Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, David & Cathy Lilburne
Specializing in Fine & old books, maps, prints, ephemera & photographs in all fields, with specialties in Voyages & Travel, Australasia, Antarctica, China, the Hudson River, West Point & NY State. We handle and value items in every field. We have an open shop in the 19th century train station building at Garrison, N.Y., just over an hour north of NYC on the Hudson River Line.
About
For 48 years, we have offered old and rare books, maps, prints, ephemera and photographs in all fields. Some of our specialties include the Hudson River Valley, the Antarctic and Arctic, Australia and the South Pacific.Terms of Sale
Items are priced in US $. Postage is extra and will be charged as close to cost as we can anticipate. All items are offered subject to prior sale. Trade terms are extended to bona fide booksellers. Any items may be returned within 5 days of receipt for any reason. We are happy to send further information & photos & we welcome your enquiries.
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Members
- David D.R. Lilburne
ASSOCIATES
- Cathy Lilburne
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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 & [email protected] & 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.