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


Portrait of a queen or princess in oriental Egyptian style.
$8000
August Pollak (1838-1903) A wonderful painting of an "Oriental Woman”, in the guise of Cleopatra wearing the goddess Neckhbet (Vulture) head-dress with a suggestion of a cobra at the brow.  Fine gold earrings and a beautiful necklace adorn her, with the sensuous somewhat fragile beauty of the imagined Cleopatra. Pollack was an Austrian artist, many of his paintings are of still lives, sensuous women or whimsical studies of children with cats, he is known for his oriental subjects. His paintings have about them a Fusilian mystery. The painting could be a study for a larger work.
Untitled (AUSTRALIA) [North eastern coast of Australia, the southern portion of Tasmania and New Guinea]; VINCENZO CORONELLI
$3500
Untitled (AUSTRALIA) 1697 VINCENZO CORONELLI (Venice 1650-1718) COPPER ENGRAVING Coronelli’s rare gore showing the north eastern coast of Australia, the southern portion of Tasmania and New Guinea. One of the three Coronelli’s gores covering up the Australian continent in his massive world globe. Cartography is based on the earlier discoveries made by Tasman and the others Dutch navigators up 1644. From “Libro dei Globi” published in Venice, 1697. Excellent impression printed on strong Venetian laid paper with watermark: “Three Half Moons”; Mounted. In excellent condition.
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Good Omens [1st Ed]
$850
Subtitled: "The Nice & Accurate Prophecies Of Agnes Nutter, Witch". First Printing [Victor Gollancz, London, 1990]; red boards, black titling to spine, a couple of spots on foredge, slightly canted, torn with 2cm loss to top corner of title page where [presumably] production flaw glued prelims together, an excellent copy; in like, unclipped [£12.95] dustjacket, a couple tiny nicks in extremities. A scarce First Edition of one of modern fantasy’s best-loved books.
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[Clark, John Heaviside] FIELD SPORTS, &c. &c.
$7000
[Clark, John Heaviside] FIELD SPORTS, &c. &c. Of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales; with ten plates, by the Author. Pp. [20](including index to Foreign Field Sports), plus 10 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Edward Orme, London, 1813[1814?]. First edition. *'The first Australian coloured plate book properly so-called [and] . . . the first separate account of the Aborigines' [Wantrup page 282]. This is the New South Wales supplement to Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes &c. &c., also issued as a separate 18 page publication, in wrappers. $7000.00
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