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
208		Six Old Australian Poetry Books			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
209		A Brief History of the 69th Veteran Volunteers: from Its Formation until Final Muster Out of the United States Service.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
210		An interesting lot of erotica.			AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 139.70
211	Andrea Krupp	1) Bookcloth In England and America 1823-50 by Andrea Krupp	Newcastle (Delaware USA)	2008	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
212		1) Early American Bookbindings From The Collection of Michael Papantonio	New York	1972	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
213	Dorothea Mackellar	Fancy Dress And Other Verse	Sydney	1926	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
214		1) A Difficult Young Man .1955 2) The Cardboard Crown 1952,	London		AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
215	'Eugah'.	A Student of Women And Other Stories by 'Eugah'.	Melbourne	1899	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
216		Annual Report of the Secretary for Mines for the Year 1916.	Melbourne	1917	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 127.00
217		Report from the Select Committee on Newcastle Iron and Steel Works Bill; together with proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence, and appendix.		1912	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
218		Report from the Select Committee on Case of Sydney Cooper, as to Mining Under a Road, Parish of Clive, County of Gough; together with proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence, and appendix.		1897	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
219		Three Colonial mining reports from Victoria,		1878	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
220		Territory of Papua Annual Report for the period 1st July, 1953 to 30th June, 1954		1955	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
221		Report to the League of Nations on the Administration of Nauru during the Year 1925.		1925	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
222		Department of Railways. Report of the Commissioner for Railways for the year ended 30 June, 1952.		1952	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
223	MARTINDALE, Thomas.	With Gun and Guide.	London & Glasgow	no date but circa 1915	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
224		Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works. Report together with Minutes of Evidence relating to the proposed Erection of a Building at Canberra to Accommodate the National Library.		1925	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
225	RAPHAEL, Frederick.	The Glittering Prizes.	London	1976	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
226	SWIFT, Graham.	The Sweet Shop Owner.	London	1980	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
227		Tasmanian maps and posters including: Bass Strait 1951, Macquarie Island circa 1940; facsimile of the Arrowsmith map of "Military Operations Against the Tasmanian Aborigines"		1831	AUD 80.00 - 100.00	AUD 381.00
228		Collection of 45 separately Published papers from the Queensland University Department of Geology.		1938 to 1955	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
229		The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.	Sydney	1887	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
230		A shelf of top-end dealer and auction catalogues on rare books, art and antiques.			AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
231	GERMAINE, Max.	Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand.	Sydney	1979	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
232		A great combined lot on modern Australian art and artists. Monographs and books include the following artists: Lloyd Rees, Desiderius Orban, Donald Friend, Albert Tucker, ...			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	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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