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
Chemical Atlas; or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects
$8000
One of the 19th century’s pioneering publications of science popularization.
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WOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE. Birthday Book. Glasgow: [printed by Gilmour & Lawrence Printers for] Women's Freedom League Suffrage Centre, [c.1910]
An uncommon women's suffrage birthday book, published to fundraise for the Scottish Council of the Women's Freedom League, compiled by Eunice Murray, future president of the WFL in Scotland and the first Scotswoman to stand for parliament. It comprises contributions from a number of significant Scottish suffragettes including Helen Fraser, Alexia Jack, and Anna Munro.
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Waratahs and Flannel Flowers c1894-'97 by Margaret Flockton
$8500
Watercolour
36 x 42 cm
Signed; inscribed on reverse Waratahs and Flannel Flowers, Australia
Provenance: Private collection UK until 2021
This watercolour was probably No. 186, Wild Flowers, N.S.W., £18.18.0, Spring Exhibition, Art Society of NSW, 1897.
It was also exhibited and sold, at the Exhibition of Australian Art, May, 1898, Grafton Galleries, London. No. 134, Some Wild Flowers, £18.18.0
Margaret Flockton (1861-1953) was Australia’s first and most celebrated professional botanical artist.
We have limited copies of the excellent biography on the artist for sale Margaret Fl
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厳島案内地圖. [Bird's Eye View of Itsukushima].
$450
A vibrant panoramic map of the island of Itsukushima (also known as Miyajima) off the coast of Hiroshima, with a tourist guide to the island on the reverse.
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Arthur Phillips Reise nach der Botany-Bay
$1750
Rare German translation of Governor Arthur Phillip’s, Voyage to Botany Bay, printed in Hamburg 1791.
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A New Voyage Round the World
$5250
William Dampier’s voyages, four volumes bound into three.
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Image Large Format Photo of Sumo Wreslers and Gyoji
$1100
by Raimund von Stillfried
Impressive, large format, hand-coloured, albumen photo of four Japanese sumo wrestlers in their kesho-mawashi along with a refereee (gyoji). This wrestler second front left is also in an individual photo by Stillfried.
[Yokohama]. Raimund von Stillfried. c1875. 24.9 x 19cm.
In very good condition with only minor age wear. Mounted on card.
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The Selfish Gene
$750
Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. London: Oxford University Press, 1976.
First Edition. 8vo. original black boards in dustwrapper; pp. xii, 224. A fine copy. In July 2017, the book was listed as the most influential science book of all time in a poll to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Royal Society science book prize, ahead of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of SpeciesIsaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica.
“HOBSON BAY AND THE RIVER YARRA LEADING TO MELBOURNE”
$7800
Cartographer: Captain G.H. RICHARDS
Publisher: BRITISH ADMIRALTY
1865 [1901]
Engraving [engraved by J. & C. WALKER]
Very interesting and detailed large plan of Melbourne and Hobson Bay.
All pertinent nautical information as ports, docks, sea depths,
sand bars, wrecks, as well as building, streets, parks etc
are accurately named and tracked.
As updated charts were offered for sale, the earlier outdated charts in the hands of mariners, pilots, ships owners and sailors were invariably discarded, subsequently making all British Admiralty issued hydrographic charts of the period rare
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Guide Book of Yedo - The Tokio Guide
$2420
The first English guidebook to Tokyo by A Resident [William Elliot Griffis]. Yokohama. F.R. Wetmore & Co. 1874. pp.35[1]. 17.2 x 10.8cm. Very good. Covers worn and marked. Ownership stamp of Theodor Peteln inside front cover. Title page has had square shaped area cut out but this has been neatly repaired. Internally very good with only minor wear.
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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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Portrait of a queen or princess in oriental Egyptian style.
$8000
August Pollak (1838-1903) A wonderful painting of an "Oriental Woman”, in the guise of Cleopatra wearing the goddess Neckhbet (Vulture) head-dress with a suggestion of a cobra at the brow. Fine gold earrings and a beautiful necklace adorn her, with the sensuous somewhat fragile beauty of the imagined Cleopatra.
Pollack was an Austrian artist, many of his paintings are of still lives, sensuous women or whimsical studies of children with cats, he is known for his oriental subjects. His paintings have about them a Fusilian mystery. The painting could be a study for a larger work.