Highlights
Each year our exhibitors bring rare, beautiful and unusual items for sale.
This year is now exception. Leading up to the fair new highlights will be added by our exhibitors every day. These are just a sample of the wide range of printed materials that will be available at the fair.
Please browse the highlights. They are all for sale. If you find something interesting, please contact the exhibitor, it might just be yours!
You can also browse the highlights by exhibitor by viewing the exhibitor's profile in the exhibitor directory
Collected Works of Winston Churchill including Essays
$4500
Collected Works of Winston Churchill (34 Volumes) including Essays (4 Volumes) bound in velum with gilt lettering to spine. Limited to 5000 copies of which a significant but unknown portion were never produced leaving the final print run an unknown quantity. The slipcases have been removed but are available.
Approaching Fires at Braidwood by Celia Perceval
$13000
Oil on canvas
76 x 76 cm
Signed
Painted at the start of the 2019/2020 Currowan State Forest, Black Summer bushfires
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Ballarat from Soldier's Hill. Spot where gold was first found
$650
Albumen stereoview photograph. C1870. 82mm by 174mm (card). Early stereoview photograph on yellow card of the gold mines at Ballarat. 'LU' blindstamped top right corner of the card. Titled inscribed in ink on the reverse.
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“TRITON BLOWING ON A CONCH”; JACOB DE GHEYN III, Dutch School.
$2750
JACOB DE GHEYN III
(Leiden 1596-Utrecht 1644)
Dutch School
c.1618
Etching
“Triton Blowing on a Conch”, produced between 1616 and 1620, is a little printmaking gem from the period of Dutch Mannerism.
The wiry, muscular torso of the sea god, half human and half fish, is presented in lost profile.
This exotic mythological figure sparked De Gheyn’s creative imagination and inspired him to an Arcimboldo like design.
NOTE:
Very rare first state of two.
I/II, before Hondius excudit [Hh exc.];
Bartsch 18, New Hollstein 19.
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QING CHINA. Manuscript recording a voyage to China and impressions of its major cities. [At sea & China: 1842-48]
An American second mate's eyewitness account, embellished with his illustrations, of China in the wake of the First Opium War. Venturing east on a Jardine, Matheson specie and opium runner, he becomes an old China hand and an astute observer, writing of early colonial Hong Kong and Shanghai, trade arrangements, and the sights and sounds of the coast.
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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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Lindsay, Norman: McCrae (Hugh) IDYLLIA.
$25000
Lindsay, Norman: McCrae (Hugh) IDYLLIA. 5 full page tipped-in plates with lettered tissue guards, the pictorial title page and 15 decorative initials printed in gilt & black; Sydney, 1922. Edition limited to 133 copies (100 for sale), numbered and signed by the author. *The plates are all original etchings, numbered and signed in pencil by Norman Lindsay. $25,000.00
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Victoria during the Gold Rush
$9500
A detailed map of the state of Victoria. At the time of printing, Victoria was a relatively new colony, established in 1851. The discovery of gold near Ballarat and Bendigo a few months later set off one of the largest gold rushes in history, as settlers poured in to seek their fortunes. The map reflects the colony’s source of population and wealth, showing how settlements cluster around the gold fields.
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A LEAF FROM THE FIRST WESTERN BOOK PRINTED BY MOVABLE TYPE, THE GUTENBERG BIBLE.
$200000
Mainz : Johannes Gutenberg, circa 1454-55. Single folio leaf. 371 x 300 mm, printed on recto and verso, black gothic lettering of forty-two lines in double columns, large two-line initial letters rubricated in red. “[The Gutenberg Bible] has never been surpassed. Of all the arts, printing at its birth reached perfection more nearly than any other.”
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WARD, Ebenezer: The Vineyards and Orchards of South Australia
$9000
An excellent copy of this great rarity, seldom
found in any condition—let alone as pleasing
as this.
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Imperial Examination Cheats' Sheet. [科舉考試作弊小抄].
$7500
An unusually fine example of a late Qing Dynasty cheats' handkerchief or sheet; an aid for passing the civil service exam under the [科舉] keju system in imperial China.
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