Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, David & Cathy Lilburne

A sample of items we will exhibit ~ Pamphlets related to the events in 1887 leading to the Hawaiian "Bayonet Constitution"; an archive of WWI American ambulance driver with captured German photographs & ephemera; a manuscript Royal pardon signed by King George IV, 1828 for a convict transported to Tasmania; eleven 19th c. Peruvian watercolors of "La Tapada Limeña"; Soochow city guides, with manuscript additions and vernacular albumen photographs, 1888; New York Views; the 1st attempt at recording day to day life in the city, 1831; a gift binding of Stephen Fosters' Nelly was a Lady, 1895, unrecorded on OCLC; Calli e Canali in Venezia, 100 heliogravure plates of Venice, 1892; Brooklyn items. Inquiries or orders are welcome by calling (+1) 845-424-3867, 914-456-9698 & info@antipodean.com & our website. We are happy to accommodate the needs of our institutional customers.

67 items including a bound collection of Apollo 11 NASA photographs with Neil Armstrong’s cut signature; an archive of a W.W.I American ambulance driver, John Platt, of Westfield, NJ, 47 items; Baron Von Mueller’s “The Vegetation of the Chatham-Islands”, inscribed to Governor La Trobe; Diary of George Washington, NY 1860 with a presentation inscription locating Washington’s 13th diary, listed as “Missing or not kept” in the LOC census; The Goat and the Kangaroos in a scarce edition of Aesop’s Fables, 1829; 27 American newspaper accounts of Napoleon & the Napoleonic Wars, 1798 to 1857; Vandermaelen maps of Exmouth & Broome, W.A., 1827; silk embroidered landscapes, likely from the Connecticut River Valley, 1800-40; large format images, Calli e Canali in Venezia, 1892; 27 images of Beato’s Egypt, 1870; The Voice of the I Am, Depression-era California cult periodicals, 1936-46. Books, Maps, Print, Ephemera, Photographs, etc.

The Artistic Vision in John Webber's Prints ~ Unpublished Aquatints; Lifetime Issues; Boydell Issues. A series of Webber views of Cook's third voyage to the South Pacific including New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Tahiti, Krakatoa, French Polynesia, Vietnam, Russian Kamchatka and Macao in China, published from 1787 to 1820.

The collecting of maps has long illustrated the history of discovery of the continents of the world. Amongst the continents, the Australian has had a particular attraction in the imagination of explorers and map makers, from Terra Australis Incognita to Beach to the Great South Land to New Holland to Ulimaroa and finally to Australia. Many explorers have skirted her coastlines and explored her interior; Marco Polo, Linschoten, Vlamingh, Tasman, Cook, Vancouver, Bougainville, Freycinet, Baudin, Flinders, Stokes, Oxley, Hume, Cunningham, Burke and Wills, Sturt, Mitchell, Bourke, Tyers, Strzelecki, Grey, Gregory, Stuart, Forrest, Giles and Warburton.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> This collection of Australian maps and world hemispheres has been 50 years in the making. It is based in part on the map collection of Dick Johnson, whose interest in the history of the discovery of Australia led him to collect early maps by the Dutch, Italian and English cartographers. It has been augmented by our interest in maps, which we have pursued since 1976, our first year in business. We believe it is the largest collection of maps including the real and imagined continent of Australia to be offered for sale since R.V. Tooley sold his collection to the Australian nation. It numbers over 250 maps and spans the years 1540 to 1898.

108 items including Steichen’s The Early Years 1900-1927, limited edition; Patrick White inscription recommending Nolan’s “Outback” to White’s US publishers; Greco’s Chess Made Easy, 1750, which passed through the Whitman and J. W. Rimington Wilson libraries; Kate Greenaway Almanacks, complete run from 1883 to 1895; Irvin McDowell’s signed copy of West Point register for June 1842, a class that sent 86 officers to the Civil War; theater broadsides for London theaters 1810-1836, La Perouse, Peter Wilkins, Cataract of the Ganges, Felon of New York; The Anvil, 1st issue of Dartmouth newspaper with women’s suffrage content, 1873; Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, 1st issue of the 3rd edition, 1860; Valentine’s Manual of New York, presentation copy with content on the Croton Aqueduct, 1844; Japanese fabric sample album with over 400 exquisite fabric swatches, ca. 1900; W.W.I. photographs of Sinai & Palestine campaign, including Australian Light Horse; Hudson River.<br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /> Books, Prints, Ephemera, Photographs, Maps

Movie ticket to Japanese internment camp in Idaho, WWII; letter about potential emigration from a poorhouse in Wales to New South Wales, 1838; charming penguin characters painted on silk squares, relating to London stage plays, 1913; the signature of "the Mandarin: He Sing”, crew member of the 1st ship from China to dock in New York City, 1847; a series of children’s games from block puzzles to hundreds of lead figures from around the world; Boomerang, a rare French game that launches small metal boomerangs at bowling pins, 1905; a sammelband of 34 pamphlets on gynecology, with a scarce Alabama imprint of Bozeman's Remarks on Vesico-Vaginal Fistule, 1856-1886; letters of an emigrant from Scotland to New Zealand speaking of "mismanagement" of the rescue of Burke & Wills, 1879-1905; 4 King photographs of Sydney; Gauthier’s Panoramic View of Papeetee harbor; two glass negatives of Australian boxers and their promoter, 1921; magnificent German folio chromolithographs illustrating Wagner’s Ring cycle, 1896.