Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Good books are good companions- Pixie O’Harris, children’s books, comics, Olympics, fine bindings and more., 72724, Ultimo

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Auction Report
Auction Date
July 27, 2024 - July 27, 2024
Page Size: 529 items in 22 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
405 Jan Chapman.

The Art of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China

London. 1999 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
406 T. E. Shaw (Colonel T. E. Lawrence).

The Odyssey of Homer translated

London 1935 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 412.75
407 PicturedJ. Crowther, describedE. Beresford Chancellor.

Lost London.

1926 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 228.60
408

A shelf consisting of English literature, art compilations, international manuscripts and poetic works.

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 38.10
409

3 books

AUD 80.00 - 100.00 AUD 50.80
410 Rudyard Kipling.

5 books displaying the work of Rudyard Kipling.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
411

A Voyage to Terra Australis.

1966 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 285.75
412

2 Israel Zangwell books, both in good condition.

London 1902 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
413 Bernard Cornwell.

Sharpe's Honour: Richard Sharpe and the Vitoria Campaign February to June 1813

1985 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
414 Bernard Cornwell.

Sharpe's Sword: Richard Sharpe and Salamanca Campaign June and July, 1812

1983 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
415 Bernard Cornwell.

Sharpe's Sword: Richard Sharpe and Salamanca Campaign June and July, 1812

1983 AUD 500.00 - 700.00 AUD 317.50
416 Bernard Cornwell.

4 books by Bernard Cornwell.

1981 AUD 80.00 - 150.00 AUD 50.80
417

3 Georgette Heyer's books in good reading condition with original cloth.

AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 50.80
418 Thomas Francis Carter.

The Invention of Printing in China and Its Spread Westward

New York 1955 AUD 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
419

4 issues of the main Melbourne daily newspaper 'The Argus', Tuesday 7th of September

1958 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
420

6 books

Sydney AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
421

A shelf of 19 books in the crime-fiction genre.

1932-1985. AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 698.50
422

29 books A shelf of Toby Twirl Adventures and other Children's Board Books c1930s-1950s .

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 50.80
423

2 books (volumes 1 - 4) of Cassell's Household Guide to Every Department of Practical Life: Being A Complete Encyclopaedia of Domestic and Social Economy.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
424

The Literary Coronel

1821 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
425 Fred J. Berry.

Fred Berry's Motor Manual: 2nd Edition, June 1934

Sydney. 1934 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
426

Cook's Traveller's Handbook: Venice and Venetia by Roy Elston.

1920 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
427 John Galsworthy and illustratedS. van Abbe.

Loyalties: A Drama in Three Acts

1930 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
428

A collection of 4, 19th Century books, all in good condition.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
429 Miguel de Cervantes.

Obras de Cervantes

1866 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
  • Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: CATESBY, MARK. 1683-1749. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: ADAMS ON HIS PEAR TREES AND A LOST PORTRAIT BY SALEM ARTIST HANNAH CROWNINSHIELD. ADAMS, JOHN. 1735-1826. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: EARLIEST MAP DEVOTED TO NORTH AMERICA. FORLANI, PAULO. fl.1560-1571. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: HAMILTON DEFENDS THE CONSTITUTION. HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. 1757-1804. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION BROADSIDE. Boston, September 14, 1768. $5,000 - $8,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: ONE OF THE EARLIEST ILLUSTRATIONS OF A SURGICAL PROCEDURE. BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: RICHARD FEYNMAN'S ANNOTATED COPY, WITH TWO EARLY FEYNMAN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN COMPUTING. TURING, ALAN MATHISON. 1912-1954. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: FINE OIL PORTRAIT OF ALBERT EINSTEIN BY EUGEN SPIRO. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: PENICILLIN MOLD MEDALLION INSCRIBED BY ALEXANDER FLEMING. FLEMING, ALEXANDER. 1881-1955. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: APPLE "TWIGGY" MACINTOSH PROTOTYPE USED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMONSTRATION SOFTWARE. $80,000 - $120,000
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    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Rarest Naval Autograph James Lawrence “Don’t give up the ship On " U.S. Ship Hornet June 19th 1812.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Oversize Ernest Hemingway Signed Photo with long Inscription about Drinking Wine to his dear friend and Secretary Roberto Herrera.
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    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: [Maps] Gio. Ant. Magnini, Italia, 1620.
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    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Signed Four Language Ship's Paper.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Hector Berlioz Autograph Musical Quotation Signed.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Important Memorandum the Day after Gettysburg July 5th, 1863 where Lincoln asks all Department Heads of the cabinet to meet him at the Executive Mansion.
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    Bibliotheca Brookeriana:
    A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M
    18 October 2024
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Herodianus Syrus, Herodiani Historiarum, Venice, Heirs of Aldo & Torresano, 1524, Parisian binding for Jean Grolier by Jean Picard, ca. 1540
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Musaeus, Opusculum de Herone et Leandro, Venice, Aldo, 1495 (Greek text), interleaved with 1497–1498 (Latin text), English olive morocco by Charles Lewis, the Botfield copy
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Horatius Flaccus, Horatius, Venice, Aldo, 1501, Bolognese brown goatskin (between 1501 and 1503), arms of Mino Rossi and illuminated initials throughout
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Lucretius, De rerum natura, Venice, Aldo, 1500, English early eighteenth-century red morocco, the Fletcher copy
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Dante, Le terze rime, Venice, Aldo, 1502, illuminated, contemporary Bolognese morocco binding
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