British market around 1900. The title on the cover reads- "Boomerang. Breveté S.G.D.G. A C". The initials "S.G.D.G." are an abbreviation of "sans garantie du gouvernement" meaning it is sold without government guarantee and is a legal phrase under the patent law. There is nothing else marked that might indicate the maker. It is housed in its original box, covered with decorative brown paper imitating crocodile skin, a metal handle on the side, and the titles printed in silver in an Art Nouveau style. The object of the game is to launch the boomerangs at the painted wooden pins that can be set up in the lid of the opened box. The box lid is lined with green napped fabric with the triangular position of the pins marked, somewhat akin to bowling. There are 14 pins, with painted bands, about… Read More

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. Not dated, ca. 1909. The wonderfully illustrated story of a boy who flies like the wind to rescue his young sister Mary from various calamities. Includes the story "Nurse Is Always Right". 32 mo, [36] pp, unpaginated, color and b&w ills throughout. Quarter green cloth and pictorial boards with illustration of boy & sister with umbrella at front cover, title printed in red, illustration signed "G F" lower right corner. Color and b/w illustrations throughout, decorative endpapers. Boards dusty, some chipping to ffep, inner hinges strengthened. OCLC: 179244638 records 2 copies, at Princeton & Cambridge University.

New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1900. Very good condition. Walter M. Dunk (b1855), celebrated Philadelphia painter and illustrator is the illustrator of this handsome work, with 6 full-page color illustrations and b&w illustrations in the text including one of a kangaroo with her joeys being menaced by a man on horseback with a raised whip, for which the original artwork is present, a large dramatic pen and ink sketch. In the distance across the wheat field two other riders and a dog race toward the kangaroo. 17 3/4 x 14" . 4to pamphlet with color cover illustration polar bear hunting in the Arctic, unpaginated (14pp) with b&w illustrations. Covers slt. worn, with a bit of rubbing and faint creasing, but acceptably so. Color illustrations: 'A Buffalo Hunt in the Wild West', 'Indians Hunting Wild Horses in Texas', 'Arctic Voyagers Hunting Polar Bears' (although it looks like the opposite!), 'Red Deer in Flight Before the Hunters', 'A Lion Hunt in Algeria' and 'A Tiger Hunt in India'. B&w illustrations… Read More

London: Boy's Own Paper Office, 1889. Hardcover. Very good condition. With the 1st English publication of the story by Verne "Adrift in the Pacific" and "A Marvellous Conquest; A Story of the Bayouda" by Laurie. The Boy's Own Annual is a rather splendid production with woodcuts and attractive chromolitho plates throughout. Some of the boys' papers were early publishers of authors who went on to fame like Upton Sinclair. According to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (online post August 11, 2018), W.S. Hayward's novel "Up n the Air and Down in the Sea" was serialized 1863-1865. Laurie's book was published in 1888 and the translation serialized a year later in this volume. Other articles include: The Arctic Metal p638, (11) articles on the World of Bees, The Brooklyn Bridge p819, Canadian Football Players p143, Colorado Caves p793, The Australian Cricketers p476 including Bonner, Bannerman, WG Grace, Colonisation of Jamaica p448, (6) articles on Skating, Australian Railways p288. 4to, Volume XI… Read More

London: J. Murray, 1872. Hardcover. Good + overall. The story of the editor's son's voyage around the world, which was prescribed as a cure for a lung inflammation. Includes a narrative of his voyage to Australia from UK, an eighteen month visit living outside Victoria in the colony, his Pacific crossing on a different vessel, and his train journey across North America. 8vo, 304 pp, frontispiece, 15 illustrations in text, all edges marbled. Full calf school presentation binding with elaborate gilt decoration on front board. Spine head and gilt spine label chipped; o/w g+. Muir vol. 1, p. 789.