60 BOOK WRITTEN OR CONTRIBUTED BY (or about): Robert Merrihew ADAMS; Carola BAUMGARDT; George BIRTWISTLE; Tycho BRAHE; Percy Williams BRIDGMAN; Hermann Alexander BRUCK; Francois de CALLIERES; John CARY; Gale E. CHRISTIANSON; George V. COYNE; Roy CRAIG; Rene DESCARTES; Antonio R. DAMASIO; John Baptist DE FREVAL; John Louis Emil DREYER; Sir Arthur Stanley EDDINGTON; Desiderius ERASMUS; James EVANS; William Suddards FRANKLIN; GALILEO GALILEI; John GRIBBIN; Michael HAVEMANN; Edwin HUBBLE; Samuel HUMPHREYS (translator ); International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life; Louis Charles KARPINSKI MILLER; Johannes KEPLER; Gottfried Wilhelm LEIBNITZ; Malcolm Sim LONGAIR; Conrado LYCOSTHENE [alias Konrad WOLFFHART]; Barry MACNUTT; Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MASSEY; Christian MOELLER; Nevill Francis MOTT; Otto E. NEUGEBAUER; Isaac NEWTON; NICOMACHUS OF GERASA; Niels NIELSEN; Nobel Prizes; James William NORTON-KYSHE; Charles P. Pollard OLIVIER; M. E. OMELYANOVSKY; Octav ONICESCU; Carl OPPENHEIMER; J. ORÓ; Syozo OSAWA; Max OSTERBERG; George Barry O'TOOLE; David PARK; Robert Hodson PARSONS; Pio PASCHINI; Cecilia PAYNE-GAPOSCHKIN; Karl PEARSON; Henry PEMBERTON; S. S. PENNER; Noel Antoine PLUCHE; Robert Wichard POHL; C. PONNAMPERUMA; Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum Scripta Varia; Felix Archimede POUCHET; Otto RAHN; Richard RAPPORT; Roshdi RASHED; Alfred A. ROBB; Frank Egleston ROBBINS; Vasco RONCHI; Svein ROSSELAND; Henry Norris RUSSELL; Erwin SCHRODINGER; Ludwik SILBERSTEIN; William Marshall SMART; Ian Naismith SNEDDON; Filippo SOCCORSI; Lyman SPITZER, Jr.; Alexander Dees de STERIO; Walter SULLIVAN; Victor E. THOREN; Clifford Ambrose TRUESDELL; R. S. YOUNG.
To coincide with the Melbourne Rare Book Fair we are pleased to announce the latest in our series of Picture Book catalogues. It contains many treasures:
- the extremely rare second impression of Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' (1937, with the dustwrapper), the first edition of J.M. Barrie's 'Peter and Wendy' (1911, with the dustwrapper), and P.G. Wodehouse's 'Mike' (1919, also with the dustwrapper!);
- autograph material from Hector Berlioz, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Sir Robert Torrens and Sir Douglas Mawson;
- numerous important photographs, including an Antarctic masthead panorama by Frank Hurley, an early experimental image from a negative produced by exposure to radioactivity, and portraits (many with signatures) of the founders of Darwin;
- accounts of voyages by Magra, Bligh, MacGillivray and Flinders (the rare large-paper issue, a gift from the explorer's only child, with the elephant folio atlas);
- accounts of inland expeditions by Hume, Blaxland, Carron, Jardine, Leichhardt and Cross (the first work relating to the exploration of Western Australia);
- and an apparently unrecorded large-scale map of the failed Ottoman attempt to invade Egypt on 3 February 1915, the first action in the First World War to include the AIF, prepared by the 3rd Field Company, Australian Engineers, the only Australian unit present.
To view these items (and much besides) visit us at Stand 24 at the Melbourne Rare Book Fair, 12–14 July.
The catalogue comprises 111 entries, including original and signed works on paper by well-known illustrators, books of Russian and Jewish interest, signed modern first editions and deluxe, handsomely bound editions of the great early 20th century illustrators alongside classics old & new, populated by a host of our most beloved characters from children's literature.
Message from ILAB President Sally Burdon to all ILAB affiliates in relation to the recently announced tariffs on Products of Germany or the United Kingdom.
It is with great sadness that we have to announce the death of John Lawson, who served as ILAB Vice President from 1979 - 1981 and as ILAB President from 1982 - 1984.
“I felt strong enough to lift a mountain” declared Alexandre Dumas after a visit to Georgia in 1858.
Presidents of ILAB’s member associations certainly felt equally inspired after a week of meetings in the capital, Tbilisi.
LET ME TELL YOU A STORY. Well, it felt like a story at the time, and not without a whisper of magic. Celtic magic. Book collectors, after all, are irrepressible raconteurs. For every book in their collection, there is a backstory to spin. Here is one of mine:
Have you recently become a bookseller? Would it help if you could get regular advice from an experienced ILAB antiquarian bookseller in your field? Report by mentored bookseller Gregor Gumpert.
