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Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Antiquarian books; the History of Science; First Editions & Associated copies

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Auction Name	Antiquarian books; the History of Science; First Editions & Associated copies	Total Sales (AUD)	58,096.15
Auction Date	February 27, 2025 - February 27, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	58,350.00
Sale Number	#22725	High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	82,150.00
Total Lots	486
Sold Lots	192	Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	178,435.00
% of Lots Sold	39.51%	High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	247,040.00
Unsold Lots	294	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	23.52%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
5	PATERSON, A. B.	"Banjo Paterson". The Man from Snowy River And Other Verses by A. B. Paterson.	1895	AUD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00	AUD 8,255.00
19	WHITE, Patrick.	Happy Valley. A novel by Patrick White.	1940	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 2,540.00
28	OXLEY, John.	Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales, Undertaken by Order of the British Government in the Years 1817-18.	1820	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 2,413.00
450		38 Biggles Books, all first editions.	1952-1970.	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 2,413.00
21		We are pleased to offer this remarkable collection of 29 lithographic survey sheets of the city of Sydney during the year 1880.	1880	AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 2,286.00
2	CJ Dennis and Illustrated by Hal Gye.	The Moods of Ginger Mick	1916	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 2,032.00
42	FOWLES, Joseph.	Sydney in 1848: Illustrated by copper-plate engravings of the principal streets, public buildings, churches, chapels, etc., from drawings by Joseph Fowles.	1848-1849	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 1,905.00
1	CJ Dennis illustrated by Hal Gye.	Sketch with water colour and inscription by Hal Gye Done inside a copy of The Sentimental Bloke	1919 reprint.	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 1,143.00
20	WHITE, Patrick.	The Living and the Dead.	1941	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 1,143.00
23		D. Ioannis Baptistae Caccialupi Sanctoseverinatis...	1571	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 1,016.00
172		An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales from its First Settlement in January 1788 to August 1801:	1804	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 952.50
161	Sidney Kidman.	A type script carbon copy of a series of short autobiographical articles written by Sidney Kidman.		AUD 1,200.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 762.00
383	Ion L Idriess.	Madman's Island	1927	AUD 1,200.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 762.00
26	MERLINO Mercuriale [Mercuriali].	De legitima tractatus absolutissimus Mercuriali Merlino I. V. D. et patritio Foroliviensi authore. Una cum decisionibus magistralibus Sacrae Rotae Romanae...	1665	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 635.00
38	Thomas Linacri	Britanni, de Emendata Structura Latini Sermonis Libri Sex [bound with] Rudimenta Gramatices Thomae Linacri.	1543	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 603.25
4	HUNTER, John.	Hunter's Historische Nachrichten von den merk-wuerdigsten Ereignissen auf Port-Jackson und der Norfolk-Insel, seit Errichtung der Englischen Niederlassungen, bis auf das Jahr 1792.	1794	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 571.50
17		WILD, Roland. The Biography of Colonel His Highness Shri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar...	1934	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 571.50
148	BRADBURY, Ray.	Fahrenheit 451.	1954	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 571.50
307		A good collection of Newcastle and Hunter Valley Region publications.		AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 539.75
41		Il Petrarca con l'Espositione d'Alessandro Vellutello. Di novo ristampato con le Figure a i Trionsi con le apostille e con piu cose utili aggiunte.	1568	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 508.00
93	WRIGHT, Lewis.	The Illustrated Book of Poultry with Practical Schemes for Judging...	1880	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 508.00
146	WEST, Arthur Graeme.	The Diary of a Dead Officer. Being the posthumous papers of Arthur Graeme West.	1918	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 476.25
189		1) The Founders of Australia A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet by Mollie Gillen 1989 2) The Second Fleet Britain's Grim Convict Armada of 1790 by Michael Flynn		AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 476.25
142	BALLARD, J.G.	The Crystal World.	1966	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 444.50
15		An original map bearing the titles: Entree de la riviere Endeavour, Baye de botanique dans la Nouvelle Galles Meridionale.	1776	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 412.75

Sotheby's
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Sotheby's
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Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

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Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Bonhams, Apr. 8: First report outside of the colonies of the American Revolution, from American accounts. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, May 30, 1775. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce, James. The earliest typescript pages from Finnegans Wake ever to appear at auction, annotated by Joyce, 1923. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce's Ulysses, 1923, one of only seven copies known, printed to replace copies destroyed in customs. $10,000 - $15,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY, INSCRIBED. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 1667. $2,000 - $3,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi, 1713. "... first significant book on probability theory." $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Aristotle's Politica. Oeconomica. 1469. The first printed work on political economy. $80,000 - $120,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: John Graunt's Natural and political observations...., 1662. The first printed work of epidemiology and demographics. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: William Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786. The first work to pictorially represent information in graphics. $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Anson's A Voyage Round the World, 1748. THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY, BOUND BY JOHN BRINDLEY. $8,000 - $12,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: La Perouse's Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde..., 1797. LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $8,000 - $12,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Untrimmed publisher's proof sheets. $4,000 - $6,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Charles Schulz original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, 1992, pen and ink over pencil, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy as a psychiatrist. $20,000 - $30,000
Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Johnson (C.). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, 1724. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: North America. Merian (Matthaus), Virginia..., 1627 or later. £1,500-2,500

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: World. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Nova Totius Orbis, Vienne: 1541. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Erasmus (Desiderius). The ... paraphrase of Erasmus... 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1549. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Bible [English]. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament, 1562]. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Smith (Lucy). Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, 1st edition, 1853. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Derain (Andre). Pantagruel, signed limited edition, Albert Skira, 1943. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Large Paper edition, 1894. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ellison (Ralph). Invisible Man, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1952. £200-300

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Taschen Collector's Edition. Annie Leibovitz, limited edition, 2014. £1,000-1,500
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.

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