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Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Voyages, exploration, history + firsts edition fiction, signed books and bookplates

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Auction Name	Voyages, exploration, history + firsts edition fiction, signed books and bookplates	Total Sales (AUD)	53,181.25
Auction Date	June 23, 2024 - June 23, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	47,590.00
Sale Number	#62324	High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	69,370.00
Total Lots	546
Sold Lots	319	Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	86,065.00
% of Lots Sold	58.42%	High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	124,955.00
Unsold Lots	227	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	42.56%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
59	Edmund Barclay.	Khyber	1936	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 2,159.00
36		Barrington.	1790 and 1802	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 1,651.00
387		Silk playbill poster for her Majesty's Servants the Far-Famed Lily Troupe performing at the Imperial Theatre, Shanghai on 28th March 1853.	1853	AUD 160.00 - 220.00	AUD 1,651.00
37		An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, from its First Settlement in January 1788, to August 1801: With remarks on the dispositions, customs, manners, &c.	1804	AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	AUD 1,524.00
12	Charles Knight.	The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare Edited	1867	AUD 1,200.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 1,016.00
60	John Steinbeck.	The Grapes of Wrath	1939	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 1,016.00
433	Thomas Blount of the Inner Temple.	Glossographia. Or a dictionary interpreting the hard words of whatsoever language now used in our refined English tongue with etymologies, definitions, and historical observations.	1674	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 1,016.00
1		Ioannis Corasii Tolosatis iureconsulti clarissimi, in universan sacerdotiorum materiam erudita sane, ac luculenta paraphrasis.	1548	AUD 200.00 - 400.00	AUD 762.00
4		The Holy Bible: Translated from the Latin Vulgate.	1873	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 698.50
3		Life of the Blessed Mary, Mother of God, History of the Devotion to Her.	circa1882	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 635.00
255	Sir Robert Menzies.	Afternoon Light		AUD 60.00 - 100.00	AUD 635.00
543	Major T.L. Mitchell.	Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia with Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and the Present Colony of New South Wales	1838	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 603.25
71		Four Fairytale Folio Society books.		AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 571.50
295	Arthur C Clarke.	2001: A Space Odyssey a novel	1968	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 571.50
73	Thomas Henry Taunton.	Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses of the Past and Present Centuries in Strictly Chronological Order, Commencing in 1702 and Ending in 1870 Together With Their Respective Pedigrees and Performances Recorded in full	1887	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 508.00
479		The History of Commodore Anson's Voyage round the World, at the commencement of the late Spanish War.	J Hammond	AUD 350.00 - 500.00	AUD 508.00
9		Reprint of the Six reports by the Victorian Government relating the Police Force, 1880 1883 concerning the Kelly Gang.	1968	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 476.25
15		A Voyage to Terra Australis.	1966	AUD 300.00 - 350.00	AUD 476.25
250		35 children Pop Up books, all in good to very good condition.		AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 444.50
381		Unexplored Syria Visits to the Libanus, the Tulul el Safa, the Anti-Libanus, The Northern Libanus, and The 'Alah.	1872	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 444.50
63	Joseph Conrad.	The Secret Agent: A Drama in Three Acts.	1923	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 412.75
426	Fergus Hume.	Shylock Of The River	1900	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 412.75
11	J G Lockhart.	Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott	1851	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 381.00
18		The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (8 Volumes Set.	1995	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 381.00
78		19 Compton Burnett Novels.	1972	AUD 500.00 - 700.00	AUD 381.00

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
17th July 2025

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
17th July 2025

Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
17th July 2025

Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, July 17: Miró (Juan), Wassily Kandinsky, John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter and others.- Spender (Stephen). Fraternity, one of 101 copies, with signed engravings by 9 artists. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.
Sotheby’s
Geek Week
2-17 July | New York

Sotheby’s
Geek Week
2-17 July | New York

Sotheby’s, July 15: Buzz Aldrin's FLOWN Apollo 11 Crew-Signed NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Cover. $15,000 to $20,000.

Sotheby’s, July 15: Lunar Surface Flown Mission Emblem Presented to Tom Stafford by John Young. $8,000 to $12,000.

Sotheby’s, July 17: Albert Einstein. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein."), to Ann Morrisett, Affirming a Pacifist's Right to Self-Defense, March 21, 1952. $10,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s
Geek Week
2-17 July | New York

Sotheby’s, July 17: Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia, 1949. $30,000 to $50,000.

Sotheby’s, July 17: Steve Jobs Apple Computer Business Card, c. 1977. $5,000 to $8,000.

Sotheby’s, July 15: Extensive Chronology of Spacecraft From Apollo to Skylab, Signed by a Member of Every Crewed Apollo Flight and the Commanders of Each Skylab Mission. $5,000 to $8,000.
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DOYLE
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
July 23, 2025

DOYLE
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
July 23, 2025

DOYLE, July 23: WALL, BERNHARDT. Greenwich Village. Types, Tenements & Temples. Estimate $300-500

DOYLE, July 23: STOKES, I. N. PHELPS. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-28. Estimate: $3,000-5,000

DOYLE, July 23: [AUTOGRAPH - US PRESIDENT]FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. A signed photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Estimate $500-800

DOYLE, July 23: [ARION PRESS]. ABBOTT, EDWIN A. Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions. San Francisco, 1980. Estimate $2,000-3,000.

DOYLE, July 23: TOLSTOY, LYOF N. and NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, translator. Anna Karénina ... in eight parts. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1886]. Estimate: $400-600

DOYLE, July 23: ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Estimate $1,200-1,800