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
184

A good lot of Australian Literature.

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
185

A very good shelf of books on Australia's early history.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
186

Australian Convict Sites World Heritage Nomination.

Canberra 2008 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
187

A collection of railway books with a focus on Australia...

AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
188

A bundle of books on 20th C & Modernist Architecture...

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
189

A little collection of books on Town Planning in Australia...

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
190

A Historical Collection of Voyages and Discoveries around the world...

AUD 700.00 - 800.00 AUD 698.50
191

First Report from the select committee on Transportation together with the Minutes of Evidence and appendix bound with The Second Report and bound with the Third Report along with the Index and a Report on "An Act to substitute in Certain Cases, other Pun

1856 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
192

The Hardwoods of Australia and Their Economics.

1919 AUD 120.00 - 150.00 AUD 114.30
193 Baker and Smith

A Research on the Pines of Australia by Baker and Smith.

Sydney 1910 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 203.20
194 David Jones

Thirsty Work: The Story of Sydney's Soft Drink Manufacturers by David Jones.

2009 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
195

Hoskins Iron and Steel Company Ltd.

Lithgow and Sydney 1925 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 539.75
196

A little bundle of leather bindings.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 203.20
197 H Phillips, Photographer and Printer

81 views of Blue Mountains Wonderland NSW.

No date AUD 180.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
198

A nice looking copy of the Popular Encyclopaedia.

London Circa 1880s AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 203.20
199

Two books on Colonial Australia Art...

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
200 Alfred Fowler

The Bookplate Annual for 1924.

Kansas City 1924 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 203.20
201

Wanted Dead by Kenneth Cook.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
202 Jessica Anderson

An Ordinary Lunacy by Jessica Anderson.

London 1963 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 203.20
203 Frederick Watson

The History of the Sydney Hospital from 1811 to 1911.

-1911 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
204

The South Eastern Gate Twofold Bay.

Circa 1910 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 203.20
205

Round the coast. An album of pictures from photographs of the chief seaside places of interest in Great Britain and Ireland.

London 1895 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
206 R Scott Burn, editor

The New Guide to Masonry, Bricklaying and Plastering Theoretical and Practical.

London no date but 1870s AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
207 Sir Robert Stawall Ball

The Story of the Heavens.

London, Paris & Melbourne no date but circa 1900 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
208 Roger Dombre

La Bande Joyeuse.

no date c 1901 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 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.
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    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
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    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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