Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Books: Beautiful, Unusual and Inspiring, 82524, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- August 25, 2024 - August 25, 2024
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Miles Franklin | Bring The Monkey A Light Novel |
1933 | AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | AUD 1,270.00 | |
| 2 | Dorothy Auchterlonie | Something to Someone |
Canberra | 1983 | AUD 120.00 - 150.00 | AUD 76.20 |
| 3 | George Barrington | An Account of A Voyage To New South Wales. |
AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 571.50 | ||
| 4 | Roald Dahl, Illustrations Quentin Blake, | The BFG |
1982 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 444.50 | |
| 5 | Ronald Dahl. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. | The Twits |
1980 | AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 6 | William Dampier. Edited John Masefield. | Dampier's Voyages: Consisting of a New Voyage Round the World, a Supplement to the Voyage Round the World, Two Voyages to Campeachy, a Discourse of Winds, a Voyage to New Holland, and a Vindication,... |
London | 1906 | AUD 260.00 - 360.00 | AUD 203.20 |
| 7 | Sir John Ross. | Narrative Of A Second Voyage In Search Of A North-West Passage, And Of A Residence In The Arctic Regions During The Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833 |
No date but 1836 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 254.00 | |
| 8 | JF Earhart. | The Harmonizer |
Ohio, | 1897 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 1,524.00 |
| 9 | Robert C Littlewood. | The Ex Libris of Sir Lionel Lindsay 1874-1961 |
Melbourne Australia | 1978 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 412.75 |
| 10 | Thomas Tegg. | Tegg's handbook for emigrants : containing useful information and practical directions on domestic, mechanical, surgical, medical and other subjects... |
London | 1843 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 254.00 |
| 11 | Bishop Francis R Nixon. | The Cruise of the Beacon : a narrative of a visit to the islands in Bass's Straits |
London | 1857 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 228.60 |
| 12 | Adolf Hitler. | Mein Kampf |
London | 1937 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 1,778.00 |
| 13 | Donald Friend. | The Cosmic Turtle: Batujimbar Bali. |
1976 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 635.00 | |
| 14 | Captain [Alexander] Maconochie. | Australiana: Thoughts On Convict Management and Other Subjects Connected With the Australian Penal Colonies |
London | 1839 | AUD 1,000.00 - 2,200.00 | AUD 2,286.00 |
| 15 | Arthur Phillip. | Governor Phillip Voyage First Issue |
London | 1789 | AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | AUD 3,810.00 |
| 16 | surveyors C.R. Scrivener | 1904 Plans in Connexion with Reports on Federal Capital Sites. |
1904 | AUD 600.00 - 800.00 | AUD 698.50 | |
| 17 | Carolus Gottlob Kuhn. | De forcipibus obstetriciis, recens inventis |
Lipzig | 1783 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 18 | Anthony Trollope | Three finely bound volumes from the Collection of British Authors: the Tauchnitz Edition 1305-7, 1735-6 and West Indies. |
AUD 300.00 - 500.00 | AUD 349.25 | ||
| 19 | Ida Lee | Early Explorers in Australia, From the Log-Books and Journals. With Maps and Illustrations |
London | 1925 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 508.00 |
| 20 | Errol Coote. | Hell's Airport The Key to Lasseter's Gold Reef |
AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | ||
| 21 | Lewis Carroll. | Deluxe and limited publication The Hunting of the Snark written |
1974 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 | |
| 22 | Charles Chilton. | The Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand. Reports on the Geo-Physics, Geology, Zoology, and Botany of the Islands Lying to the South of New Zealand |
1909 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 508.00 | |
| 23 | JRR Tolkien. | Poems and Stories |
1980 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 412.75 | |
| 24 | JRR Tolkien. | The Hobbit or There and Back Again |
1979 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 508.00 | |
| 25 | JRR Tolkien. | Lord of the Rings |
1978 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 508.00 |
![<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> Burma.- Burmese School (1870s). Folding manuscript, or parabaik, of festivities and processions, probably from the Court Workshop at the Royal Court at Manadaly, Burma, [c. 1870]. £10,000 to £15,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/e0a5c41f-2fd1-4645-8816-32d89dc4e5fb.png "<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> Burma.- Burmese School (1870s). Folding manuscript, or parabaik, of festivities and processions, probably from the Court Workshop at the Royal Court at Manadaly, Burma, [c. 1870]. £10,000 to £15,000.")
![<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> World.- Blaeu (Johannes). <i>Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu,</i> engraved map, [c.1662]. £8,000 to £12,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/58851f55-ad3a-4d3a-8a53-a311900b6f84.png "<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> World.- Blaeu (Johannes). <i>Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu,</i> engraved map, [c.1662]. £8,000 to £12,000.")
![<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> Shelley (Mary). <i>Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus,</i> 2 vol., [second edition], Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. £7,000 to £10,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/18c42c85-f730-43c0-bc2e-c8d799ae4308.png "<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> Shelley (Mary). <i>Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus,</i> 2 vol., [second edition], Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. £7,000 to £10,000.")
![<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> [Evans (Marian)] 'George Eliot'. A complete set of first editions of her works, uniformly bound in red morocco, 1858-1885 (30). £6,000 to £8,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/ac8ca527-c37b-44d5-b1d8-d369d712b17d.png "<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> [Evans (Marian)] 'George Eliot'. A complete set of first editions of her works, uniformly bound in red morocco, 1858-1885 (30). £6,000 to £8,000.")
![<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> Lewis (C.S.) <i>[The Chronicles of Narnia],</i> 7 vol., first editions, 1950-56. £6,000 to £8,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/05e185d5-1ef2-48ba-943f-e6541c123bfe.png "<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> Lewis (C.S.) <i>[The Chronicles of Narnia],</i> 7 vol., first editions, 1950-56. £6,000 to £8,000.")
