• Ketterer Rare BooksAuction May 26th Ketterer Rare BooksAuction May 26th
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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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    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
  • Gonnelli
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    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€
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    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€
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    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€
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    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€

Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Gary Gorton Crime Fiction Collection - Part 6 , 31625, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 16, 2025 - March 16, 2025
Page Size: 459 items in 19 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Daphne Du Maurier

The Apple Tree A Short Novel and Some Stories

London 1952 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
2 Daphne du Maurier

The Scapegoat

London 1957 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
3 Daphne Du Maurier

The Breaking Point. Eight Stories.

1959 AUD 350.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
4 Edmund Crispin pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery

The Long Divorce

London 1951 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
5

1) Death At Lords 1952 2) The Spy In The Brown Derby 1945 3) Second Front - First Spy 1944. 4) The Flying Saucer 1948

London AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
6 Julian Symons

The Immaterial Murder Case

London 1945 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
7 Lionel Davidson

The Rose of Tibet

London 1962 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
8

1) Secrets Can't Be Kept 19444 2) Triple Quest 1955 3) Dark Is The Clue 1955 4) There's A Reason For Everything 1945 5) It Might Lead Anywhere 1946.

London AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
9 the Author 5) The Third Skin 1954 6) I Love I Kill 1968 7) Night's Black Agent 1961 . Signed

1) The Double Agent 1966 2) Murder Plan Six 1958 3) The Paton Street Case 1955 4)A Fragment of Fear 1965 Signed

AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
10 Michael Innes.

Stop Press

London 1939 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 762.00
11

1) A Private View 1952 2) Old Hall New Hall 1956 3) The Journeying Boy 1949 4)The Long Farewell 1958 5) A Family Affair 1969.

London AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
12

1) A Change of Heir 1966 2) Hare Sitting Up 1959 3) Silence Observed 1961 4) The Ampersand Papers 1978 5) The Bloody Wood 1966..

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
13

1) Death At The Chase 1970 2) Carson's Conspiracy 1984 3) An Awkward Lie 1971 4) A Family Affair 1969 5)A Connoisseur's Case 1962.

London AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
14

1) There Came Both Mist And Snow 1940 2) Operation Pax 1951 3) Christmas At Candleshoe 1953 4) Going It Alone 1980 5) What Happened At Hazlewood 1946. 6) Shelks and Adders 1982 All first editions in dustwrappers. The first has a wrapper with pieces missin

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 317.50
15

1) The Gay Phoenix 1976 2) Money From Holme 1964 3) The man From The Sea 1955 (Some foxing) 4) The Mysterious Commision 1974 5) The New Sonia Wayward 1960 6) The Open House 1972. All first editions in very good dustwrappers

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
16

1) The Guardians 1955 2) The Man Who Won The Pools 1961 3) Mark Lambert's Supper 1954 . 4) The Man Who Wrote Detective Stories 1959. . Dustwrapper chipped. All first editions in good dustwrappers and

London AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
17 Patrick Quentin. First editions in dustwrappers. Very good copies

1) Run To Death 1948 2) Puzzle For Puppets 1944 3) The Shepherds File All

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
18

1) The Blue Movie Murders 1973 2) Four Men Called John 976.

London AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
19

1) Drunkard's End 1960 2) Blind Man's Garden 1970 (2 copies) 3) Cease Upon The Midnight 1964 Some foxing 4) Waiting For Oliver 1962 Priceclipped D/W 5) Don't Play With The Rough Boys 1963 Priceclipped D/W

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
20 Celia Fremlin. All crime fiction books

Ten Titles written

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
21 Simon Brett all signed on the title page. 1) A Comedian Dies 1979 2) Dead Giveaway 1985 3) So Much Blood1976 4) A Series of Murders 1989 5) The Dead Side Of The Mike 1980. All first editions, very good copies in dustwrappers and

Six Books

London AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 381.00
22 Simon Brett. All

Seven books

London AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
23 V C Clinton-Baddeley.

Seven titles

London AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
24 John Dunning

Deadline

London 1982 AUD 700.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
25 W J Burley. First editions.

1) To Kill A Cat 1970 2) The Schoolmaster 1977 3) Wycliffe And The Winsor Blue 1987 All

London AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
  • 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
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    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
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    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.
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