Catalogues

Hordern House Rare Books, Manuscripts & Paintings.

Specialities : Atlases and maps , Australiana , Botany

The land Australia: imagined, invented, recounted, mapped, colonised, explored, settled, and celebrated in our final major catalogue for the year.

Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books

Specialities : Atlases and maps , Natural history , Science and technology , Anthropology , Australiana , Botany , Zoology

Antiquariat Peter Fritzen

Specialities : Atlases and maps , Incunabula

Librairie Ancienne Ormara

Specialities : Architecture , Atlases and maps , Bindings , Literature , Old and rare books

Old Imprints

Specialities : Atlases and maps , Travel , Asia , Maps , Ephemera , Pamphlets , Posters

Old Imprints will be exhibiting at the inaugural San Francisco Map Fair to be held September 15 to 17, 2017 at The Regency Center, 1290 Sutter Street in San Francisco. For those unable to attend we offer a catalog of select items that we will be exhibiting featuring chiefly maps of California as well as examples of maps from other places. Additional images and condition description are available on our website, together with a more complete listing of highlights.
We hope that you will enjoy this selection.

Antiquariat Clemens Paulusch GmbH

Specialities : Atlases and maps , Prints and drawings , Topography , Maps

Recent additions. 510 views, maps, decorative prints and books.

Richard C. Ramer

Specialities : Art , Atlases and maps , Illustrated books , Literature , Travel , Americana

Illustrated books, 16th-21st centuries: 164 items, with color illustrations.

Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers

Specialities : Atlases and maps , Auctions , Autographs , Medicine , Photography , Travel , Australiana

Book Auction
5 and 6 April 2017 at 6:30 pm AEST
St George's Anglican Church Hall
296 Glenferrie Road, Malvern, Victoria

Wednesday 5 April 2017
The John Belson White Collection of Australian and Pacific voyages, First Fleet journals and Australiana.

Thursday 6 April 2017
Rare Victoriana, important early medical books, art and literature, photographs, manuscripts, and a broad miscellany.

Fully illustrated catalogue at http://invaluable.com/treloars

Highlights of the first evening include:
- Peron and Freycinet’s Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes [Historique] (1807-16, complete with the two-part atlas augmented with the 25 plates normally found only in the second edition atlas of 1824)
- Cook’s three voyages, offered separately (the third voyage, 1784, complete with the large folio atlas)
- Parkinson (1773) and Forster (1777)
- First Fleet journals by White (a hand-coloured copy), Hunter and Phillip
- works by Dampier, Brosses, Bligh, La Perouse, Labillardiere, Dillon and Wilkes
- atlases by La Pérouse (Charts and Plates to La Pérouse's Voyage, London, 1798); Vandermaelan (Atlas Universel … Sixième Partie – Océanique, 1827); and Dumont d’Urville (the rare and magnificent atlas to accompany the hydrographic section of the official account of Dumont-d'Urville's second voyage, 1847)
- rare Australian maps of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries


Highlights of the second evening include:
- albums of photographs and 16 original glass-plate negatives from the Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition, 1891-2, the first Australian expedition on which the camera was successfully used. The albums are of the utmost rarity; the unique negatives are the only ones known to exist from the expedition
- pioneering early books on anatomy by Andreas Vesalius (1555, 1568, 1725 and 1934/5]
- works by Thomas Browne (1642, 1645 and 1658)
- Osleriana (including rare books, signed copies, letters and photographs)
- signed copies of works by J.M. Coetzee (including unique copies of his Booker Prize-winning novels)
- Shackleton’s Heart of the Antarctic (1909, first edition, the deluxe large-paper issue with the fully-signed supplementary volume in its first uncorrected state)
- Shackleton’s South (1919, first edition, first impression, with the contemporary ownership details of Richard Walter Richards, one of the Ross Sea Shore Party)

Antiquariat Clemens Paulusch GmbH

Specialities : Atlases and maps , Prints and drawings , Topography

711 maps, views, portraits and books about Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. Part 1 of 6 of a catalogue-series about Germany.

Il Cartiglio di Roberto Cena s.r.l.u.

Specialities : Atlases and maps , Medicine , Science and technology , Botany , First Editions

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
we are pleased to announce that we will be exhibiting even this year at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair - booth A22.

During the last months we collected a selection of rare books concerning astrology, cosmography and science in general that we are presenting now in our new catalog that you can download here.

We look forward to seeing you at the Fair.