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Sydney Rare Book Auctions

Auction Info

Sale Name
Books, maps, posters, prints, Australiana, Idriess estate, Arabic texts, Chinese posters and more
Auction Date
11/12/2021 - 11/12/2021
Year of Sale
2021
Sale Number
#111221
Total Lots
618
Sold Lots
570
Lots Sold
92.2%
Unsold Lots
48
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (AUD)
116,175.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
119,595.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
156,805.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
136,395.00
High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
178,244.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
65.18%
Currency
AUD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
79,738.30

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
631 Captain Watkin Tench of the Marines. A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay; with an Account of New South Wales, Its Productions, Inhabitants , &c, to which is Subjoined A List of Civil and Military Establishments at Port Jackson

1789

 AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 9,375.00
432 Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile

AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 8,125.00
1 Norman Lindsay The Magic Pudding The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff.

1918

 AUD 4,500.00 - 5,500.00 6,250.00
296 The 153rd land grant of the Colony to Samuel Wheeler of thirty acres at the Field of Mars(present day Ryde), to be known as wheeler's farm.

1794

 AUD 7,000.00 - 8,000.00 6,250.00
28 Lin Bloomfield. Norman Lindsay Watercolours 1897-1969.

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 2,125.00
295 A Land Grant to William Parrott of one hundred acres in the district of Upper Minto.

1810

 AUD 1,500.00 - 1,750.00 1,625.00
9 John Brack. The Art of John Brack.

1990

 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 1,625.00
632 Par RICHARD WALTER Voyage autour du monde, fait dans les ann?es MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV by George Anson Presentemnt LORD ANSON, Commandant en Chef d'une Escadre envoyee par Sa Majest? Britannique DANS LA MER SUD Tire des Journaux & autres Papiers de ce Seigneur,

1750

 AUD 1,400.00 - 1,600.00 1,500.00
304 Roald Amundsen. The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Frame", 1910-1912.

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 1,375.00
326 Annotated C E W Bean and H S Gullett. Photographic Record of the War Reproductions of Pictures Taken by the Australian Official Photographers (Captains G H Wilkins and J F Hurley, Lieutenants H F Baldwin and J P Campbell) and others.

1933

 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 1,250.00
611 New South Wales Police Criminal Register Issued as Supplements to the police gazette - Issued Fortnightly.

1941

 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 1,000.00
334 Bird's-Eye View Map of Sydney Oceanic Steamship Company.

1904

 AUD 300.00 - 350.00 875.00
364 Campbell Redi cut Homes. From the Forest to the Finished Home.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 750.00
200 MAURICE SENDAK Where The Wild Things Are - Celebration of Maurice. Poster by Maurice Sendak.

AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 750.00
198 Maurice Sendak. Where The Wild Things Are. Original printed poster by Maurice Sendak.

1963

 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 750.00
560 1) Transverse Section through a Range of Cells Erected at the Female Factory Parramatta Drawn to accompany Maj Barney's Letter to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary dated 20th February 1840

1840

 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 687.50
520 Forty three original photographs used in Over The Range.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 625.00
123 Queensland jubilee Issue Queensland 1859 - 1909.

1909

 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 625.00
82 Walter Bramwell Withers The History of Ballarat from the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time

1870

 AUD 600.00 - 750.00 593.75
43 Brett Whiteley Brett Whiteley Graphics 1961 - 1982

1983

 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 593.75
146 / edited James Stuart Laurie. Landsborough's exploration of Australia from Carpentaria to Melbourne, with especial reference to the settlement of available country

1866

 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 562.50
451 Norman Lindsay Phil busters' Heaven by Norman Lindsay

1939

 AUD 900.00 - 1,000.00 562.50
20 MARGARET PRESTON 1) The Prints of Margaret Preston A Catalogue Raisonne by Roger Butler Canberra Australian National Gallery 1987.

1987

 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 531.25
125 1) Australasia Old and New 94 page catalogue 2) New Zealand Catalogue 34 Page catalogue.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 531.25
93 Sydney Harbour Bridge and City Railway.

c1930 (no date).

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 531.25
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    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.