Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Antiquarian books; the History of Science; First Editions & Associated copies, 22725, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 27, 2025 - February 27, 2025

Page Size: 486 items in 20 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	CJ Dennis illustrated by Hal Gye.	Sketch with water colour and inscription by Hal Gye Done inside a copy of The Sentimental Bloke		1919 reprint.	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 1,143.00
2	CJ Dennis and Illustrated by Hal Gye.	The Moods of Ginger Mick		1916	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 2,032.00
3	Steele Rudd with numerous illustrations by Lionel Lindsay.	NSW Bookstall Advertisement From Selection to City	Sydney		AUD 350.00 - 450.00	AUD 215.90
4	HUNTER, John.	Hunter's Historische Nachrichten von den merk-wuerdigsten Ereignissen auf Port-Jackson und der Norfolk-Insel, seit Errichtung der Englischen Niederlassungen, bis auf das Jahr 1792.	Nuernberg [Nuremberg],	1794	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 571.50
5	PATERSON, A. B.	"Banjo Paterson". The Man from Snowy River And Other Verses by A. B. Paterson.	Sydney	1895	AUD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00	AUD 8,255.00
6	MORRISON, Arthur.	Martin Hewitt Investigator. illustrations by Sidney Paget.	London	1894	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
7		Master Humphrey's Clock.	London	1840	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
8	DICKENS, Charles.	Little Dorrit.	London	1855	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
9	DICKENS, Charles.	The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. His relatives, friends, and enemies... Edited by Boz. With illustrations by Phiz.	London	1843-1844	AUD 1,750.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
10	ORTELIUS, Abraham.	Epitome Theatri Orbis Terrarum Abrahami Ortelii. De novo recognita, aucta et Geographica ratione restaurata a Michaele Coigneto...	Antwerp	1601	AUD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Not Sold
11		Museum Veronese hoc est Antiquarum Inscriptorum atque Anaglyphorum Collectio...	Verona	1749	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
12	[AESCHINES & DEMOSTHENES].	Due orationi, l'una di Eschine contra di Tesifonte, l'altra di Demosthene a sua difesa. Di Greco in volgare nuouamente tradotte per un gentilhomo Firentino.	Venice	1554	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
13	[No author].	The History of the Most Serene House of Brunswick-Luneburgh, in all the Branches Thereof from its origin to the Death of Queen Anne.	London	1715	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
14	De SCHUBERT, G.H.	Three books on the House of Bourbon, House of Orleans. De SCHUBERT, G.H. Lettres originales de Madame la Duchesse d'Orleans....	Geneva	1859	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
15		An original map bearing the titles: Entree de la riviere Endeavour, Baye de botanique dans la Nouvelle Galles Meridionale.	Paris	1776	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 412.75
16		Original engraved map of the Colony of New South Wales. The map was engraved by Henry Teesdale in his High Holborn workshop,	London	1834	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
17		WILD, Roland. The Biography of Colonel His Highness Shri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar...	London	1934	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 571.50
18	TURNER, Ethel.	Seven Little Australians. Illustrated by A.J. Johnson.	London	1894	AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
19	WHITE, Patrick.	Happy Valley. A novel by Patrick White.	New York	1940	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 2,540.00
20	WHITE, Patrick.	The Living and the Dead.	New York	1941	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 1,143.00
21		We are pleased to offer this remarkable collection of 29 lithographic survey sheets of the city of Sydney during the year 1880.		1880	AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 2,286.00
22	GREY, George.	Journals of two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, During the Years 1837, 38 and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government.	London	1841	AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
23		D. Ioannis Baptistae Caccialupi Sanctoseverinatis...	Cologne	1571	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 1,016.00
24		Sermones ingeniosissimi ac sctissimi [sanctissimi] patris Ephris Edissene ecclesie dyaconi per Fr. Ambrosium Camaldulensem de greco in latinum conversi.	Paris	1505	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
25	ROWLING, J.K.	The Casual Vacancy.	London	2012	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	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
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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