Highlights
Each year our Exhibitors have wonderful items for sale. This year is no exception.
Our Exhibitors will be adding their highlights here over the next six weeks leading up to the Fair.
To see the highlights from each individual exhibitor click here: EXHIBITOR DIRECTORY HIGHLIGHTS
CL198 52-“Poseidon” Winner Melbourne Cup
$1250
1906. Watercolour, titled and signed “C.W. Read” lower left to right, 50.3 x 67.8cm. Slight foxing and stains, minor missing portions and repaired tears to edges.
Poseidon was an Australian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse who became the first horse to win both the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup in 1906. He is depicted here with his rider, Australian jockey Tom Clayton (1882–1909). Ref: Wiki. Item #CL198-52
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"ASIA"; ANDRÉ THEVET, 1575; Rare First Edition [First state of 3].
$4800
Rare and exquisitely designed 16th Century map of Asia, by the fantastically entertaining cosmographer André de Thevet.
This important and beautifully composed woodcut map embraces all of Asia during the great early period of European exploration in South and East Asia.
The depiction of these regions is ultimately based on Portuguese sources, who since Vasco da Gama's first voyage to India in 1498, had a virtual monopoly on the maritime knowledge of the Indian Ocean and East Asia.
Showing "Partie de la Terre Australle", long before its recorded discovery.
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View of Part of Sydney, the Capital of New South Wales. Taken from Bene Longs Point.
$35000
Exceptionally rare engraved view of Sydney Cove looking west from part one, plate 4, of Absalom West’s Views published on January 1st, 1813.
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Groups of Cattle drawn from Nature by T.S.Cooper 1839
$3500
First edition of Thomas Sidney Cooper’s outstanding study of cattle.
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Mt. Dromedary and Inlet c1880 by James Howe Carse
$15000
At the Inaugural Arts Society of NSW Exhibition in 1880, James Howe Carse exhibited ten paintings mainly of scenes on the south coast of NSW, with another ten in 1883, two in 1884 and nine in 1885. According to Stephen Scheding, this painting could date from any of those years. Carse painted scenes of Bermagui, Tilba Tilba, Wallaga Lake, Mount Dromedary amongst others. This painting was also exhibited at Charles Nodrum Gallery in 2023 and was in private collection in NSW until 2018.
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CL146 85-Fernand Léger (French, 1881-1955). Les Illuminations. [Poems By Rimbaud],
$5500
1949. As issued, unbound letterpress book (French binding) with original paper wrappers, comprising 15 original lithographs, 13 with pochoir, all initialled in image lower right, stamped number “342” from an edition of 395 and signed in pencil and in
ink by Léger and editor, Louis Grosclaude on colophon, 33 x 25cm (paper). In excellent condition.Ref CL146-85
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"SPECIALKARTE VON AUSTRALIEN" [Special Map of Australia] In 8 Blättern von A. Petermann, 1871.
$1200
AUGUSTUS HEINRICH PETERMANN
Technique: LITHOGRAPHY
Scarce 8 sheets map of Australia by Augustus Petermann.
Large map of Australia showing towns, river system, railways and telegraph lines and county boundaries.
The map features the routes taken by a number of important overland explorers,
during a time period when the interior parts of Australia were still largely unknown.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights with annotations on vegetation.
Height loose joinable sheets.
Published by Justus Perthes., Gotha, 1871;
Tooley, R.V. (Australia) 1531.
In perfect condition.
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1979 ROBERTO MATTA, Chilean; “NYMPHEE”, Original Etching & Aquatint.
$1800
"Nymphee" is a colourful Roberto Matta etching from his portfolio “Requiem pour la Fin des Temps” .
Signed and numbered in pencil with the publisher blind-stamps “George Visat” lower right and
“Galleria dell’Incisione Milano” lower left.
Etching and Aquatint printed in colour on "ARCHES" wove paper.
Signed in pencil by the artist.
Numbered 58/100 lower left; limited edition of 100.
420mm(H) x 320mm(L) [plate]
648mm(H) x 495mm(L) [sheet]
Excellent impression on wove paper with watermark: “ARCHES France”.
Besides a trace of humidityon the edge of lower right margin
in excellent condition
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Pennant’ Outlines of the Globe, vol. 4: The view of the Malayan Isles, New Holland
$4850
The rare fourth volume of Pennant’s Outlines of the globe containing the large map of Australia, titled: Map For Mr. Pennants Outline of the Globe.
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Parte Occidentale della China
$16500
A complete set of the most sought after c.18th maps of China by Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718). The map depicts the eastern part of China with Korea -correctly- as a peninsula. Formosa is included as well.
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1854 “AMÉRIQUE DU NORD” [Wall Map], ADOLPHE HIPPOLYTE DUFOUR.
$1380
Rare wall map of North America, which appeared in Andriveau-Goujon's Atlas Choix.
Very unusual treatment of the Transmississippi West, including a misshaped Texas,
Ozark District, Mandan District, Osage District, Massive Nebraska Territory.
Early primitive attempt to depict Washington and Oregon Territiories, and a host of other fascination details.
A highly detailed and scarce map.
Text by Warin; engraved by Flahaut, contemporary hand colouring.
Laid back on canvas and divided into 21 foldable quadrants; with the original very elegant marbled hardcover.
Published by Andriveau-Goujon.
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CL146 113-Felix Vallotton (Swiss/French, 1865-1925). Crimes Et Châtiments (Crime And Punishment),
$3800
1902. Periodical containing 23 original colour
lithographs, each initialled in image lower left or
right and captioned in French below image, 26.8 x
20.5cm (approx. each); 32.4 x 25.5cm (periodical).
Discolouration and chips to edges. Fully illustrated on
website.
Extremely rare special issue of L’Assiette Au Beurre, (No. 48,
1902), a satirical weekly founded in 1901.Ref CL146-113
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La Nuova Olanda
$9250
Very rare and important c.18th map of Australia based on Cook’s first voyage observations and one of only a handful of maps to be solely devoted to the Australia continent.
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CL201 2-Sir Joseph Banks Letter and Caricature
$6600
1790s–c1851.
(1) Letter By Sir Joseph Banks, President Of The Royal Society, c1790s. One-page, two-sided manuscript handwritten in ink, 18.5 x 11.5cm (paper). Discoloration to edges, old folds.
The letter, addressed to a Mr. Bellemy and signed “Jos Banks”, conveys Banks’ concerns about the delay in receiving minutes of the last meeting of the Royal Society, and whether they had been checked by the chairman.
Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820) was president of the Royal Society from November 1778 to his death. The society, originally known as The Royal Society.
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AARON ARROWSMITH; UNTITLED 1811 [Two Sheets composing Oceania], Very Rare.
$3800
AARON ARROWSMITH
(Winston 1750- London 1823)
UNTITLED
[Chart of the World on Mercator Projections]
1811
Technique:COPPER ENGRAVING, contemporary hand-colour.
Two portions/sections of the scarce 1811 edition of the “Monumental World Map” by Aaron Arrowsmith showing updated discoveries.
The two joinable sheets shows very detailed geographical informations including the south part of the Indian Subcontinent,
South-East Asia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific Islands.
South Australia is left untracked and blank waiting for the updating informations...
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Port Jackson Harbour, in New South Wales: with a distant view of the Blue Mountains.
$25000
Exceptionally rare engraved view of Sydney taken from South Head looking west, from part one, plate 2, of Absalom West’s Views published on January 1st, 1813.
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CL184 144-Raphael Sabatini (American,1898-1985). 7 Shots From The Spot-light
$2450
1927. Folio of seven original lithographs, with contents page and frontispiece in linocut, title and date on contents page, each lithograph signed in pencil below image, 25.6 x 18cm (each); 40.2 x 32.7cm (folio). Tears and missing portions to contents page, old glue stains to upper edge of four lithographs with minor cockling, slight discolouration to old mats and folio cover.
Text on frontispiece includes “Limited to 53 sets.” Held in Whitney Museum of American Art. ref CL184-144
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Journal of a Voyage to new South Wales
$7500
First edition of John White’s account of the natural history of the new colony at Sydney Cove, printed for J. Debrett Piccadilly, London. C1790
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Fishwives, Etaples c1910 by Hilda Rix Nicholas
$8500
Fishwives, Etaples is a pastel on paper (35.7 x 26.5 cm) dated circa 1910. Hilda was born in Ballarat, Victoria. She had a studio in the artists' colony at Etaples. With the declaration of war in 1914, she escaped Etaples to England. This piece was exhibited in her 1922 Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings of Australian Life and Landscape (No. 30, 15 gn) which toured provincial English galleries. These idealized images of the Australian 'country, its beauty and types of virile manhood', stimulated migration to Australia from northern towns disrupted by industrial unrest (Avenel Mitchell,1988)
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Omai a Native of Ulaietea, Brought into England in the Year 1774, by Tobias Furneaux
$7500
Rare c.18th full length portrait of Omai (more correctly Mae or Mai) who was the young Raiatean (Society Islands) taken on Furneaux’s Adventure to England in 1774.
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CL161 130-Dave Sands, Australian Boxer, c1946-1951. Group of eight silver gelatin photographs taken from press photographs,
$990
seven with captions below image, all stamped verso, sizes from 8.9 x 10.9cm to 12.8 x 8.5cm. Stamp reads “W. O’Loughlin, PO Box 29, South West Rocks, NSW, 2431.” Images show Dave Sands fighting Jack Kirkham, Sydney Stadium, 1946; Art Lind, Sydney Stadium, 1947; Geo.Allen (NZ), Rushcutters Bay Stadium, 1947; Don Mullett, Wellington, NZ, 1948; O’Neil Bell (USA), Rushcutters Bay Stadium, 1948; Tommy Yarosz, London, 1949; Boy Brooks, Melbourne Stadium, 1951
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A New Voyage Round the World
$5250
A good set of William Dampier’s voyages, four volumes bound into three. c1705-1709
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CL146 112- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: 1864-1901, Peintre, Vol. I and Vol. II, Dessins, Estampes, Affiches
$6600
1898/1926 & 1927. Pair of soft-cover letterpress
books with original paper wrappers, each containing
three original drypoints in two states (black and bistre),
each volume stamped with number “149” from an
edition of 200 on colophon, 26.2 x 20.5 x 6cm. Fully
illustrated on the website.
Text by Maurice Joyant, published by H. Floury, éditeur, Paris.
Ref: Adriani #242-246, 248.
Toulouse-Lautrec only produced nine drypoint images during his
lifetime; six of these are presented here: ref CL146-112
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“NOËL 1893" [Christmas 1893], EUGÈNE GRASSET.
$450
EUGÈNE GRASSET
(1845- 1917)
“NOËL 1893" [Christmas 1893]
Technique: Lithography
DESCRIPTION:
Cover image for the French journal “L’ILLUSTRATION”
of December 1893 by Art Nouveau’s master Eugène Grasset. The scene depicts female angels working in a cozy kitchen, peeling potatoes, stirring pots, preparing food while the Holy Mary is breastfeeding baby Jesus at bottom left.
Perfect example of Eugène Grasset design.
Original lithograph.
Advertising text at verso.
Signed on the stone at bottom left of the image.
In perfect condition.
Excellent impression & colour.
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“UESUGI KENSHIN NYUDO TERUTORA”; TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI, Woodblock.
$1750
"UESUGI NO TERUTORA RIDING INTO BATTLE"
1883
Woodblock printed in colours
From the series “Yoshitoshi Musha Burui” (Yoshitoshi’s Courageous Warriors). Fantastic portrait of Kenshin, seen riding nobly into battle on horseback, surrounded by billowing plumes of smoke. Kenshin (1530-78) is best known as the opponent of Takeda Shingen...
NOTE: Signature: Taiso Yoshitoshi ga./ Publisher: Kobayashi Tetsujiro. First edition; Three-colour cartouche; Two red seals and publisher address in blue at bottom left.
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Rainbow Lorikeet in a Suburban Garden 1978 by Peter Trusler
$8000
Rainbow Lorikeet in a Suburban Garden 1978 (25 x 34 cm)
is part of Peter Trusler's Birds of Australian Gardens series which he worked on alongside authors Tess Kloot and Ellen M. McCulloch. Their collective four year commitment to study and research birds in Australia had a significant contribution to ornithological artistry and literature. Trusler uses a 'photographic' style in order to present every detail of colour to utmost value. The painting has been in The National Bank Collection of Modern Art from 1980 until 2022.
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HENRI PRIVAT-LIVEMONT; c.1898 “ALLEGORISCHE...", 2 Lithographic Allegory Cards.
$850
HENRI PRIVAT-LIVEMONT
(Schaerbeek 1861- 1936)
Belgian school
“ALLEGORISCHE FRAUENGESTALTEN. DARSTELLUNG WEIBLICHER HANDARBEITEN” (Two Allegory Cards)
[Allegorical Female Figures Representation of Female Handicraft]
1898
Technique: LITHOGRAPHY
Two allegorical cards by Art Nouveau master Henri Privat-Livemont depicting two female figures, in a floral environment, in handicraft occupations.
A good example of Privat-Livemont design.
Original colour lithographs, blank at verso.
From a series of 4 printed on one sheet published in Stuttgart
by Hoffmann, c.1898.
In excellent condition.
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1824 “CARTE DE LA NOUVELLE-HOLLANDE”; LOUIS CLAUDE DE SAULCES DE FREYCINET.
$2750
This is the rare updated version of Freycinet’s seminal map of Australia which was first issued in 1807 in a larger format in the accounts of the French expedition under the command of Nicholas Baudin.
Freycinet was the cartographer for the expedition and his map of Australia was the first to show a complete coastline of the Continent before Matthew Flinders’s chart which was issued in 1814 due to his imprisonment on Mauritius Island by the French.
In this version, Freycinet removes the Imperialist ambitious naming of “Terre de Napoléon” and Imperial French names for many parts of the coast...
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CL158 90-Claude Flight (British, 1881-1955). [Houses By A Hillside],
$3300
1924. Pencil and watercolour, signed and
dated in pencil lower left, 26.3 x 34.4cm. Slight foxing and stains to edges of image. Ref 158-90
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CL158 160-Paris [Images By Prominent Artists],
$8800
1937. French binding (unbound) with buckram
covers with leather label, featuring 62 original
etchings and two original colour woodcuts on
inside cover and frontispiece, most etchings
signed in plate, editioned 187/500 on colophon,
35.7 x 28cm. Minor wear and soiling to inside
cover.
The 62 etchings comprise 31 full-page and 31 half-page
formats. Artists featured include Bonnard, Le Breton,
Derain, Dufy, Laborde, Laboureur, Laurencin, Lhote,
Marquet, Matisse, Segonzac, van Dongen, Vlaminck,
Vuillard. Ref CL158-160
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REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN (1606-1669) “THE FLUTE-PLAYER” (het Uylenspiegeltje), Etching & Drypoint, 1642.
$22000
REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN
(Leyden 1606-Amsterdam1669) Dutch school
“THE FLUTE-PLAYER” (het Uylenspiegeltje)
1642
TECHNIQUE: Etching and drypoint
DESCRIPTION:
A young couple resting beside a stream, the man playing flute
with an owl perched on his shoulder, the girl making a flower garland at left.
Shepherds do more than their fair share of walking, but their lives also provide ample opportunity for relaxation.
It represents an amorous situation and Rembrandt...
NOTE:
Fourth state of four, without the face among the branches.
Barstch 188, Hollstein Dutch 144, New Hollstein 211.
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