Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Books: Beautiful, Unusual and Inspiring, 82524, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: August 25, 2024 - August 25, 2024

Page Size: 496 items in 20 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
255	Humphreys.	Spectacle De La Nature, Volume 1 and Volume 2 translated by Humphreys.	Franklin	Covent Garden et al.	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
256	P. G. Wodehouse	7 P. G. Wodehouse Books, 1) Meet Mr. Mulliner. 3rd Printing. 2) Week-End Wodehouse. 1953 re-print. 3) The Sudden. 5th Edition, 1928. 4) The Inimatable Jeeves, 3rd printing. 5) The Clicking of Cuthbert. 10th Printing. 6) A Damsel in Distress. 13th printin			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
257		Antiques Trade Gazette: The Art Market Weekly. Contains 25 issues		2024	AUD 60.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
258	Robert Emerson Curtis.	Two books on the Sydney Opera House. 1)A Vision Takes Form: A Graphic Record of the building the Sydney Opera House During Stages One and Two. A graphic recorded		1967	AUD 80.00 - 100.00	AUD 50.80
259	Edward Whymper	Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69.		1871	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
260	Irma Dreyfus.	1) Lectures on French Literature Delivered in Melbourne	Green and Co	1896	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
261	Thomas W Shapcott. Brisbane: Jacaranda 1964.	Two Australian Poetry Books. Both hardcovers in dustwrappers.1) Four Quarter and other poems Judith Wright Sydney Angus and Robertson, 1976. 2) The Mankind Thing			AUD 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
262	Henry Lawson.	Two Henry Lawson related books. 1) Joe Wilson		1923	AUD 60.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
263	JS Robertson.	The Life of David Livingstone; The Great Missionary Explorer		circa 1880s	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 50.80
264		The Trials Of Charles The First, and of Some of the Regicides with Biographies of Bradshaw, Ireton, Harrison, and Others And With Notes.	London	1832	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
265	Joy Hughes 1999.	1) Demolished Houses of Sydney			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
266	Robin Boyd 2) The Architecture of Victorian Sydney Morton Herman 3) Early Melbourne Architecture 1840 to 1888.	1) The Puzzle of Architecture			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
267	Madeline E King. no date c1910s.	1) Sydney Sketches			AUD 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
268	Roy Rene.	1) "Mo" McCackie (Roy Rene).; 2) Mo's Memoirs by Roy Rene.			AUD 60.00 - 100.00	AUD 88.90
269	Shirlow with the pencil words proof bookplate at bottom.	JG Latham's bookplate produced			AUD 75.00 - 150.00	AUD 38.10
270		13 Editions of The New Cambridge Modern History. Included editions are Volumes 1-12 and Volume 14.	London.		AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
271	A.A. Milne and Social Progress Joseph Bibby.	A box of books, mostly Ephemera. All in good condition, some titles include School Days in Norfolk Island, The History of England, When We Were Very Young			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
272		4 Editions of Glydendal's Bibliotek, all in good condition. 1-2) Thackeray Henry Esmond I and II. S 3) Livs Visdom Fra Alle Tider. 4) Alexandre Dumas De Tre Musketerer.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
273		A large collection of the Motor Sport Magazine,	London	1955 to 1980	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
274		The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volumes 1-8.	London	1796	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 1,270.00
275		6 books published by the Classics of Medicine Library.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
276		4 books published by the Classics of Medicine Library that primarily deal with the history and treatment of disease.			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
277		4 books published by the Classics of Medicine Library, decorated gilt bindings.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
279	Thomas Browne.	Religio and Medici		1845	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
280	Robert Louis Stevenson.	The Body-Snatcher and Other Stories	London	2007	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 50.80

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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th September 2024

Forum, 26 Sep: Bible, Arabic & Latin. Biblia Sacra Arabica, 3 vol., Rome, Tipografia della Congregazione di Propaganda Fide, 1671. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum, 26 Sep: Shepard (Ernest). "Wind in the Willows" Toad Escapes from Prison, original pencil drawing with watercolour, 1931. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum, 26 Sep: Economics.- Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vol., second edition, Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1778. £12,000 to £18,000.

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th September 2024

Forum, 26 Sep: 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.

Forum, 26 Sep: More (Sir Thomas). La Description de l'Isle d'Utopie ou est comprins le Miroer des republiques du monde, first French edition, Paris, Charles l'Angelier, 1550. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, 26 Sep: Botany.- Dioscorides (Pedanius). De medicinali materia libri sex, hand-coloured throughout, Frankfurt-am-Main, Chr. Egenolff, 1543. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th September 2024

Forum, 26 Sep: World.- Blaeu (Johannes). Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu, engraved map, [c.1662]. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, 26 Sep: Shelley (Mary). Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, 2 vol., [second edition], Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. £7,000 to £10,000.

Forum, 26 Sep: [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.

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th September 2024

Forum, 26 Sep: Lewis (C.S.) [The Chronicles of Narnia], 7 vol., first editions, 1950-56. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, 26 Sep: Albertolli (Ferdinando). Porte di Città e Fortezze...di Michele Sammicheli, Milan, 1815. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, 26 Sep: Gregynog Press.- Euripides. The Plays, one of 25 specially-bound copies, this by George Fisher at the Gregynog Bindery, 1931. £4,000 to £6,000.
Gonnelli
Auction 54
Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
October 8th-10th 2024

Gonnelli: Menù di gala per l'incoronazione di Nicola II Romanov e di Aleksandra Feodorovna. Moskva, 1896. Starting price 1000 €

Gonnelli: Raccolta di 38 albumine, molte colorate a mano, di vedute della Cina, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Giappone e vari ritratti, 1880. Starting price 340 €

Gonnelli
Futurism

Gonnelli: Lucio Fontana. Milan: Achille Mauri, 1968. Starting price 400 €

Gonnelli: Mucha Alphonse, Documents décoratifs, 1901-1902. Starting price 10000 €

Gonnelli: Christie Agatha, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. A detective story. London: John Lane, 1921. Starting price 460 €

Gonnelli: Alberti Leon Battista, Ecatonphyla. Venice: Bernardino da Cremona, 1491. Starting price 10000 €

Gonnelli: Menabrea Luigi Federico, Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq. London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Starting price 5000 €

Gonnelli: Bardi Giovanni, Memorie del calcio fiorentino. Florence, 1688. Starting price 1000 €

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