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
132 Alan D. Mickle.

Six books by Australian essayist books by Alan D. Mickle.

1922 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
133 by J. Howlett-Ross.

A Memoir of the Life of Adam Lindsay Gordon

London 1892 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
134 YOURIEVSKY, Princess Catherine.

My Book. Some Pages from My Life.

London 1924 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
135

Four books on the Australian wool industry, agriculture, and grazing.

AUD 120.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
136

Poems Upon Several Occasions by The Reverend Mr. John Pomfret. The Sixth Edition, Corrected. with some account of his Life and Wrights. To Which are added, His Remains.

1724 AUD 80.00 - 100.00 AUD 50.80
137

Les Abyssiniennes et les femmes du Soudan Oriental d'apres les relations de Bruce, Browne, Caillaud, Gobat, Lejean, Baker, etc.

Tur 1876 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
138

The Christian Advocate and Wesleyan Record Vol. I.

Sydney 1859 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 AUD 190.50
139

Four quality books on Antarctica: NORDENSKJOLD, Otto. Antarctica. Or Two Years Amongst the Ice of The South Pole by Otto Nordenskjold.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
140 FOWLES, John.

The Collector.

London 1963 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
141 BELLOW, Saul.

Henderson the Rain King.

London 1959 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
142 BALLARD, J.G.

The Crystal World.

London 1966 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 444.50
143 RHINEHART, Luke.

The Dice Man.

New York 1971 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
144 FRASER, George MacDonald.

Flashman.

London 1969 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 349.25
145 FITZGERALD, F. Scott.

Tender is the Night. With the author's final revisions and a preface by Malcolm Cowley.

London 1953 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 412.75
146 WEST, Arthur Graeme.

The Diary of a Dead Officer. Being the posthumous papers of Arthur Graeme West.

London 1918 AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 476.25
147 BRADBURY, Ray.

The Silver Locusts.

London 1951 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 412.75
148 BRADBURY, Ray.

Fahrenheit 451.

London 1954 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 571.50
149

An assortment of nine books on polar research and exploration.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
150 [HARDY WILSON].

[HARDY WILSON]. Catalogue of drawings of early Greek and Chinese architecture. On view in the print room of the National Gallery of Victoria.

Canberra 1935 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
151 Major W.S. Kent Hughes

Modern Crusaders an Account of the Campaign in Sinai and Palestine up to the Capture of Jerusalem

Melbourne. No date but 1918 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
152 A G Stephens

Phil May in Australia Edited

Sydney Australia 1904 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
153 William Hanson.

Geographical Encyclopaedia of New South Wales, including the counties, towns and villages within the colony. With a map and diagram of light-houses on the coast,

1892 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 177.80
154 Gregory Pemberton (Editor)

Vietnam Remembered

1990 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
155 Ann Datta

John Gould in Australia - Letters and Drawings

2002 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
156 Ion Idriess

Our Stone Age Mystery

Sydney 1964 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 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
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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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