The 53rd Australian Antiquarian Book Fair
The Melbourne Rare Book Fair 2024 will be held Thursday 25 July to Saturday 27 July 2024
presented by ANZAAB with the support of the University of Melbourne.
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Featured Highlights
Morris (William) THE GOLDEN LEGEND.
$20000
Morris (William) THE GOLDEN LEGEND of Master William Caxton done anew. In three volumes. Kelmscott Press, London, 1892. Edition limited to 500 copies. *The Golden Legend was originally intended as the first production of the Kelmscott Press, but due to production difficulties it became the seventh. In July 1890, William Morris had purchased a copy of one of Wynkyn de Worde's reprints of the Caxton translation. Originally compiled by the Archbishop of Milan, Jacobus a Voragine or de Varagine (c. 1230-1298), the book is a repository of the lives and miracles of saints and martyrs. $20,000.00
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Hokusai Gojūsantsugi Dōchu Gafu
$3850
Classic woodblock printed book by Hokusai's first and best-known student, Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850).
Nagoya. Kōgetsudō Bunsuke. Tempō 6 (1835). 36 leaves. 23 x 16.3cm.
Very good. Wear and creasing to covers. Some thumbing and wear to first few leaves. Some neat notes written in margins of a few pages. Otherwise very good. In custom made, folding case.
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A Selection of some 900 British and Irish Mountain Tops [with] The Supplement to A Selection of some 900 British and Irish Mountain Tops and A Selection of 1,000 Tops under 2,500 Feet
$1000
Docharty, William McKnight. A Selection of some 900 British and Irish Mountain Tops [with] The Supplement to A Selection of some 900 British and Irish Mountain Tops and A Selection of 1,000 Tops under 2,500 Feet. Edinburgh: The Darien Press Ltd. for W.M.Docharty, esq., 1954/1962.
First Edition. 3 vols. 4to. original green cloth gilt in dustwrapper; pp. 124; 1-208; 209-260 (last blank), illustrated with numerous photographs and panoramas. No. 36 of a limited edition (allegedly 260 sets), each volume hand inscribed by the author, Willie Docharty, to David and Winifred Horn. A very good set.