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

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Auction Report
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
151 Winston Churchill.

The Second World War

1948-1952 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 127.00
152 Geoff Ford.

Encyclopaedia of Australian Potter's Marks

2002 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
153

1) Australian Silver 1800-1900. 1973 2) Nineteenth Century Australian Gold & Silver Smiths by Kurt Albrecht. 1969

1973. 1969 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
154

4 books about Chinese Pottery and Porcelain.

AUD 120.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
155 Dorothy S. Elizabeth.

1) The Collector's Encyclopaedia of Dolls

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
156

4 books about Australian Pottery.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
157

14 books about Pottery, Glass, Enamel Boxes, Decanters, Clocks and Watches.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
158

19 Books

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
159 WANTRUP, Jonathan.

Australian Rare Books 1788-1900.

Sydney 1987 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
160 James Gleeson.

Robert Klippel

1983 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
161 Peter Haining. Pages & Pictures of Folding, Revolving, Dissolving, Mechanical, Scenic, Panoramic, Dimensional, Changing, Pop-Up and other Novelty books from the Collection of David and Briar Philips.

Movable Books - An Illustrated History

1979 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
162 Gottfried Lindauer. James Cowan.

Pictures of Old New Zealand - The Partridge Collection of Maori Painting by Gottfried Lindauer. Described by James Cowan.

1930 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
163 Oto Bihalji-Merin and Nebojsa-Bato Tomasevic.

World Encyclopedia of Naive Art - A Hundred Years of Naive Art

1984 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
164 Pascoe Publishing 1980s.

A big shelf of Australian Short Stories

1980s AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
165 George Bellairs.

7 books by George Bellairs. Thriller Book Club Edition.

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
166

A shelf of about 30 Everyman's Library literature books. mostly in 1940s.

1940s AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
167

A collection of Art and Book catalogues by Sotheby.

1988 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
168 Robert Penn Warren.

All The King's Men

1948 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 165.10
169

6 books on books. Mostly hardback in dustwrapper.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 76.20
170

3 books about Children's Book Illustration.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
171

21 Annual Register of Book Values and International Rare Book Prices.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
172

11 books on books.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 539.75
173 John Steinbeck.

Cannery Row

1945 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
174

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of The Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of The Church, According To the Use of The United Church of England and Ireland: ....

1880 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
175

1) Through The Magic Door with sixteen Illustrations.

1907 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
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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 AuctioneersApril 9Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints Dominic Winter AuctioneersApril 9Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
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    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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 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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