BOOKFARE 8 The newsletter of the Australian & New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers ANZAAB The Australian & New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers Ltd www.anzaab.com Queries, or for information, contact: Jo rn Harbeck ANZAAB Secretary [email protected] ANZAAB is affiliated with the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers www.ilab.org BookFare is edited by Fiona Kells [email protected] Many thanks to Ellie Aroney for her help in compiling BookFare 8. Cover: Arthur de Tourcey Collingridge. The Great Balloon Explosion in Sydney— Scene in Palmer Street. 1881. Hand-coloured engraving, from the Illustrated Sydney News. (Antique Print & Map Room. www.antiqueprintroom.com.) BOOKFARE The newsletter of the Australian & New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers October 2013 Yes, folks. It’s Book Fair season! Map Collecting: The Significance of the Spice Trade for the ANZAAB’s 40th Australian Antiquarian Book Fair Charting of the Australian Continent. Presented by went off with a bang in July in Melbourne and now Louis Kissajukian, proprietor of the Antique Print it’s Sydney’s turn. The Harbour City hasn’t seen Room, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney. Tuesday this much excitement since Monsieur L’Estrange 29th October at 6pm. ended his ballooning career in a spectacular fireball The venue for both talks is the Friends Room over Woolloomooloo in 1881. (Mitchell Wing), State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie Street, Sydney. Sydney will host ANZAAB’s 41st Australian Antiquarian Book Fair from November 8 to 10. For more information, visit: With twenty-three leading national and www.sydneyrarebookfair.com international booksellers exhibiting, the Fair will showcase a world-class collection of antiquarian and rare books, maps, prints, photographs, autographs, manuscripts, memorabilia and related items, priced from $30 to in excess of $100,000. Highlights will include a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, the first illustrations of the koala and a rare Chinese export trade album from the 1800s. So kit yourself out in your best book fossicking gear and join the human stampede headed to the Roundhouse at the University of New South Wales, Kensington Campus, Sydney. (Directions available at www.unswroundhouse.com/about/ location/). More exciting news Friday 8th November 6pm–9pm Somerset House Books is opening retail Saturday 9th November 10am–5pm premises in Sydney under the name of ‘Love Vintage Books’ at 563 Willoughby Sunday 10th November 10am–5pm Road, Willoughby. All being well, the Admission $10. Complimentary tickets available at shop should be open by the end of www.sydneyrarebookfair.com/about.htm November. Contact Margaret Dunstan for more information. Ph: (02) 9699 3830 ____________________ _______________ To coincide with the Fair, ANZAAB will also Douglas Stewart Fine Books has also present two free talks at the State Library of New opened new retail premises. You can now South Wales: visit Doug and his crew at 720 High A Journey Through the Rare Books Associated with Street, Armadale, in Melbourne. Visit Norman Lindsay. Presented by Rodney Kent—one Doug’s website for a taste of what you’ll of the largest private collectors of Norman Lindsay find there: www.douglasstewart.com.au material. Wednesday 23rd October at 6pm. Exhibitors, Sydney Rare Book Fair 2013 Addison Publications Douglas Stewart Fine Books Pty Ltd [email protected] [email protected] www.addisonpublications.com www.douglasstewart.com.au 44 (0)794 194 5220 (03) 9066 0200 9 Upper Addison Gardens, Kensington, London 720 High Street, Armadale, VIC, 3143 W14 8AL, U.K. Full Circle Andrew Isles Natural History Books [email protected] [email protected] www.fullcircle.com.au www.andrewisles.com (03) 9819 4042 (03) 9510 5750 59 Church Street, Hawthorn, VIC, 3122 Rear of 115 Greville Street, Prahran, VIC, 3181 Grant’s Bookshop Ankh Antiquarian Books [email protected] [email protected] www.grantsbookshop.com.au ankhantiquarianbooks.com.au (03) 9822 2170 (03) 9888 1990 Rear 909 High Street, Armadale, VIC, 3143 P.O. Box 133, Darling, VIC, 3145 Harbeck Rare Books Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints [email protected] [email protected] www.harbeck.com.au www.antipodean.com (07) 3843 0556 (845) 424 3867 P.O. Box 1610, Carindale, QLD, 4152 P.O. Box 189, Cold Spring 10516 N.Y., U.S.A. Josef Lebovic Gallery Antique Bookshop & Curios [email protected] [email protected] www.joseflebovicgallery.com www.antiquebookshop.com.au (02) 9663 4848 (02) 9966 9925 103a Anzac Parade (cnr Duke St), Kensington, NSW, Level 1/328 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest, NSW, 2033 2065 Kay Craddock – Antiquarian Bookseller Pty Ltd Antique Print & Map Room [email protected] [email protected] www.kaycraddock.com www.antiqueprintroom.com (03) 9654 8506 (02) 9267 4355 The Assembly Hall Building, 156 Collins Street, Shops 7–11, Level 2, Queen Victoria Building, Melbourne, VIC, 3000 455 George Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000 Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books Asia Bookroom [email protected] [email protected] www.hincebooks.com.au www.asiabookroom.com (03) 9809 1367 (02) 6251 5191 P.O. Box 1178, Hartwell, VIC, 3124 Unit 2, 1–3 Lawry Place, Macquarie, ACT, 2614 Littera Scripta Cornstalk Bookshop [email protected] [email protected] www.litterascripta.com.au www.cornstalk.com.au 0409 020 768 (02) 9660 4889 18 Mitchell Street, Baringhup, VIC, 3463 112 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, NSW, 2037 Louella Kerr Books Sebra Prints [email protected] [email protected] www.louellakerrbooks.com.au www.sebraprints.com.au (02) 9569 0156 (03) 9809 0222 17 Palace Street, Petersham, NSW, 2049 402 Burke Road, Camberwell, VIC, 3124 Mark’s Book Barn Somerset House Books [email protected] [email protected] 0417 065 089 www.somersethousebooks.com.au 215 Homer Street, Earlwood, NSW, 2206 (02) 9699 3830 P.O. Box 1305, Potts Point, NSW, 2011 Out of Print Books [email protected] Tim McCormick www.outofprint.com.au [email protected] (02) 9718 9262 www.mccormickbooks.com.au 179 Canterbury Road, Canterbury, NSW, 2193 (02) 9363 5383 92 Queen Street, Woollahra, NSW, 2025 Robert Muir Old & Rare Books [email protected] www.muirbooks.com (08) 9386 5842 69 Broadway, Nedlands, WA, 6009 F. Mason. Whaling at Twofold Bay. Hand-coloured engraving. 1871. From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News. (Antique Print & Map Room. www.antiqueprintroom.com.) A selection of what will be available at the 41st ANZAAB Australian Antiquarian Book Fair, Sydney, November 8-10 TWO SUPERB HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHS The Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) has been in the news again recently, with a biologist’s report suggesting that it is indeed feasible that the creatures may still exist in Tasmania. Full Circle will exhibit John Gould’s two superb, hand-coloured lithographs from his Mammals of Australia published in parts 1845–63. Full Circle will also bring a selection of prints from the same work, together with Gould’s The Birds of Australia and the full complement of plates from his A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia (a series of head studies issued in 1837, his first publication on the Australian fauna). Also on offer will be an interesting selection of prints of Australian flora and fauna, some of which are early and rare; topographical views depicting Sydney and environs from the Full figure: $25,000 Baudin expedition, Hyacinthe de Bougainville, Captain Head: $8,500 Wallis &c.; and a variety of early charts and maps of New South Wales. Full Circle 59 Church Street, Hawthorn, VIC, 3122 Ph: (03) 9819 4042 [email protected] www.fullcircle.com.au PARROT-SHAPED BOOK FROM RARE SYDNEY SERIES Sunny South Series. Sydney: John Sands, November 1931. Colour-illustrated card wrappers in the shape of a parrot, a little marking. Muir 7214. $1,000 A parrot-shaped book from this rare Sydney series. One in a series of about four untitled shape books, the verse unsigned, issued by Sands during the Depression, undated but copyright 1931. RARE EARLY EPHEMERA OF FREE MIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA Emigration. For Sydney, Direct, the fine fast-sailing first-class Ship, Wilmot, 687 Tons Register,—Coppered & Copper-fastened, Ninian Miller, Commander, Lying in the St. Katharine’s Dock. [London: 1841]. Printed card, single vertical fold, with related one-page letter and envelope. $650 A printed advertising card for the Wilmot, to sail for Sydney in January 1841. With an accompanying letter, 4 January, from E. H. Greene to his sister in Surrey. Rare early ephemera of free migration to Australia. In the following year, the Wilmot sustained serious damage in a collision on the Thames. RARE CHILDREN’S GAME Rongeat, A. An Amusing and Instructive Geography Dedicated to the Youth of England. The names of the principal cities in the world, their situation, population & distance from London. London: Ackermann & Co., n.d. [c.1846]. $4,600 Roan slipcase containing ten double-sided gilt- edged lithographed and hand-coloured cards, plus ‘Explanation’ sheet, housed in original roan slipcover, the original pastedown pictorial label is also coloured (now slightly darkened), all in fine state. One map shows New Holland, and the borders of South Australia. Another card lists ‘Sidney, capital of the British Colony in New Holland’. A delightful early game in excellent condition. Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books P.O. Box 1178, Hartwell, VIC, 3124 Ph: (03) 9809 1367 [email protected] www.hincebooks.com.au A SUPERB COPY Perry, George. Arcana, or, The museum of natural history: containing the most recent discovered objects embellished with coloured plates... Vol. I [all published]. London: Printed by George Smeeton for James Stratford, [1810]–1811. 84 hand-coloured engraved plates with tissue-guards and accompanying text leaves. Contemporary full calf and coloured label, expertly rebacked. Rare.