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
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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Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden, södra pol-kretsen och omkring jordklotet, samt till Hottentott- och Caffer-landen, åren 1772-76.
$75000
Stockholm : Anders J. Nordström, 1783; Carl Deleen, 1802 – 1818. The first edition of Sparrman’s account of Cook’s second voyage, a very rare complete set printed over a span of 35 years, including two samples of tapa cloth collected on the voyage in Tahiti and the Friendly Islands (Tonga).
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Historie De L'Art Dans L'Antiquite Egypte
$950
1882, 4to, hc, published by Librarie Hachette, Paris. Spine has been re-backed and new endpapers. Edge is lustrous gilt,
decorated cover in red buckram with gilt depictions of temples surrounded by Egyptian Lotus friezes and a large winged disc in classic Ancient Egyptian style, spine has depiction of the goddess Hathor and titles in gilt. Prize notice attached for the Alliance Francis de Victoria for a Miss Mable Gertrude Harly for excellence in French. Text is in French with numerous drawings and maps, including a marvellous fold-out of the pyramids of Gizeh. Rare.
French Provincial Cooking | Elizabeth David
$980
This first edition of “French Provincial Cooking” by Elizabeth David, published by Michael Joseph in 1960, is a renowned culinary classic. It features a hardcover bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on a red background, and a pictorial design on the front board. The book includes a rare first impression English dust jacket, now protected by an archival cover. The text is clean with slight age-toning and minor stains on the fore-edge.
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DEBORD, Guy [Director]. Internationale Situationnistes 1-12 (plus 3 supplements).
$3500
Paris: Internationale Situationniste, 1958-1969. First Edition. Twelve stapled softcovers : metallic paper covers in different colors : C.&c. : two supplements to no. 10 and one to no. 11.
Covers vary from very good (no. 8) to fine (nos. 1 & 4). Complete collection, first edition EXCEPT, as usual, for No. 2 which is a second edition (1962). The original no. 2 (1958) was produced in a very limited run hence the 1962 reprint which is notorious for the "peeling" of the silver metallic cover. (14959)
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Aboriginal Women, Sacred and Profane
$750
KABERRY, Phyllis. Aboriginal Woman, Sacred and Profane. With an Introduction by Professor A.P. Elkin. A study of the Aboriginal women of Australia. London, Routledge, 1939. 8vo. xxxii+294. B/w frontispiece and illustrations, map and bibliography. Original bright cloth in dustwrapper (some slight repairs) but an impressively fresh, near fine copy. First edition. The first major anthropological study of Aboriginal women.
China in a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery, Architecture and Social Habits, of that Ancient Empire.
$3950
A very handsome example of George Newenham Wright's influential work, richly illustrated by Thomas Allom.
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WOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE. Birthday Book. Glasgow: [printed by Gilmour & Lawrence Printers for] Women's Freedom League Suffrage Centre, [c.1910]
An uncommon women's suffrage birthday book, published to fundraise for the Scottish Council of the Women's Freedom League, compiled by Eunice Murray, future president of the WFL in Scotland and the first Scotswoman to stand for parliament. It comprises contributions from a number of significant Scottish suffragettes including Helen Fraser, Alexia Jack, and Anna Munro.
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Australia's Elfin Sports and Racing Cars by John Blanden and Barry Catford
$170
A very good hardback copy. We will be bringing a collection of motoring books to the fair.
Kyosai Hyakki Gadan - Pictures of One Hundred Demons by Kawanabe Kyosai
$4950
Tokyo. Okawa Jokichi. 1895. 56pp. 21.3 x 12.1cm.
Good to very good. Covers a bit worn. Some darkening to edges. A few pages with slightly more darkening and one page with some staining. A couple of pages with minor separation at fold but only a couple of cm.
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Suck: First European Sexpaper
$2000
A complete set of Suck, touted as the first European sex newspaper tasked with creating “a new pornography which would demystify male and female bodies”.
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Bizarre: A Fashion Fantasia
$12000
A complete set of the foundational fetish magazine of the 20th century that has its artistic roots in Australia.
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