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Michael Treloar: Rare Books

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Auction Name Rare Books Total Sales (AUD) 166,094.05
Auction Date December 10, 2017 - December 10, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 151,700.00
Sale Number #11 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 237,750.00
Total Lots 176
Sold Lots 77 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 264,400.00
% of Lots Sold 43.75% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 392,450.00
Unsold Lots 99 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 42.32%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
134 WORSNOP, Thomas (compiler):

An extraordinary album of 50 cartes de visite, extensively annotated in an engaging anecdotal style, forming essentially an unpublished illustrated vernacular history of the inhabitants of South Australia - the battlers, the new chums, and especially the

before 1870. AUD 50,000.00 - 100,000.00 AUD 52,425.00
148 FLINDERS, Matthew:

A Voyage to Terra Australis, undertaken for the Purpose of completing the Discovery of that Vast Continent, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the 'Investigator', and subsequently in the Armed Vessel 'Porpoise' and 'Cu

 1814 AUD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 AUD 27,960.00
5 COLLINS, Wilkie:

The Legacy of Cain.

 1889 [1888] AUD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 AUD 20,970.00
90 DURYEA, Townsend:

'Duryea's Adelaide Album' [cover title].

 circa 1867 AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 AUD 6,990.00
138 BROCKMAN, Fred S. [Frederick Slade DRAKE-BROCKMAN]:

Report on Exploration of North-West Kimberley, 1901 ... With Appendices by Chas. A Crossland ... and Dr D.M. House.

 1902 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 6,407.50
19 SOLLY, Benjamin Travers:

'Glenelg, Holdfast Bay, 1840'. An original watercolour on paper (225 × 340 mm, signed in the bottom right-hand corner 'B Travers Solly'); one short closed tear to a blank portion near the bottom left-hand corner; in excellent condition, archivally mounted

 1840 AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 4,427.00
136 ADDISON, Thomas Plummer:

A manuscript diary of a South Australian pioneer on his voyage from Plymouth to Adelaide on the 'Pestonjee Bomanjee', Wednesday 6 June to Tuesday 16 October 1838.

 1838 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 3,728.00
120 [Transportation] MURDOCH, Thomas William Clinton:

Transportation Manuscript. 1845-1846 [cover title]. The Transportation System [drop-title of a substantial contemporary manuscript].

 1845-1846 AUD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 2,563.00
133 WORSNOP, Thomas:

Two manuscript journals recording the voyage of Thomas Worsnop and his family from London to Adelaide on the 'China', 12 July to 11 November 1852.

 1852 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 2,563.00
82 BENNETT, Jas. F.:

South Australian Almanack and General Directory for 1841 ...

 [1840] AUD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 AUD 2,213.50
163 LA PEROUSE, Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de:

The Voyage of La Pérouse round the World in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, with the Nautical Tables. Arranged by M. L.A. Milet Mureau ... To which is prefixed, Narrative of an Interesting Voyage from Manilla to St Blaise, and annexed, Travels over the

1798 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 1,864.00
3 BROINOWSKI, Gracius Joseph:

Birds of Australia. Comprising Three Hundred Full-Page Illustrations, with a Descriptive Account of the Life and Characteristic Habits of over Seven Hundred Species [six volumes bound as three].

 1890 and 1891 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,747.50
141 COLLINSON, Captain Richard:

Journal of HMS 'Enterprise' on the Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin's Ships by Behring [sic] Strait, 1850-1855.

 1889 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 1,631.00
1

A collection of 163 botanical plates, chiefly from 'The Botanical Register'.

 AUD 800.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 1,398.00
86 BUTLER, Colonel Arthur Graham (and others):

The Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914-1918. Volume 1 [to] Volume 3.

 1938/ 1930, 1940 and 1943 AUD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 AUD 1,281.50
112

First Report from the Select Committee on South Australia. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 9th March 1841. [Together with] Second Report ... together with the Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, and Index. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to

1841 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,281.50
114

South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register. Volume 1, Number 1, Saturday 5 July 1845 to Volume 1, Number 52, Saturday 27 June 1846.

 1845 to 1846 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,281.50
168

'The South Australian Register'. Volume XXII, Number 3509, Tuesday 5 January 1858 to Volume XXII, Number 3817, Friday 31 December 1858.

 1858 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,281.50
173 WILKES, Charles:

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, during the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.

 1845 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,281.50
151 GILES, Ernest:

Australia Twice Traversed ...

 1889 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 1,048.50
2

Curtis's Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed: in which the most Ornamental Foreign Plants, cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented in their natural Colours.... Volume XV to Volume XVIII [four v

 1801, 1803 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 873.75
17 OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul:

Elves and Fairies ... Verses by Annie R. Rentoul. Edited by Grenbry Outhwaite.

 1916 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 873.75
76

Original Scrip. Corporation of the City of Adelaide.

 [1842] AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 873.75
18 OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul:

Fairyland of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Verses by Annie R. Rentoul. Stories by Grenbry Outhwaite and Annie R. Rentoul.

 1926 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 815.50
146 EYRE, Edward John:

Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1; sent by the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: including an Account of the Mann

 1845 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 757.25
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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