Highlights
Each year our exhibitors bring rare, beautiful and unusual items for sale. Here are just a few of the exhibitors' highlights you can expect to see at the Fair in 2022!
A natural history of the birds of New South Wales
$55000
London : Henry H. Bohn, 1838. A fine example, in original condition, of one of the rarest illustrated works of Australian natural history.
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Views in Australia, or New South Wales and Van Dieman’s Land Delineated…1825
$65000
A specially desirable copy of the great Australian colourplate book, the most important collection of antipodean landscapes and a landmark in the development of Australian illustrated books.
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Cary’s pocket globe agreeable to the latest discoveries
$18500
[London : J. & W. Cary, c. 1791]. First edition of a pocket globe by John Cary, and first known to show the tracks of several First Fleet ships.
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Notes d'un pilote disparu (1916-1917) "Lieutenant Marc" [VILLARS, Jean Beraud]
$750
Paris : Hachette, 1918. First edition.
Small octavo, [x], 224, [4] pp., contemporary gilt lettered quarter green cloth.
An attractive copy.
Originally published under the nom de guerre ‘Lieutenant Marc’ in 1918, the real author was identified in the 1970's as Jean Beraud Villars.
This book was so critical of the French military and aircraft manufacturers (who he alleged supplied inferior aircraft) that Villars could not publish it under his own name. This is the censored and redacted French first edition.
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