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
129 ANITCHKOW, Michael.

War and Labour.

London 1900 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
130 MUNZENBERG, Willi (editor.)

The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror and the Burning of the Reichstag.

New York 1933 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 539.75
131 MAITLAND, Charles.

The Church in the Catacombs: a Description of the Primitive Church of Rome Illustrated by its Sepulchral Remains.

London 1847 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 114.30
132 FRYE, Northrop.

Anatomy of Criticism.

1957 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
133

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.

New York 1794 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 203.20
134

K Foundation Burn a Million Quid.

London 1997 AUD 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
135 Alan Davies & Peter Stanbury

The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900.

Melbourne 1985 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
136

Five early Penguin books from the thirties, all with their original wrap-around jackets covering the original softcover wrappers...

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
137

Penguin literary first editions from the thirties and forties...

1930-1950 AUD 350.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
138 MALRIC, Julien.

La Nuit. Essay de Theatre Mythique.

Paris 1912 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
139 Jesse M. King.

Seven Happy Days.

London 1913 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 203.20
140

Seven books published by the author James McClelland on Colonial Australian Genealogy...

1968 to 1970 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
141

Australian World Syndicating Service...

1936 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 254.00
142

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

New South Wales 10th of November 1915 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
143 IDRIESS, Ion L.

The Great Trek First edition of 1940.

Sydney 1940 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
144 IDRIESS, Ion L.

Must Australia Fight?.

Sydney 1939 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 215.90
145 IDRIESS, Ion L.

Prospecting for Gold. From the Dish to the Hydraulic Plant.

Sydney 1931 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 508.00
146

A scarce early pamphlet on military aviation, charting the future direction of the United States Air Force.

((September 1924)) AUD 250.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
147

Original photograph of Bedouin in the Arabian Hejaz, taken circa 1950.

C1950 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
148

Chateau Lafite Rothschild: three original labels from 1950 and 1954.

1950 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
149

A wonderful collection of 15 elite French vineyard labels, being scarce mementos of now impossibly rare and valuable vintages...

AUD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
150 MARCHANT, S. AND HIGGINS, P.J.

Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds.

Melbourne 1990 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 203.20
151 CRAMP, Stanley (series editor).

Handbook of the Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
152

Total of 38 books on geology, soil science and mining in Australia.

AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
153

Shelf lot of books on geology, mining and prospecting.

AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    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
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    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
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    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
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    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 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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