The Antique Bookshop & Curios

    Member of ANZAAB - Australia

We have been supplying books to collectors, libraries and readers for over 50 years. Catalogues are issued monthly in hard copy and are on-line for viewing or downloading.

Our premises are 7 mins drive north of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and 7 mins walk from the new Crows Nest Metro Station.

We are open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10am until 5pm.

We cover a wide variety of interests in the stock we hold.

Contact Information
Phone: +612 9966 9925
Website: http://www.antiquebookshop.com.au/
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328 Pacific Hwy Crows Nest, 2065 Australia Get Directions

Store Hours

Monday: Closed

Tuesday - Saturday: 10 - 5

Sunday: Closed

Highlights
Charles Darwin - Collection of 13 titles in 14 volumes
$8000
Finely and uniformly bound in half calf gilt with raised bands. 1876-1890. Various editions. Includes the 6th edition of "The Origin of Species". A listing of the collection is available on request
Charles Dickens - The Works. Complete in 30 volumes c.1880
$3500
London. Chapman & Hall. c.1880. Finely & uniformly bound in half morocco. Illustrated throughout. A splendid set.
Edmund Barton Letter
$750
Handwritten letter from Edmund Barton on High Court of Australia notepaper, 2nd October 1914. Signed by Barton who was Australia's first Prime Minister from 1901 to 1903. We have many other previous PM signatures including Alfred Deakin, John Curtin, Ben Chifley & Robert Menzies. These will be displayed and offered for sale at the Book Fair.
New Testament 1630
$1250
The New Testament of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ Bound with The Whole Book of Psalmes. Lond. Bonham Norton & John Bill. 1630, 1629 Modern full calf gilt.
Premiers Conference 1931 - Major Attendee Signatures
$1200
PREMIER’S CONFERENCE, JUNE 1931, MELBOURNE Quarto Sheet of Legislative Council Victoria notepaper signed in ink by the major attendees. That conference resulted in the adoption of the “Premiers’ Plan”, a severe deflationary economic strategy designed to guide Australia through the Great Depression. Signed by the then Prime Minister J.H.Scullin, the Federal Treasure Ted Theodore, the NSW Premier, Jack Lang, the Premiers of the other states, a couple of State Treasurers, and J.G.Latham, then Deputy Leader of the Opposition in Victoria and who later became the 5th High Court Chief Justice.
Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley
$1750
Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley By Grahame L.Walsh Toowong. 2000. Oblong folio. Profusely illustrated in colour with ancient Aboriginal rock art.
The Songlines Bruce Chatwin
$330
The Songlines. By Bruce Chatwin. Franklin Library. 1987. Signed First Edition. Decorated full leather with Aboriginal motifs.
Vita Sackville-West - Seducers In Ecuador
$395
Vita Sackville-West Seducers in Ecuador Lond. Hogarth Press. 1924 Nicely Bound in full calf gilt. t.e.g. 1,500 copies printed First Edition
History of Cheshire . By George Ormerod. Three volumes 1819
$1750
THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY PALATINE AND CITY OF CHESTER By George Ormerod. 3 vols. Lond. Lackington Hughes &c. 1819 Large folio. Full leather, rebacked. One of 65 large paper sets. Very Scarce.
Rime of the Ancient Mariner Illustrated by Errol Le Cain
$3500
LE CAIN, Erroll (Illustrator) THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. ONE OF 100 COPIES. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Illustrations by Erroll Le Cain. Calligraphy by David Howells. Paper by Philip H.Rowson. Lond. The Arcadia Press. 1972. Folio. Hand-bound by Zaehnsdorf in quarter vellum with seaweed paper sides. 55pp. t.e.g. Calligraphic text on seaweed paper pages. Ten striking tipped-in colour plates by Erroll Le Cain. No.50 of 110 numbered copies signed by the illustrator, the calligrapher and the paper-maker. Fine in the slip-case. Particularly scarce.