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Exciting new venue. Sydney Rare Book Fair opens in the Glasshouse of the State Library of New South Wales this evening. ...
23/10/2025

Exciting new venue. Sydney Rare Book Fair opens in the Glasshouse of the State Library of New South Wales this evening. Come and find us at the library’s secret rooftop bar from five. Doors open at 6pm.

IMAGE:
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Katsushika Hokusai
‘Blossoms, rising sun’
With poem by Tawara no Komemori

Exciting new venue. Sydney Rare Book Fair opens in the Glasshpuse of the State Library of New South Wales this evening. ...
23/10/2025

Exciting new venue. Sydney Rare Book Fair opens in the Glasshpuse of the State Library of New South Wales this evening. Come and find us at the library’s secret rooftop bar from five. Doors open at 6pm.

IMAGE:
Katsushika Hokusai
‘Blossoms, rising sun’
With poem by Tawara no Komemori

妙技　花鳥画譜 Myōgi kachō gafu. Published by Inoue Katsugorō in Kyōbashi-ku [Tokyo], 1890. Illustrated with 20 colour wood bl...
02/09/2024

妙技　花鳥画譜 Myōgi kachō gafu.

Published by Inoue Katsugorō in Kyōbashi-ku [Tokyo], 1890.

Illustrated with 20 colour wood block prints, 16.5cm, folding binding.

Princess Cover Papers[Windsor Locks, CT: C.H. Dexter and Sons, n.d.[Stationery fe**sh aside, an important document in th...
11/06/2024

Princess Cover Papers

[Windsor Locks, CT: C.H. Dexter and Sons, n.d.[

Stationery fe**sh aside, an important document in the development of printing history, with historical and cultural significance.

Trade catalogue: from the paper mill of C.H. Dexter & Sons, established in the early years of the 19th century, with examples of nineteen colour paper samples, beautifully illustrated in the style of art nouveau.

Quarto, bound in pictorial wrappers, sewn, original ties intact. rubbed on rear panel and nicked at edges, a very good copy, internally clean and unmarked. Item #1714
Price (AUD): $550.00

Londons finest rare book fair at Satchi Galllery.
18/05/2024

Londons finest rare book fair at Satchi Galllery.

Sweet monkey, hold my hand.This attractive album illustrated by the Parisian natural history artists of the Jardin des P...
20/09/2023

Sweet monkey, hold my hand.

This attractive album illustrated by the Parisian natural history artists of the Jardin des Plantes in 1827 includes the entire run of 41 consecutive separately-issued colour lithograph plates.A rare collection.

AU$5,750



NOEL, E.F. after P.L. OUDART and P. GUERIN]
Collection d’Animaux. [Labelled:] Histoire naturelle…

https://www.rareillustratedbooks.com/pages/books/1745/e-f-after-p-l-oudart-noel-p-guerin/collection-d-animaux-labelled-histoire-naturelle-ensemble-de-41-planches-dessinees-par-guerin-et

“Pictures by Maurice Sendak”Published in London by Bodley Head, 1971.Nineteen prints personally selected by Maurice Send...
09/02/2023

“Pictures by Maurice Sendak”

Published in London by Bodley Head, 1971.

Nineteen prints personally selected by Maurice Sendak for a collection of his favourite artworks. All prints housed in a beautiful box. Published in a limited edition of 1,000 copies of which this is no. 559. A fine set.


Uncut paper kite, 19th century, France.
08/02/2023

Uncut paper kite, 19th century, France.

A huge thank you to the State Library of New South Wales for organising such a wonderful line up for Sydney Rare Book We...
05/10/2022

A huge thank you to the State Library of New South Wales for organising such a wonderful line up for Sydney Rare Book Week this year.

Launch date July 9 2020
08/07/2020

Launch date July 9 2020

Image credit: Central Press/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images
08/06/2020

Image credit: Central Press/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images

A RUMI ANTHOLOGY; Containing Selected Poems from THE MATHAVI and the DIVAN OF SHAMS OF TABRIZ by the Great Persian Sufi ...
13/11/2019

A RUMI ANTHOLOGY; Containing Selected Poems from THE MATHAVI and the DIVAN OF SHAMS OF TABRIZ by the Great Persian Sufi Poet Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi 1207 - 1273 AD.

Tehran: Farhang sara (Yassavoli) Publications, 1995.

Limited Edition.

English text by Karim Emami. With 18 full-colour original illustrations by Master Majid Mehregan, Reza Bidabadi, Abdollah Hajivand and Sahameh Ebn-Nasir. Calligraphy by Seyed Mohammad Ehsa'i. Compiled by Bahman Parsa. Introduction in Farsi and English by Jamal Al Ahmad.

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