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ANZAAB web page now has a book search and secure online ordering facility. Click Book Search to find a book or click Member Search to find a particular dealer or see member details and specialities. Alternatively you may click these search items in the menu above.
Click to join the ANZAAB mailing list to receive details of ANZAAB's bookfairs and other activities. ANZAAB 35th Australian Antiquarian Book Fair, Melbourne, 2008. October 2008 is Rare Book Month in Melbourne! Click on the link above to see details of lectures and a forum on book collecting to be held in conjunction with the Book Fair. The ANZAAB 35th Australian Antiquarian Book Fair will be held at Malvern Town Hall in Melbourne over the weekend of 24th to the 26th October, 2008. The theme of the Book Fair is "Aspects of Book Collecting" Each exhibiting bookseller has contributed a short article on some aspect of book collecting. Two of these will be uploaded onto this web site each week until the Book Fair begins. Click on the links to view each Aspect. Aspects No.1. Collecting Early French Voyages to Australia. Contributed by Hordern House Aspects No.2. Collecting Mary Grant Bruce. Contributed by Books on Dean Aspects No.3. Collecting Egyptology & Ancient History. Contributed by Ankh Antiquarian Books Aspects No.4. Collecting Australian Military History. Contributed by Bradstreet's Books Aspects No.5. Collecting Antarctica. Contributed by Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Aspects No.6. Collecting Rare Australian Art Books. Contributed by Douglas Stewart Fine Books Aspects No.7. Collecting European Books on China. Contributed by Asia Bookroom Aspects No.8. Collecting Oscar Wilde and his Circle. Contributed by Roz Greenwood Old & Rare Books Aspects No.9. Collecting Cricket Fiction. Contributed by Christopher Saunders Books Aspects No.10. Collecting Australian Bushranging Books. Contributed by Time Booksellers We trust you find the Aspects interesting and informative. Please revisit us every week to see new Aspects! Click on the BookFair link to see further details. LEADING AUSTRALIAN DEALERS WILL OFFER SCARCE & INTERESTING BOOKS, PRINTS, MAPS,PHOTOGRAPHS, MANUSCRIPTS & EPHEMERA COVERING A WIDE RANGE OF COLLECTING INTERESTS. The annual publication "Book Fare" detailing the exhibitors and some of their offerings for the Book Fair will be available prior to the fair. What is ANZAAB? The Australian & New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB), which was formed in 1977, has 62 members today. ANZAAB is the professional body which represents the members of the antiquarian book business in Australia and New Zealand. It aims to promote antiquarian bookselling and collecting; it makes statements on matters affecting these topics on behalf of its members. The ANZAAB Code of Ethics may be seen by clicking on the preceding link. Click on ANZAAB Office Bearers to see the current ANZAAB Office Bearers. A list of Life Members and Retired Members can also be seen on this page. The association organises a regular series of antiquarian book fairs in major cities. Like many national associations, ANZAAB is affiliated with the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Like other national associations it sets out standards of commercial behaviour to which its members voluntarily adhere. It encourages the observance of the courtesies and honourable practices traditionally associated with the trade. In particular, ANZAAB seeks to encourage its members to achieve high standards of accuracy in descriptions of materials offered for sale. Click here to send an email to ANZAAB. |
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Bookseller
 Dan and Michael Sprod at the ANZAAB Bookfair, Melbourne 2006
ASTROLABE BOOKSELLERS is the leading antiquarian/second-hand bookseller in Australia's island state, and one of Tasmania's two ANZAAB members. Our premises are located on the first floor of a refurbished early colonial warehouse in Hobart's historic Salamanca Place, adjacent to the Sullivan's Cove wharves. This area was once the thriving centre of the Southern Ocean whaling trade and, then as now, the departure port for many Antarctic voyages. Today, it is thriving again, but now as the home of arts and craft galleries, and many Hobart's best cafes and restaurants - not to mention several good bookshops. |
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