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
Dream / Life [Trent Parke]
$1500
First Printing [Hot Chilli Press, Sydney, 1999]; oblong quarto; 144 pages; black cloth, titling in black on spine, top edge sunned, 1cm spot stain on half-title, else fine; in excellent dustjacket, a bit rubbed, curling slightly at edges.
An excellent & scarce copy of brilliant photographer Trent Parke’s first book [photographs of the Sydney streets].
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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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Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland [Sangorsky & Sutcliffe]
$4750
81st Thousand [Macmillan, London, 1886]; two-thirds leather over decorative cloth boards, five raised bands, ornate gold decorations & titling on spine, leather a trifle rubbed at extremities, all edges gilt, decorative textured endpapers, very occasional light spotting, an excellent copy.
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Description of the Barossa Range and its neighbourhood, in South Australia
$22000
By “Agricola”. Illustrated with maps and coloured plates, from original drawings made on the spot, by George French Angas. London : Smith, Elder, & Co., Cornwall, 1849. One of the rarest and most beautiful Australian colour plate books.
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NEWTON, Sir Isaac: Universal Arithmetick, or, a Treatise of Arithmetical Composition and Resolution
$5000
London, Printed for J. Senex, W. and J. Innys, J. Osborne, and T. Longman, 1728 ('Second Edition, very much Corrected')
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WILSON, Samuel, Salmon at the Antipodes Being an Account of the Successful Introduction of Salmon and Trout into Australian Waters.
$1750
London, Edward Stanford, 1879.
Octavo, mounted photographic frontispiece 'Trout Pond at Ercildoune', folding map, index, very good in bright original decorated terracotta cloth, lettered in gilt, vignette of a salmon in silver on front board, lemon china clay endpapers, small lozenge binder's ticket on rear pastedown.
'Third Edition', preceded by a paper in the Zoological and Acclimatization Society of Victoria's 1878 annual report and reprinted by Sands & McDougall, as THE CALIFORNIAN SALMON, in the same year.
Author’s presentation copy.
WARD, Ebenezer: The Vineyards and Orchards of South Australia
$9000
An excellent copy of this great rarity, seldom
found in any condition—let alone as pleasing
as this.
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Manuscript Breviary leaf, c. 1475 with jewel-like illuminated initials.
$750
The text includes a section of a sermon by Maximus of Turin.
Pristine condition. Archivally mounted.
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Yachigusa - Volume 6 by Ueno Seikō
$1210
Uncommon work that appears to have ended up consisting of at least 14 volumes published over a few years from 1901. The book, in oblong format with decorative covers, contains 30 very nice, woodblock printed kimono designs with tissue interleaves numbered 151-180. Honda Kinnosuke of Unkindō in Kyoto published some of the most beautiful books in this genre.
Kyoto. Honda Kinnosuke. 1902. 30 leaves of prints. 17.8 x 25cm.
In very good condition with only minor wear. Tissue interleaves a bit darkened as expected and a couple with creases. Otherwise very good.
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Mercer, F. W., calligrapher: Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER.
$5000
Mercer, F. W., calligrapher: Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. 26 calligraphic manuscript leaves with tissue guards, comprising an illuminated title page and 24 text leaves, all text beneath illuminated upper border; handsomely bound in full green morocco. 1923. *With the calligrapher's signed presentation inscription to Vyvyan Holland on blank preliminary leaf, dated Christmas 1923. Holland was the son of Oscar Wilde. $5000.00
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Chinae olim Sinarum regionis, nova descriptio. Auctore Ludouico Georgio.
$7950
Early edition (1587) of the earliest printed map to focus solely on China, and the first to illustrate the Great Wall.
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Delicate, precise illuminations of very high quality.
$1350
Sparkling illuminations, fine condition.
Book of Hours leaf, c.1490, France.
Revered Psalm: “De Profundis”
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