Muir Books

Western Australia's leading rare and antiquarian bookshop, in a restored 1890s horse stable in Northbridge, a short walk from the State Library, the Art Gallery and the WA Museum. Some fifty thousand books fill the building, alongside maps, manuscripts, prints, globes and scientific instruments, with the shop's depth in Australiana, Antarctica, exploration and voyages. Robert and Helen Muir opened it in 1973; their son Rob and his wife Janet — a Commonwealth-approved valuer and past vice-president of the antiquarian booksellers' association — run it now, with Tara Surry cataloguing. They buy, sell and value, and run a free worldwide search for books you can't otherwise find.