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Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Good books are good companions- Pixie O’Harris, children’s books, comics, Olympics, fine bindings and more.

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Auction Name	Good books are good companions- Pixie O’Harris, children’s books, comics, Olympics, fine bindings and more.	Total Sales (AUD)	41,859.20
Auction Date	July 27, 2024 - July 27, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	43,110.00
Sale Number	#72724	High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	61,790.00
Total Lots	529
Sold Lots	247	Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	97,500.00
% of Lots Sold	46.69%	High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	135,045.00
Unsold Lots	282	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	31.00%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
262	edited by Andrew Garran.	Complete Picturesque Atlas of Australia		AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 2,921.00
469	Pixie O'Harris	A beautiful Original Watercolour painting by Pixie O'Harris 'Rab Bits House' Painted on board, it depicts a tree house with the rabbits having a picnic outside.		AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 1,905.00
371	J. W. Norie, revisedS. J. Hobbs - 1856.	Chart of the Black Sea with the Seas of Marma and Azov drawn with the French, Russian and English Surveys		AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 1,270.00
463		Picturesque Hong Kong.	No date but 1930s.	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 1,206.50
200		Accurata e Succinta Descrizione Topografica delle Antichita di Roma dell` Abate Ridolfino Venuti Cortonese Presidente all Antichita` Romane...	1763	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 952.50
453	Aesop IllustratedEdward J Detmold.	The Fables of Aesop	c1909	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 825.50
471	Pixie O'Harris	A poster designed by Pixie O'Harris 'The Firm Theatrical Costume Supplies 359 Sussex St.	1972	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 762.00
421		A shelf of 19 books in the crime-fiction genre.	1932-1985.	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 698.50
465	Pixie O'Harris	An original watercolour and pen illustration by Pixie O'Harris and signed by her.		AUD 300.00 - 350.00	AUD 698.50
499		A stack of Stereoscopic Cards, around 37 in total.	1900,	AUD 500.00 - 700.00	AUD 635.00
474	Pixie O'Harris	Princess of China by Pixie O'Harris .	1943, 1946.	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 571.50
172	Alexander Pope.	The Iliad of Homer translated by Alexander Pope.	1771	AUD 800.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 508.00
338	Roger O'Connor.	Chronicles of Eri being the History of The Gaal Sciot Iber, or, The Irish People; Translated from the Original Manuscripts in the Phoenician Dialect of the Scythian Language	1822	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 508.00
462		Belgravia or Illustrated London Magazine.	1878 and 1886	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 508.00
466	Pixie O'Harris	An original watercolour and pen illustration on board by Pixie O'Harris and signed by her.		AUD 300.00 - 350.00	AUD 508.00
468	Pixie O'Harris	An original art work by Pixie O'Harris.		AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 508.00
293		7 First edition Ion Idriess books, 5 of which have dust jackets.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 444.50
472	Pixie O'Harris	Goolara by Pixie O'Harris Illustrated by Joyce Abbott.	no date . 1943	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 444.50
215		Seven beautiful nineteenth century photographs taken at a slate mine or quarry in North Wales (UK) late nineteenth century.		AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 412.75
400		8 folio hardback books plus 4to in slip case.	(1990, 1988).	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 412.75
406	T. E. Shaw (Colonel T. E. Lawrence).	The Odyssey of Homer translated	1935	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 412.75
530	edited by John Joseph Shillinglaw	Historical Records of Port Phillip: The First Annals of the Colony of Victoria	1879	AUD 300.00 - 500.00	AUD 412.75
439	Ernest H Shepherd	Now We Are Six by A A Milne With Decorations	1927	AUD 600.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 381.00
492		3 Gregory's Street Directories of Sydney Suburbs and 1 Motor Road guide to Southern NSW.		AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 381.00
498		Official History of Australia in the War 1914-1918.	various years	AUD 600.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 381.00

Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: CATESBY, MARK. 1683-1749. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. $100,000 - $150,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: ADAMS ON HIS PEAR TREES AND A LOST PORTRAIT BY SALEM ARTIST HANNAH CROWNINSHIELD. ADAMS, JOHN. 1735-1826. $10,000 - $15,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: EARLIEST MAP DEVOTED TO NORTH AMERICA. FORLANI, PAULO. fl.1560-1571. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: HAMILTON DEFENDS THE CONSTITUTION. HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. 1757-1804. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION BROADSIDE. Boston, September 14, 1768. $5,000 - $8,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: ONE OF THE EARLIEST ILLUSTRATIONS OF A SURGICAL PROCEDURE. BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. $10,000 - $15,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: RICHARD FEYNMAN'S ANNOTATED COPY, WITH TWO EARLY FEYNMAN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS. $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN COMPUTING. TURING, ALAN MATHISON. 1912-1954. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: FINE OIL PORTRAIT OF ALBERT EINSTEIN BY EUGEN SPIRO. $40,000 - $60,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: PENICILLIN MOLD MEDALLION INSCRIBED BY ALEXANDER FLEMING. FLEMING, ALEXANDER. 1881-1955. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: APPLE "TWIGGY" MACINTOSH PROTOTYPE USED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMONSTRATION SOFTWARE. $80,000 - $120,000
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October 17th, 2024

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Abraham Lincoln Signed Letter on Executive Mansion Stationary To Secretary of The Navy re: Appointment for Naval Academy!

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Extremely Rare Ben Franklin Printed: Considerations on Keeping Negroes...Part Second. 1762.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: An impressively extra-illustrated copy; Including an Original leaf from Shakespeare’s 1623 First Folio!

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October 17th, 2024

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Rarest Naval Autograph James Lawrence “Don’t give up the ship On " U.S. Ship Hornet June 19th 1812.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Oversize Ernest Hemingway Signed Photo with long Inscription about Drinking Wine to his dear friend and Secretary Roberto Herrera.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: VOLTAIRE Signed Receipt about a partial payment of debt for the Duke of Wuerttemberg.

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October 17th, 2024

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: [Maps] Gio. Ant. Magnini, Italia, 1620.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: LAWMAN SALOON JUDGE ROY BEAN Signed Legal Document 1895-RARE!

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Autograph Album with James Garfield as President, Chester A. Aurthur as VP, William T. Sherman, Burnside, P.T. Barnum and many more!

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October 17th, 2024

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Signed Four Language Ship's Paper.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Hector Berlioz Autograph Musical Quotation Signed.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Important Memorandum the Day after Gettysburg July 5th, 1863 where Lincoln asks all Department Heads of the cabinet to meet him at the Executive Mansion.
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Sotheby’s
Bibliotheca Brookeriana:
A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M
18 October 2024

Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Herodianus Syrus, Herodiani Historiarum, Venice, Heirs of Aldo & Torresano, 1524, Parisian binding for Jean Grolier by Jean Picard, ca. 1540

Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Musaeus, Opusculum de Herone et Leandro, Venice, Aldo, 1495 (Greek text), interleaved with 1497–1498 (Latin text), English olive morocco by Charles Lewis, the Botfield copy

Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Horatius Flaccus, Horatius, Venice, Aldo, 1501, Bolognese brown goatskin (between 1501 and 1503), arms of Mino Rossi and illuminated initials throughout

Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Lucretius, De rerum natura, Venice, Aldo, 1500, English early eighteenth-century red morocco, the Fletcher copy

Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Dante, Le terze rime, Venice, Aldo, 1502, illuminated, contemporary Bolognese morocco binding

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