The Melbourne Rare Book Fair 2025 was held at the end of July 2025, presented by ANZAAB with the support of the University of Melbourne.

The next ANZAAB Rare Book Fair is the Sydney Rare Book Fair 2025 held at the State Library of New South Wales 23-25 October. For more information visit the Sydney Rare Rare Book Fair website

Last Year's Fair

Featured Exhibitor

INLIBRIS

Founded in 1883 in Vienna, where their main offices are still located, Antiquariat Inlibris is among the most reputable companies in the industry. With a stock of no fewer than 50,000 items they form one of the largest non-institutional, privately owned repositories of rare books, historical manuscripts and autographs. Over the past century they have served the most renowned universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide by supplying them with collections as well as with individual items of the utmost importance and rarity. Today, the company is represented through registered branches in Europe, the United States and the Middle East, maintaining offices in Vienna, New York City, and Sharjah (UAE).

Featured Highlights

地球儀. [Globe].

$1850

Asia Bookroom

A charming Japanese late Meiji period globe mounted in a metal semi-meridian and wooden base. The globe measures 20cm in circumference, the wooden base measures 6cm in diameter, while the total height measures 15cm. Although the majority of landmasses and borders are relatively close to reality, European holdings in Africa have been loosely demarcated at best. Japan and her freshly-acquired territories in Taiwan and Sakhalin have been highlighted in red. Though Korea was not yet a formal possession of Japan, the peninsula has also been marked with a touch of red.

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Ongeluckige voyagie van het schip Batavia uytgevaren onder’t beleydt van den E. Francois Pelsaert,

$55000

Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Amsterdam : Gillis Joosten Saeghman, [c.1663]. A rare early illustrated edition of Pelsaert’s account of the wreck of the Batavia. The infamous story of the wreck of the Batavia was first published in Amsterdam in 1647, and the first edition is of the utmost rarity. Five editions followed in the seventeenth century, including two pirated versions, and all of these are considered rare. The Saeghman edition is held in only two Australian collections (neither in Western Australia) and a handful of libraries internationally.

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Rainer Knaust: Precious Objects

$350

Sainsburys Books

Exhibition catalogue. 44 wooden blocks housed in wooden case. Limited to 300 signed and numbered copies. Exhibited at the Municiple Gallery at the German Blade Museum, Sollingen, March 17 - April 28, 1996.

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Fraz Kafka: Autograph letter signed ("K"). [Prague, December 1921].

$134000

INLIBRIS

To his close friend, the physician Robert Klopstock, about mutual friends, including Irene Bugsch, who, to Kafka's great joy, had recently been accepted by the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.

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