KANGAROOS from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Erlangen, Germany: Wolfgang Walther, 1778. First printing. Print. Fine. A handsome representation of the kangaroo based on Stubbs image from Cook's first voyage. This German representation was published in 1778, just five years after Cook's account of the first voyage was published. Copper engraving with period hand coloring, published in the German naturalist Johann Christian Daniel… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1841. Hardcover. Very good. Small 8vo, xvi, 323 pp, 3/4 black leather and maroon buckram boards, gilt titles in 5 compartments on spine, hand colored portrait of John Barclay, and a memoir of Barclay, 34 other hand colored plates bound at rear. Spine chipped at head, rubbed at edges and corners. Internally very clean,… Read more about this item

France, 1867. French children's strip puzzle, a "Jeu de Baguette", with scenes of life from 4 countries around the world on separate chromolithographed illustrated sheets; the puzzle itself on illustrated strips, which must be rotated to assemble the scenes illustrated on each of the sheets. A period paper label on the top cover with manuscript ink inscription, "Jeu de… Read more about this item

Akron, Ohio: Saalfield, 1928. Hardcover. Very good + overall. Scarce children's color illustrated alphabet book, with a leaping kangaroo illustration for the letter "K". World Cat locates only one copy, at the Newberry Library. 8vo, [41] pp, color and monochrome illustrations throughout, illustrated end papers. Color printed paper covered boards, with large ABC. "No. 356" printed on… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1916. Wraps. Very good condition. Entire single issue devoted to Australia, profusely illustrated with b&w photographic plates and maps. Concludes with images of Australian & New Zealand troops parading in London; Australian troop ships embarking for France, and the welcome home to returning hospital ship. Vol XXX, Number 6. 8vo, printed… Read more about this item

Germany, 1880. Very good condition. Colorful chromolithograph, with the animal images printed in slightly raised format. The quality of the lithography suggests that it is of German manufacture. Approx. 6 x 4", blank on back, with remnants of paper where it was removed from a scrap album. Very good condition. Signed in the lower left corner A. F.… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh: Wolverine Supply & Mfg. Co, 1925. Good +. A shooting gallery game in which hoops are to be shot from a rifle apparatus mounted at the bottom of the game towards pegs at the top of the game mounted on wild animals pictures with various point values, including a kangaroo (20 points!). Other animals include a hippo,… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Adam Smart and Company, 1936. Paperback. Very good overall. A sweet illustrated, signed presentation copy of rhyming children's book by Alfred Sutro a.k.a. Adam Smart. Sutro (1869-1945), was a prominent San Francisco attorney, well-known book collector, and President of the Book Club of California. The charming illustrations are printed in a single color with… Read more about this item

London: David Bogue, 1853. Hardcover. From the 'Home Lesson Books' series. Scarce wood block illustrated children's volume, which includes engravings of a kangaroo and cockatoo. The kangaroo is described as "found in Australia. They have very long hind legs and thick tails. Under the breast, the female has a curious pouch, into which the young ones jump when they… Read more about this item

London: Edward Lloyd Ltd., 1896. First printing. Hardcover. Good + overall. One of the "Lloyds Natural History Series, edited by R. Bowdler Sharpe. Well-known for handsome plates of kangaroos, wallabies, phalangers, bandicoots, Tasmanian tiger, opossums, platypus, etc. Small 8vo, 320pp, 38 chromolithographic plates of marsupials. Original binding of quarter leather, buckram, spine lightly sunned o/w good plus condition.… Read more about this item

Paris: Imprimerie Lamoureux, 1900. Very good condition. An instructional board to be hung in front of the class (still with the original hanging cord) with 2 engraved plates from the 'Dictionnaire Universelle d'Histoire Naturelle', showing two marsupials, the "kangurus dorsalis; Halmaturus dorsalis, Gray" which is the Black-striped wallaby; and the "Kangurus laniger, Quoy et Gaim; Macropus Laniger, Gould",… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Joseph Lyons, 1854. Wraps. Good +. Unusual child's picture book with each letter of the alphabet accompanied by an animal wood cut illustration, each on a blank backed page. With a kangaroo mother with joey for the letter "K", and quite a few other exotic animals, including the panther from Robinson Crusoe known as "Xury's Lion". … Read more about this item

Paris: Bernardin Bechet et Fils, 1863. Hardcover. Very good overall. A children's alphabet, rare in the trade, the only copy cited in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. "Le kanguroo attire l'attention par la singularite de sa forme" (p41). French children's alphabet illustrated with woodblocks of animals from around the world, including the kangaroo. Includes alphabets in capital… Read more about this item

California, 1900. Pamphlet. Very good condition. Advertising piece for "gentle, California Syrup of Figs", with color illustration at front wrapper of group of animals including a kangaroo. Nine animals are pictured and described, including the Kangaroo at page 8, "The kangaroo is found only in Australia. There are thirty varieties. The mother kangaroo carries her babies in… Read more about this item

Sandbornton, New Hampshire: Sandbornton Press, 1836. Sewn Binding. Very good overall. Early children's bestiary includes a kangaroo at p7, with the description "its action in moveing (sic) is very singular, as it can neither walk nor run, but jumps with such singular swiftness as to escape the pursuit of the fleetest greyhound...". Other animals described: Nyl-Ghau, Racoon, Antelope,… Read more about this item

1912. Very good condition. A sophisticated public relations booklet of easily detachable press notices for upcoming Barnum & Bailey events, including a list of the animals in the "New Menagerie" which includes "emues and kangaroos." It was issued to facilitate press coverage in cities where the circus was appearing. The public relations notices include : World's Best Circus… Read more about this item

New York: Kangaroo Corporation; Gray Lith. Co., 1915. A large laughing female kangaroo with a joey in her pouch who says "Be Happy at Home!" to another young kangaroo asking "Why such joy?" decorates the triangular box lid of this amusing bright orange and purple 1915 peg board game. The playing board itself is framed with the text, "You… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1880. Very good condition. Large imposing chromolithographic image from French children's series, "Enseignement par les yeux", for primary school children. This image from the third series, depicting a large standing kangaroo and opossum grasping tree stump. Signed at the lower right, and with the captions in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish below… Read more about this item