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Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Australiana, Patrick White, Navy, Natural History, Cooking, Philosophy, Music etc

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Auction Name	Australiana, Patrick White, Navy, Natural History, Cooking, Philosophy, Music etc	Total Sales (AUD)	14,801.85
Auction Date	March 10, 2024 - March 10, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	14,390.00
Sale Number	#31024	High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	21,820.00
Total Lots	248
Sold Lots	147	Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	24,400.00
% of Lots Sold	59.27%	High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	36,810.00
Unsold Lots	101	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	40.21%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
274	by Ian Fleming	Live And Let Die	1954	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 1,651.00
28		A General Ecclesiastical History from the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour to the first establishment of Christianity by Human Laws under the Emperor Constantine the Great: Containing the space of about 313 years with so much the Jewish and Roman history a	1729	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 444.50
273	by Ian Fleming	Goldfinger	1959	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 381.00
50		8 books about Early Australian History.		AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 317.50
266		The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone. Compiled From Reliable Sources.		AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 285.75
204	by Richard Sadleir	The Aborigines of Australia	1883	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 254.00
233		The Solid Mandala by Patrick White.	1966	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 254.00
234		The Cockatoos by Patrick White.	1974	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 254.00
232		The Eye Of The Storm by Patrick White.	1973	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 241.30
100		Three shelves of Psychology. Classics and childhood psychology.		AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 228.60
276	by Kenneth Cook	Chain of Command	1962	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 215.90
169		The Cr Don Pearce South Australia Postal History and Postal Marking.	2023	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 203.20
67	by Hugh B. Cave.	1) Murgunstrumm and Others	1977	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 190.50
194		Cosmic rays by L(ajos) Janossy.	1948	AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 190.50
34	by Arthur W. Upfield.	Winds of Evil	1937	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 165.10
114	by Rev Gilbert White.	The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne	no date preface dated 1832	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 165.10
138		Titus Groan by Meryvn Peake.	1946	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 165.10
158		Sepulchrorum Inscriptiones: Or a Curious Collection of Above 900 of the Most Remarkable Epitaphs, Antient and Modern, Serious and Merry.	1727	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 165.10
225	by Handel.	Concertante in nine parts for two violins and a violoncello obligati	1791	AUD 180.00 - 220.00	AUD 165.10
102		Two shelves of about 30 novels and prose. Includes: Virginia Woolf, CS Lewis, Oscar Wilde, Robert Frost, Grahame Green and James Joyce.		AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 139.70
139	Compiled by the N.S.W. Public School Cookery Teachers' Association	The Common-Sense Cookery Book	1914	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
179		The City Bank of Sydney 1863-1913.	1913	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 139.70
260	by Anthony Trollope.	Australia and New Zealand	1874	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 139.70
35		4 books by Arthur Upfield.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
62		Two colour photos of 1) George Foreman and 2) Joe Frazier.		AUD 50.00 - 80.00	AUD 127.00

Manuscript Masterpieces from the Schøyen Collection
London auction, 11 June
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Christie’s, Explore now: The Holkham Hebrew Bible. In Hebrew, decorated manuscript on vellum [Toledo, 2nd quarter 13th century]. £1,500,000–3,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The Crosby-Schøyen Codex. In Coptic, manuscript on papyrus [Upper Egypt, middle 3rd century / 4th century]. £2,000,000–3,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The Geraardsbergen Bible. In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Southern Netherlands, late 12th century]. £700,000–1,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now : Jean de Courcy (fl. 1420). The Chronique de la Bouquechardiere. In French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1480]. £200,000–300,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The ‘Catherine de Medici’ Hours. In Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1485]. £120,000–180,000
Freeman’s | Hindman, June 6: MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN THE BAL FIRST BINDING. $12,000 - $18,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 6: PUZO, Mario (1920-1999). The Godfather. FIRST EDITION, PROOF COPY in wrappers. SIGNED BY PUZO. $3,000 - $5,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 7: HUGHES, Langston. Scottsboro Limited. 1932. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. INSCRIBED BY HUGHES TO NOEL SULLIVAN. $6,000 - $8,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 7: HOMANN, Johann Baptist, HOMANN HEIRS, and Georg Matthäus SEUTTER. [Composite Atlas]. [maps dated between 1728-1765]. $30,000 - $40,000.
Sotheby’s
Modern First Editions
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Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD

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Modern First Editions
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Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Closing Time, Advance Readers Copy of Uncorrected Proof with a letter from Heller on his personal stationary

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Gates, Bill, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, N Y: Knopf, 2021; first edition, with a handwritten note from Bill Gates

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Catch-22, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961, first edition, first printing, first issue dust jacket, inscribed on the front end paper by Heller

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Something Happened, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974, first edition, inscribed on the front end paper by Heller

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Austen, Jane, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, London: John Murray, 1818, in four volumes

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