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
157	Otto Demus	The Mosaics of Norman Sicily	New York	1988	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
158	Colin Tatz & Paul Tatz.	1) Black Pearls The Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall Of Fame		2018	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
159		A photograph album with about 150 original photographs and photographic postcards put together in the 1920s (?).		1920S	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
160	Tilly Aston.	Songs Of Light	Melbourne	1935	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
161	Sidney Kidman.	A type script carbon copy of a series of short autobiographical articles written by Sidney Kidman.			AUD 1,200.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 762.00
162	Ion L Idriess.	Gold-Dust and Ashes The Romantic Story of the New Guinea Goldfields	Sydney	1933	AUD 120.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
163	J.C.L. Fitzpatrick	The Good Old Days'. Being a Record of Facts and Reminiscences concerning the Hawkesbury District	Sydney	1900	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
164		Off The Beaten track by Wattle Blossom.	Australia (Sydney)	1924	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
165		Our First Century : Being A Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One Hundred Great and Memorable Events ...	USA and Sydney.	1878	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
166	Agatha Christie	Towards Zero	London	1944	AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
167		Four shelves of miscellaneous books. Interesting. many early twentieth century.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 190.50
168		1) Society of Artists Pictures Special Number Of Art In Australia. A Record of the Society of Artists Exhibition held at the Education Department's Art Gallery, Sydney, 1919			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
169		Art In Australia Magazine 7 copies.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
170		Art In Australia A Quarterly Magazine Third Series Number 22 December, 1927.		1927	AUD 450.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
171	Ludwig Leichhardt	The Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington a distance of upwards of 3000 miles. During the years 1844-1845		1847	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
172		An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales from its First Settlement in January 1788 to August 1801:		1804	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 952.50
173	Laipat Rai.	Ideals of Non-Co-Operation And Other Essays		1924	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
174	Edited by K P Kesava Menon. Foreword by Mrs Sarojini Haidu.	The Great Trial of Mahatma Gandhi & Mr. Sankarlal Banker.		1922	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
175		Standard Recipes for Industrial Cafetarias Manual No. 2.		1947	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
176	Mary Wickham Bond	How 007 Got His Name		1966	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 349.25
177		Three Issues of Southerly A Literary Magazine		1947, 1950	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
178	by The Hon. Henry Noel Shore.	The Flight of The Lapwing - A Naval Officer's Jottings in China, Formosa and Japan		1881	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 165.10
179		Three NSW Parliamentary Papers. 1) 1938 Dept Main Roads Thirteenth Annual Report containing Two maps of New South Wales Roads 1938. Two fold-out maps showing the main road system 1925 and 1938. From Eden to Murwillubah.		1939	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
180		Facsimile Edition of An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the publication of Phillip's Voyage, compiled from the Officia		1968	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
181	John Dunmore Lang	Three pamphlets by John Dunmore Lang on St Andrew's Presbyterian College. 1) Free Church morality! in three of its developments in New South Wales : embodying a history of the founding of St. Andrew's College. 1876.			AUD 150.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

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 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
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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

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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