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Auction Name Aboriginal Australian Norman Lindsay Art Architecture Firsts Signed Total Sales (AUD) 90,000.00
Auction Date June 24, 2022 - June 24, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 88,470.00
Sale Number #62422 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 122,680.00
Total Lots 634
Sold Lots 546 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 101,630.00
% of Lots Sold 86.12% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 141,020.00
Unsold Lots 88 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 63.82%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
134 Norman Lindsay

The Magic Pudding Being The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff.

 1918 AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 AUD 8,125.00
640 Richard Meier & Associates Architects, New York.

A lot of architectural drawings, including 1) The Shamburg Pavilion

 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 3,000.00
13 Grahame L Walsh

Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley

 AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 2,625.00
135

The Drawings of Ruby Lind (Mrs Will Dyson)

 1920 AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 2,500.00
18 Sir Baldwin Spencer and the Late F J Gillen in Two Volumes

The Arunta A Study of a Stone Age People

 1927 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 2,125.00
136 Charles Dickens with Forty Six Illustrations by Norman Lindsay.

Great Expectations

 1947 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 2,125.00
210

Official Record of the Sydney International Exhibition 1879.

 1881 AUD 500.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 1,375.00
2 R Etheridge:

I - The Cylindro-Conical and Cornute Stone Implements of Western New South Wales and Their Significance. II. - The Warrigal, Or "Dingo," Introduced or Indigenous?

 1916 AUD 350.00 - 400.00 AUD 1,000.00
601

Fine Binding: Australian Historical Statistics 1987 Australians Historical Statistics

 1987 AUD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 AUD 1,000.00
140 Arthur Mailey

Cricket Sketches by Arthur Mailey - The Famous Australian Googly Bowler.

 1924-25 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 937.50
523

Seven beautiful Peter Kingston reproductions, depicting whimsical scenes in Sydney 1) Swimming Cat at Watson's Bay '86

 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 875.00
30

The Aborigines of Victoria - with notes Relating to the Habits of the Natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania Compiled from Various Sources for the Government of Victoria.

1878 AUD 600.00 - 750.00 AUD 812.50
137 Douglas Stewart and Norman Lindsay.

Paintings in Oil Norman Lindsay. Fourteen Reproductions in Colour From original Oil Paintings and 16 Half-Tone Plates Reproduced in Black and White; with Essays

 1945 AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 812.50
175 D. W. De Havelland

Gold & Ghosts - A prospectors guide to metal detecting and history of the Australian Goldfields

 1985 & 1986. AUD 500.00 - 700.00 AUD 812.50
12

Kimberley Rock Art 1) Mitchell Plateau Area 2) North Kimberley 3) Rivers and Ranges

 2012 and 2013 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 750.00
29 Daisy Bates

Passing Of The Aborigines

 1938 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 687.50
9

Poignant Regalia 19th Century Aboriginal Breastplates and Images. Exhibition catalogue Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales

 1993 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 625.00
96 Baldwin Spencer and F J Gillen.

Wanderings In Wild Australia

 1928 AUD 600.00 - 750.00 AUD 625.00
323 J. K. Rowling.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,

 AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 625.00
17 Charles Chewings

Back In The Stone Age The Natives of Central Australia .

 1936 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 562.50
22 Richard Sadleir

The Aborigines of Australia

 1883 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 562.50
25 Thomas Worsnop, Town Clerk, Adelaide.

The Prehistoric Arts, Manufactures, Works, Weapons, etc of the Aborigines of Australia. Compiled and collated

 1897 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 562.50
21 Charles P Mountford.

Nomads of the Australian Desert

 1976 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 531.25
239 Charles Robert Bree. London George Bell

A History of the Birds of Europe, Not Observed in the British Isles

 1875 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 531.25
241 Max Meldrum Arranged and Edited by Russell R Foreman

The Science of Appearances as formulated and taught

 1950 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 531.25
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    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
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    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
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    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
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    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
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    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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