Highlights

Each year our exhibitors bring rare, beautiful and unusual items for sale.

As we have not had a fair since 2019 due to the pandemic, our booksellers have curated many lovely and desirable books to exhibit.

Here are just a few of the exhibitors' highlights you can expect to see at the Fair in 2022!

There are a number of pages of highlights. To browse all the highlights - choose a page from the list below.

You can also check the highlights listed under your favourite booksellers in the exhibitor directory

[Catalogue of Paintbrushes] Vereinigte Pinsel-Fabriken | 1922 | Catalogue D
$750
[Catalogue of Paintbrushes] Vereinigte Pinsel-Fabriken | 1922 | Catalogue D Published in Nuremberg by Vereinigte Pinsel-Fabriken, 1922. Ernest Nister. An exhaustive trade catalogue distributed by the Vereinigte Pinsel-Fabriken (United brush factory) in Nuremberg, 1922. 75 illustration plates of the highest quality chromolithographs document all manner of brushes, with a special concentration on paintbrushes and other artists tools. Housed in smart card covers with simple gilt-lettering, this is a stylish publication and a work of art in its own right.
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BULLER Sir Walter Lawry The Birds of New Zealand
$15000
London: Published for the subscribers by the Author, 1888. Second Edition. Two volumes imperial quarto : pp lxxiv, 250, 6; xv, 359 : 50 plates (48 chromolithographed and hand-finished) by Kuelemans : all edges gilt : original boards with bird designs in gilt to top boards : sympathetically re-backed in green calf with five raised bands :INSCRIBED by Buller in volume one, "Captain Fairchild, with best wishes of the Author, W. Buller, May 24, 1891"... Limited to 1000 copies for subscribers only, Buller's second edition was larger, revised, and with many more plates than the original...
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Alexander Pushkin: A Dama de Espadas
$2500
[Rio de Janeiro], Confraria Bibliófila Brasileira ‘Cattleya Alba’, [1944]. Number 48 of only 200 copies of this deluxe privately printed edition, signed by the illustrator Martha Pawlowna Schidrowitz and translator Álvaro Moreyra. Entirely printed on undyed silk (unsurprisingly, this is the first such book printed in Brazil!), and bound in padded boards of the same material, with a matching box. The 52 hand-coloured plates, styled on the 52 cards in a deck, feature characters from the book and important Russian landmarks.