Sydney Rare Book Auctions: First Editions, Illustrated Books, Voyages & Exploration, A145, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 29, 2025 - March 29, 2025

Page Size: 509 items in 21 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
51		Report Together with Minutes of Evidence, Relating to the Proposed Tramway from Wallsend to West Wallsend.		1904	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
52		Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works Report Together with Minutes of Evidence and Plan Relating to the Proposed Railway From Rand (Late Billabong) to Ringwood.		1922	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
53		Report of the Royal Commission, appointed to enquire into the best method of removing the sludge from the Gold Fields...		1859	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
54		Taylor, F. H. Malaria Mosquito Survey of Irrigation Areas in the Murray River District.	Melbourne	1917	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
55		A large bundle of Queensland parliamentary papers, reports and petitions relating to the Queensland railway system.		1870-1890s	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
56		Poster Land For Sale Beacon Hill Subdivision.		No date but Probably 1910s	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
57		Early Sydney printed Country & Western sheet music, all circa 1940-1950:		1940-1950	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
58	command of the Federal Parliament of Australia. The contents of this collection include the following titled reports:	Collection of 12 Australian parliamentary papers on the close of the First World War, Treaty of Versailles, and related themes.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
59	H.S. Whitelaw.	Report on the Little Bendigo Or Nerrena Gold-Field, Ballarat, (with Plans and Sections)		1901	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
60	TIDSWELL, Dr. Frank.	Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Rabbit Destruction: Broughton Island Experiments.	Melbourne	1907	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
61	SAUER, Francisco and STUMMVOLL, Joseph.	Codex Epistolaris Carolinus. Austrian National Library Codex 449. Codices Selecti Phototype Impressi Vol III.	Austria	1962	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
62		Single leaf from Die Chronica van der Hilligen Stat von Coellen		1499	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
63		Single leaf of a manuscript on parchment,			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
64	Nicholas [de Tudeschis] Panormitanus. Printed in Basel	Five leaves (comprising two bifolium leaves and a single sheet) from the incunable Lectura super quinque libros Decretalium cum Repertorio Alphonsi de Montalbo			AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
65		This lot comprises a pair of leaves from the Latin bible	Strasbourg.	1485	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
66	[BLOME, Richard].	The Gentleman's Recreations: in Three Parts. The first part contains a short and easie introduction to all the liberal arts and sciences, &c. The second treats of Horsemanship, Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, Fishing, Agriculture, &c... The third is a complea	London	1710, second volume 1709	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
67		Delle Antiche Siracuse. Volume primo che contiene I due Libri della Siracusa illustrate da D. Giacomo Bonanni, e Colonna...	Palermo	1717	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 2,032.00
68	Anthony Hamilton. A new edition... illustrated with sixty-four portraits.	Memoirs of Count Grammont,	London	1811	AUD 350.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
69	BLEWITT, Mary.	Surveys of the Seas. A Brief History of British Hydrography.	London	1957	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
70	TOMBE, Charles Francois.	Voyage aux Indes Orientales, pendant les annees, 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805 et 1806, contenant la description du cap de Bonne-Esperance, les iles de France, Bonaparte, Java, Banca et de la ville de Batavia	Paris	1810	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
71	MIDDLETON, Conyers.	The History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero.	London	1742	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 203.20
72	HARRIS, John.	Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca: Or, a Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Above Four Hundred of the Most Authentick Writers...	London	1705	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 1,905.00
73		Astronomie par Jerome le Francais (La Lande)... Troisieme edition revue et augmentee.	Paris	1792	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
74		Cache of five large French Admiralty charts of the South American coastline, each measuring 655 x 965 mm.		1833, well preserved.	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
75		Twenty plates from the official voyage account of the Freycinet expedition.	Paris	1824 and 1825	AUD 700.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 444.50

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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
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.

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