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
Original leaf from the famous Bohun Bible, considered to have been commissioned by Edward “The Black Prince”.
$7800
England, East Anglia, circa 1350.
“…one of the most magnificent Bibles ever produced in England in medieval times ...." A huge lectern bible leaf, believed to be the only Bohun Bible leaf in Australia.
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[FIRST FLEET]. A letter sent by Midshipman Newton Fowell, on board HMS Sirius at sea, off Rio de Janeiro, 6 August 1787
$150000
Possibly the only First Fleet letter still remaining in private hands. An extraordinary foundation item for British settlement in Australia.
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Leason Percy
$1850
Chromolithograph
42.3 x 69.7 cm
"AN AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL PICTURE"
A copy of this chromolithograph is in the collection of the Australian War Memorial and the State Library of New South Wales
Item #6292
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Chaucer (Geoffrey) THE CANTERBURY TALES.
$25000
Chaucer (Geoffrey) THE CANTERBURY TALES. With wood engravings by Eric Gill. Four volumes. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in qr. brown niger morocco. The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1928-1931. One of 485 numbered sets, printed on Batchelor hand-made paper with Cockerel watermark. *The native-dyed niger morocco often varies in hue, but this set is well-matched. Loosely inserted is an ALs, dated 24 September 1932, from Eric Gill to the archaeologist Stuart Piggott, whose wife's signature is on the upper free endpaper of Volume I. $25,000.00
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ALPHONSE LEGROS [attributed to] “PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN”
$2450
ALPHONSE LEGROS [attributed to]
(Dijon 1837- Watford 1911)
French/British artist
“PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN”
c.1880
TECHNIQUE:
Black pencil on thick blue paper.
Nicely executed portrait of a unidentified gentleman.
Profile bust lightly turning to the left looking towards the viewer.
SIZE: 270mm(H) x 200mm(L) [sheet]
CONDITION:
Black pencil on thick blue paper.
Mounted at the corners on a white paper sheet.
Two small round spots: one below the portrait and a tiny one at left.
Otherwise in excellent condition.
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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.
The Compleat Angler | Izaak Walton
$3900
|SOLD BEFORE SHOW| The world’s most famous fishing book, this copy is produced duplicating an 1897 edition from John Lane, the Bodley Head Ltd edited by Richard Le Gallienne and the 1676 text is the last to be revised by Walton, now with modernised spelling.
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Collected Works of Winston Churchill including Essays
$4500
Collected Works of Winston Churchill (34 Volumes) including Essays (4 Volumes) bound in velum with gilt lettering to spine. Limited to 5000 copies of which a significant but unknown portion were never produced leaving the final print run an unknown quantity. The slipcases have been removed but are available.
The Holy Bible. Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated out of the Original Tongues. ...With Revised New Testament, ...
$1500
19th century family bible published circa 1884. Impressively bound in boards that are heavily embossed with gilt. With colour chromo-lithographic plates, maps, steel engravings and text-illustrations. A fine example.
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Narrative of A Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, From Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825, (With Notes Upon Ceylon,) An Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in India.
$950
A seminal work describing India's geography and people.
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Études sur Le Vin
$1950
Pasteur's first major published work.
PASTEUR, L [Louis (1822-1895)]
Études sur le vin. Ses maladies causes qui les provoquent procédés nouveaux pour le conserver et pour le vieillir.
Paris : L'imprimerie Impériale, 1866. First Edition.
Octavo (235x155mm) half bound burgundy, pebble-grain morocco cloth, marbled boards, viii, 264pp; π⁴, 1-16⁸, 17⁴. Eleven (ten numbered) in text wood engravings, 32 out of text colour lithograpic plates. In French.
An excellent First Edition of one of the fundamental and consequential texts of wine science.
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QING CHINA. Manuscript recording a voyage to China and impressions of its major cities. [At sea & China: 1842-48]
An American second mate's eyewitness account, embellished with his illustrations, of China in the wake of the First Opium War. Venturing east on a Jardine, Matheson specie and opium runner, he becomes an old China hand and an astute observer, writing of early colonial Hong Kong and Shanghai, trade arrangements, and the sights and sounds of the coast.
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