• Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.

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

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
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    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
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    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
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    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
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    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
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    Antique prints, paintings and maps
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    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
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