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
Antiphon for the Annunciation to the Shepherds
$465
Gregorian Chant leaf, c.1600, Spain.
“Salvator mundi", the Saviour of the World."
Spain, c.1600. Excellent condition.
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Guide Book of Yedo - The Tokio Guide
$2420
The first English guidebook to Tokyo by A Resident [William Elliot Griffis]. Yokohama. F.R. Wetmore & Co. 1874. pp.35[1]. 17.2 x 10.8cm. Very good. Covers worn and marked. Ownership stamp of Theodor Peteln inside front cover. Title page has had square shaped area cut out but this has been neatly repaired. Internally very good with only minor wear.
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Richard Hussey Shaw
$15000
Watercolour and gouache
31 x 42.5 cm
Signed R. H. Shaw and dated indistinctly
Provenance: Private collection until 2005
A later version of this painting titled South Australian Blacks in Full War Dress 1891 is in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia
Shaw arrived in Australia from England c1858 and settled in Adelaide. He was the son of Captain George Reynolds Shaw. He was a watercolour and scene-painter, produced watercolour landscapes and sketches of Aborigines in South Australia.
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粉碎美帝国主义的侵略政策和战争政策! [Smash the Invasion and War Strategies of the American Imperialists!]
$1500
A rare Chinese Communist anti-American propaganda poster printed double sided in red and black.
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