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


MELB24 Australia Manoscritta
$380
Author: CARLO DOLCI (signed lower right) Title: “AUSTRALIA E SUOI ABITANTI” [Australia and its Inhabitants] c.1890 Ink, pencil & watercolour on paper. Unusual manuscript map of Australia and Oceania executed by an Italian student in a school context. The chart is showing China, Borneo, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. All places and islands accurately named. Australian continent, named “Nuova Olanda”, includes tracking of Leeuwin land, De Witt land, New South Wales and Van Diemen land as well as main Gulfs, Straits and Capes are accurately named.
View More
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.
lbum with 77 Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Studio Photographs of Australia and Tasmania,
$6650
Greenham & Evans (fl. ca. 1895-1900); King, Henry (1855-1923); Caire, Nicholas John (1837-1918); Sargeant, Albert & Others. Album with 77 Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Studio Photographs of Australia and Tasmania, Showing Perth, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Gippsland Lakes, Hobart, Strahan (Tasmania), Cape Raoul, Fren Tree Bower, Portraits of Aboriginal Australians, Gold Miners, Tree Loggers, &c. Ca. 1880s-1890s. Oblong Folio album (ca. 34x40,5 cm or 13 ¼ x 16 in). 24 card stock leaves. With 77 mounted original gelatin silver and albumen photos
Holinshed’s Chronicle leaf, 1577. The History of Scotland.
$185
One of Shakespeare’s primary history sources. Woodcut illustrations of William the Conqueror's soldiers ransacking a village and Gentlemen submitting to King Malcolm's pleasure. Holinshed was Shakespeare's favourite and most trusted source and he used it for more than a third of his plays, including Macbeth, King Lear, Cymbeline and the English history plays such as Richard III. Condition: At best, fair antiquarian condition, but despite faults, the main body of text is complete and legible and the woodcuts are sharply printed.
View More