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
[38072] Coxen's Fig Parrot and Red-browed Fig Parrot.
$12000
Cayley, Neville W. Watercolour, 30 cm by 20 cm, signed "N. W. Cayley" lower left, mounted and framed.The accompanying plate to Chisholm, A. H. Australia's lorilet puzzle. The Emu, volume 29, 1929. Pp. 80-85.
This painting by Neville Cayley junior is one of the earliest ever of Fig Parrots and historically interesting because Coxen's Fig Parrot, the southernmost subspecies of the three Australian Fig Parrots, is now almost certainly extinct."
View More
[Views in South Australia]
$9500
Complete set of six lithographic views of colonial South Australia, by Edward Castle who came to South Australia in 1839 on board the Moffatt and took up land in the colony.
View More
Arthur Phillips Reise nach der Botany-Bay
$1750
Rare German translation of Governor Arthur Phillip’s, Voyage to Botany Bay, printed in Hamburg 1791.
View More
[Wall size poster] Mucha ‘8th Sokol Festival
$12500
Spectacular very large wall size format Alphonse Mucha Art Nouveau vintage poster made for the ‘8th Sokol Festival Prague.
View More
Manuscript Breviary leaf, c. 1475 with jewel-like illuminated initials.
$750
The text includes a section of a sermon by Maximus of Turin.
Pristine condition. Archivally mounted.
View More
A Bush Burial
$3500
Chromolithograph by Robert Wendel after Frederick McCubbin (1855-1917). 1892.
670mm by 940mm (frame). 'Reproduction of the First Prize in The Australian Natives’ Association National Fete, January 26th 1892’. Printed by Troedel & Co, Melbourne. Period timber frame, with slip and original old glass. CONDITION : Some foxing spots in the margins.
View More
A Collection of Four Original Watercolours of Australia and Tasmania, Showing Botany Bay,
$1850
A Collection of Four Original Watercolours of Australia and Tasmania, Showing Botany Bay, Murrumbidgee River and Wollundry Lagoon in Wagga-Wagga and Tamar River in Tasmania; With a Watercolour Plant Sketch, Titled "Homeward Bound". Ca. 1890s.
View More
Tapio Wirkkala, Eye Hand and Thought
$200
A symbolic figure in Finnish design. We will be bringing a range of books on Modernist furniture.
WARD, Ebenezer: The Vineyards and Orchards of South Australia
$9000
An excellent copy of this great rarity, seldom
found in any condition—let alone as pleasing
as this.
View More
Saint-Exupery (Antoine de) THE LITTLE PRINCE.
$5000
Saint-Exupery (Antoine de) THE LITTLE PRINCE. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. Handsomely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full terracotta morocco. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1943. First trade edition. *Although the original manuscript was written in French, the American edition preceded both the French and English editions. $5,000.00
View More
The Remains Of The Day [1st Ed]
$600
First Printing [Faber & Faber, London, 1989]; black boards, white titling to spine, v. light foxing to block, a near-fine copy; in the excellent unclipped [£10.99 net], illustrated dustjacket, slight curling at top, pale stain mark rear foldover.
Winner of the 1989 Booker Prize.
View More
The only known example of Peter Schenk’s wall map of Asia
$285000
A magnificent wall map of all Asia, extending from the Mediterranean and Arabia in the west to the Pacific and Australia in the east. The title appears in a separate decorative banner along the top; five vignettes of city views are attached along the bottom. An inset double-hemisphere map of the world surrounded by an elaborate allegorical cartouche, based on Joan Blaeu’s world map of 1648 (see Schilder, Shirley 371, and Wieder vol. 3) appears lower left.
View More