Updates
Introducing our New Department: Rare Science Books
by Laura Massey
Science Specialist Laura Massey introduces and gives an overview of eight new Science Categories Available to browse on our website.
Melbourne Rare Book Fair
6-8 July 2018
The Australian Antiquarian Book Fair turns 46 this year, taking place in Melbourne as part of Melbourne Rare Book Week. The Melbourne Rare Book Fair is organised by the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB). Shapero Rare...
The Australian Antiquarian Book Fair turns 46 this year, taking place in Melbourne as part of Melbourne Rare Book Week. The Melbourne Rare Book Fair is organised by the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB).
Shapero Rare Books @ the Melbourne Rare Book Fair
We look forward to exhibiting at this year’s Melbourne Rare Book Fair, and will have on display a fine selection of rare & important works from across our various departments, including Travel & Exploration and Natural History. You can find us at Stand 3 at the University of Melbourne’s Wilson Hall from the 6th to the 8th of July.
About Us
Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in London, specialising in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper, with particular expertise in fine illustrated books from the 15th to the 20th century, travel & voyages, natural history, modern firsts, rare children’s books, guidebooks, Hebraica & Judaica, Eastern European, and Islamica.
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GuidesA Guide to Guidebooks
by Lucinda BoyleKarl Baedeker was head of a successful publishing business, when in 1832 he acquired the publishing house of Franz Röhling which four years earlier had published a travel guide Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln: Ein Handbuch für Schnellreisende by Professor...
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LiteratureUkrainian Modernism
A visit to the Royal Academy in London by Eleanor MooreThe Royal Academy's new exhibition, In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s, is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in the UK, celebrating a period of bold artistic experimentation. Despite profound upheaval, there was a true flourishing...
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TravelProvenance
Julian MacKenzie chooses books from the collections of 3 great bibliophiles, currently on our shelves.The great thing about collecting books is that they were produced as multiples giving lots of collectors a chance to own a copy. To distinguish between copies the most desirable factors are condition and provenance and for me the greatest...
