Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Icons: Opera House, Idriess Manuscripts, Art and History, 40624, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 06, 2024 - April 06, 2024

Page Size: 338 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Ion Idriess	Ion Idriess Original Manuscript on Irrigation 1936		1936	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 215.90
2	Ion Idriess	Ion Idriess Manuscript Rat Plague circa 1938		circa1938.	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 349.25
3	Ion Idriess	In Prehistoric Australia",		circa1935	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 444.50
4	Ion Idriess	This manuscript is titled "Down in the Depths" and is the story of a Japanese pearl diver lost in an undersea forest. Typed manuscript of 6 pages.		1938	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 412.75
5		Sydney National Opera House (the Red Book)		1958	AUD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00	AUD 5,715.00
6		David Bailey's Box of Pin-Ups. 37 Published photographs			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 8,255.00
7	The Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners.	Map of Part of the Water Frontage of the City of Sydney Showing The Alterations and Improvements Effected			AUD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
8		1) Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe 1975 2) The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling Illustrated by David Gentleman 1980			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 152.40
9		Motleys Dutch Republic	London	1900	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 127.00
10	Bernard D'Andrea.	1)Giovanni Boccaccio Stories From the Decameron 1977 2) Isak Dinesen Seven Gothic Tales Illustrated			AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 127.00
11	DAALDER, Truus.	Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment. Australia, Oceania, Asia, Africa".		2009	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
12		A Directory for the Vavigation of the North Pacific Ocean	London	1870	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 412.75
13		Every Man His Own Gardener With A New And Much More Complete Gardener's Calendar also General Directory Than Anyone Hitherto		1800	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
14	John Cotton EditedAllan McEvey.	John Cotton's Birds. Of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales 1843-1849.	Sydney.	1974	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	AUD 127.00
15		Inaugural Proceedings Of The Nuclear Research Foundation.		1954	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
16	Dr. Julius Rosenbaum	The Plague of Lust, Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity, and Including:-- Detailed Investigations into the Cult of Venus, and Phallic Worship, Brothels, the Nousos Theleia (feminine disease) of the Scythians, Paederastia, and other	Paris	1901	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 285.75
17	Roger Tory Peterson	Audubon's Birds of America. The National Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio	London	1981	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
18	Idriess	Early Ion Idriess Manuscript from 1922 "The Fight for Mehunyah" Original typed manuscript of 32 pages. An early story		1922	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 381.00
19	John Cotton EditedAllan McEvey.	John Cotton's Birds. Of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales 1843-1849. Foreword	Sydney	1974	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	AUD 127.00
20		1) Finches of Australia by Morris. 1976 Folio Paperback 2) Australian Marsupials and Monotremes 1974 Hardback facsimile plates 3) Australian Birds and Their Young by Gladys Y O'Grady with text			AUD 120.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
21		5 Limited Edition Facsimile Reproductions of Neville Cayley's Australian Birds.			AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 127.00
22	Bruce Campbell	The Bird Paintings of Henry Jones	London	1976	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
23	Mary Roberts Rinehart	The Circular Staircase	Indianapolis	1908	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
24		Eight volumes of the Yearly collection of Australian Stamps. For the years 1981, 1983, 1988, 1989, 1990. 1990/1991, 1993 and 2001.		1981-2001.	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 127.00
25	George Emmett.	For Valour or How I Won The Victoria Cross	London	No date 1880s	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Isaac Newton on chemistry and matter, and alchemy, Autograph Manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," 3 pp, after 1674. $100,000 - $150,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Exceptionally rare first printing of Plato's Timaeus. Florence, 1484. $50,000 - $80,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: On the Philosophy of Self-Interest: Adam Smith's copy of Helvetius's De l'homme, Paris, 1773. $40,000 - $60,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: "Magical Calendar of Tycho Brahe" - very rare hermetic broadside. Engraved by Merian for De Bry. c.1618. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Author's presentation issue of Einstein's proof of Relativity, "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie." 1915. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: First Latin edition of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Paris, 1520. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: De Broglie manuscript on the nature of matter in quantum physics, 3 pp, 1954. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Tesla autograph letter signed on electricty and electromagnetic theory. 1894. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Heinrich Hertz scientific manuscript on his mentor Hermann Von Helmholtz, 1891. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: The greatest illustrated work in Alchemy: Micheal Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Illustrated Alchemical manuscript, a Mysterium Magnum of the Rosicurcians, 18th-century. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Rare Largest Paper Presentation Copy of Newton's Principia, London, 1726. The third and most influential edition. $60,000 - $90,000
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.
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