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
Chaucer (Geoffrey) THE CANTERBURY TALES.
$25000
Chaucer (Geoffrey) THE CANTERBURY TALES. With wood engravings by Eric Gill. Four volumes. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in qr. brown niger morocco. The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1928-1931. One of 485 numbered sets, printed on Batchelor hand-made paper with Cockerel watermark. *The native-dyed niger morocco often varies in hue, but this set is well-matched. Loosely inserted is an ALs, dated 24 September 1932, from Eric Gill to the archaeologist Stuart Piggott, whose wife's signature is on the upper free endpaper of Volume I. $25,000.00
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柔術. The Yabe School of Jiu-Jitsu.
$750
A scarce five volume set outlining Yae Kichi Yabe's approach to Jiu-jitsu.
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Aboriginals of Northern Queensland
$750
MORRILL, James. Sketch of a Residence among the Aboriginals of Northern Queensland for Seventeen Years. Being a narrative of my life, shipwreck, landing on the coast, residence among the Aboriginals, with an account of their manners and customs, and mode of living. Brisbane, Courier General Printing Office, 1863. 8vo.24pp. Recent quarter-morocco over cloth boards, a very good copy. First edition, Rare. Ferguson 13022.
HANDBOOK OF TASMANIA: Section I. Information For Immigrants and Statistics.
$275
Hobart, John Vail, Government Printer, 1914.
Octavo, 80 pp., illustrations, original pictorial wrappers (slightly rubbed). Scarce in part form.