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

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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
104 Jock Sturrock (text) & Bob Booth (illustrator)

Classic Racing Yachts In Australian Waters

Melbourne 1979 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
105

The Art of Banksy Exhibition. Catalogue c 2018

c 2018 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
106

Guy Boyd by Anne Von Bertouch and Patrick Hutchings.

Melbourne 1976 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
107 P. J. de Loutherbourg Esq. R. A.

The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales from Drawings Made Expressly for this Undertaking

1805 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
108 Judy Brown Illustrated by Roderick Shaw

The Garden Of Edens

Sydney AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 241.30
109 Andrew Lang

The Yellow Fairy Book

London 2008 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 241.30
110 Ira Moskowitz

Great Drawings of All Time 4 Volume set

Tokyo New York San Francisco 1976 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 381.00
111

Two books on the genealogy of Italian families in Australia: SPENCE, Jeremiah. Scardino Families from Poggioreale, Sicily, Italy. From Sicily to America and Australia 1500 to 2018.

2018 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
115

A nice cache of Australian parliamentary goldfields reports and petitions.

1859 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
116

Victorian parliamentary legislation dated 15 March 1870. Titled A Bill to Regulate the Management of the Gold Fields.

1870 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
117

A nice cache of Australian parliamentary goldfields reports and petitions.

1866 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
118

Portfolio of images of Australian kangaroo hunting in the nineteenth-century, from the London "Graphic" and "Illustrated London News".

1886 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
119

Journal an Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Volume XV for the year 1881. Edited by A. Liversidge, professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy at the University of Sydney.

1881 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
120 JONES, D.L. and MUIR, T.B. (editors).

Orchids of Australia. Drawn in natural colour by W.H. Nicholls with descriptive text.

Melbourne 1951 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 215.90
121 YUKIO, Yashiro.

Art Treasures of Japan.

Tokyo 1960 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
122 REGINALD BULLER, A. H. and SHEARS, C. L. (editors).

Selecta Fungorum Carpologia of the brothers L. R. and C. Tulasne. Translated into English by W. B. Grove.

Oxford 1931 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 412.75
123

Eleven books on Australian exploration and history.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
124 J.H. Maiden.

Sir Joseph Banks: The "Father of Australia"

1909 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
125 David Malouf

Five Books by David Malouf, all but the first being hardcover.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
126 MARKANDAYA, Kamala.

The Nowhere Man.

London 1973 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
127 HEDIN, Sven.

Central Asia and Tibet. Towards the Holy City of Lassa.

London 1903 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 285.75
128

Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem. Translated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso by John Hoole. New Edition. With Notes.

1807 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
129

an original newsletter printed aboard the H.M.S. Natal, a British naval cruiser patrolling the North Sea during the First World War.

1915 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
130 Henry Lawson.

Seven old and antiquarian titles by Henry Lawson.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
131 UPDIKE, John.

Self-Consciousness. Memoirs of John Updike.

New York 1989 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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 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 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 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
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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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