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
430

R.A.F. Pocket Book 1937, written by Command of the Air Council Donald Banks

1937 AUD 50.00 - 80.00 AUD 88.90
431

Chinese silk tapestry.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
433

Indian Ocean

1875 AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
434

Chart of the River la Plata from Cape St Mary to Buenos Ayres.

AUD 850.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
435

Blueback map, South Atlantic

1875 AUD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
436

Gulf of Yedo.

London 1862, 1863 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
437 Malcolm A.C. Fraser.

Notes on The Natural History of Western Australia Being Extracts from the Western Australian Year Book For 1900-01

1903 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
438 WM. H. Thomes.

A Goldhunter's Adventures Or Life in Australia

1890 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
439 Ernest H Shepherd

Now We Are Six by A A Milne With Decorations

London 1927 AUD 600.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 381.00
440 Mr. Ramsey.

The Trial of Maurice Margarot, Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, On the 13th and 14th January, 1794 on an Indictment for Seditious Practices.

published AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
441 Alexander Geo Findlay.

A Directory for the Navigation of the South Pacific Ocean; with Descriptions of its Coasts, Islands etc., From the Strait of Magalhaens to Panama, and those of New Zealand, Australia, etc., its Winds, Currents, and Passages

London 1863 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
442 Rear-Admiral Henry C Otter.

Sailing Directions for the West Coast of Scotland, Part 1. Hebrides or Western Isles. compiled from various Admiralty surveys

London 1874 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
443

Chamber's Encyclopaedia A Dictionary of Useful Knowledge For The People Illustrated with Maps and Numerous Wood Engravings.

London 1868 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
444 Thomas Ingoldsby

The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels

London 1877 AUD 180.00 - 220.00 AUD 114.30
445 Charles Gibbon

The Casquet of Literature: Being A Selection In Poetry and Prose From The Works of The Most Admired Authors.

London 1884 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
446

Bow Bells A Magazine of General Literature and Art For Family Reading Illustrated With Numerous Engravings.

London 1872-1881, 1883 and 1885. AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
447

Chamber's Miscellany of Instructive and Entertaining Tracts New and Revised Edition in Ten Volumes.

London No date but circa 1870 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
448

7 American Bloodhound Mystery books

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 152.40
449

The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson And Lloyd Osbourne.

London 1892 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
450

Old Manor Houses by Cecil Aldin.

1922 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 203.20
451 W. Gaunt.

1) London Promenade.

1930 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
452 David Thomas.

Criss Canning: The Pursuit of Beauty

2007 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
453 Aesop IllustratedEdward J Detmold.

The Fables of Aesop

c1909 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 825.50
454

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

New York 1973 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
455 J.C. Beaglehole.

2 books. 1) The Life of Captain James Cook

London 1974 AUD 50.00 - 80.00 AUD 139.70
  • 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.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: VOLTAIRE Signed Receipt about a partial payment of debt for the Duke of Wuerttemberg.
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    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: [Maps] Gio. Ant. Magnini, Italia, 1620.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: LAWMAN SALOON JUDGE ROY BEAN Signed Legal Document 1895-RARE!
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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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