2023 New York International ABAA Book Fair
Four Centuries at Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints ~ Booth E 6 at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair April 27-30, 2023
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Four Centuries at Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints ~ Booth E 6 at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair April 27-30, 2023
110 items in all fields, including photographs, original art, land deeds, Civil War, children's games, Westminster Kennel Club dog show ribbons, Zane Grey autograph & letters, W.W.I., music, pineapples to Philadelphia in 1847; Australia, China, West Point.
Ephemera, Photographs, Prints, Maps.
54 items including a photo album of Great White Fleet photographs in Sydney Harbor, 1908; Atlas of the Chinese Empire, published by the China Inland Mission, 1908; the two rare supplements for Mathews’ Birds, The Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands [with] A Supplement to the Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands… Birds of New Zealand; 150 Fiat promotional photographs including the factories, advertisements, racing cars, maritime engines, the Pope's Fiat, etc. 1920-30s; the Journal of East Asia, first issue of a periodical printed in Singapore at the Government Printing Office, 1875; an attractive and comprehensive commemorative album of a member of the French Industrial Exhibition of Beijing 1965, with names of both Chinese and French engineers attending; Walter Hoving’s presentation to the New York Society of Security Analysts, as chair of Tiffany & Co., 1966; Medical tickets for lecture attendance for the Medical College of Ohio, 1831; etc.
Prints, Maps, Books, Autographs, Photographs, Ephemera.
61 items including ~ Bill of lading for shipping books to young Henry Knox, Boston, from Thomas Longman, signed by Knox and Capt. James Scott, a witness to the Boston Tea Party, 1772; two monumental world maps, A General Map of the World or Terraqueous Globe, 1787 & 1799 editions showing Bass Strait discoveries; ALS from Robert Scott, written in the Antarctic, possibly with Scott’s thumbprint, [1911?]; proof plates of Thomas Cole’s The Voyage of Life; father of the Hudson River School; John Webber, unpublished views drawn for Views in the South Seas, 1787-88 & his View in Macao in two versions; the rarest Lifetime Issue colored by Webber himself & the Boydell issue, 1788-92 & 1809; Rembrandt etching Studies of the Heads of Saskia, 1636; silver salver signed in facsimile by crew members of Robert Scott’s first Antarctic Expedition; Chinese pith paintings from the library of Edward & Estelle Doheny, 1840-1870s; Charles Preuss’ topographical map, the first issue of the first map “to show the Oregon Trail accurately with great detail” 1846; 1938 painting of Walking Buffalo. Stoney Tribe Councillor, Alta, ’38 by G.B. Mitchell; Henry Squires’ annotated opera scores for Melbourne performances, a tenor who toured Australia extensively, 1850s; unrecorded 1791 Christmas Piece Broadside depicting The Death of Captn. James Cook, dedicated an early Dutch resident of New York; rare chart by Jas. Imray’s A New Chart of Terra Australia…, 1853; The Horse Fair, Rosa Bonheur’s large etching published by Gambart, 1863.
Prints, Maps, Books, Autographs, Photographs, Ephemera.
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