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
201	Johannes Blaeu	Map of southern Italy and a portion of Sicily, titled "Regno di Napoli"		circa 1640.	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
202	Johannes Blaeu	Leogus et Haraia circa 1660.		circa 1660.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
203		5 original albumen photographic prints of Rome, c1870s.		c1870s.	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 139.70
204	edited by Pat Hackett.	The Andy Warhol Diaries	New York	1989	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
205	Ronald M. Berndt and Catherine H. Berndt with John E. Stanton.	A World That Was - The Yaraldi of The Murray River and The Lakes, South Australia.		1993	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
206	Marcel Roethlisberger et Renee Loche,	Liotard Catalogue Sources et Correspondence.	Antwerp,	2008	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
207	Thomas Mawe, Gardener to the Duke of Leeds.	MAWE, Thomas. Every Man His Own Gardener. Being a new, and much more complete, Gardener's Kalendar...	London	1767	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
208	[MARSHALL, Allan].	Mesopotamia and India. "A Continuation of "Letters from a Young Queenslander".	Brisbane,	1916	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
209	MONTESQUIEU, Charles de.	Le temple de Gnide, suivi d'Arsace et Ismenie. Par Montesquieu.	Paris	1796	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
210	TRAVEN, B.	The Death Ship. The Story of an American Sailor.	London	1934	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
211	T.S. Elliot,	The Confidential Clerk	London in	1954	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
212	Aubrey Beardsley.	Salome: A Tragedy in One Act. Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde. Drawings	London	no date circa 1912	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
213	Sir William Fraser Bart., M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. The second edition.	FRASER, Sir William. Coila's Whispers	London	1872	AUD 250.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
214	POLLNITZ, Charles-Louis.	Memoires de Charles-Louis Baron de Pollnitz, contenant les observations qu'il faites dans ses voyages et le caractere... seconde edition.	Amsterdam & London (i.e. neither but actually Paris)	1735	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
215	SYKES, Sir Percy.	A History of Persia. Third edition with supplementary essays.	London	1930	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
216		A special small cache of maps and field newspapers from Italy an North Africa in the Second World War.			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
217	COETZEE, J.M.	From the Heart of the Country.	New York	1977	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
218	NABOKOV, Vladimir.	Pale Fire.	New York	1962	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
219		An English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect Prepared by a Committee of the Shanghai Vernacular Society.	Shanghai	1913	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 412.75
220	MONTALTO DE JESUS, C.A.	Historic Shanghai		1909	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 444.50
221	Lord Dunsany.	The Gods of Pegana	London	1911	AUD 250.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
222	GOLL, Claire et Ivan.	Poems d'amour.	Paris	1925	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
223	Uta Bath. Text by Jonathan Crary, Russell Ferguson, Holly Myers.	The Long Now. Photographs	New York	2010	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
224		The Literature of the Highlands. Revised edition.	Glasgow	1925	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
225	F. Scott Fitzgerald.	The Great Gatsby	New York	1925	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 1,905.00

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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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