Highlights
Each year our exhibitors bring rare, beautiful and unusual items for sale.
Here are just a few of the exhibitors' highlights that were at the Fair in 2023!
There are a number of pages of highlights. To browse all the highlights - choose a page from the list below.
You can also check the highlights listed under your favourite booksellers in the exhibitor directory.
Although the 2023 Fair has now closed, some of these items may still be available from our Exhibitors if you wish to contact them.
[BACON, Francis.] Apophthegms New and Old, collected by the Right Honourable, Francis Lo. Vervlam, Viscount St. Alban.
$2500
Printed for Hanna Barret and Richard Whittaker, and are to be sold at the Kings Head in Pauls Church-yard: London, 1625. 12mo. [ii] (title, verso blank), 308pp (last blank). The title within a narrow double-ruled border, text within a wider double-ruled border, leaving a blank marginal column (for notes?). Contemporary full calf, neatly rebacked with the unlettered spine laid down. Hinges strengthened with Japanese tissue. Lacks a preliminary blank leaf? Title-page is slightly off-centre and a little rubbed along its head edge. The text somewhat offset on a few late pages.
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C1884 Our Match with the Wallaby Flat Football Club
$2450
Very rare comical AFL lithograph.
From the original edition of the Australasian Sketcher.
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[SIGNED] COCTEAU, Jean; PICASSO, Pablo; WILDMAN, Carl (Trans.) Orpheé; A Tragedy in one Act and an Interval
$2500
London: Oxford University Press, 1933. Pablo Picasso. First English Language Edition. Original cloth. Hardcover : pp. [vi] xi, 43 [1] : frontis by Picasso : photo of Cocteau as Heurtebise : printed on Basingwerk paper : SIGNED by both Cocteau and Picasso at colophon (p.iv), Cocteau has added his signature star : fore-edge untrimmed : black cloth boards lettered in gilt on top board : custom clamshell box in black cloth littered in gilt.
Cloth is chipped to all edges and split 9cm from crown of top joint; some light foxing. Item #3927
No. 23 of 100.
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POUND, Ezra Selected Poems; Edited with an Introduction by T.S. Eliot
$5000
London: Faber and Gwyer, 1928. First Edition, limited issue. Hardcover : pp. xxxii, 184 : numbered & SIGNED at colophon (p.ii) : wove e.p.s : t.e.g., other edges untrimmed : grey paper boards : gilt lettered white vellum spine [GALLUP A30b]
Vellum repaired at tail of spine; corners slightly bumped; lacks original glassine jacket; exceptionally clean throughout. Near fine. Item #3926
No. 77 of 100 copies.
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A Stuart Scholar
$10000
Unknown man in the robes of a learned scholar, this painting shows a gentleman with an enquiring gaze with a beautiful collar and gold embroidered over jacket. On his head is a small cap and he has long flowing locks and a goatee beard. His had is delicately rendered and is typical of the period.
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Sappho
$180
Copper-line engraving by Carlo Gregori after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. 1741. 255mm by 180mm (platemark) 420mm by 270mm (sheet).
Illustration of an Ancient Roman marble bust from 'Musei Capitolini', a series of engravings showing the sculpture of the Capitoline Museum in Rome.
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