Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Australiana, Patrick White, Navy, Natural History, Cooking, Philosophy, Music etc, 31024, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 10, 2024 - March 10, 2024

Page Size: 248 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
51		6 books about Australian Outback.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
52	Aldous Huxley.	1) Texts & Pretexts - An Anthology with Commentaries. ; 2) Do What You Will Essays.		1932, 1929	AUD 60.00 - 80.00	AUD 38.10
53		4 books about Australian Poetry and Literature.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
54	by Anne Needham with Laurel Riddler, Merle Hadley, Phyllis Scotty.	The Women of the 1790 Neptune - The Seventy-Eight Convicts Named on the Cover and Those Who Came Free.		1992	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
55	John Knatchbull by Colin Roderick.	John Knatchbull - From Quarterdeck To Gallows. Including the Narrative Written by Himself in Darlinghurst Gaol 23rd January - 13th February 1844			AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 25.40
56		An original 1980 US theatrical release movie poster for a special double bill of Rocky I and Rocky II, re-released through United Artists Corporation.	USA.	1980	AUD 60.00 - 80.00	AUD 38.10
57	by Eric Worrell.	Song of the Snake. Discusses Aboriginal legend of the snake.		1958	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 38.10
58		1) The Mantuan Apothecary by Marcus Clarke.		1992	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 101.60
59	by A. Grenfell Price. Edited by J.K. Wright.	White Settlers In Th Tropics American Geographical Society Special Publication No.23.		1939	AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 25.40
60		6 large art prints of birds.			AUD 60.00 - 80.00	AUD 38.10
61		The Cottager and Artisan 1870.	London	1870	AUD 50.00 - 80.00	AUD 38.10
62		Two colour photos of 1) George Foreman and 2) Joe Frazier.			AUD 50.00 - 80.00	AUD 127.00
63	Charlotte Jay (Pseudonym of Geraldine Halls)	1) The Yellow Turban	New York	1955	AUD 150.00 - 180.00	AUD 88.90
64	by S S Mackenzie.	The Australians At Rabaul The Capture and Administration of the German Possessions in the Southern Pacific	Sydney	1940	AUD 50.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
65	by John Dickson Carr.	1) The Demoniacs	New York	1962	AUD 50.00 - 80.00	AUD 38.10
66	by Janet Frame.	Owls Do Cry	London	1961	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 50.80
67	by Hugh B. Cave.	1) Murgunstrumm and Others		1977	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 190.50
68	Thomas Keneally.	10 books by Thomas Keneally.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 101.60
69	by Miguel de Cervantes.	The History of the Valorous & Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha		1908	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 50.80
70		The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman In Three Parallel Texts Together with Richard the Redeless by William Langland.		1979	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 38.10
71		Collection of Bird-and-flower painting in different dynasties from Shanghai Museum.		1997	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
72		The Complete Flower Fairies Collection by Cicely Mary Barker.		1990	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
73		Report on China by Members of the Australian Cultural Delegation May-June, 1956.		1956	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
74	by D.L. Jones	1) Australian Ferns and Fern Allies		1981;	AUD 120.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
75	by R.H. Anderson.	1) The Trees of New South Wales		1947	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 88.90

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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
30th May 2024

Forum, May 30: Potter (Beatrix). Complete set of four original illustrations for the nursery rhyme, 'This pig went to market', 1890s. £60,000 to £80,000.

Forum, May 30: Dante Alighieri.- Lactantius (Lucius Coelius Firmianus). Opera, second edition, Rome, 1468. £40,000 to £60,000.

Forum, May 30: Distilling.- Brunschwig (Hieronymus). Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis, first edition of the so-called 'Grosses Destillierbuch', Strassburg, 1512. £22,000 to £28,000.

Forum, May 30: Eliot (T.S.), W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, & others. A Personal Anthology for Eric Walter White, 60 autograph poems. £20,000 to £30,000.

Forum, May 30: Cornerstone of French Enlightenment Philosophy.- Helvetius (Claude Adrien). De l'Esprit, true first issue "A" of the suppressed first edition, Paris, 1758. £20,000 to £30,000.

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
30th May 2024

Forum, May 30: Szyk (Arthur). The Haggadah, one of 125 copies, this out-of-series, Beaconsfield Press, 1940. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum, May 30: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, first impression, 1953. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum, May 30: Japan.- Ryusui (Katsuma). Umi no Sachi [Wealth of the Sea], 2 vol., Tokyo, 1762. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, May 30: Computing.- Operating and maintenance manual for the BINAC binary automatic computer built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation 1949, Philadelphia, 1949. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, May 30: Burmese School (probably circa 1870s). Folding manuscript, or parabaik, from the Court Workshop at the Royal Court at Manadaly, Burma, [c.1870s]. £8,000 to £12,000.
Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000
ALDE, May 28: KIPLING (RUDYARD). Le Livre de la Jungle. – Le IIe livre de la Jungle. Paris, Sagittaire, Simon Kra, 1924-1925. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, May 28: NOAILLES (ANNA DE). Les Climats. Paris, Société du Livre contemporain, 1924. €50,000 to €60,000.

ALDE, May 28: MILTON (JOHN). Paradis perdu. Quatrième chant. S.l., Les Bibliophiles de l'Automobile-Club de France, 1974. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, May 28: LEBEDEV (VLADIMIR). Russian Placards - Placard Russe 1917-1922. Saint-Petersbourg, Sterletz, 1923. €1,000 to €1,200.

ALDE, May 28: MARDRUS (JOSEPH-CHARLES). Histoire charmante de l'adolescente sucre d'amour. Paris, F.-L. Schmied, 1927. €1,500 to €2,000.

ALDE, May 28: TABLEAUX DE PARIS. Paris, Émile-Paul Frères, 1927. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, May 28: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Les Fables illustrées par Paul Jouve. S.l. [Lausanne], Gonin & Cie, 1929. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, May 28: SARTRE (JEAN-PAUL). Vingt-deux dessins sur le thème du désir. Paris, Fernand Mourlot, 1961. €1,500 to €2,000.

ALDE, May 28: [BRAQUE (GEORGES)]. 13 mai 1962. Alès, PAB, 1962. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, May 28: MIRÓ (JOAN). Je travaille comme un jardinier. Avant-propos d'Yvon Taillandier. Paris, Société intenationale d'art XXe siècle, 1963. €1,000 to €2,000.

ALDE, May 28: MAGNAN (JEAN-MARIE). Taureaux. Paris, Michèle Trinckvel, 1965. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, May 28: PICASSO (PABLO). Dans l'atelier de Picasso. 1960. €15,000 to €20,000.

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