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.
Check back soon to see what will be coming to the Fair.
French Country Cooking
$950
A Near Fine copy of Elizabeth David's second book with a fine unblemished dust jacket.
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A journal of a tour of discovery across the Blue Mountains, in New South Wales, in the year 1813.
$1850
The second edition, published in 1870 by the explorer’s son, as the first edition from 1823 was now unprocurable. The journal accounts the first successful crossing of the Blue Mountains, opening up westward settlement in New South Wales.
At the auction of the Davidson Collection 2006 a copy of the first edition of 1823 sold for $407,750, while the second edition (as here) sold for $7573.
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Anatomy of a Horse from nature.
$1450
Unknown artist after Stubbs, 1790, 2 Copperline engravings, framed in ph neutral matte and black frame. 32 X 48. Figure 1, 2, & 3 show views side on front and rear of horse. engraving 1 shows external first layer of muschles. Engraving 2 shows muscles, ligaments as seen through the membrane carnova and fascia. An ideal gift, this charming pair can be sold separately at $725 each.
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Novae Literar Asiae Orientalis. A New Alphabet for China and Japan.
$825
Kinsberg, J.G.H. C.E. Fritze's Royal Library. Stockholm. 1901.
Scarce work by Swedish physician, veterinarian and zoologist Johan Gustaf Hjalmar Kinberg (1820-1908). This work is his noble attempt to offer a simplified transcription for Japanese and Chinese characters following the work of J. J. Hoffman (1868) and Georg V. D. Gabelentz (1881).
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An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales.
$2500
David Collins. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales. London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. & W. Davies, The Strand, 1798. First Edition. Quarto, pp. xx, xxxviii, [2, short title], 618 pages (final blank), : illustrated with two maps, one folding, 17 engravings and three in-text vignettes : new e.p.s : old rebinding in quarter calf over paper covered boards with red leather title panel to spine lettered in gilt.
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