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
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.
日置流印西派射方直之事写本及び巻物. [Shooting Skills of the Insai Branch of the Heki School of Japanese Archery with an Illustrated Scroll].
$975
This bound book and scroll offer much fascinating detailed information on one of the schools of Japanese archery (弓道), Heki-ryū (日置流), which originated in the late 15th century.
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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 Selection of some 900 British and Irish Mountain Tops [with] The Supplement to A Selection of some 900 British and Irish Mountain Tops and A Selection of 1,000 Tops under 2,500 Feet
$1000
Docharty, William McKnight. A Selection of some 900 British and Irish Mountain Tops [with] The Supplement to A Selection of some 900 British and Irish Mountain Tops and A Selection of 1,000 Tops under 2,500 Feet. Edinburgh: The Darien Press Ltd. for W.M.Docharty, esq., 1954/1962.
First Edition. 3 vols. 4to. original green cloth gilt in dustwrapper; pp. 124; 1-208; 209-260 (last blank), illustrated with numerous photographs and panoramas. No. 36 of a limited edition (allegedly 260 sets), each volume hand inscribed by the author, Willie Docharty, to David and Winifred Horn. A very good set.
Ayers Rock 1959 by Eric Stewart
$15000
Eric Stewart was a self-taught artist. His paintings were inspired by books on indigenous culture including Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines by W. Ramsay Smith, 1930; Brown Men and Red Sand by Charles P. Mountford, 1948 and Aboriginal Myths and Legends by Roland Robinson, 1966.
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”GOAT AND RHODODENDRON"
$1800
LIONEL ARTHUR LINDSAY
(Creswick 17-10-1874/Hornsby 22-5-1961)
Australian school
”GOAT AND RHODODENDRON"
c.1933
WOOD ENGRAVING
A profile of a goat in bust, looking toward left between rhododendron flowers.
One of Lionel Lindsay's most well-known and sought after wood engravings.
This is considered to be one of Lindsay’s most renowned wood engravings for technical execution.
Last of Lindsay's goat subjects and most highly stylised.
NOTE:
Signed in pencil lower left.
Numbered 100 lower right (edition of 100).
Mendelssohn p.154.
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[Views in South Australia]
$9500
Complete set of six lithographic views of colonial South Australia, by Edward Castle who came to South Australia in 1839 on board the Moffatt and took up land in the colony.
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Joyce (James) ULYSSES.
$55000
Joyce (James) ULYSSES. The boards featuring a Homeric bow device in gilt designed by Eric Gill. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1936. First U.K. edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies; this being No. 86 of 100 copies on mould-made paper bound in calf vellum and signed by the author. *The first edition of Ulysses to be printed in England, and the most deluxe format published in the author's lifetime. This edition is also the first to contain appendices relating to the legal case following publication of the book, as well as the first bibliography of Joyce. $55,000.00
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Animal Farm [St James Park Press Ltd Ed]
$2500
Limited Edition [St James Park Press, London, 2022]; [vi], 124pp + limitation page; folded plain grey, textured card covers glued to string bound page block, illustrated card dustjacket; in perspex slipcase.
Ten colour plates with spectacular linocut illustrations by Hugh Ribbans.
Limited to only 140 copies [this being #124]
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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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[32693] A synopsis of the birds of Australia, and the adjacent islands.
$45000
Gould, John. London: Author, 1837-1838. Large octavo, 73 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after Elizabeth Gould, with accompanying letterpress. A single leaf printed prospectus for this work and a single leaf printed prospectus for the 'Birds of Europe' at the front of part one. 8pp. appendix 'Description of New Species of Australian Birds' at end of part four. Original green cloth-backed printed paper covered boards, some wear to the boards (mainly part one), the bookplates of John Gerard Heckscher and John Eliot Thayer.
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