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Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Books: Beautiful, Unusual and Inspiring

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Auction Name Books: Beautiful, Unusual and Inspiring Total Sales (AUD) 83,051.65
Auction Date August 25, 2024 - August 25, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 72,265.00
Sale Number #82524 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 102,440.00
Total Lots 496
Sold Lots 298 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 115,435.00
% of Lots Sold 60.08% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 163,820.00
Unsold Lots 198 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 50.70%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
50 Edited by Richard Neville, Jim Anderson, Felix Dennis and Roger Hutchinson

OZ Magazine, A near complete set of 47 issues out of 48.

AUD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 AUD 3,937.00
15 Arthur Phillip.

Governor Phillip Voyage First Issue

1789 AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 3,810.00
49 Engraved, selected, and arranged by Walter G. Mason.

The Australian Picture Pleasure Book, illustrating the scenery, architecture historical events, natural history, public characters, Etc., of Australia.

1857 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 3,429.00
341 Napoleon Bonaparte, Minister of War Alexander Berthier and Secretary of State Hughes Joseph Maret.

Republique of Francaise - Department of War vellum document. Signed 'Bonaparte' First Consul of the French Republic, appointing Armand Philippon Chef de 87ieme demi Brigade infanterie.

1803 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 3,429.00
229 P. G. Wodehouse.

Carry On, Jeeves

1925 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 2,413.00
14 Captain [Alexander] Maconochie.

Australiana: Thoughts On Convict Management and Other Subjects Connected With the Australian Penal Colonies

1839 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,200.00 AUD 2,286.00
204 R. Blachford,

Blueback map, Blatchford's New General Chart of the West Indies

1838 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 2,159.00
12 Adolf Hitler.

Mein Kampf

1937 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 1,778.00
206

To the Merchants and Sheep Owners of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; This New Chart of the Indian and Pacific Oceans...From the latest and best Surveys and Authorities... .

1848 AUD 1,900.00 - 2,200.00 AUD 1,778.00
8 JF Earhart.

The Harmonizer

1897 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 1,524.00
88 Captain Crawley.

Boys Book of Out-Door Games

No date c1860s AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 1,524.00
331 Sydney Ure Smith and Bertram Stevens.

The Art of JJ Hilder edited

1918 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 1,397.00
1 Miles Franklin

Bring The Monkey A Light Novel

1933 AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 AUD 1,270.00
38

The Drawings of Ruby Lind (Mrs Will Dyson)

1920 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 1,270.00
274

The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volumes 1-8.

1796 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 1,270.00
221 Andrew Garran.

Picturesque Atlas of Australasia

1866-1889. AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 952.50
310

Two framed photographs about postcard size.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 889.00
26

Australian Almanack: For the Year of Our Lord 1828; Being Bissextile, or Leap Year; and the Ninth of the Reign of His Most Gracious Majesty King George The Fourth.

1828 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 762.00
197 By J. L. with an introduction by Viscount Ranelagh

On cases of death by starvation, and Extreme distress among the humbler classes, considered as one of the main symptoms of the present disorganization of society; ...

1844 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 762.00
16 surveyors C.R. Scrivener

1904 Plans in Connexion with Reports on Federal Capital Sites.

1904 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 698.50
294

Aristophanes Comedies, Volume 1 and 2.

1912 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 698.50
13 Donald Friend.

The Cosmic Turtle: Batujimbar Bali.

1976 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 635.00
46 A.A. Milne.

Now We Are Six

1977 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 635.00
323 Charles Kingsford Smith.

The Old Bus

1932 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00 AUD 635.00
343 writing implements, and a set of the ?National Edition? of his books.

An original publicity photograph of Ion Idriess. Here the famous soldier, miner, novelist and writer is at his desk surrounded by writing implements, and a set of the "National Edition" of his books.

1940 AUD 250.00 - 400.00 AUD 635.00
  • 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, 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, 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