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!
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The Du Poissey Anecdotes
$885
Hugh McCrae. The Du Poissey Anecdotes
An inscribed presentation copy to his father with pages of manuscript
"By the Rivers of Babylon..." Illuminated Breviary leaf, c.1480, France.
$875
The leaf includes the entire psalm136 and one line of liturgical chant music.
Despite its appearance, this leaf is almost certainly from a Breviary, not a Book of Hours. The beloved Psalm 136 (KJV 137) "By the rivers of Babylon" is part of the liturgy for Sunday in the 5th week of Easter. Neither the psalm nor the antiphon that follows it on this leaf appear in the usual Uses of Books of Hours.
Excellent condition.
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"THE FLUTE-PLAYER" (het Uylenspiegeltje), REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN
$22000
REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN [REMBRANDT]
(Leyden 1606-Amsterdam1669)
ETCHING & DRYPOINT
1642
A young couple resting beside a stream, the man playing flute
with an owl perched on his shoulder, the girl making a flower garland at left.
Shepherds do more than their fair share of walking, but their lives also provide ample opportunity for relaxation.
It represents an amorous situation and Rembrandt played a transparent game with ancient ambiguities and innuendos surrounding...
Fourth state of four, without the face among the branches.
Barstch 188, Hollstein Dutch 144, New Hollstein 211.
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Young Man of Talent
$750
Turner, G.R. [George Reginald]. Young Man of Talent. London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1959.
First Edition. 8vo. original blue boards gilt in dustwrapper priced 16/- net; pp. x, 290. A very good copy. The noted SF author's scarce first novel, based on his wartime experiences in New Guinea.
A Bush Burial
$3500
Chromolithograph by Robert Wendel after Frederick McCubbin (1855-1917). 1892.
670mm by 940mm (frame). 'Reproduction of the First Prize in The Australian Natives’ Association National Fete, January 26th 1892’. Printed by Troedel & Co, Melbourne. Period timber frame, with slip and original old glass. CONDITION : Some foxing spots in the margins.
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Guide Book of Yedo - The Tokio Guide
$2420
The first English guidebook to Tokyo by A Resident [William Elliot Griffis]. Yokohama. F.R. Wetmore & Co. 1874. pp.35[1]. 17.2 x 10.8cm. Very good. Covers worn and marked. Ownership stamp of Theodor Peteln inside front cover. Title page has had square shaped area cut out but this has been neatly repaired. Internally very good with only minor wear.
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[27711] Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Dieman, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805 ... edition secunda. ...
$4500
Brown, Robertus. Normibergae: Leonardi Schrag, 1827 second edition. Octavo, Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, all edges coloured, a few light spots, very scarce. The Prodromus is considered a masterpiece of botanical literature and "has a two-fold importance in the history of systematic botany. Its primary purpose was to record succinctly the plants of Australia collected by Robert Brown himself in 1802 and 1805 when naturalist on Flinders' voyage together with plants collected earlier by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Cook's first voyage (1768-71.)
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SMYTH, Dorothy Carleton (callig.); ARNOLD, Matthew. A manuscript copy of The Forsaken Merman. 1897.
A unique calligraphic manuscript copy of Arnold's poem "The Forsaken Merman" by the renowned Scottish artist Dorothy Carleton Smyth (1880-1933), a beautiful example of her juvenile work, each of the exquisitely rendered illustrations signed with her "Dodo" emblem. This copy was bound at the Mayfield Binderies, Heaton Moor, located just outside of Stockport, Greater Manchester.
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L’Egypte et la Syrie, ou Mouers, Usages, Costumes et Monuments des Egyptiens, des Arabes, Et des Syriens.
$1500
Breton Par M. Precede d’un Précis Historique. (Uses, Costumes and Monuments of the Egyptians, Arabs and Syrians. Preceded by a historical summary.) 1814, Published by A Nerve. Paris. 8vo, brown boards with leather spines, with gilt decorations, red morocco in titles and volumes, gilt titles. Gilt edges, very bright, marbled pink endpaper, 6 Volumes (only 5 shown in photo). A most extraordinary set and worthy of a place in your collection.
lbum with 77 Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Studio Photographs of Australia and Tasmania,
$6650
Greenham & Evans (fl. ca. 1895-1900); King, Henry (1855-1923); Caire, Nicholas John (1837-1918); Sargeant, Albert & Others. Album with 77 Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Studio Photographs of Australia and Tasmania, Showing Perth, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Gippsland Lakes, Hobart, Strahan (Tasmania), Cape Raoul, Fren Tree Bower, Portraits of Aboriginal Australians, Gold Miners, Tree Loggers, &c. Ca. 1880s-1890s.
Oblong Folio album (ca. 34x40,5 cm or 13 ¼ x 16 in). 24 card stock leaves. With 77 mounted original gelatin silver and albumen photos
Historic Shanghai.
$1200
A pioneering work on Shanghai by Carlos Augusto Montalto de Jesus.
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U.S.A. Trilogy
$750
Dos Passos, John. U.S.A. I. The 42nd Parallel II. Nineteen Nineteen III. The Big Money [The Modern Library 'Giant' G44]. New York: The Modern Library, 1939.
First Thus. 8vo. original grey cloth gilt in dustwrapper; pp. idiosyncratic pagination thus, xi, 2-416 (last blank), iii-viii, 3-474 (last blank), iii-viii, 3-562. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf '' Mr Edward Smith, cordially, John Dos Passos'. A very good copy. First omnibus appearance of the USA Trilogy, uncommon as a presentation copy. A small collection of later newspaper articles regarding the author, are loosely enclosed.