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!
The artist Louis-Auguste de Sainson with companions from the Astrolabe in the rainforest at Carteret Harbour, New Ireland (1827).
$235000
Watercolour and ink on paper, 398 x 287 mm (entire sheet); contemporary inscription in ink to verso: 80. Vue du grand torrent et d’une forêt / Hâvre Carteret; the artist’s own re-worked section (80 x 110 mm, irregular) carefully pasted on at lower left; short closed tear at right edge; extremely well preserved.
A very early depiction of French explorers in the virgin equatorial landscape of Island Melanesia, painted by Louis-Auguste de Sainson, the official voyage artist on Dumont d’Urville’s famous 1826-29 expedition in the Astrolabe.
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40 years : Kaldor public art projects (deluxe edition)
$7500
Sydney : Kaldor Public Art Projects, 2009. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 sets, housed in a folding clamshell box, with silver lettering, containing thirteen artworks by some of the pre-eminent Australian and international artists who worked on Kaldor Public Art Projects. Jeff Koons Bill Viola, Ugo Rondinone, Christo & Jean-Claude etc.
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The Common Sense of Nudism
$550
Including a Survey of Sun-Bathing and “Light Treatments”. Scarce general work on nudism for an English audience by prolific sexuality author George Ryley Scott (1886-c.1980). Provides a general history, overview, and analysis, together with a glossary and directory of English nudist associations.
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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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