The 53rd Australian Antiquarian Book Fair
The Melbourne Rare Book Fair 2024 will be held Thursday 25 July to Saturday 27 July 2024
presented by ANZAAB with the support of the University of Melbourne.
About the Fair, History of the Fair
Featured Highlights
Half a tent is better than none ...
$9500
A map of the colony of New South Wales. The various inset maps show ports and harbours around the territory: Port Philip and Western Port, Botany Bay, Jervis Bay, Port Hunter, Broken Bay, Port Macquarie, Twofold Bay, Port Stephens, Morton Bay and Brisbane River, Port Jackson, and one larger map of the whole continent.
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Aboriginal Women, Sacred and Profane
$750
KABERRY, Phyllis. Aboriginal Woman, Sacred and Profane. With an Introduction by Professor A.P. Elkin. A study of the Aboriginal women of Australia. London, Routledge, 1939. 8vo. xxxii+294. B/w frontispiece and illustrations, map and bibliography. Original bright cloth in dustwrapper (some slight repairs) but an impressively fresh, near fine copy. First edition. The first major anthropological study of Aboriginal women.
Tapio Wirkkala, Eye Hand and Thought
$200
A symbolic figure in Finnish design. We will be bringing a range of books on Modernist furniture.
Samuel Johnson: A Dictionary of the English Language
$18000
First edition of one of the landmark works of the English language.
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