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!
Story of "Southern Cross" Trans-Pacific Flight 1928 KINGSFORD-SMITH, C.E. [Charles Edward] and ULM, C.T.P. [Charles Thomas Philippe]
$1500
Sydney: Penlington & Somerville, 1928. Small octavo, original blue decorated cloth, 228 pp, with 34 double-sided photo plates. Some spotting, otherwise a well-preserved copy in dust-jacket. First edition.
That memorable feat of flying across the Pacific Ocean from California to Australia is vividly recorded in "Story of Southern Cross Trans-pacific Flight", which is illustrated with more than seventy photographs.
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[Dreamy Story of Australia and other essays by Professor Shigetaka Shiga]. 濠洲夢物語. 志賀重昂先生. [Gōshū yume monogatari. Shiga Shigetaka sensei.]
$425
Folding chart, 41pp, paperback, 21 x 15cm, text browned throughout, tide mark on chipped and browned wrappers, spine worn with loss of paper covering. Still a sound copy.
This small book contains six pieces on Australia by Shiga Shigetaka (1863 - 1927), a Japanese geographer and thinker who travelled widely in the late 19th century. He visited Australia in 1886 during his trip around the Pacific and published a book, Nanyo Jiji (Current Situation in the Pacific) in 1887.
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Practical Observations on Insanity
$3000
The third and final revised edition of the major work by English physician Joseph Mason Cox (1763-1818). In this work he introduces his swinging technique, based on a design by Erasmus Darwin, of spinning a patient’s body round a vertical axis in a specially designed chair which would produce nausea, vomiting, and convulsions, but would ultimately lead to a restful slumber, which he believed to be a positive outcome for the maniacal. This copy warmly inscribed by Cox.
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