Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Melbourne, is exhibiting in this weekend's fair which has been running for 40 years. The bookshop's offerings include the following :
* Important l6th-l8th century works on Christianity in Japan ,starting with a number of very scarce Jesuit imprints of the l570s and l580s.
* Sparrman's account of Captain Cook's second voyage, with tapa cloth samples, USD $50,000 .
* l8th - l9th century Filipiana.
* A set of early editions of Ramusio's 16th century travel opus Navigatori et viaggi. A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible is offered at USD $135,000
