• 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
  • Gonnelli
    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€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    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€
    Gonnelli
    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€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    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€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • 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.

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
442 Santina M. Levey.

Lace: A History

1990 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
443

The Needlework Collection, Volume 1.

2011 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 285.75
444 Barry Humphries.

Dame Edna's Coffee Table Book: Stiff Edition by Barry Humphries.

London 1976 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
445

2 volumes of Champion Racehorses. Both limited edition and in good condition. 1) Champion Racehorses 1974. 2) Champion Racehorses 1975.

1974. 1975. AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
446 W. J. McFadden.

Thoroughbred Sires of Australia and New Zealand

Sydney 1962 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
447 Captain W. E. Johns.

2 Science Fiction books, both first editions

1954 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
448 Capt. W. E. Johns.

Biggles Defies the Swastika

1945 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 285.75
449 W. E. Johns.

Biggles' Second Case

London 1948 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
450

38 Biggles Books, all first editions.

1952-1970. AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 2,413.00
451

6 books of erotic folklore and sex tales from the east, include 2 first edition Ihara Saikaku titles.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
452

1) Marcel and Elise. Marcel Jouhandeau. Pantheon, NY 1953. 2) The Lover's Handbook by Ovid. Complete translation of Ars Amatoria by F.A. Wright. Routledge and Kegan Paul reprint. ...

AUD 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
453

4 Books on Sex and Language. 1) Obscenity, Blasphemy, Sedition by Peter Coleman (1963).

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
454 George Ryley Scott.

Phallic Worship: A history of sex and sex rites in relation to the religions of all races from antiquity to the present day

London 1941 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 101.60
455 Henry Fielding.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

London 1930 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
456

Three publishcations (four volumes) looking at the sexual life in India. 1) Sexual Life In Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture by John Jakob Meyer.

1930 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
457

The publications on the study of Prostitution. 1) Prostitution and Society: A Survey. Volume 1: Primitive Classical and Oriental by Fernando Henriques.

1962 AUD 140.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
458

4 books on Sex in the Victorian Era. All hardcovers in good condition, 3 with dust jackets. 1) Virgins: Reluctant, Dubious and Avowed by Segal (1977).

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
459

Three books on Sex and Love in Japan. 1) The Sexual Life of Japan: being an exhaustive study of the nightless city or the history of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku by JE Becker.

circa 1906 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
460 compiled by Terence J Deakin.

Catalogi Librorum Eroticorum: A Critical Bibliography of Erotic Bibliographies and Book Catalogues

London 1964 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
461 Frances and Mason Merrill.

Among the Nudists

New York 1933 AUD 120.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
462

A collection of five books on Woman and sexual behaviour. 1) Sex and the intelligent Woman by DeMartino and Ellis.

1974 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
463 Par Le Sieur Honore de Balzac

Les Contes Drolatiques: Colligez Ez Abbayes De Touraine Et Mis En Lumiere

1864 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
464

The Amours of the Chevalier de Faublas by Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray.

1898 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
465 Eustace Chesser.

Two publications on Sexual Behaviour. 1) Sexual Behaviour: Normal and Abnormal

1949 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
466

Love, Sex, Middle East and Africa. 1) Black Eros: The Sexual customs of Africa from Prehistoric times to present day by Boris de Rachewilts

1964 AUD 160.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
  • 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.
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