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


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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“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 As updated charts were offered for sale, the earlier outdated charts in the hands of mariners, pilots, ships owners and sailors were invariably discarded, subsequently making all British Admiralty issued hydrographic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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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.