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
The first printed map of Alaska and the first map to focus on “Australia”
$35000
Two seminal maps of the Pacific: the earliest map focused on Alaska, the Northwest and upper California, and “the first printed map of Australia” (Tooley).
In the map of North America the west coast is reasonably well delineated, and de Jode has chosen to include the mythical Strait of Anian separating America from Asia. The existence of a body of water between the two continents had been suggested but not proved when the map was made. Despite the channel between the continents, the figures populating America are outside tents and domed buildings which are distinctly Asian in appearance.
ANGAS, George French: South Australia Illustrated
$20000
London, Thomas M'Lean, 1847.
This monumental plate book is a cornerstone of any collection of Australian illustrated books.
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“the great prose epic of the Elizabethan period” - the first English map on Mercator’s projection; the first map to name Lake Ontario; and one of the first maps to use the name “Virginia”
$1520000
The Wright-Molyneux Map is the first English map on Mercator’s projection, it is the first map to name Lake Ontario, and one of the first maps to use the name “Virginia”. Richard Hakluyt’s ‘Principall Navigations’ is first collection of English voyages, published at the height of Elizabethan maritime prestige and “the great prose epic of the Elizabethan period”.
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Antiphon for the Annunciation to the Shepherds
$465
Gregorian Chant leaf, c.1600, Spain.
“Salvator mundi", the Saviour of the World."
Spain, c.1600. Excellent condition.
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