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
Hume and Hovell Expedition
$13500
The first three editions of Hamilton Hume's account of his famous expedition with Captain William Hilton Hovell, which established an overland route between Sydney and Port Phillip. Outraged at what he considered to be a public lack of acknowledgement of his role in the expedition, Hume was impelled to publish this account 30 years later, in 1855.
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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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Aboriginals of Northern Queensland
$750
MORRILL, James. Sketch of a Residence among the Aboriginals of Northern Queensland for Seventeen Years. Being a narrative of my life, shipwreck, landing on the coast, residence among the Aboriginals, with an account of their manners and customs, and mode of living. Brisbane, Courier General Printing Office, 1863. 8vo.24pp. Recent quarter-morocco over cloth boards, a very good copy. First edition, Rare. Ferguson 13022.
[Sea mouth of the Murray]
$4500
Very rare and unrecorded proof before letters, Chine-collé lithograph on India paper, of the [Sea Mouth of the Murray] by George French Angas.
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Album with Nine Original Albumen and Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing the Australian Bush, Homestead and a Creek near “Langiwilli"
$950
Album with Nine Original Albumen and Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing the Australian Bush, Homestead and a Creek near “Langiwilli,” Sutherland Dock on the Cockatoo Island (Sydney Harbour), and Cotton Shipping in Galveston, TX. Ca. late 1890s - early 1900s.
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The ornithology of Australia : being illustrations of 244 Australian birds, with descriptive letter-press.
$55000
One of the most important Australian ornithological publications of the nineteenth century.
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Dudley’s original manuscript manual for the use and instruction of the officers of the Tuscan fleet
$951500
The only known manuscript example of any part of Robert Dudley’s magnum opus, ‘Dell’arcano del mare’ held in private hands. An astonishing survival: a working manuscript, seemingly specifically assembled for the eyes and instruction of the officers of the Tuscan Navy, the Knights of St. Stefano, rather than for a public audience. This suggestion is borne out by the wording of the first title for the work that Dudley has crossed out: ‘Compendio del Direttorio Marittimo: Il pr[im]o Tomo e intilato , Supplemento della Navigare. Nel pr[im]o libro si discorre dell ‘arte, piu Curiosa di Navigare.
The Last of the Tasmanians
$1400
3. BONWICK, JAMES. The Last of the Tasmanians; Or, The Black War of Van Diemen's Land. With numerous illustrations and colour engraving. London, Sampson Low, 1870. 8vo; pp. viii, 400 + 16 (book catalogue); colour frontispiece, 2 other f/p. colour plates, 15 b/w. f/p. plates, a folding map of Tasmania; original green pictorial cloth decorated in gilt. Some light foxing to prelims, (including to the tissue-guard to the frontispiece), an otherwise excellent bright copy. First edition of one of Bonwick's most important works.
易学便蒙吉凶禍福獨判断. [Introductory Fortune Telling. Teach Yourself How to Read Good and Bad Luck or Fortune and Misfortune].
$750
A fascinating Japanese work based on the I Ching, showing how to tell fortunes by throwing sticks and reading the resulting hexagram.
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Dawn The Worlds of Final Fantasy by Yoshitaka Amano
$130
A very good hardback copy of the artwork that inspired the designs of the Final Fantasy games.
La Nuova Olanda e la Nuova Guinea delineato sulle ultime osservazioni
$9250
Very rare and important c.18th map of Australia based on Cook’s first voyage observations and one of only a handful of maps to be solely devoted to the Australia continent.
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Par Voltaire, Siècles de Louis XIV et de Louis XV
$450
A nice set, published by Pierre Didot, Paris 1803, 3 Vols. 32mo. Buff leather spine, with Pink insert title and green volume with gilt letters, and various gilt decorations, boards marbled, endpapers marbled, edges yellow, owners ex libris Viet Valentin. Good-very good condition, silk bookmarks intact. Tom 1- II, 245pp lightly foxed, Tom III-IV 262pp edges lightly worn, interior bright with minimal marks, Tom V-VI 336pp light wear, inside bright.