Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Friday night soirée, the first in 16 months, felt so good to hug people again!

DEFEND OUR POST OFFICE! A resolution passed by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. RESOLUTION PASSED BY THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS...Continue reading

DEFEND OUR POST OFFICE! A resolution from the ABAA - Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. RESOLUTION PASSED BY THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS The United States Postal Service traces its roots to the 1775 Second Continental Congress, where Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general. It is one of only a few government agencies explicitly authorized in the Constitution of the United States (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 7, the "Postal Clause')....Continue reading

Almost Turkey Time... some vintage turkeys and some live ones that jumped onto our fence a couple weeks ago!

Elist 31 ~ Polar, Macao, Australia, West Point 44 items including an ALS from Will Humphrys, prominent print engraver in Philadelphia, London & Italy; 1871 ALS from Manchester, Iowa Quaker giving price for farm land; Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, limited 1st edition with the list of corrections published later; A New and Correct History of New Holland by A Society of Gentlemen, Glasgow 1796, Ferguson 247; a very large albumen photograph for Rogers Locomotive Works, New Jersey of a... St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway engine, 1887; The Cadet Game, a 1905 Milton Bradley game based on West Point; Tuckey’s Account of the Voyage to establish a Colony at Port Phillip the first and only period account of the failed attempt to settle Victoria, 1805; 1st printing of Malaeska by Ann Stephens, which later achieved fame as the first dime novel; a selection of prints & maps about Macao, China; the family annotated copy of Memoirs of Captain James Wilson the London Missionary Society captain to the South Seas and India, 1815; the scarce account of the 2nd Mutiny against Wm. Bligh, the Rum Rebellion. Books, prints, ephemera, photographs. See more

Elist 30- Hudson River, Photographs, Australia, Legal Trials ~ 104 items including 2 editions of Wade’s Panorama of the Hudson River, 1846 & 1847; the program for the 1st ANZAC commemoration, London 1916, autographed; The Shipwrecked Orphans, a firsthand account of a shipwreck in the Torres Straits in 1834; L’Ornement Polychrome, with 206 chromolithographs of world design; Unrecorded Australian gold rush poster for the ship Concordia, 1852; Masuo Ikeda’s suite of original et...chings Portrait of Sphinx; Austrian Art Nouveau iron work in Vienna & Prague, 1909; a manuscript tally of legislators in the disputed 1792 NY gubernatorial race between Jay & Clinton; an 1856 theater broadside for imaginary Antarctic voyage Peter Wilkins!; a group of important legal trials many with Australian associations including Sir Walter Raleigh; Thomas Fyshe Palmer; Laurence Halloran, of Sydney Grammar School; Welsh Chartist John Frost; 18 Parsi defendants in Bombay; Admiral Augustus Keppel; and trials of famous pirates including Bonnet & Kidd, 1742-1884. Books, prints, ephemera, etchings, photographs. See more

Elist 29- Antarctic, Photography, Civil War, Australia, New York City 97 items including a Map of Peking revised just after the Boxer Rebellion to illustrate the areas of occupation by the Eight Nation Alliance; Robert Scott ALS written in the Antarctic, possibly one of his last autographs; rare view of Singapore by George Edward Madeley, 1840; unrecorded sample book by Australian photographer & early filmmaker H. Walter Barnett; Charles Kean presentation programs for Royal ...performances at Windsor Castle 1849; photograph albumsof Gledswood an early Australian vineyard in NSW; South Asian/Indian people and trades ca. 1920; a US military man’s travels through the Philippines, Southeast Asia, Australia, NZ & Canada, 1926; a young man’s European tour visiting the 1900 Paris Exposition; Civil War tintype of a young boy in a Confederate great coat; WWII hand-made soldier’s album Netherlands East Indies, Visit to a Village. ALS from Ernest Shackleton, Edmund Fanning and an appeal from a Sing Sing Prisoner 1876. Books, photographs, autographed letters, ephemera, maps, prints. See more

Antipodean Books in San Fran, Feb. 2 & 3 at the SF Antiquarian Book, Prints & Paper Fair

Elist 27- W.W.1, New York, Photographs, China, Australia, Cricket 93 items including Spiers & Pond wine list for the 1867 Paris Exhibition, Melbourne entrepreneurs who organized the 1st Cricket test match in Australia; Hugh Hefner’s "That Toddlin’ Town!", his first book of caricatures, signed; W.W.1 manuscript journal by H.J. Bowden, British navy stoker, present at the bombardment of Anzac Cove 26 April 1915; Antarctic letter from Thomas Poulter, savior of Richard Byrd, Dear... Son, Greetings from the South Pole. I hope I am alive till thee gets this 1936; a collection of artist’s proof plates of Bartlett’s famous American Scenery; Henry Bunbury’s Arrowsmith Map of Discoveries in Australia, 1834, the namesake of Bunbury, Western Australia; a New York colonial writ issued by Chief Justice James De Lancey, who preside over the Zenger trial, 1745; a remarkable trade card for the Hudson River steamboat Olive Branch, the key to breaking the monopoly of Fulton & Livingston on Hudson River navigation, ca. 1825; a series of land subdivision posters of the Sydney area, 1920s. Books, photographs, ephemera, maps, prints. See more

Our latest list... Interesting items on the Antarctic, Hudson River, Photographs, Atlases, China, Australia. 72 items including Barnard’s History of England with four manuscript maps related to James Cook & the 1st public reading of the Declaration of Independence; Antarctic Days signed by Shackleton; a rare plaque commemorating Amundsen’s achievement at the South Pole; he complete set of Péron / Freycinet Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes in the original pink pape...red boards; a silver salver given to Captain Royds from his Discovery expedition messmates on the occasion of his marriage, 1917. Photograph albums including a New Guinea anthropological expedition 1930’s possibly related to Archbold’s 3rdexpedition; album of Paris Communards transported to New Caledonia, 1872-9. An artist’s archive of silhouette art: Shakespearean plays, opera and ballet by a Southern woman artist, 1890-1942; Mary G. Houston Riviere Art Nouveau binding; an unrecorded convict broadside of James Tawell; Chinese missionary press New Testament 1856; a trade card for the Hudson River steamship Olive Branch, the steamboat involved in the breaking of the Hudson River monopoly. See more

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We're a Poke stop! And the Gym is right down the street at Metro North! How cool is that, we found a worm in our books!