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
My friend’s wife; or, York, you’re wanted.
$850
A rare survival: an early “yellowback” edition of this work by John Lang, who is acknowledged as the first Australian-born novelist.
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Fleming (Ian) FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE.
$3500
Fleming (Ian) FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. Pp. 254(last blank); cr. 8vo; black boards, lettered and decorated in silver & red, bottom fore-corner of upper board lightly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly worn, with small chips to flap fold extremities and small pieces torn from head and foot of backstrip; Cape, London, 1957. First edition, first impression, Binding A. Gilbert A5a(1.1).*The fifth Bond book, and the first to carry a Richard Chopping dust wrapper. $3,500.00
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929
First edition, first printing, in the attractive dust jacket designed by Cleonike Damianakes (1895-1979), renowned for her classical-style designs favoured by the Lost Generation writers. The first printing is distinguished by the lack of the legal disclaimer which appeared on p. x in the second and third printings.
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Morris (William) THE GOLDEN LEGEND.
$20000
Morris (William) THE GOLDEN LEGEND of Master William Caxton done anew. In three volumes. Kelmscott Press, London, 1892. Edition limited to 500 copies. *The Golden Legend was originally intended as the first production of the Kelmscott Press, but due to production difficulties it became the seventh. In July 1890, William Morris had purchased a copy of one of Wynkyn de Worde's reprints of the Caxton translation. Originally compiled by the Archbishop of Milan, Jacobus a Voragine or de Varagine (c. 1230-1298), the book is a repository of the lives and miracles of saints and martyrs. $20,000.00
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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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The only known example of Peter Schenk’s wall map of Asia
$285000
A magnificent wall map of all Asia, extending from the Mediterranean and Arabia in the west to the Pacific and Australia in the east. The title appears in a separate decorative banner along the top; five vignettes of city views are attached along the bottom. An inset double-hemisphere map of the world surrounded by an elaborate allegorical cartouche, based on Joan Blaeu’s world map of 1648 (see Schilder, Shirley 371, and Wieder vol. 3) appears lower left.
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NEILSON, John Shaw, BEAUTY IMPOSES: Some Recent Verse.
$750
Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1938.
Octavo, offsetting on endpapers, but very good in original eucalypt grey cloth with plain blue dustwrapper (bit sunned) with printed title label.
First edition ‒ scarce cloth issue. Inscribed and signed by the author. (The trade edition was issued in uniform blue wrappers, selling for 3/6.)
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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廣東省明細地圖. [Guangdong Province Detailed Map].
$1750
A very attractive map of Guangdong province, the European concessions of Hong Kong and Macau, as well as the Paracel Islands and South China Sea - included ostensibly to affirm the Kuomintang Government's claims to the territories.
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Half a tent is better than none ...
$9500
A map of the colony of New South Wales. The various inset maps show ports and harbours around the territory: Port Philip and Western Port, Botany Bay, Jervis Bay, Port Hunter, Broken Bay, Port Macquarie, Twofold Bay, Port Stephens, Morton Bay and Brisbane River, Port Jackson, and one larger map of the whole continent.
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Early Edo Period Japanese Cookery Book
$6000
(Shinpan) Ryōri kondate shū (zen) or 料理献立抄 [trans. Collection of Cooking Menus, New Edition, complete]
No publishing details in the text: circa 1686. [Kyoto : Nagata Hanbei, Jokyo 3, 1686]¹ In Japanese, early Edo period calligraphic script. two double-page woodcut illustrations, two smaller partial-page woodcut illustrations.
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“HOBSON BAY AND THE RIVER YARRA LEADING TO MELBOURNE”
$7800
Cartographer: Captain G.H. RICHARDS
Publisher: BRITISH ADMIRALTY
1865 [1901]
Engraving [engraved by J. & C. WALKER]
Very interesting and detailed large plan of Melbourne and Hobson Bay.
All pertinent nautical information as ports, docks, sea depths,
sand bars, wrecks, as well as building, streets, parks etc
are accurately named and tracked.
As updated charts were offered for sale, the earlier outdated charts in the hands of mariners, pilots, ships owners and sailors were invariably discarded, subsequently making all British Admiralty issued hydrographic charts of the period rare
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