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.
About the Fair, History of the Fair
Featured Highlights
Original leaf from the famous Bohun Bible, considered to have been commissioned by Edward “The Black Prince”.
$7800
England, East Anglia, circa 1350.
“…one of the most magnificent Bibles ever produced in England in medieval times ...." A huge lectern bible leaf, believed to be the only Bohun Bible leaf in Australia.
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廣東省明細地圖. [Guangdong Province Detailed Map].
$1750
A very attractive map of Guangdong province, the European concessions of Hong Kong and Macau, as well as the Paracel Islands and South China Sea - included ostensibly to affirm the Kuomintang Government's claims to the territories.
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WOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE. Birthday Book. Glasgow: [printed by Gilmour & Lawrence Printers for] Women's Freedom League Suffrage Centre, [c.1910]
An uncommon women's suffrage birthday book, published to fundraise for the Scottish Council of the Women's Freedom League, compiled by Eunice Murray, future president of the WFL in Scotland and the first Scotswoman to stand for parliament. It comprises contributions from a number of significant Scottish suffragettes including Helen Fraser, Alexia Jack, and Anna Munro.
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A remarkable manuscript bifolium from the turn of the twelfth century. Gregory the Great’s letters in a clear, precise Carolingian script.
$8000
A bifolium fragment (1075-1125 CE, Southern Germany) from one of the most important documentary collections to have survived from the Middle Ages - Pope Gregory the First’s collection of letters.
Comprehensive research notes and a full translation of the Latin included with the document.
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