• Bonhams, June 25: Vesalius, Andreas. 1514-1564. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. $200,000 - $300,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Gersdorff, Hans Von. 1455-1529. Feldtbuch der wundartzney. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Pare, Ambroise. C.1509-1590. La Methode Curative des Playes, et Fractures de la Teste humaine. Avec les pourtraits des Instruments necessaires pour la curation d'icelles. $25,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Reisch, Gregor. 1470-1525. Margarita Philosophica. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bright, Richard. 1789-1858. Reports of Medical Cases, Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy. $12,000 - $18,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Berengario da Carpi, Giacomo. C. 1460-1530. Tractatus de fractura calve sive cranei. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Vicq D'Azyr, Felix. 1748-1794. Traite d'antomie et de physiologie. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Croce, Giovanni Andrea Della. 1509?-1775. Chirurgia libri septem... $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bruno Da Longburgo. 1200-1286. La cyrogia di Maistro Bruno: Expertissimo in quella. Tradutta in vulgare. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Schwann, Theodor. 1810-1882. Mikroskopische Untersuchungen uber die Ubereinstimmung in der Struktur und dem Wachsthum der Thiere und Pflanzen. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Cowper, William. 1666-1709. The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, with Figures Drawn after the Life… $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bidloo, Govard. 1649-1713. Anatomia humani corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per artificiossis. G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis. $6,000 - $9,000
  • Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Audubon Birds of America, 1st Octavo Edition; 5 vols plus Journals, ex. J.J. Pringle. $4,000 to $4,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: American Ornithology Plates Folio in 2 Vols, A. Wilson and C. Bonaparte. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 23 CP Railroad Photographs c. 1883 by O.B. Buell. $1,800 to $2,200.
    Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Cormac McCarthy, Signed 1st Editions, The Passenger & Stella Maris Box Set. $1,700 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Oliver Buell Cabinet Photograph, Chief Crowfoot. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Colton's Atlas of the World, 1856, in Two Volumes; plus Africa / Mahdist War Map. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 1805 Thomas Jefferson Inaugural Speech. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Barflies and Cocktails, Harry McElhone, First Edition Mixology Book. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 1861 U. S. Grant Broadside Proclamation, Paducah, KY. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 2 John Overton Signed Letters, 1803, re: TN Statehood. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Simon Wastell "Microbiblion or The Bibles Epitome: in Verse" 1629. $600 to $700.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Thomas Lewis Family Letter Archive; Boston, Massachusetts. $400 to $500.
  • Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Keats, John] Spenser, Edmund: The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. $50,000 - $80,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: (Walton, Izaak): The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Thomas, Gabriel: An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania; and of West-New-Jersey in America. $25,000 - $35,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Carroll, Lewis]: The Game of Alice in Wonderland. $2,000 - $3,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Athias, Joseph, et al.: Biblia Hebraica. $7,000 - $10,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Warhol, Andy, and Jens Quistgaard] Dansk Designs Salesman's Presentation Catalogue. $2,500 - $3,500.

Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Icons: Opera House, Idriess Manuscripts, Art and History, 40624, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 06, 2024 - April 06, 2024
Page Size: 338 items in 14 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
226 Lance Wedlick.

A bundle of books 1) Fly Fishing in Australia. 2) Streamside Guide: Trout Streams Insects and Imitations. 3) Trout on a Fly 4 and 5) 60 ways to fool a Trout...

1963 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
227 Lee Hawkins.

Three books on Trout Fishing by Lee Hawkins. 1) Trouting Tales Kangaroo Press 1996. 2) Basic Fly-fishing 2000 reprint .3) Basic Fly-fishing 2003 reprint .

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
228 Don Gilmour

1) Trout Fishery Of Tasmania in three volumes, ( 1 ) 1865-1910 ( 2 ) 1910-1950 (3) 1950-1999.

Launceston 1996, 1997, 1998 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
229 Doctor John Smith

Seventy of the Psalms of David for the use of Churches.

Dublin circa 1830s AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 139.70
230 Brooke Nicholls

Jacko: The Broadcasting Kookaburra, his life and adventures

AUD 80.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
231 Amy E. Mack.

Bushland Stories

1910 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 285.75
232 George Moore.

A Story-Teller's Holiday

1918 AUD 120.00 - 200.00 AUD 76.20
233

Australia National Journal A bound volume from December 1940 to May 1st, 1941.

AUD 80.00 - 150.00 AUD 50.80
234 Ken Johnson

Ken Johnson: Life and Landscape with Gavin Fry

Sydney 2000 AUD 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
235 Winifred Humphreys and illustratedHarry Rountree.

Wog and Wig

1947 AUD 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
236 Dr Heinrich Hoffmann.

Two copies of Struwwelpeter

no date circa 1900 AUD 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
237 Frederick Watson.

The History of the Sydney Hospital from 1811 to 1911

1911 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 76.20
238 Kerr

A little bundle of book focusing on Australia's convict history. Includes: Out of Sight our of Mind: Australia's place of confinement.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 215.90
239 David Brewster.

The Life of Sir Isaac Newton

1831 AUD 50.00 - 80.00 AUD 215.90
240 Peter Doherty.

The Incidental Tourist

2018 AUD 50.00 - 80.00 AUD 50.80
241 Peg Maltby.

Peg's Fairy Book

circa 1944 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 215.90
242 the Town Clerk - Arthur C Marshall.

A magnificent copy of: The Council of the Municipality of Mosman Report For Period 1922-23, Prefaced with a Short Historical Sketch Compiled

1923 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
243 Arthur Gyall [pseudonym of Francis Joseph Donohoe].

The History of Botany Bay

1888 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
244 Sigmund Freud. Translated by Stengel.

On Aphasia

1953 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
245 Clendinnen.

Reading the Holocaust

Melbourne 2001 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
246 EA Martin.

The Life and Speeches of Daniel Henry Deniehy.

1884 AUD 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
247 FM Bladen.

Public Library of New South Wales: Historical Notes

Sydney 1911 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
248 Edward Ford.

Bibliography of Australian Medicine 1790-1900

Sydney 1976 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
249

Two books on Brett Whitely. 1) From another Shore written by Rudi Krausmann with Drawings by Brett Whitely. 2) Paris Regard de Cote.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 101.60
250 Alwyne Meade.

Two boos om Gas and Gasworks. 1) Modern Gasworks Practice. Second edition, entirely rewritten and greatly enlarged

London 1921 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
  • Sotheby’s, June 26: Poe, Edgar Allan. Tamerlane — the most poignant rarity in American literature. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: The Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." 2,500,000 - 5,000,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: William Blake. “Poems with very wild and interesting pictures” 1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Thomas Taylor [artist]. The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
  • Finarte, July 4-5: FERMI, ENRICO. Letters, 1923. €30,000 to €40,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. The comedy, 1477. €45,000 to €50,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. The Comedy [Commentary by Christophorus Landinus]. Addition: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in Latin and Italian], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: ASTRONOMIA - CALENDARIO - REGIOMONTANUS, JOHANNES (MÜLLER, JOHANN, OF KÖNIGSBERG) Kalendarium, 1483. €5,000 to €7,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: CATERINA II DI RUSSIA, Parchment diploma granted by Catherine II of Russia, 1778. €15,000 to €20,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: VICO, GIAMBATTISTA New Science Principles, 1725.
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