• Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: RAND, AYN. Single page from Ayn Rand’s handwritten first draft of her influential final novel Atlas Shrugged. $30,000 to $50,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: Ernest Hemingway’s first book with interesting provenance. Three Stories & Ten Poems. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: Hemingway’s second book, one of 170 copies. In Our Time. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: A finely colored example of Visscher’s double hemisphere world map, with a figured border. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: Raymond Chandler’s Olivetti Studio 44 Typewriter. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: Antonio Ordóñez's “Suit of Lights” owned by Ernest Hemingway. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: A remarkable Truman archive featuring an inscribed beam from the White House construction. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: The fourth edition of Audubon’s The Birds of America. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: The original typed manuscript for Chandler’s only opera. The Princess and the Pedlar: An Entirely Original Comic Opera. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: A splendidly illustrated treatise on ancient Peru and its Incan civilization. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: A superb copy of Claude Lorrain’s Liber Veritatis from Longleat House. $5,000 to $8,000.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    H. Schedel, Liber chronicarum, 1493. Est: € 25,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    P. O. Runge, Farben-Kugel, 1810. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    W. Kandinsky, Klänge, 1913. Est: € 20,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    W. Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum, 1473. Est: € 4,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    M. B. Valentini, Viridarium reformatum seu regnum vegetabile, 1719. Est: € 12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    PAN, 10 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: € 15,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    J. de Gaddesden, Rosa anglica practica medicinae, 1492. Est: € 12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    M. Merian, Todten-Tanz, 1649. Est: € 5,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    D. Hammett, Red harvest, 1929. Est: € 11,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    Book of hours, Horae B. M. V., 1503. Est: € 9,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    J. Miller, Illustratio systematis sexualis Linneai, 1792. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    F. Hundertwasser, Regentag – Look at it on a rainy day, 1972. Est: € 8,000
  • High Bids Win
    Letterpress & Bindery Auction
    Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Book Press 10 1/2× 15 1/4" Platen , 2 1/2" Daylight.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: The Tubbs Mfg Co. wooden-type cabinet 27” w by 37” h by 22” deep.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: G.P.Gordon printing press 7” by 11” with treadle. Needs rollers, trucks, and grippers. Missing roller spring.
    High Bids Win
    Letterpress & Bindery Auction
    Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: D & C Ventris curved wood type 2” tall 5/8” wide.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Wood Type 1 1/4” tall.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Triangles.
    High Bids Win
    Letterpress & Bindery Auction
    Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Page & Co wood type 1 1/4” tall 1/4” wide.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Awt 578 type hi gauge.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Penline Flourishes.
    High Bids Win
    Letterpress & Bindery Auction
    Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Penline Flourishes.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Cents and Pound Signs.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Wooden type cabinet 27” w by 19” d by 38” h.
  • ALDE, Dec. 11: ALBINUS (BERNHARD SIEGFIED). Tabulæ Sceleti et Musculorum corporis humanum, Londres, 1749. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: BIDLOO (GOVARD). Anatomia humani corporis. Centum et quinque tabulis per artificiosiss. G. de Lairesse..., Amsterdam, 1685.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: BOURGERY (JEAN-MARC) – JACOB (NICOLAS-HENRI). Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’Homme comprenant la médecine opératoire, Paris, 1832. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: CALDANI (LEOPOLDO MARCANTONIO ET FLORIANO). Icones anatomicae, Venice, 1801-14. €5,000 to €6,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: CARSWELL (ROBERT). Pathological Anatomy. Illustrations of the elementary forms of disease, London, 1838. €5,000 to €6,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: CASSERIUS (JULIUS) [GIULIO CASSERIO]. De vocis auditusq. organis historia anatomica singulari fide methodo ac industria concinnata tractatis duobus explicate, Ferrara, 1600-1601. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: ESTIENNE (CHARLES). De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres, Paris, 1545. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: GAMELIN (JACQUES). Nouveau Recueil d'Ostéologie et de Myologie dessiné d'après nature... pour l’utilité des sciences et des arts, divisé en deux parties, Toulouse, 1779. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: ROESSLIN (EUCHER). Des divers travaux et enfantemens des femmes et par quel moyen l'on doit survenir aux accidens…, Paris, 1536. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: RUYSCH (FREDERICK). Thesaurus anatomicus - Anatomisch Cabinet, Amsterdam, 1701-1714. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: VALVERDE (JUAN DE). Anatome corporis humani. Nunc primum a Michaele Michaele Columbo latine reddita, et additis novis aliquot tabulis exornata, Venetiis, 1589. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: VESALIUS (ANDREAS). De humani Corporis Fabrica libri septem, Venetiis, 1568. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Books and Maps: an Eclectic Mix, A132, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 10, 2024 - November 10, 2024
Page Size: 508 items in 21 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

Further Papers Relative to the Recent Discovery of Gold in Australia. (In continuation of papers presented to parliament, 14 June, 1852). Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Her Majesty, February 28, 1853.

London 1853 AUD 700.00 - 800.00 AUD 698.50
2

Contributions to the Tertiary Flora of Australia. By Dr. Constantin , Baron von Ettingshausen. Professor of Botany, University of Graz, Austria.

AUD 250.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
3

The World of Adventure. A Collection of stirring scenes and moving accidents.

London 1895 AUD 125.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
4 Timperley, C.H.

Encyclopedia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote; Being a Chronological Digest of the Most Interesting Facts Illustrative of the History of Literature and Printing From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Interspersed with biographical sketches o

London 1842 AUD 80.00 - 100.00 AUD 165.10
5 Dodsey, R.

Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists in Three Books. A new edition

London no date but circa 1770 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 1,016.00
6 BERENSON, Bernard.

Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Florentine School in Two Volumes. A list of principal artists and their works, with an index of places by Bernard Berenson.

London 1963 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
7 GRAVES, George.

The Naturalist's Pocket-Book, or Tourist's Companion, being a brief introduction to the different branches of natural history, with approved methods for collecting and preserving the various productions of nature.

London 1817 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
8 Du HALDE, P.

The General History of China. Containing a geographical, historical, chronological, political and physical description of the Empire of China, Chinese Tartary, Corea and Thibet...

London 1736 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 381.00
9

A New Collection of Voyages, Discoveries and Travels... in seven volumes.

London 1767 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 AUD 444.50
10 DUGDALE, Sir William.

The Antiquities of Warwick, and Warwick Castle; extracted from Sir William Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire. To which is added, from an ancient manuscript in the possession of the Corporation of Warwick, a detail of the Earl of Leicester's arrival at

Warwick, 1786 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
11 WALLACE, Alfred R. (editor).

Australasia. With an ethnological appendix by A.H. Keane. From the series "Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel".

London 1879 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 203.20
12 HINGSTON, James.

The Australian Abroad. Series one: Branches from the main routes around the world. Series two: Ceylon, India, and Egypt.

London 1879 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 114.30
13 WOOD, William.

General Conchology; or, a Description of Shells, Arranged according to the Linnean System, and illustrated with plates, drawn and coloured from nature. Volume One.

London 1815 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
14

Picturesque Atlas of Australasia edited by Hon Andrew Garran.

Sydney and London 1886 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 349.25
15

Malcolm's History of Persia (Modern) edited and adapted to the Persian Translation of Mirza Hairat, with notes and dissertations by Lieut. Colonel M.H. Court, 15th Bengal Cavalry.

in Lahore 1888 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 AUD 203.20
16

Eight books of Victorian topographic and scenic views. All are

London AUD 250.00 - 400.00 AUD 152.40
17 MERLE D'AUBIGNE, J.H.

History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century. With twelve engravings on steel after P.A. Labouchere.

London 1880 AUD 125.00 - 150.00 AUD 76.20
18

Bound volume of 54 copper engraved natural history plates,

London 1803 and 1810. AUD 750.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 635.00
19

This document is titled "Despatch of Vice-Admiral de Robeck reporting the Landing of the Army on the Gallipoli Peninsula..."

1915 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
20 CARLYON, T. and McMAHON, T.

Three issues of the Diggers' Book: respectively titled 'Diggerettes', 'Digger Doings' and Fun in the Forces'.

circa1940 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
21 [HARDY, Robert Spence].

[HARDY, Robert Spence]. Autograph Album of Wesleyan Methodist Missionaries and Elders.

AUD 750.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 889.00
22 WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. With an introduction by Bertrand Russell, F.R.S.

London 1922 AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 2,667.00
23 ROSS, Sir John.

Narrative in Search of North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions.

London 1835 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 228.60
24 DRYDEN, John.

The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus. Translated into English by Mr. Dryden, and other eminent hands. To which is prefix'd a discourse concerning the Original and Progress of Satir. The fifth edition, adorned with sculpture

London 1713 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
25

Three books on Napoleon and Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington:

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 101.60
  • Gonnelli:
    Auction 55
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    November 26st 2024
    Gonnelli: Stefano Della Bella, 23 animal plances,1641. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli: Stefano Della Bella, Boar Hunt, 1654. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Crispijn Van de Passe, The seven Arts, 1637. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, La Maschera è cagion di molti mali, 1688. Starting price 320€
    Gonnelli: Biribissor’s game, 1804-15. Starting price 2800€
    Gonnelli: Nicolas II de Larmessin, Habitats,1700. Starting price 320€
    Gonnelli: Miniature “O”, 1400. Starting price 1800€
    Gonnelli: Jan Van der Straet, Hunt scenes, 1596. Starting Price 140€
    Gonnelli: Massimino Baseggio, Costantinople, 1787. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli: Kawanabe Kyosai, Erotic scene lighten up by a candle, 1860. Starting price 380€
    Gonnelli: Duck shaped dropper, 1670. Starting price 800€
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USD
    Sotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902. 7,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and Others, 1920-1941. 24,180 USD
  • Doyle, Dec. 5: Minas Avetisian (1928-1975). Rest, 1973. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973). Yawning Tiger, conceived 1917. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Robert M. Kulicke (1924-2007). Full-Blown Red and White Roses in a Glass Vase, 1982. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). L’ATELIER DE CANNES (Bloch 794; Mourlot 279). The cover for Ces Peintres Nos Amis, vol. II. $1,000 to $1,500.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: LeRoy Neiman (1921-2012). THE BEACH AT CANNES, 1979. $1,200 to $1,800.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Richard Avendon, the suite of eleven signed portraits from the Avedon/Paris portfolio. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). Flowers in Vase, 1985. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Edward Weston (1886-1958). Nude, 1936. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Edward Weston (1886-1958). Juniper, High Sierra, 1937.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Steven J. Levn (b. 1964). Plumage II, 2011. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Steven Meisel (b. 1954). Madonna, Miami, (from Sex), 1992. $6,000 to $9,000.
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