Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science, antiquarian, design and architecture & modern first editions , A138, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 02, 2025 - February 02, 2025
Page Size: 445 items in 18 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
78 A G Stephens, editor

The Bookfellow The Australasian Review and Journal of the Australian Book Trade.

Three January to December 1914 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 1,016.00
79

Ten NSW Government Papers concerning gold mining 1860s to 1880s.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
80

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works Report Together with Minutes of Evidence and Plan Relating to the Proposed Railway From Rand (Late Billabong) to Ringwood.

1922 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
81

The Star's Cartoon Cavalcade of 1935.

1935 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 285.75
82 J H Maiden, F B Guthrie & T E Burrows

1906 Legislative Assembly paper by J H Maiden, F B Guthrie & T E Burrows concerning the growth of Water Hyacinth in Northern NSW.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
83 J. J. Kennedy

The Whale Oil Guards.

1919 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
84 James A. Servies and Lana D. Servies

A Bibliography of Florida.

Florida 1993 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
85

5 NINETEENTH CENTURY AUSTRALIAN TITLES...

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
86 H. G. Wells

The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth.

London 1904 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 412.75
87 Ron Vanderwal, editor

The Aboriginal Photographs of Baldwin Spencer.

1987 AUD 180.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
88 Paul Memmott.

Gunyah, Goondie and Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia.

St Lucia 2009 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
89

Report of the Royal Commission on the Matter of Uniform Railway Gauge.

1921 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
90

Report together with the minutes of the proposed water supply from the town of Broken Hill - Dam and Tramway - at Umberumberka Creek.

Sydney 1903 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
91

Two Parliamentary Papers relating to Electric of NSW 1950-1.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
92

Two volumes of the reprints of Colonies of Australia Parliamentary Papers...

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
93 Ross Thorne

Two books by Ross Thorne on Theatres in Australia...

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
94

Old Buildings, New Forms: New Directions in Architectural Transformations by Francoise Bollack.

2013 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
95 Rainer Nobis

Illustrated History of Cement and Concrete: The exciting development of two outstanding building materials.

2021 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 152.40
97 John Ochsendorf

Guastavino Vaulting.

2010 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 381.00
98

BOOKBINDING. 1) Historical Sketch of Bookbinding as an Art...

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
99 PAZ, Octavio.

Ladera este (1962-1968).

AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
100 GREER, Germaine.

The Obstacle Race.

New York 1979 AUD 120.00 - 150.00 AUD 114.30
101

Three titles on book burning and literary prohibition...

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
102

1942 SCARCE HOLOCAUST PAMPHLETS WW2 BUCHENWALD...

London 1942 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 203.20
103

The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure for March 1789.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 1,524.00
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    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Johnson (C.). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, 1724. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: North America. Merian (Matthaus), Virginia..., 1627 or later. £1,500-2,500
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    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: World. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Nova Totius Orbis, Vienne: 1541. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Erasmus (Desiderius). The ... paraphrase of Erasmus... 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1549. £3,000-5,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Bible [English]. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament, 1562]. £3,000-5,000
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    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Smith (Lucy). Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, 1st edition, 1853. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Derain (Andre). Pantagruel, signed limited edition, Albert Skira, 1943. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Large Paper edition, 1894. £1,500-2,000
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    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ellison (Ralph). Invisible Man, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1952. £200-300
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Taschen Collector's Edition. Annie Leibovitz, limited edition, 2014. £1,000-1,500
  • Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000. Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.
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    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Bonhams, Apr. 8: First report outside of the colonies of the American Revolution, from American accounts. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, May 30, 1775. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce, James. The earliest typescript pages from Finnegans Wake ever to appear at auction, annotated by Joyce, 1923. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce's Ulysses, 1923, one of only seven copies known, printed to replace copies destroyed in customs. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY, INSCRIBED. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 1667. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi, 1713. "... first significant book on probability theory." $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Aristotle's Politica. Oeconomica. 1469. The first printed work on political economy. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: John Graunt's Natural and political observations...., 1662. The first printed work of epidemiology and demographics. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: William Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786. The first work to pictorially represent information in graphics. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Anson's A Voyage Round the World, 1748. THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY, BOUND BY JOHN BRINDLEY. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: La Perouse's Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde..., 1797. LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Untrimmed publisher's proof sheets. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Charles Schulz original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, 1992, pen and ink over pencil, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy as a psychiatrist. $20,000 - $30,000
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