Found in the heart of Chelsea, Firsts London is the Antiquarian Book Association’s (ABA’s) annual rare book fair. We are thrilled to be participating once more in this prestigious fair.
This year’s theme is the Art of the Book, bringing together the best of the market of beautiful books. Saatchi Gallery will see over one hundred international book dealers, exhibiting exceptional books as art through illustration and illumination, typography and photography, printing and paper manufacturing, and the art of bookbinding itself.
Find your complimentary ticket here.
Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair
Start Date:
16th May 2024
End Date:
19th May 2024
Location: London, UK
Saatchi Gallery
Duke of York’s HQ
King’s Rd
London SW3 4RY
Thursday, 16 May: Preview - 5pm - 9pm
Friday, 17 May: 11am - 8pm
Saturday, 18 May: 11am - 6pm
Sunday, 19 May: 11am - 5pm
Duke of York’s HQ
King’s Rd
London SW3 4RY
Thursday, 16 May: Preview - 5pm - 9pm
Friday, 17 May: 11am - 8pm
Saturday, 18 May: 11am - 6pm
Sunday, 19 May: 11am - 5pm
Tottenham and Farringdon Extension Railway
Rare eighteenth-century chart of Northeastern Sri Lanka
Speed’s map of the Ottoman Empire
The first railway tunnel in London
The only known examples of instruments made for an unpublished quarto edition of ‘Dell’Arcano del Mare’
“I have made out a map…” (Bradley) – distributing the first postal map of the United States to local agents
Fiji under the British
Jan Huyghen van Linschoten 

