Highlights
Each year our exhibitors bring rare, beautiful and unusual items for sale.
Here are just a few of the exhibitors' highlights that were at the Fair in 2023!
There are a number of pages of highlights. To browse all the highlights - choose a page from the list below.
You can also check the highlights listed under your favourite booksellers in the exhibitor directory.
Although the 2023 Fair has now closed, some of these items may still be available from our Exhibitors if you wish to contact them.
Watercolour of a Stuart Cleric
$10000
Unknown man in the robes of a court cleric, with a fabulous ruffled colour and a simple white gown and a touch of scarlet in his robes. On his head a black cap lined in which. This man has a full clipped beard and is most beautifully painted. All three paintings are of the most exceptional quality and I am proud to offer them at this fair.
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The War of the Worlds
$3500
The first printing of the first trade edition with the first state publisher’s Autumn 1897 advertisements of one of the classics of science fiction (First appearance as a serial in Pearson’s Magazine). In 1938 Orson Welles produced a radio adaptation which caused panic among some listeners who thought an actual Martian invasion was taking place. CURREY pg. 526.
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[BACON, Francis.] Apophthegms New and Old, collected by the Right Honourable, Francis Lo. Vervlam, Viscount St. Alban.
$2500
Printed for Hanna Barret and Richard Whittaker, and are to be sold at the Kings Head in Pauls Church-yard: London, 1625. 12mo. [ii] (title, verso blank), 308pp (last blank). The title within a narrow double-ruled border, text within a wider double-ruled border, leaving a blank marginal column (for notes?). Contemporary full calf, neatly rebacked with the unlettered spine laid down. Hinges strengthened with Japanese tissue. Lacks a preliminary blank leaf? Title-page is slightly off-centre and a little rubbed along its head edge. The text somewhat offset on a few late pages.
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Churchill, Winston S.: EPHEMERA FROM THE STATE FUNERAL OF SIR WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER-CHURCHILL.
$7500
Churchill, Winston S.: EPHEMERA FROM THE STATE FUNERAL OF SIR WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER-CHURCHILL . . . 30th January 1965. Five items, comprising: 1. The Order of Service for the Funeral. 2. Ceremonial to be observed at the Funeral. 3. Invitation to the Funeral, issued by the Earl Marshal on Command from The Queen, to the Rt. Hon. Enoch Powell. 4. Seating ticket for Enoch Powell. 5. General Instructions. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1965. $7500
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Hamilton Greek Vase - Banquet Scene
$1450
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. 1801-1808. 315mm by 430mm (platemark) 460mm by 710mm (sheet). This plate is from the scarce Florence edition of d'Hancarville's famous work on Sir William Hamilton's collection of antique vases - 'Antiquites Etrusques, Grecques et Romaines, tirees du Cabinet de M. William Hamilton.' It was first published in 1767, this edition is 1801-1808.
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Peter Trusler | Male Eastern Rosella Inspecting a Nest Box 1978, Watercolour, 27.5 x 22 cm
$9500
Illustrated Birds of Australian Gardens, Rigby Publishers, 1980, page 68, De-accessioned from the National Bank Collection in 2022
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POUND, Ezra Selected Poems; Edited with an Introduction by T.S. Eliot
$5000
London: Faber and Gwyer, 1928. First Edition, limited issue. Hardcover : pp. xxxii, 184 : numbered & SIGNED at colophon (p.ii) : wove e.p.s : t.e.g., other edges untrimmed : grey paper boards : gilt lettered white vellum spine [GALLUP A30b]
Vellum repaired at tail of spine; corners slightly bumped; lacks original glassine jacket; exceptionally clean throughout. Near fine. Item #3926
No. 77 of 100 copies.
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