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Cover: Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens. Hand coloured wood engraving. [1886]. (Brighton Antique Prints & Maps www.antiqueprints.com.au)

BOOKFARE The newsletter of the Australian & New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers

July 2014

YIPPEE! Melbourne Rare Book Week kicks off booksellers, librarians and collectors’. Press today—Thursday the 17th of July. And we are in coverage of the event was excellent, with two very for some very rare treats indeed. Presented by the positive articles by Ian Warden appearing in the Australian & New Zealand Association of Canberra Times on the 20th and the 22nd of May Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB), with the (see www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/ support of its generous partners, the 2014 Program treasures-abound-as-rare-book-fair-pops-up-at- is chock-full of wonderful guided tours, must-see national-library-of-australia-20140520-zri2z.html exhibitions, enchanting performances and and www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/national unmissable talks, lectures and discussions. -librarys-rare-book-fair-reveals-gentlemens- kangaroo-20140522-zrla6.html). This year’s event also coincides with the biennial Cultural Treasures Festival, an array of Congratulations to the conference exhibitions, thematic walks, talks and seminars, organisers, Sally Burdon and Michael Treloar. demonstrations and displays, and guided tours presented by the University of Melbourne. Admission to all Melbourne Rare Book Week events is free. The full Program is available on the Rare Book week website www.rarebookweek.com And how about some dessert? Culminating this week long feast of bookish delights is the 42nd ANZAAB Australian Antiquarian Book Fair. The Fair will again be held at Wilson Hall on the GUTENBERG’S BIBLE campus of the University of Melbourne and will AT THE BAILLIEU LIBRARY run from Friday 25th to Sunday 27th of July. Leading Australian and international antiquarian To coincide with Melbourne Rare Book Week and booksellers will offer for sale a rich and diverse the University of Melbourne’s Cultural Treasures array of rare and unusual books, maps, Festival, the Baillieu Library will display a copy of manuscripts, prints, photographs and other the Gutenberg Bible. On loan from The John historical paper-based items. A visit to the Rylands Library, University of Manchester, this ANZAAB Book Fair is a must-do for all who copy was purchased by renowned book collector genuinely love print on paper and who share a George John, second Earl Spencer, in 1790. The passion for books. Keep up-to-date on what’s Bible found its way to Manchester in 1892 when happening at www.rarebookfair.com Enriqueta Rylands purchased the Spencer Collection of books for The John Rylands Library. ______The Rylands’ copy includes original hand The joint ANZAAB/National Library of Australia decorated initials at the beginning of each book conference held in Canberra on the 19th and 20th and was probably at the Cistercian monastery of of May 2014 was, in the words of ANZAAB Eberbach, near Mainz, in the fifteenth-century. President Jörn Harbeck, ‘a huge success—in many The Bible will be on display in the Baillieu Library different ways. All the talks were extremely well- from 19–27 July 2014. www.unimelb.edu.au/ received, and there was an atmosphere of friendly culturalcollections/treasuresfestival collegiality between all conference participants— ON-THE-SCENE REPORT Joint ANZAAB/NLA Conference, Canberra, May 2014 By Barbara Hince

T h r e e Peterson on aboriginal images, and Warwick categories of Reeder on the landscape photography of John p e o p l e Eaton. Facebook has already taught us about attended the selfies, but from Dr Doug Spowart we learnt the recent joint conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the National Library of Australia, held in Canberra on 19 and 20 May 2014—librarians, booksellers and collectors. Its title was ‘The Most Agreeable Servants of Civilization’, Booksellers and Librarians in a Changing World. You can see the program at www.anzaab.com. The organisers were pleased to find that 100 people enrolled for the two day event. The natural audience was librarians and booksellers, but, in an buzzword ‘shelfies’, photos of our own shelves. inspired move, the conference was also open to Such a thing is appealing, since many of us identify book collectors and the general public. When he ourselves by the type of books we enjoy and opened the program, ANZAAB’s President Jörn collect rather than by other aspects of our persona. Harbeck explained that the aim was to offer some Tom Congalton (Between the Covers) and education and to strengthen relationships. Dan de Simone (Folger Shakespeare Library) Speakers came from the fields of bibliography, offered an American perspective on libraries and the trade, via Skype. A panel of dealers and librarians answered questions on notice. Apart from talking about their favourite books, which in the case of the dealers was either the one they’d just sold or the one they were about to buy, they

photography, librarianship, book collecting, bookselling and conservation. Dr Shef Rogers from the University of Otago presented a morning session on bibliography, covering terms of the trade, format, collation, bindings and provenance with engaging and practical tuition. talked about why the condition of items is The afternoon was given over to paramount especially since they need to be suitable photography and the book, with speakers for exhibition, and about the importance of including Philip Jackson on Woodburytypes, provenance. Mick Treloar gave a compelling talk Robert Holden on the camera in war, Nicolas demonstrating the dual benefits of research in specialist areas—a marriage of adding to the commercial value as well as contributing to the favourite items from the pictures, maps, sum total of book scholarship. manuscript and rare books collections. The conference concentrated largely on the The Library also presented optional evening intellectual rather than the commercial value of talks. The first was interviews with three of books, but there was also a pop-up fair that Australia’s best known booksellers—Kay Craddock, Anne McCormick and Nicholas Pounder—who spoke about their own paths into bookselling and their experiences in the trade. The second was Nicolas Barker and John Baxter, respectively editor of The Book Collector and author (including the memoir A Pound of Paper): both long -standing collectors. Nicolas Barker gave a scan of book collecting over the past five decades, and John Baxter spoke about his bower bird habits. From quite different perspectives, they shared the conviction that bookselling and book collecting will continue to survive and adapt. As Barker said allowed the booksellers to make sales. And a in his conclusion ‘I don’t collect books, books second opportunity to admire and discuss came collect me’. through the Library’s display of highlights and ______

RARE BOOK DISCOVERY DAY: MELBOURNE MUSEUM 19 JULY 2014 Are your family favourites, collected items or inherited books of sentimental or market value? Visitors may bring up to three items for discussion and informal appraisals from a panel of leading antiquarian book, print and map dealers. Museum Victoria’s paper conservator will also be available to give advice on caring for books and recommendations for correct storage. The Rare Book Discovery Day is part of Melbourne Rare Book Week. museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/whatson/event/?event=563521

SHAKESPEARE’S BEEHIVE New York antiquarian booksellers Daniel Wechsler and George Koppelman believe they’ve found William Shakespeare’s annotated dictionary: Baret’s An Alvearie or Quadruple Dictionarie (1580). Purchased on eBay for $US4050, the dictionary has been digitised and can be seen online at www.shakespearesbeehive.com. Read the Folger Shakespeare Library’s response: collation.folger.edu/2014/04/buzz-or-honey- shakespeares-beehive-raises-questions

QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS A N Z A A B m e m b e r Jonathan Burdon received an AM in this year’s Queen’s birthday honours: ‘For significant service to respiratory medicine as a clinician and researcher, particularly occupational asthma, and to medical administration.’ Congratulations Jonathan! EXHIBITORS MELBOURNE RARE BOOK FAIR, 2014

ALLSWORTH RARE BOOKS BRADSTREET’S BOOKS P.O. Box 134, 235 Earls Court Rd, London SW5 Shop 9/10 Railway Arcade, 660A Glenferrie Road, 9FE U.K. Hawthorn VIC 3122 Ph: +44 7884 054114 Ph: +61 3 9819 3600 allsworthbooks.com BRIGHTON ANTIQUE PRINTS & MAPS ANCANTHE (Guest Exhibitor) 388 Bay Street, Brighton VIC 3186 P.O. Box 604, Milsons Point NSW 2061 Ph: +61 3 9596 9669 Ph: +61 400 103 316 antiqueprints.com.au advanceaustraliana.com.au CAMBERWELL BOOKS 207 Camberwell Road, Hawthorn East VIC 3123 ANDREW ISLES NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS Ph: +61 3 9882 1716 Rear of 115 Greville Street, Prahran VIC 3181 camberwellbooks.com.au Ph: +61 3 9510 5750 andrewisles.com DOUGLAS STEWART FINE BOOKS 720 High Street, Armadale VIC 3143 ANKH ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS Ph: +61 3 9066 0200 P.O. Box 133, Darling VIC 3145 douglasstewart.com.au Ph: +61 3 9888 1990 ankhantiquarianbooks.com.au GRANT’S BOOKSHOP Rear of 909 High Street, Armadale VIC 3143 ANTIQUE PRINT & MAP ROOM Ph: +61 3 9822 2170 Shop 7–11, Level 2, Queen Victoria Building, grantsbookshop.com.au 455 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Ph: +61 2 9267 4355 HARBECK RARE BOOKS antiqueprintroom.com P.O. Box 1610, Carindale QLD 4152 Ph: +61 416 362 443 ANTIQUE PRINTS AND MAPS AT FULL CIRCLE harbeck.com.au 59 Church Street, Hawthorn VIC 3122 Ph: +61 3 9819 4042 HORDERN HOUSE fullcircle.com.au 77 Victoria Street, Potts Point NSW, 2011 Ph: +61 2 9356 4411 ASIA BOOKROOM hordern.com Unit 2, 1–3 Lawry Place, Macquarie ACT 2614 Ph: +61 2 6251 5191 JAMES CUMMINS BOOKSELLER asiabookroom.com 699 Madison Avenue, 7th Floor, New York NY 10065 U.S.A. ASTROLABE BOOKSELLERS Ph: +1 212 688 6441 81 Salamanca Place, Hobart TAS 7000 jamescumminsbookseller.com Ph: +61 3 6223 8644 astrolabebooks.com.au JEFF MASER, BOOKSELLER – ABAA (USA) 911 Camelia Street, Berkeley BARWON BOOKSELLERS California 94710 U.S.A. 2 James Street, Geelong VIC 3220 Ph: +1 510 524 8830 Ph: +61 3 5221 8388 detritus.com barwonbooksellers.com.au JOSEF LEBOVIC GALLERY BERKELOUW BOOKS 103A Anzac Parade, Kensington NSW 2033 ‘Bendooley’, Old Hume Highway, Ph: +61 2 9663 4848 Berrima NSW 2577 joseflebovicgallery.com Ph: +61 2 4877 1370 berkelouw.com.au KAY CRADDOCK – ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLER The Assembly Hall Building, 156 Collins Street, BOOKS ON DEAN Melbourne VIC 3000 3/444 Dean Street, Albury NSW 2640 Ph: +61 3 9654 8506 Ph: +61 2 6021 3230 kaycraddock.com booksondean.com.au KENNETH HINCE OLD & FINE BOOKS PETER ARNOLD P.O. Box 1178, Hartwell VIC 3124 606 High Street, Prahran VIC 3181 Ph: +61 3 9809 1367 Ph: +61 3 9529 2933 hincebooks.com.au peterarnold.com.au KOOKABURRA BOOKS PETER HARRINGTON 113 Hampden Road, Battery Point TAS 7004 100 Fulham Road, London SW3 6HS U.K. Ph: +61 3 6223 3251 Ph: +44 20 7591 0220 LITTERA SCRIPTA peterharrington.co.uk 18 Mitchell Street, Baringhup VIC 3463 ROZ GREENWOOD OLD AND RARE BOOKS Ph: +61 409 020 768 107a Parker Street, Dunkeld VIC 3294 litterascripta.com.au Ph: +61 3 5577 2365 LOUELLA KERR BOOKS SAINSBURY’S BOOKS 17 Palace Street, Petersham NSW 2049 534 Riversdale Road, Camberwell VIC 3124 Ph: +61 2 9569 0156 Ph: +61 3 9882 7705 louellekerrbooks.com.au sainsburysbooks.com.au MAGGS BROS SEBRA PRINTS 50 Berkeley Square, London W1J 5BA U.K. 402 Burke Road, Camberwell VIC 3124 Ph: +44 20 7493 7160 Ph: +61 3 9809 0222 maggs.com sebraprints.com.au MARK’S BOOK BARN SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS 215 Homer Street, Earlwood NSW 2206 331 Portobello Road, London W10 5SA U.K. Ph: +61 417 065 089 Ph: +44 7909 963836 MICHAEL TRELOAR ANTIQUARIAN ssrbooks.com BOOKSELLERS URSUS RARE BOOKS 196 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000 Third Floor, 699 Madison Avenue, Ph: +61 8 8223 1111 New York N.Y. 10065 U.S.A. treloars.com Ph: +1 212 772 8787 OUT OF PRINT BOOKS ursusbooks.com 179 Canterbury Road, Canterbury NSW 2193 Ph: +61 2 9718 9262 outofprint.com.au

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO LIBRARY PRINTER IN RESIDENCE PROGRAMME 2014 On 1 August, Peter Vangioni, owner -operator of Kowhai Press, Christchurch, will begin work at the Otakou Press room on the 2014 Printer in Residence programme. Vangioni will be using Zerkall paper and printing lino images and text by Michael Morley. The In need of a few tips on handling and publication—which will feature 7 storing your books, photos, documents poems and 7 images—will be called &c.? Check-out these useful sites: XXXXXwords. The 100 copy www.naa.gov.au/records-management/ edition will be bound by the University bindery. Retail (incl. agency/preserve/index.aspx GST) NZ$140. Although not yet definite, a signed A–Z www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/preserving- (26) sequence of individual prints may also be available in collections addition to the publication. Further details contact Special www.awm.gov.au/collection/conservation Collections, University of Otago Library. Ph: 64 3 479 8330 www.loc.gov/preservation/care/ Email: [email protected]. books.html A selection from exhibitor’s stock ANZAAB Australian Antiquarian Book Fair, Melbourne, July 25-27

A PEDAGOCICAL PORTABLE GLOBE Die Erde. [The earth.] [Germany: s.n., c.1850]. With its original booklet and slipcase. A delicate and beautiful pedagocical portable globe, remarkably preserved. $5,500

PALLADIO’S FAMOUS TREATISE Andrea Palladio; Roland Fréart de Chambray (translator). Les Quatre Livres de l’Architecture d’André Palladio. Mis en A LEAF FROM THE FIRST François. Paris: De l’imprimerie d’Edme Martin, ruë S. WESTERN BOOK PRINTED Jacques, au soleil d'or, 1650. Full contemporary calf, raised BY MOVABLE TYPE bands, gilt ornament & lettering; wood engravings; the Johannes Gutenberg. A noble engraved title page repeated three times (placed at the fragment: being a leaf of The Gutenberg beginning of each of the four sections); housed in a custom Bible 1450–55. With a bibliographical clamshell box. $9,500 essay by A. Edward Newton. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921. Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed by William A BEAUTIFUL CONTEMPORARY SPANISH BINDING Edwin Rudge. 6pp of preliminary text, Andrew Kippis. Historia de la vida y viages del Capitan Jaime Cook/ with an original leaf of the Gutenberg obra escrita en Ingles por Andres Kippis...; y traducida al Castellano por Bible tipped-in. Bound by Stikeman & Don Cesareo de Nava Palacio. Madrid: En la Imprenta real, 1795. Co. $85,000 Beddie 1874. First Spanish edition. $7,500

Douglas Stewart Fine Books 720 High Street, Armadale, VIC, 3143 Ph: +61 3 9066 0200 [email protected] douglasstewart.com.au

ASHENDENE PRESS Edmund Spenser. The Ashendene Press Edition of The Faerie Queen & The Minor Poems. Two folio volumes uniformly bound in original brown calf-backed toned vellum boards. Spines with raised bands and gilt titled. Text printed in black, red and blue ink, in double- column, on uncut, hand-made paper. Limited edition with Vol. I limited to 180 copies and Vol. II limited to 200 copies.

FACSIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL 42-LINE BIBLE Johannes Gutenberg. Biblia Latina. (Facsimile of the original 42- line Bible, published and printed by Johann Gutenberg and Peter Schoeffer at Mainz not after 1456). 2 vols. New Jersey: Pageant Books, 1961. Comprising 1,185 text pages in lithographic 3-colour line reproducing the original rubrication, including 97 magnificent illuminated leaves in multi-coloured gravure. This edition, which took five years to develop, is limited to 1,000 copies and is printed on 100% rag content paper made especially for this work.

Berkelouw Books ‘Bendooley’, Old Hume Highway, Berrima, NSW, 2577 Ph: +61 2 4877 1370 [email protected] www.berkelouw.com.au WITH ORIGINAL BOOKPLATES OF SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE AUTHOR’S FAMILY LAID-IN John Brown. The North-West Passage and the Plans for the Search for Sir John Franklin. A Review with Maps etc. Charing Cross: E. Stanford, 1860. Second edition with a sequel, including the voyage of the Fox. Blue cloth, gilt decoration, the majority of pages unopened. Foldout map at rear. $2,950

ONE OF THE EARLIEST AUSTRALIAN WORKS ON AQUACULTURE Sir Samuel Wilson. Salmon at the Antipodes: Being an account of the Successful Introduction of Salmon into Australian Waters. London: Edward Stanford, 1879. Blue cloth, gilt titles with silver and black EXCEPTIONALLY decoration to upper FINE CONDITION board. $1,450 A l e x a n d e r H e n d e r s o n . FOUNDATION WORK Henderson’s Australian ON THE SCIENCE OF F a m i l i e s — A SURVEYING LAND Genealogical and John Love. Geodæsia: or the Art of Surveying and Geographical Record. Measuring of Land Made Easie. London: W. Vol. 1 [all published.] Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster- Row, Melbourne: 1941. 1715. Second edition. Old full calf, $2,450 blindstamped decoration to boards. $1,750

Books on Dean 3/444 Dean Street, Albury, NSW, 2640 Ph: +61 2 6021 3230 [email protected] www.booksondean.com.au

Kay Craddock will offer a Venetian incunable (Werner Rolewinck’s Fasciculus Temporum, 1481—one of the earliest illustrated printed books); the first published editions of both of the Alice books by Lewis Carroll; a selection of miniature books; beautiful illustrated books, including several by Arthur Rackham and a collection of different editions of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; some Bird & Bull Press books from the private collection of its proprietor and printer, Henry Morris; and numerous other desirable items, including the 1937 Corvinus Press edition of The Diary of T. E. Lawrence MCMXI (one of only 40 copies thus).

THE SMALLEST BOOK IN THE WORLD—AT THE TIME OF PUBLICATION AND FOR MANY YEARS AFTERWARDS Eben Francis Thomson. The Rose Garden of Omar Khayyam [and ONE OF THE EARLIEST related items]. Six printed items of ILLUSTRATED PRINTED BOOKS varying sizes, within a multi- Werner Rolewinck. Fasciculus Temporum omnes compartmented red leather antiquorum cronicas complectens incipit foeliciter. 73 clamshell box with marbled leaves (including preliminary and terminal papered sides. Comprises 3 blanks), printed in gothic type, the main text increasingly smaller editions of the foliated 1-64 and preceded by 7 unpaginated title work, each bound in slightly leaves (tabula brevis, printed in 3 columns), different shades of gilt lettered red numerous woodcut illustrations, 2 decorative leather; plus A Thimblefull of Books woodcut initials (one 10 lines, the other 6); folio; (a 36 page brief history and survey of miniature books, also by Thomson); early paste papered boards and mottled leather Kind Words About the Smallest Printed Book in the World (reproducing various spine with gilt rules around 5 raised bands. letters in praise of the enterprise); a proof sheet from the smallest version of Venice: Erhard Rodolt [sic], 21 December the Rose Garden contained in a glassine envelope within printed paper 1481. Third Venetian (second Ratdolt) wrappers; and a tiny magnifying glass for viewing the smaller items. edition. $15,000 Worcester, MA: privately printed, 1932–33. Limited to 250 copies. $1,950 Kay Craddock – Antiquarian Bookseller 156 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000 Ph: +61 3 9654 8506 [email protected] www.kaycraddock.com VERY RARE AUSTRALIAN MANUSCRIPT Form of Oath Administered by C. P. Hodges to Chinese Witnesses in Courts of Justice. c.1850s–1860s. Document on laid paper with affixed slip of red paper, Chinese characters and English text in ink, 33 x 20.2 cm. Very rare Australian manuscript which could have been used in the gold fields’ law courts during 1850s–60s.

HONGS OF CANTON VERY RARE AND IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF [Hongs Of Canton, Harbour WATERCOLOURS SHOWING THE EARLY STAGES View, China]. c.1840s– OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF HONG KONG 1850s. Gouache, 17.9 x Edward Ashworth. [Hong Kong—Nineteenth-Century 24.8 cm. Framed. This Views]. 1844–1845. Collection of 15 watercolours view would probably have and ink and wash drawings, all titled, one signed been painted in one of the ‘drawn by E. Ashworth’, some annotated in ink or artist’s studios like pencil above or below image, 20.3 x 26.3 cm to 26.7 Tingqua behind the West- x 45.8 cm. Provenance: by descent in Ashworth ern Hongs factories. family.

VERY RARE COMBINATION SHOWING ORIGINAL PHOTO FOR A POST CARD IMAGE Chinese Vegetable Hawker. 1890s/c.1905. Albumen paper photograph, cabinet card format, with hand-coloured process screen postcard, annotations in ink and letterpress in lower margin and verso of postcard, with postage stamp and postmark, 13.8 x 20.5 cm, 9.1 x 13.8 cm.

Josef Lebovic Gallery 103a Anzac Parade, Kensington, NSW, 2033 Ph: +61 2 9663 4848 [email protected] www.joseflebovicgallery.com

A FINE SET Jane Austen. The N o v e l s . O x f o r d : Clarendon Press, 1923. $5,200 Five volumes, uncut and unopened, original boards, quarter cloth, paper labels, with dust- wrappers.

AN ICONIC AUSTRALIAN COMPANY Taubmans’ Industries. At Home WILSON HALL, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE With Colour. Sydney: Sir Samuel Wilson. Proceedings on Laying the Memorial Stone Taubmans Industries, of the Wilson Hall of the University of Melbourne, by the honourable [195–]. $85 Sir Samuel Wilson, October 2nd, 1879. Melbourne: Stillwell Colour illustrations, pp. 32, & Co., 1879. $630 original card wrappers. Two large folding lithographed views of the Hall, original wrappers. Includes list of staff and students of the University at this date. Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books P.O. Box 1178, Hartwell, VIC, 3124 Ph: +61 3 9809 1367 [email protected] www.hincebooks.com.au AN EXTRAORDINARY ENGINEERING FEAT [ Y u n n a n – I n d o c h i n a Railway]. Le Chemin de Fer du Yunnan. Two volumes in original maroon cloth. Volume I: Full page colour panorama of Laokay, 85 black and white photographic plates, 202pp. Volume II: 55 Maps, plans COMPREHENSIVE TRAVEL BOOK and diagrams, most folding and some very ABOUT KOREA large. Goury. Paris. Avril 1910. $5,500 Detailed account, in French, of the building of [Minami Manshu Tetsudo the railway between Yunnan and Vietnam. The Kabushiki Kaisha] 南満州鉄. Trip in Yunnan–Indochina Railway was an Chosen 朝鮮之風光. [80pp] black and extraordinary engineering feat. 855 kilometres white collotypes, many pages showing in length, the railway was built by France during two or three or occasionally more the period 1904–10. It connected Kumming in images. Album measures 18.3 x 25.1cm. Yunnan with Haiphone in Attractive oblong octavo cloth binding, Vietnam (the nearest seaport to silk title label in Japanese and English Kumming) a journey which laid down upper cover, two hole stab took 28 days prior to the binding with purple fabric ties. Original completion of this project. dust-jacket titled in English and Built in breathtaking scenery, Japanese on upper cover, now particularly on the Chinese side protected. A nice copy of a very of the border, the railway ran interesting and scarce album. 南滿洲鐵 regular passenger services on the line until 2000. 道京城管理局 Keijo (京城) Taisho 11. 1922. $1,250

Asia Bookroom Unit 2, 1–3 Lawry Place, Macquarie, ACT, 2614 Ph: +61 2 6251 5191 [email protected] www.asiabookroom.com

WORLD WAR ONE SHEET MUSIC Backblocks Bill. Australian Patriotic Song, Words and Music by George R Hyam. Sydney: John Wynter & Co., 1915. Eight pages, other songs include The Stockyard Rails, and Imshi, The Battle Cry of the Australians at the Dardenelles, plus Britons—First of All. $150

AUTOMATIC ADDING BOARD Let’s Play School (It’s Fun to Learn). Sydney: Metal-Wood Repetitions Co., c.1940. $75 Counting game for young children in a box, 36cm x 21cm.

AVIATION IN THE 1920S D. Napier & Son, England. Napier Aero Engines. n.d.[but probably 1925]. 32 plates of planes fitted with Napier Engines (with description printed on tissue preceding), in three languages (French, English and Spanish); and four plates of Napier engines. Large format folio size. Ties used to bind book. $600

Mark’s Book Barn 215 Homer Street, Earlwood, NSW, 2206 Ph: +61 417 065 089 [email protected] SAILING WITH FLINDERS: NOW SHOWN TO BE WRITTEN BY HMS INVESTIGATOR VETERAN ROBERT PURDIE Robert Purdie. Narrative of the Wreck of HMS Porpoise. Octavo, illustrated, 134pp; hard-cover with dust-jacket. Sydney: Hordern House, 2014. Newly published with notes and an introduction: a lively account of sailing with Matthew Flinders, written by a young surgeon in the Royal Navy who survived the wreck of HMS Porpoise off the Queensland coast in 1803. First published as an anonymous serial in the famous journal The Naval Chronicle in late 1806 and early 1807, this hitherto almost unknown account is now shown to have been written by Surgeon’s Mate Robert Purdie, a junior officer on board HMS Investigator. Purdie’s lengthy ‘Narrative’ is the earliest published work of its kind by any Investigator veteran and the only major account of life on Wreck Reef in the Coral Sea after the foundering of the Porpoise and Cato, and of the survivors who made their own way back to England. The book is being published by Hordern House in July 2014 to celebrate the 200-year anniversary of the publication of Flinders’ classic work, A Voyage to Terra Australis (first published 18 July 1814). $35

WITH AUSTRALIAN PLANTS GATHERED ON THE D’ENTRECASTEAUX VOYAGE Etienne Pierre Ventenat. Description des plantes nouvelles et peu connues, cultivées dans le jardin de J.M. Cels. Folio, 100 engraved plates each with descriptive letterpress sheet, a most attractive uncut copy complete with the half-title; contemporary green quarter morocco, spine gilt. Paris: Crapelet, 1800–1803. One of the most elegant botanical books, this study of ‘new and little known’ plants is the first of the three major works on exotic plants by the great Ventenat, and a superb example of this golden age of botanical illustration. The work includes plates by famed artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté, as well as Cloquet, Laneau, Maréchal and Sauvage. The French interest in plants from the farthest reaches of the known world is confirmed by the fact that no fewer than ten Australian plants are included, of which seven were drawn by Redouté himself. Dunthorne, 253; Nissen, 2048; Stafleu, TL2 16.005. $46,000 Hordern House Rare Books 77 Victoria Street, Potts Point, NSW, 2011 Ph: +61 2 9356 4411 [email protected] www.hordern.com

ORIGINAL KATHE KOLLWITZ ETCHING WITH DRYPOINT AND AQUATINT Ttitled Inspiration, one of Kollwitz’s second major cycle of works—the Peasant War. Printed by Von der Becke in 1946/48 with his two line dry stamp lower right. (A.V.D.BECKE MUENCHEN-22). One of the most powerful and technically impressive of Kollwitz’s images from the Peasant War series of 1904/5, with dramatic command of light and shadow. Image size: 564 x 297 mm. Full conservation framing. $2,350

FRENCH BOOK OF HOURS ILLUMINATED LEAF A very fine French Book of Hours illuminated leaf with a beautifully executed panel of illuminations consisting of acanthus leaves in blue and liquid gold, sprays of blue and pink flowers & fine black LARGE ILLUMINATED LITURGICAL CHANT LEAF c.1500 seeding. The top initial ‘L’ has Detail of a very large illuminated liturgical chant leaf written floral sprays radiating into the on parchment in Italy c.1500. Square and diamond-shaped margins. Written on vellum in neumes on four-line staves with a key signature. Text in a about 1470. Use of Rouen. refined gothic bookhand is a section of Psalm 88 (KJV 89). Text is from The Hours of the Leaf size: 560 x 405 mm. Museum quality mat & backing, Virgin, Psalm 150. Written & illuminated area: 110 x110 mm. Size ready to frame. $275 of leaf: 165 x 115 mm. Museum quality mat & backing, ready to frame. $775 Littera Scripta 18 Mitchell Street, Baringhup, VIC, 3463 Ph: +61 409 020 768 [email protected] litterascripta.com.au A WINDOW INTO THE PAST NOT MATCHED ELSEWHERE IN BREADTH, DEPTH OR SHEER VISUAL IMPACT Australasian Sketcher (Illustrated newspaper—original). 11 year run, from no. 1 (April 1873) to no. 174 (Dec. 1883). Volumes 1–11, contained in 6 volumes (five uniform half-morocco volumes and one black cloth volume {vol. 11}). With wood-engraved illustrations throughout, with some folding or double- page wood-engraved or lithographed plates, a few coloured. This set lacks most of the supplements, as is often the case, however a few are present. Melbourne: Wilson and Mackinnon, 1873–83. This gathering comprises the most important part of the Sketcher’s run, as in its later issues it turned to Victorian serial romance for much of its content and also many of the later issues were plagued with unsatisfactory acid paper. $17,500

FRONT COVER PROOFS FROM THE FRONT COVER PROOFS FROM THE BARRY ONO COLLECTION BARRY ONO COLLECTION Aldine Publishing. The Aldine—‘Invention, Aldine Publishing. The Aldine—‘O’er Travel & Adventure Library’. 53 colour cover Land & Sea’ Library. 41 colour cover proofs. London: Aldine Publishing Co., proofs. London: Aldine Publishing c.1880–1900. Titles include: The New Co., c.1880–1900. Titles include The Steam Man; In Mexico, or Hot Work Wolf-Demon, BlacK Plume the Among the Greasers; The Electric Air Demon of the Sea, Iron Wrist the Canoe or Search for the Valley of the Swordmaster, The Mad Magician, Diamonds; Sea Serpent, or the Search for Darkie Dan the Coloured Detective Sunken Gold; Chased Across the Sahara— and many other swashbuckling tales of all featuring Frank Reade’s futuristic derring-do! These unique items come inventions in steam air and electricity. These unique items come from the collection of the legendary penny dreadful from the collection of the legendary penny dreadful afficionado afficionado Barry Ono. With a copy of Barry’s original Barry Ono. With a copy of Barry’s original signed note from signed note from 1942, explaining his acquisition of the 1942, explaining his acquisition of the Aldine archives. $750 Aldine archives. $400

Camberwell Books & Collectibles 207 Camberwell Road, Hawthorn East, VIC, 3123 Ph: +61 3 9882 1716 [email protected] www.camberwellbooks.com.au

Louella Kerr of Sydney will bring to the Fair a fine selection of literature, private press, and illustrated books. Included is an attractive selection of children’s books by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, as well as a near fine Over the Sea, one of the scarcest early Australian juveniles with chromolitho plates, and a fine 1930s Felix au Pole Sud by Australian cartoonist Pat Sullivan. Louella will exhibit some early Australian art catalogues, including a run of those of the Art Society of NSW from 1892 to 1901, the first catalogue of the Painter-Etchers’ Society, and the catalogue of the opening exhibition of Sydney’s famous Blaxland Gallery. In Australiana, she will offer an unusually bound copy of the first edition of Leichhardt’s Journal of an Overland Expedition, together with John Arrowsmith’s rare three-sheet Detailed Map, in a matching portfolio, all offered in a handsome clamshell box.

Louella Kerr Books 17 Palace Street, Petersham, NSW, 2049 Ph: +61 2 9569 0156 [email protected] www.louellakerrbooks.com.au Recognising the exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria of William Blake, Out of Print Books is offering a collection of books relating to Blake. Including Songs of Innocence published by Trianon Press, facsimiles of the Visions of the Daughters’ of Albion and The Book of Job, plus Jerusalem. Tate Gallery catalogue and several biographies about Blake. Prices from $30 to $300. If the calligraphy inspires you, there will be a large collection of books on typography and illumination available at the fair. Stanley Morison, William Morris, Baskerville, Edmund Fry, David Jones Inscriptions, Ottoman calligraphy, Owen Jones, Margaret Manion. Prices from $25 to $300. For the visual senses we have a copy of The Woodblock Paintings of Cressida Campbell, first edition, published in 2008, with colour plates throughout, together with the Rex Irwin catalogue of Cressida Campbell. This was the catalogue for October 9th to November 3rd 2007. $950

Out of Print Books 179 Canterbury Road, Canterbury, NSW, 2193 Ph: +61 2 9718 9262 [email protected] www.outofprint.com.au

As usual, Peter Arnold will be showing an array of desirable books, prints, maps and early photographs, mainly of Australian interest.

Peter Arnold 606 High Street, Prahran, VIC, 3181 Ph: +61 3 9529 2933 [email protected] peterarnold.com.au

OF SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA An item of significance for the political history of Victoria is a copy of The Constitutions of the Several States of the Union and United States… (1852) which was owned by—and is inscribed by—the Port Phillip pioneer Dr Alexander Thomson (1800–66). Thomson moved from Van Diemen’s Land to the new settlement in 1836, bringing sheep and cattle but also serving as the first medical officer. He became a leader of early pastoral society and the Presbyterian church, and was the first Mayor of Geelong. After being elected to the NSW Legislative Council—from which, as a separatist, he resigned in protest at having to attend sittings in Sydney— he represented Geelong on the Victorian Legislative Council (1852–54). Of particular relevance here was his membership of the select committee that drafted the Victorian constitution in 1853. $365

‘PRESENTATION’ EDITION Sir David Muirhead Bone. War Drawings. Issued by Authority of the War Office in 1918. 60 large lithographic prints, housed in a papered heavy card portfolio (the ‘Presentation’ edition). Bone (1876–1953) was a Scottish draftsman THE SCARCE FIRST EDITION and etcher, mainly of M. Aurel Stein. Ancient Khotan: detailed report of archaeological architectural subjects; he explorations in Chinese Turkestan carried out and described under was appointed as the first the orders of H.M. Indian government. The scarce first edition British Official War Artist in of 1907 in two large volumes. $7,500 July 1916. $1,350

Astrolabe Booksellers 81 Salamanca Place, Hobart, TAS, 7000 Ph: +61 3 6223 8644 [email protected] www.astrolabebooks.com.au THE FIRST MAJOR EDITION WITH TWO RARE CANCEL LEAVES Izaak Walton & Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler. Extensively embellished with engravings on copper and on wood, from original paintings and drawings, by first-rate artists. To which are added, an introductory essay; the Linnean arrangement of the various river-fish etc. London: John Major, 1823. Contemporary full green crushed morocco, gilt spine title, all edges gilt, extensive gilt decorations to the spine (repeating three of the wood-engravings in the text), intertwined monograms of Walton and Cotton in gilt, moire cloth endpapers, the paste-downs with gilt tooled-leather borders, gilt fleurons in the corners, the boards elaborately tooled in gilt, and with gilt devices to the centres of the motto ‘Piscatoribus Sacrum 1674’ above intertwined monograms. The first Major edition, based on the fifth edition of 1676, the last published during Walton’s lifetime, and printed by Nicol at the Shakespeare Press and here with two rare cancel leaves: Aa2 (pp.179–80) and Aa4 (pp. 183–84). Generally regarded as the best edition of one of the finest and most desirable of the illustrated ‘Anglers’. Coigny 23; Oliver 23; Slater p. 28; Westwood & Satchell p. 225. The copy of British mountaineer Francis Fox Tuckett, inscribed to him in 1860 by ‘his affectionate Father’ and with his armorial bookplate. $1,650

MORETON BAY PIONEER WITH A HOMEOPATHIC PAST. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR Stephen Simpson. A Practical View of Homœopathy, being an Address to British Practitioners on the general applicability and superior efficacy of the Homœopathic Method in the Treatment of Disease. With cases. London: J. B. Baillière, 1836. Orig. green moiré cloth with orig. paper label with printed title on the spine, uncut edges. Presentation label of the Royal College of Surgeons (Ireland) on front pastedown, and their stamp on the back of the title page. A disciple of Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, Stephen Simpson (1793?–1869) arrived in Sydney in January 1840. Moving to the recently established Moreton Bay Settlement, he was appointed Acting Colonial Surgeon. In 1842 Simpson was appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands for Moreton Bay and acting administrator until the arrival of J. C. Wickham the following year. In 1860 he became a life member of the first Legislative Council of Queensland. He is regarded by some as Australia’s first homeopath. Very rare; the fourth work on homeopathy in the English language. A nice association copy inscribed by the author to the Hon. Richard Cavendish (1794–1876), the second son of the 2nd Baron Waterpark, and a magistrate at Stafford and deputy lieutenant of Staffordshire after 1835. $3,500 Harbeck Rare Books P.O. Box 1610, Carindale, QLD, 4152 Ph: +61 416 362 443 [email protected] www.harbeck.com.au

ETCHING AND MEZZOTINT FROM TURNER’S ‘LIBER STUDIORUM’ J. M. W. Turner (drawn and etched). W. Say (engraved). Turner’s ‘Liber Studiorum’—Windmill and Lock. ‘From a picture in the possession of JMW Turner RA’. Etching and mezzotint from Turner’s ‘Liber Studiorum’, a series of engravings which combine Turner’s own etched outlines with mezzotints applied by other artists, present six categories of landscape: Pastoral, Marine, Mountainous, Historical, Architectural, and Epic Pastoral. The title deliberately echoes the ‘Liber Veritatis’, a compilation of prints by the esteemed seventeenth-century painter of idealized landscapes Claude Lorraine. Published by Turner himself in 1811. $750

OSCAR WILDE W. & D. Downey. Oscar Wilde. Carbon print. c.1890. W(illiam) & D(aniel) Downey was one of the most prestigious photography studios in Victorian London. 140mm x 95mm (photograph); 240mm x 190mm (sheet). $450

WILSON HALL, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE John Shirlow. Wilson Hall, University of Melbourne. Etching. Signed and dated 1922 in the plate. Signed and editioned in pencil below the image. 220mm x 150mm. $640

Sebra Prints 402 Burke Road, Camberwell, VIC, 3124 Ph: +61 3 9809 0222 [email protected] www.sebraprints.com.au Barwon Booksellers will include new acquisitions in the specialist areas of Australian art and printmaking, military history and modern first editions, examples being Rosalind Hollinrake’s Clarice Beckett: The Artist and Her Circle; Sasha Grishin’s Contemporary Australian Printmaking; and a run of Powys brothers first editions. Other highlights will include two rare titles concerning Claude Flight and his years at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London. Flight’s importance as a linocut pioneer and teacher, his influence on artists such as Sybil Andrews and Lill Tschudi, as well as the Australians Dorrit Black, Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme, is now well understood. Lino Cutting and Printing by Claude Flight (B. T. Batsford, 1934) is a beautiful and scarce book which retains the atmosphere and tactility of its milieu. Also on offer will be Stephen Coppel’s extensive monograph on Flight and The Grosvenor School, Linocuts of the Machine Age. This is a rare book which includes fascinating photographic material of Flight and the artists at Grosvenor as well as many colour prints of their work.

Barwon Booksellers 2 James Street, Geelong, VIC, 3220 Ph: +61 3 5221 8388 [email protected] www.barwonbooksellers.com.au

Stafford. Melbourne. c.1856

Louis & Susie Kissajukian, Antique Print Map & Room, Sydney will be bringing an eclectic selection of photographs, maps, prints and Robert Hoddle. Stroud, NSW. c.1840 watercolours, including: Lindt, four early photographs of Princes Street, Grafton c.1870 which includes possibly the only known image of Lindt’s studio in Grafton; two Robert Hoddle watercolours—one of Stroud, NSW c.1840 and the other of Lindt. One of ‘The Residence of a Retired Lieutenant four early RN Rt Futter in NSW, Lumley’ c.1834; photograph of fabulous Dutch period maps by De Witt Princes Street, and Visscher in full original hand Grafton. c.1870 colouring; and numerous Colonial views and maps of Victoria including Stafford’s rare view of Melbourne c.1856. Robert Hoddle. Bungonia.

Antique Print & Map Room Shop 7–11, Level 2, 455 George Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000 Ph: +61 2 9267 4355 [email protected] www.antiqueprintroom.com

THE AUSTRALIAN SYSTEMATIC BOTANY SOCIETY John Jessop (editor-in-chief). Flora of Central Australia. Sydney: Reed Books, 1985. Reprint. Colour and black & white illustrations. In dust-jacket.

PART OF A LARGE FISHING COLLECTION Charles Thacher. Angling Books. Far Hills NJ.: Meadow Run Press, 2006. Limited edition of 600 copies. Illustrated with black & white frontispiece and colour illustration to slipcase. Half-cloth. Housed in a slipcase.

Sainsbury’s Books 534 Riversdale Road, Camberwell, VIC, 3124 Ph: +61 3 9882 7705 [email protected] www.sainsburysbooks.com.au RARE SPANISH WORLD MAP Solis. Tipus Orbis Terrarum. Rare Spanish world map TRINITY COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE based on Ortelius map. Hand coloured copperplate Trinity College at Melbourne University. Hand coloured wood engraving. 49 cm x 34 cm. c. 1603. $6,500 engraving. 22 cm x 15 cm. c.1885. $180

PORT PHILLIP EARLY MELBOURNE C.1880 S. T. Gill. Melbourne— Yachting in Port Phillip Great Bourke Street looking between the May Queen East. Hand coloured steel & the Secret. Hand engraving. 20 cm x 15 coloured wood cm. 1857. $320 engraving. 34 cm x 23 cm. c.1880. $220

Brighton Antique Prints & Maps 388 Bay Street, Brighton, VIC, 3186 Ph: +61 3 9596 9669 [email protected] www.antiqueprints.com.au

‘THE FINEST EXAMPLES EXTANT OF A FINE SET OF THE ORNITHOLOGICAL ETCHINGS’ FIRST EDITION Prideaux John Selby. Illustrations of John Latham. A General British Ornithology. A group of 10 original Synopsis of Birds. London: watercolours for Selby’s Illustrations of for White, and Leigh British Ornithology. Individually priced, as and Sotheby, 1781–1801. below. Watercolour gouache and 10 volumes, with five coloured washes. From the library of H. etched titles with hand- Bradley Martin. Peregrine, female coloured vignettes and (pictured). Signed by the artist. $16,500 142 hand-coloured etched Four further watercolours of birds of plates by and after the prey are offered: Peregrine Falcon, author. The two young female. $16,500; Common Buzzard, female. $16,500; supplement volumes are Kestril, female. $12,500; Ash coloured Harrier, male. $12,500. included. In a handsome contemporary tree calf binding, spines Five ducks as follows: Widgeon, female. $10,000; Teal, male. gilt, with red and green morocco labels lettered in gilt. $30,000 $10,000; Golden eye Duck, female. $10,000; Velvet Scoter, female. $10,000; Bimaculated Teal, female. $10,000. The paper THE RAINBOW LORIKEET dimensions vary. COLLECTED ON COOK’S FIRST VOYAGE Peter Brown. The Blue-bellied Parrot. Plate VII from New Illustrations of VERY RARE Zoology, containing fifty Coloured Plates COPPER ENGRAVING of New, Curious, and Non-descript A non-descript Bird found at Botany Birds... (1776). Complete with text Bay from a drawing made on the spot. leaf, of the Rainbow Lorikeet which 1792. A very rare copper engraving was collected on Cook’s first of an Emu. $7,950 voyage. It has the distinction of being the first living Australian bird to arrive in England. $2,500

Antique Prints and Maps at Full Circle 59 Church Street, Hawthorn, VIC, 3122 Ph: +61 3 9819 4042 [email protected] www.fullcircle.com.au BOUND BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE THE EXPANDED Frederick McCoy. Natural History of Victoria. SECOND EDITION WITH Prodromus of the zoology of Victoria; or figures and AN EXTRA SIX PLATES descriptions of the living species of all classes of the Victorian Sylvester Diggles. indigenous animals . Companion to Gould’s Melbourne: Government Handbook; or Synopsis of the Printer, 1878–1890. Two Birds of Australia. Containing volumes, 199 handsome nearly one-third of the whole, or lithographed plates about 22 examples, for the (including 172 most part from original chromolithographs) of drawings. Brisbane: mammals, reptiles and fish. Author, 1878. Two Handsome modern half volumes, 126 hand- green morocco by Sangorski coloured lithographed and Sutcliffe. Irish-born plates, finished with gum Frederick McCoy arrived in arabic, each with a single Melbourne in 1854 to take leaf of descriptive up the position of the first letterpress. Modern half Professor of Natural Science green morocco, gilt spines, of the newly formed edges lightly coloured. Diggles was a prominent University of Melbourne. figure in early Colonial Brisbane and had interests For the next 40 years he was at the centre of ranging from music to entomology. His book Colonial scientific life. He became the first Director belongs to that small but select group of colour-plate of the newly formed National Museum of Victoria books produced in Australia. $25,000 and was responsible for the rapid development of the Museum and its collections. $7,500

Andrew Isles Natural History Books Rear of 115 Greville Street, Prahran, VIC, 3181 Ph: +61 3 9510 5750 [email protected] www.andrewisles.com

AUTHORED BY THE KEEPER OF THE GREEN, ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND W. W. Tulloch. The Life of Tom Morris with Glimpses of St. Andrews and its Golfing Celebrities. With 37 beautiful illustrations. T. Werner Laurie, 1907. A very rare book on golf. $5,000

AN AMERICAN 1930S FRUIT BOX LABEL An unusual Egyptomania 1930s fruit box label. This label and about 20 others that I am bringing to the Fair is un -used and original. Beautifully printed with a gum backing these items were designed to be used and abused on the side of soft-wood fruit boxes, mainly from California. My fruit box stickers come with a matte ready to frame with prices ranging from $70 to $150. They vary in size and subject.

BY A VERY FAMOUS ‘LADY GOLFER’ BY ‘THE ORACLE’ AND THE May Hezlet. Ladies’ ‘HOT GOSSIP OF GOLF’ G o l f . W i t h 3 3 Bernard Darwin (description). i l l u s t r a t i o n s . Harry Rowntree (paintings). The Hutchinson & Co., Golf Courses of the British Isles. A rare 1904. May Hezlet was book on the architecture of golf Open Ladies champion courses by the grandson of Charles 1899–1902 and Irish Darwin, with lovely illustrations. A Ladies Champion 1899. Country Life journalist, Bernard A very rare early golf Darwin was the leading source for book, with marvellous all things golf. $4,000 photographs and a charming feel throughout. $750

Ankh Antiquarian Books P.O. Box 133, Darling, VIC, 3145 Ph: +61 3 9888 1990 [email protected] ankhantiquarianbooks.com.au RARE AUSTRALIAN FIRST THE BOOK THAT REVOLUTIONISED WORLD WAR UNIT HISTORY AGRICULTURE—1733 W. Dollman & H. M. Skinner. Jethro Tull. The Horse-Hoing Husbandry: Or, an The Blue and Brown Diamond: History Essay on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation. of the 27th Battalion (AIF) on Active Wherein is Shewn a Method of Introducing a Sort of Service. The first edition of the Vineyard Culture Into the Corn-Fields, in Order to history of a South Australian Increase Their Product, and Diminish the Common Battalion. This well-written account Expence… London: Printed for the author, and has an Honour Roll, list of sold by G. Strahan, T. Woodward, A. Miller, decorations, b&w photos, maps & J. Stagg, and J. Brindley, 1733. First edition line illustrations. Cover illustration (thus). Includes all six fine fold-out engraved by E.M.S. The personal history page plates, as issued. Bound in early half leather & marbled boards, raised (ffep) has the details of 279 Lance Corporal P. J. C. bands, bright gilt-lettered leather title labels to spine. Florid full page Cowell who served in the unit at Gallipoli and in France ink inscription to ffep, dated 1820, from Samuel Parkes (British before being invalided home. $1,000 manufacturing chemist & author) to James Pedder (author of The One of a large number of rare First and Second World Farmer’s Land Measurer, Dialogues between a Father and Son on the Subject of War unit histories available from Bradstreet’s Books. Agriculture, Husbandry and Rural Affairs &c.). Rare. $5,000

Bradstreet’s Books Shop 9/10 Railway Arcade, 660a Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, VIC, 3122 Ph: +61 3 9819 3600 [email protected]

RARE GLASS STEREOVIEWS OF SYDNEY Edwin Dalton [photographer]. Glass stereoviews of Sydney. Group of 12 rare glass stereoviews of Sydney in a wooden box. 1858–59. $28,000

Allsworth Rare Books P.O. Box 134, 235 Earls Court Road, London, SW5 9FE, U.K. Ph: +44 7884 054114 [email protected] www.allsworthbooks.com

FIRST EDITION, A CLASSIC WORK WITH AN ONE OF 75 COPIES OUTSTANDING AUSTRALIAN Russell Maret. Interstices & LITERARY ASSOCIATION Intersections or, An Autodidact Mrs K. Langloh Parker. Australian Comprehends a Cube. New York: Legendary Tales. [With] More Australian Russell Maret, 2014. First edition, Legendary Tales. Two vols. London: one of 75 copies. Double-sided David Nutt, 1897 & 1895. Second leperello accordion binding, housed edition of the first title and first in a cloth-covered clamshell box. Designed, illustrated, and printed by the edition of the second title. The author and printer Russell Maret, including five original typefaces. The first volume is inscribed to Mrs Campbell Praed. text and the images were printed from photopolymer plates on a The second volume is signed ‘R. W. Praed’. Rosa Vandercook Universal III proof press, and Daniel Kelm bound and Campbell Praed was a prolific Australian-born boxed the book at the Wide Awake Garage in Easthampton, MA. $7,237 novelist and spiritualist. From the library of anthropologist Ashley Montagu. $1,330

ONE OF 170 COPIES, WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL & REVEALING CLUTCH OF CORRESPONDENCE T. E. Lawrence. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Illustrated with 66 plates, including frontispiece portrait of Feisal by Augustus John, many coloured or tinted, four double-page, by Eric Kennington, William Roberts, Paul Nash et al. Four folding coloured maps (with orig. linen backing). Text illustrations (one coloured) by Roberts, Nash, Blair Hughes-Stanton &c. In this copy, page XV is mispaginated as VIII. Tan morocco gilt, gilt-lettered and ruled, edges gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. London: Privately printed, 1926. One of about 170 ‘Complete’ copies for subscribers, inscribed on p. xix ‘Complete copy. 1.XII.26 TES.’, with a mss. correction to the list of illustrations. Also signed by the printer, H. C. Hodgson. O’Brien A040; Duval 8; Clements p. 49. Provenance: Nancy Campbell (orig. subscriber); Barbara Hutton. With a clutch of correspondence about the book, including an ALS, from Lawrence, trying to win Nancy Campbell as a subscriber (1926) and two substantial letters from Col. Pierce Joyce, another key officer in the Arab revolt. A great copy of a landmark book. $143,676

James Cummins Bookseller 699 Madison Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY, 10065, U.S.A. Ph: +1 212 688 6441 [email protected] www.jamescumminsbookseller.com DON’T MISS….

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KIDMAN: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF SIR SIDNEY KIDMAN EXHIBITION State Library of South Australia, Adelaide Until 25 July 2014 An exhibition of photographic prints, artwork and 16mm films that document the life and times of Sidney Kidman. Most of the photographs are from the Sidney Reid collection and have never been exhibited. Reid was the Adelaide manager of S. Kidman & Co. from 1913 to 1935 and travelled extensively with Kidman on inspection tours of his stations. He recorded these travels in a series of leather bound photo albums and journals (on display). His collection of photographs and 16mm movie film is an extraordinary record of the life in the outback during the early 1900s. www.slsa.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm? u=828&c=43803 STUFFING THE PORCUPINE: AN EXHIBITION OF TASMANIAN COOKERY BOOKS Allport Library &Museum of Fine Arts, Hobart Until 16 August 2014 This exhibition is about Tasmanian cookery books, and the place of cooking in Tasmanian history and society. It marks 150 years since the introduction of salmon to Tasmanian waters, and since the publication of the first Australian cookery book. Along the way, it invites you to think about your cooking and eating: at what point does the strange become familiar, and the familiar become traditional? Anyone for kangaroo brains fried in emu fat? www.linc.tas.gov.au/events/whatson/ frontpage/tasmanian-cookbooks

BOOKS AND THINGS: COLLECTIONS FOR PACIFIC STUDIES RYKO: A WILD LIFE Fisher Library, University of New South Wales Northern Territory Library, Darwin Until 19 December 2014 Until 27 July This exhibition illustrates the wealth of the An exhibition looking at the extraordinary life of Library’s holdings related to Pacific Studies. It Ted Ryko and his 1914 solo bicycle journey from includes early printed books, maps and charts, Adelaide to Darwin. Ryko was an avid works of natural history and fiction. The books photographer and writer who travelled extensively and documents on display are complemented by in the Territory’s Top End. He recorded the artefacts from the Macleay Museum’s holdings and people, events, scenes and stories he saw in the together they celebrate the wealth of the University bush and in the process, created a stunning visual of Sydney’s heritage collections. sydney.edu.au/ record of Australia’s last frontier. library/about/whatsnew/exhibitions artsandmuseums.nt.gov.au/northern-territory- library/news MEMORY HOUSE: CELEBRATING 125 YEARS OF THE STATE LIBRARY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA State Library of Western Australia, Perth Until 28 September 2014 The public are invited to explore W.A.’s diverse history in a feast of the senses that is set to include some of the State Library’s most precious collection items. ‘The State Library has been collecting artworks, maps, photographs and other heritage material for the past 125 years,’ said the State Library CEO and State Librarian Margaret Allen. According to the State Library’s Battye Historian Susanna Iuliano ‘the treasure trove of items on display in Memory House will take you about. With pride, they went to war with just a few on a journey through our State’s history of months of battle training under their belts. Some exploration, settlement, migration, mining, would not return home; those who did were education and its enduring Indigenous culture.’ changed forever. For many, the only link back to a www.slwa.wa.gov.au/whats_on/exhibitions life dramatically interrupted by war was a personal diary with tales of adventure, heartache, bravery— and thoughts of home. Life Interrupted remembers those who served—in their own words. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/exhibitions/ future.html

VIVA L’ITALIA. A REGIONAL ROMP THROUGH ITALY De Beer Gallery, Central Library, University of Otago, NZ 11 June—5 September 2014 An exhibition constructed around images of Italian cities from a seventeenth-century copy of Pietro Bertelli’s Theatro delle Citta d’Italia (1629). By utilising these images, the viewer ‘romps’ through the various regions of the country cabinet by THE REAL MATTHEW FLINDERS cabinet, from Piedmont in the north, to Puglia in State Library of New South Wales, Sydney the southeast, Sardinia in the west, and Sicily in the 18 July 2014 southwest. This year marks the bicentenary of the death of Although by necessity selective, the Matthew Flinders (1774–1814) and the bicentenary exhibition displays some wonderful books, of the publication of his legendary charts. What primarily from the collections of Esmond de Beer sort of person was he and what drove him to such and Charles Brasch, who both thoroughly enjoyed heights of achievement? Flinders’ prolific letters what Italy offered to the world. www.otago.ac.nz/ give a clear insight into his character. Engaging, library/exhibitions/italy/index.php with a great capacity for friendship, passionately devoted to his wife, witty, well-read and, in many LIFE INTERRUPTED: ways, high-minded, he was nonetheless a man with PERSONAL DIARIES FROM WORLD WAR I more than a hint of arrogance and self-will, both of State Library of New South Wales, Sydney which would ultimately have devastating 5 July—21 September 2014 consequences. His search for economic security They were teachers, farmers, clerks and architects. and his dedication to his profession guided his life. Some were still at school. They came from cities, Speaker Paul Brunton OAM, FAHA, is Emeritus regional towns and the bush. From August 1914 Curator, State Library of N.S.W. Australian men and women kissed their loved ones www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/events_talks/events/ goodbye and enlisted in a war they knew little the_real_matthew_flinders.html THE TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE 30s. A selection of spectacular kabuki robes further FIRST WORLD WAR illustrates the extravagance of the theatrical form. Australian War Memorial, Canberra An inspiration to artists for centuries, kabuki 18 July 2014 draws on Japan’s rich folklore, literature and Join Professor Jay Winter of Yale University, history, as well as violent, romantic and scandalous internationally acclaimed historian of the Great War, and series editor of the recently released, three-volume Cambridge History of the First World War for a public lecture. A number of Jay Winter’s books will be available for purchase and author- signing on the day, notably the volumes of the Cambridge History of the First World War, and Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning. www.awm.gov.au/events/ public-lectures-presented-authors-peter-barton- professor-jay-winter

events, to present lavish dramatic performances. Kabuki actors—the movie stars of their day—were wildly popular for flamboyant portrayals, extraordinary characters and colourful personal lives. Shunsen’s prints provide a fascinating glimpse into this glamorous world, while demonstrating consummate mastery of traditional VICTOR HUGO: Japanese printmaking techniques. The exhibition is LES MISÉRABLES—FROM PAGE TO STAGE accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue. State Library of Victoria, Melbourne www.nga.gov.au/TokyoStage/Default.cfm 18 July—9 November 2014 Timed to coincide with the arrival of Cameron VICTOR HUGO AND THE MAKING OF A Mackintosh’s acclaimed new production of Boublil NATIONAL COLLECTION and Schönberg’s Les Misérables in Melbourne in July State Library of Victoria, Melbourne 2014, Victor Hugo: Les Misérables—From Page to Stage 20 July 2014 brings together an extraordinary collection of rarely The idea of a famous writer leaving their papers seen material from around the world. and manuscripts to a library was a new Take a journey from the nineteenth-century phenomenon in the 1880s. When Victor Hugo, Paris of Victor Hugo’s novel—Les Misérables—to considered one of the greatest French writers of all today’s blockbuster stage musical. Featuring rare time, decided to bequest his entire archive to the items from the collections of the Bibliothèque National Library of France in 1881 he began a nationale de France, Maison de Victor Hugo, hugely important trend that continues to this day. Musée Rodin, Cameron Mackintosh Archive and Join Guillaume Fau, Chief Heritage Curator others, this exhibition is a world-first insight into at the Bibliothèque nationale de France for a the most popular French story of all time. discussion about the significance that Hugo’s Exclusive to the State Library of Victoria. bequest has had for the Library, the French people victorhugoexhibition.com.au and the world. www.slv.vic.gov.au/event/victor- hugo-and-making-national-collection STARS OF THE TOKYO STAGE. NATORI SHUNSEN’S KABUKI ACTOR PRINTS. LIFE INTERRUPTED: PERSONAL DIARIES National Gallery of Australia, Canberra FROM WORLD WAR I 19 July—12 October 2014 State Library of New South Wales, Sydney Stars of the Tokyo stage: Natori Shunsen’s Kabuki Actor 24 July 2014 Prints reveals the dynamic world of Japan’s kabuki Join curator Elise Edmonds as she talks about Life theatre through superb actor portraits created by Interrupted, which features war diaries written by artist Natori Shunsen (1886–1960) in the 1920s and teachers, farmers, clerks and architects. They came from cities, regional towns and the bush. Some 2014 MEMORIAL FERGUSON LECTURE: would not return home; those who did were 55 YEARS AN AMATEUR HISTORIAN changed forever. Some kept diaries, perhaps for the & BIBLIOPHILE first time in their lives. They knew what they were Ferguson Hall, 197 Macquarie Street, Sydney witnessing was important. Many wrote of their 30 July 2014 experiences to an audience back home. Others Keith Johnson will share his recollections of the wrote simply to try and makes sense of their Royal Historical Society of Australia in the 1960s surroundings. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/ and observations on its long standing members events_talks/events/ over the Society’s history. Keith’s book Collecting life_interrupted_with_curator_elise_edmonds.html over the years has fostered an interest in biographical reference works, particularly those published in Australia. He will also discuss the evolution of the ‘not for profit’ Biographical Database of Australia, which has been online since late 2013, and will be a ‘work in progress’ for many years. www.rahs.org.au/ai1ec_event/rahs-special- event-2014-memorial-ferguson-lecture-55-years-an- a m a t e u r - h i s t o r i a n - a n d - bibliophile/? instance_id=542

OPEN HOUSE MELBOURNE: VISIT QUEEN’S HALL State Library of Victoria, Melbourne 26 & 27 July 2014 Closed to the public since 2003, Queen’s Hall features one of Melbourne’s most beautiful nineteenth-century interiors, evoking the splendour of Marvellous Melbourne. Discover the grand entrance to Queen’s Hall with its sweeping marble staircase and walls adorned with magnificent 1920s murals created by artists Napier Waller and Harold Septimus Power. FLINDERS Inside, ornate plasterwork, elaborate chandeliers, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney heritage furniture and beautiful nineteenth-century 31 July 2014 decor are revealed. www.slv.vic.gov.au/event/open Matthew Flinders compiled the first complete chart -house-melbourne-visit-queens-hall of this continent, he advocated the use of the name ‘Australia’ and, with George Bass, proved that TASTE OF JAPAN: WORKSHOP Tasmania was an island. RIE SHIBASAKI—SHODŌ/CALLIGRAPHY The Library holds the most comprehensive Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland collection of material relating to Flinders. Join 26 & 27 July 2014 Emeritus Curator Paul Brunton as he talks about Shodō or Japanese calligraphy is a pastime that selected Flinders memorabilia to mark the requires poise, posture and concentration. In order bicentenary of his death and celebrate his to write beautiful kanji or kana you should sit up contribution to Australia’s national heritage. straight, delicately hold your brush in a vertical www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/events_talks/events/ position and clear your mind. The zen-like OOTV_Flinders.html concentration, attention to detail and that shodō requires are the same as is found in other DEBORAH BECK: RAYNER HOFF: traditional pastimes like chadō (tea ceremony) and HIS ANTIPODEAN LEGACY ikebana (flower arranging). State Library of New South Wales, Sydney Join Rie Shibasaki for a special workshop 5 August 2014 and demonstration of the ancient art of Shodō. Sculptor G. Rayner Hoff was 29 when he arrived in www.aucklandartgallery.com/whats -on/ Sydney from England in 1923 to become drawing events/2014/july/taste-of-japan-calligraphy1 and sculpture master at East Sydney Technical College. Known principally for his sculptures on Tyers surrounded by magnificent gardens in the Anzac War Memorial (1931–34) in Sydney, Gippsland. Apart from being an acclaimed botanist Hoff was also responsible for establishing an influential school of sculpture which had significant repercussions for the development of sculpture throughout Australia. In researching her upcoming biography, Deborah Beck has discovered a rich source of material in the collections of the State Library of N.S.W. Via this documentation, she has explored Hoff’s relationship with many iconic Australian artists and authors such as Norman Lindsay, Douglas Dundas, Mary Gilmore and Hugh McCrae. As well as revealing many previously unknown photographs of Hoff and his work, and passionate gardener who importantly compiled Deborah will discuss his lasting legacy and the first ever field guide to Victorian native influence in Sydney’s cultural awakening in the wildflowers, Jean was also a renowned author and 1930s. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/events_talks/ prolific letter writer—and her papers are held here events/scholarly_musings_deborah_beck.html at the Library. Join Meredith Fletcher to discover the INTRODUCING BAKIN: A JAPANESE remarkable insights that the Library’s collection LITERARY GIANT materials have given her about Jean’s remarkable National Library of Australia, Canberra life and achievements. www.slv.vic.gov.au/event/ 13 August, 2014 creative-conversations-meredith-fletcher-on- This presentation by Dr Emiko Okayama explores pioneering-gippsland-based-botanist-jean-galbraith the life, labour and legacy of Japan’s most enigmatic nineteenth-century novelist. www.nla.gov.au/event/7104

VICTOR HUGO: LES MISÉRABLES—FROM PAGE TO STAGE PANEL SERIES State Library of Victoria, Melbourne 14, 21 & 28 August 2014 Hear a series of panel discussions with experts about the enduring universal themes of Victor Hugo’s literary masterpiece, Les Misérables.  The lost cities of Paris and Melbourne. Thursday 14 August, 6–7.15pm.  Revolution—why bother? Thursday 21 ADMIRAL ARTHUR PHILLIP: THE MAN August, 6–7.15pm. State Library of New South Wales, Sydney  Social conscience and the popular novel— 20 August 2014 Hugo, Dickens, Stowe, Tolstoy. Thursday 28 Admiral Arthur Phillip holds a unique place in August, 6–7.15pm. Australian history as the first governor of New www.slv.vic.gov.au/event/victor-hugo-les-mis- South Wales. While we know of his achievements rables-page-stage-panel-series and have numerous official records on his public life, as we approach the bicentenary of Phillip’s MEREDITH FLETCHER ON PIONEERING death, author Lyn Ferguson discusses the man GIPPSLAND-BASED BOTANIST, behind the public persona. She will walk us JEAN GALBRAITH through his family background, early life, and his State Library of Victoria, Melbourne impressive career. In doing so, Phillip the man will 19 August 2014 be fleshed out, clearly illustrating this fascinating Meredith Fletcher was a Creative Fellow at the character. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/ Library back in 2008. During her Fellowship she events_talks/events/ researched Jean Galbraith’s life for a biography she admiral_arthur_phillip_the_man.html was writing. Jean Galbraith (1906–1999) spent much of her 92 years living in the family home at GOVERNOR ARTHUR PHILLIP State Library of New South Wales, Sydney 28 August 2014 Appointed as the first Governor of the colony of New South Wales, Arthur Phillip died on 31 August 1814. Join us as we commemorate the 200th anniversary of his death. Curator Louise Anemaat will present a selection of items from the Library’s collections which document Phillips’ role in the early years of the colony. Included will be a DREAM HOME, SMALL HOME letter dated 3 July 1788 from Arthur Phillip to the Museum of Sydney, Sydney Marquis of Lansdowne, in which he states that 23 August—23 November 2014 Port Jackson is ‘a more eligible Situation for the Today most new homes in New South Wales are Colony, & being without exception the finest bought ready-built, in a housing market dominated Harbour in the World’. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/ by big construction companies. Things were very events/events_talks/events/ different in the decade following the end of World OOTV_governor_arthur_phillip.html War II. Do-it-yourself construction was, for many people, the only way to achieve the dream of home ownership—and bookstalls, department stores and daily newspapers provided the plans. This exhibition looks at small home building in the post World War II years. sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/exhibitions/dream- home-small-home

HONOURING THEA ASTLEY EUROPEAN PRINTS AND DRAWINGS 1500–1900 State Library of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 23 August 2014 28 August–2 November 2014 On the 10th anniversary of her death, we revisit A selection of some 150 works on paper from the Thea Astley, the only writer to have won the Miles Gallery’s fine collection of European prints and Franklin award four times. Editor, critic and drawings revealing the story of the graphic arts in longtime friend Mark MacLeod joins critic Susan Europe from the late fifteenth-century to the dawn Sheridan and authors Debra Adelaide and Felicity of the twentieth-century. Castagna to discuss Astley’s life and work. The exhibition explores the development of www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/events_talks/events/ various graphic techniques and opens a fascinating honouring_thea_astley_.html window into the Gallery’s history and collecting patterns. It coincides with the publication of the ARTHUR PHILLIP: first book on the Gallery’s European prints and SAILOR, MERCENARY, GOVERNOR, SPY drawings collection, and is also the first time that State Library of New South Wales, Sydney the Gallery’s recent acquisition, Melencolia I 1514 by 27 August 2014 Albrecht Dürer will be on display—one of the On the bicentenary of Admiral Arthur Phillip’s most enigmatic images in Western art. death, author Justice Michael Pembroke discusses www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/european- Phillip’s extraordinary life. In his time Phillip prints-and-drawings-1500-1900 journeyed across the world from England to France, crossing Spain to Brazil and onto Australia. PATRICK DODD: JOHN MACARTHUR— Along the way he was employed by the English VISIONARY OR VILLAIN? government as a spy and travelled far and wide on State Library of New South Wales, Sydney secret missions. Join Michael as he tells the unique 2 September 2014 story of this fascinating historical figure. Macarthur is remembered by most people for www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/events_talks/events/ laying the foundations of the great Australian wool arthur_phillip_with_justice_michael_pembroke.ht industry. In fact he spent so much time away from ml home fighting Governors and facing a court martial in England his practical achievements owe Good news for book lovers Sheila Markham has just published a sequel to her famed ‘conversations with the antiquarian book trade’. Sheila’s interviews with the most influential figures of the antiquarian book trade first appeared in the Bookdealer, and were then published in book- form as A Book of Booksellers (2004). Titled Second Book of Booksellers, this new volume includes 31 conversations with rare book dealers like Sabrina Izzard, John Windle, Sophie Schneideman, Pom Harrington, Paul Mills and Michael Graves- a very great deal to the persistence and loyalty of Johnston. his wife and sons. He was a complex character. He 256pp illustrated, hardback. Edition limited achieved a great deal but his combative to 500 copies. Price £20 temperament, and a debilitating illness contracted www.sheila-markham.com/sheila_markham.html on his way to Australia, prevented him from achieving much more. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/ events_talks/events/ scholarly_musings_patrick_dodd.html

STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA APPEAL The State Library of Victoria needs help with the acquisition of two historically significant items: the ‘Diggers Ten Commandments’, a rare nineteenth-century Victorian goldfields document and La Fin du Monde—a key twentieth-century illustrated book and Modernist masterpiece—by French Cubist Fernand Léger and modernist poet Blaise Cendrars. The Library is also seeking assistance with the digitisation of its unique collection of CUA streetscapes—a vast Google-style photographic survey of inner Melbourne. For more information: www.slv.vic.gov.au/support - u s / a n n u a l - a p p e a l ? utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Foundation+Annual+Appeal+ - +Donor+reminder+-+June+2014&utm_content=Foundation+Annual+Appeal+- +Donor+reminder+-+June+2014+CID_add0258ad8ee4b1959c4ed83e460ed80&utm_source=Campaign% 20Monitor&utm_term=Find%20out%20more

British Library Treasures Online A wealth of the British Library’s greatest literary treasures, including numerous original manuscripts, personal letters and diaries, first editions and rare illustrations, together with a rich variety of contextual material—newspapers, photographs, advertisements and maps—have been gathered together at a terrific new site called Discovering Literature. Discovering Literature features more than 8,000 pages of collection items including William Blake’s notebook, childhood writings of the Brontë sisters, the manuscript of the Preface to Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist, and an early draft of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, alongside contemporary research including newly commissioned articles and short documentary films on more than 20 iconic authors from the Romantic and Victorian periods. Representing the first phase of a much wider project, the British Library aims to digitise other literary eras including the twentieth century. www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians ILAB Congress in Paris 2014 of 35 rare items. Notable among those from an BY JÖRN HARBECK Australian/Pacific perspective was a copy of Shaw’s 1787 catalogue of samples of tapa cloth The Congress of the International League of collected on Cook’s Pacific voyages. Here we also Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), of which saw the two famous Coronelli globes made for ANZAAB is a member association, is held every King Louis XIV between 1681 and 1683. They are two years, and brings together booksellers from all almost 4 metres in diameter and show the latest around the world. The 2014 congress was held in discoveries made by Europeans, including the France as this year marks the centenary of the founding of SLAM, the French Antiquarian Booksellers Association. One hundred and six antiquarian booksellers from 13 different countries participated in this congress from 13–16 April 2014. Australia was represented by a large group of 12 ANZAAB members (plus one spouse). Only the host nation France and the USA had more participants, and many booksellers commented on how good the turn-out had been from far-away Australia. The Coronelli globes, Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Preceding the congress was the Paris (Courtesy ILAB) International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Grand Dutch charting of New Holland. The BNF program Palais from 10–13 April. This is one of the largest was rounded off by a visit to a WWI exhibition book fairs in the world, and this year brought and a behind-the-scenes tour of the library. In the together 168 exhibitors and attracted over 20,000 evening, congress participants were treated to a visitors. buffet dinner-cruise on a boat going up the Seine The congress got underway on the evening through the heart of the city. of 13 April when we were welcomed by Anne On day two we visited two castles just north Lamort, President of SLAM, and newly elected of Paris, Ecouen and Chantilly. Ecouen Castle is ILAB President Norbert Donhofer at a cocktail the National Museum of the Renaissance and function at the Hotel Le Marois. The following among its treasures are an amazing group of 10 three days were packed with visits to some of colossal sixteenth-century tapestries. Climbing a France’s best libraries to see private exhibitions long, winding staircase in one of the castle’s that had been put on especially for us. towers, we were rewarded by an exhibition of The first day kicked off with a visit to the sixteenth-century books in the castle’s collection. Bibliotheque de l’Arsenal, a library housed in the Lunch in the grounds of nearby Chantilly old Armoury building. The special exhibition there castle was a real treat. As the weather was very fine it was served in the garden of the Maison de Sylvie, where we were greeted by three French hunting horns. The players displayed great stamina, but so did the booksellers who were then rewarded with a buffet of the most delicious canapés and petits-fours. Chantilly castle houses a marvellous book collection formed in the nineteenth-century by Henri d’Orleans, the Duke of Aumale. Here we were shown a handful of books, treasures without equal, brought out and placed on elephant-skin At the Bibliotheque de l’Arsenal. (Courtesy ILAB) covered library tables in front of us without much included an astonishing group of medieval fuss. Carolingian manuscripts. The next visit was to the An absolute highlight was the 1499 first modern Bibliotheque Nationale de France (BNF). French edition of Boccacio’s Decamerone (Bocace After a very tasty lunch at the library cafe and a des cent nouvelles), printed on vellum by the great brief welcome in the foyer we visited an exhibition printer Antoine Verard, illustrated with 101 woodcuts, and gloriously hand-coloured in the into the former chapel that now serves as the most exquisite colours—a multi-million dollar meeting place of the French Academy. Here we book were it ever to be for sale. were greeted by the chancellor of the Institut. On the last day of the congress we visited Visiting this place was a great honour as it is the Library of the Petit Palais and the Mazarine usually only reserved for members of the Library. The Petit Palais houses another great Academy. Why this privilege had been granted collection put together by a nineteenth-century French bibliophile, Eugene Dutuit. Books on display included the first Greek printing of Homer’s Works (printed in Florence in 1488), as well as one of the earliest known French bindings with gilt tooling. A highlight was the unassuming first edition of Montaigne’s Essays (Essais, 1580), specially bound in full vellum for Montaigne’s friend, the great book collector Jacques Auguste De Thou, with his coat of arms in gilt on the front cover making it possible to date the binding to before A display at the Petit Palais. (Courtesy ILAB) 1587. When Dutuit owned it much later, he is said became clear when the chancellor proceeded to tell to have remarked that if he could keep only one us with great enthusiasm about a wonderful book from his collection, this would have been it. purchase he had made at the Paris book fair just I asked one of the French booksellers why days before. he thought this was so. He said that there could be The Mazarine Library has as its nucleus the no better copy of this most important French personal library of Cardinal Mazarin (1602–1661), book, and that it would sell for several millions if it and the special exhibition put on for us was of were ever for sale. I was a bit doubtful, but books presented to him. Most of these books had researching prices that evening I found that in been bound especially for Mazarin and had his Cardinal’s crest tooled in gilt on the front cover. Many had been sent to him by writers and musicians eager to gain his patronage. The congress concluded with an elegant gala dinner at the Automobile Club de France directly on the Place de la Concorde. Here we were also able to see some of the motoring history treasures in the collection of the club. Attending this ILAB congress was an inspiring experience, an opportunity to see The library at Chantilly castle. (Courtesy ILAB) wonderful books and to meet booksellers from around the world. I am looking forward to the 2009 a fine copy in a contemporary vellum 2016 ILAB congress in Budapest. binding, but without any known provenance, had sold for 715,000 Euros, or almost exactly one million Australian dollars. Now add to this the De Thou–Dutuit provenance, and the French bookseller was spot on. Hungry after seeing such treasures, lunch at the Restaurant L’Alcazar in the 6th arrondisement of Paris was a very swish affair with delicious food, wonderful wines and engaging conversation. Discovered a terrific new site? Or want to share your favourites? In the afternoon we visited the marvellous Send the links to Mazarine Library, housed within the Institut de [email protected] and add France. Before the library visit we were admitted them to ANZAAB’s website.