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Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Ephemera: Fleeting, Nostalgic, Traumatic, Memorable, Important

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Auction Name Ephemera: Fleeting, Nostalgic, Traumatic, Memorable, Important Total Sales (AUD) 36,306.25
Auction Date February 24, 2024 - February 24, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 35,010.00
Sale Number #22424 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 52,030.00
Total Lots 525
Sold Lots 269 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 66,900.00
% of Lots Sold 51.24% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 100,550.00
Unsold Lots 256 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 36.11%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

1886 Sydney Views John Sands

1886 AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 AUD 2,250.00
505 Shirley Strickland and Fanny Blankers-Koen

A Souvenir Programme for Saturday 29th January 1949 WA Amateur Athletics Association

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 937.50
313

1864 NSW Miner's Right

1864 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 687.50
435

German WWII Luftwaffe Photograph Album.

AUD 350.00 - 450.00 AUD 593.75
302

1892 Miner's Right Talbot Victoria

1892 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 531.25
305

1895 Colony of Victoria

1895 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 531.25
306

1896 Colony of Victoria Miner's Right

1896 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 531.25
199

Later Elizabethan Indenture

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 500.00
6

Bookplates Lindsay Family and More

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 500.00
8 Ferdinand von Mueller

Five Annual Reports of the Victorian Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Gardens between 1861 and 1865.

1861-1865. AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 500.00
307

1897 Colony of Victoria Miner's Right

1897 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 468.75
98 Jan Senbergs

Otway Coastal

AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 468.75
391

Bookplates Norman Lindsay

1944 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 437.50
292

Sydney's Nightlife 1950s

1950s AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 437.50
15

1908 Tasmanian Mail Australian Football Jubilee Carnival

1908 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 437.50
214

Signed Muhammad Ali Silver Gelatin Print

AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 406.25
309

1897 Miner's Right Victoria

1897 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 406.25
162

1947 Map Sydney

1947 AUD 120.00 - 150.00 AUD 406.25
390

Armorial Book-Plates Barnett

AUD 150.00 - 180.00 AUD 375.00
4

Bookplates Lindsay Family and More

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 375.00
436

Occupation Japan Photograph Album

AUD 350.00 - 450.00 AUD 343.75
383

Ward's South-Eastern District South Australia

1869 AUD 350.00 - 450.00 AUD 343.75
207 Maurice Sendak,

Maurice Sendak, Limited Edition Lithograph

AUD 350.00 - 500.00 AUD 312.50
226

Nightmare on Elm St 1984 Original One Sheet

1984 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 312.50
188

Mining and Explosives

1956 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 312.50
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000
  • ALDE, May 28: KIPLING (RUDYARD). Le Livre de la Jungle. – Le IIe livre de la Jungle. Paris, Sagittaire, Simon Kra, 1924-1925. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: NOAILLES (ANNA DE). Les Climats. Paris, Société du Livre contemporain, 1924. €50,000 to €60,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MILTON (JOHN). Paradis perdu. Quatrième chant. S.l., Les Bibliophiles de l'Automobile-Club de France, 1974. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, May 28: LEBEDEV (VLADIMIR). Russian Placards - Placard Russe 1917-1922. Saint-Petersbourg, Sterletz, 1923. €1,000 to €1,200.
    ALDE, May 28: MARDRUS (JOSEPH-CHARLES). Histoire charmante de l'adolescente sucre d'amour. Paris, F.-L. Schmied, 1927. €1,500 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: TABLEAUX DE PARIS. Paris, Émile-Paul Frères, 1927. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, May 28: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Les Fables illustrées par Paul Jouve. S.l. [Lausanne], Gonin & Cie, 1929. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, May 28: SARTRE (JEAN-PAUL). Vingt-deux dessins sur le thème du désir. Paris, Fernand Mourlot, 1961. €1,500 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: [BRAQUE (GEORGES)]. 13 mai 1962. Alès, PAB, 1962. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MIRÓ (JOAN). Je travaille comme un jardinier. Avant-propos d'Yvon Taillandier. Paris, Société intenationale d'art XXe siècle, 1963. €1,000 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MAGNAN (JEAN-MARIE). Taureaux. Paris, Michèle Trinckvel, 1965. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: PICASSO (PABLO). Dans l'atelier de Picasso. 1960. €15,000 to €20,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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