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Michael Treloar: Autographs, Manuscripts and Signed Books - Online bidstart 11/29

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Auction Name Autographs, Manuscripts and Signed Books - Online bidstart 11/29 Total Sales (AUD) 39,610.00
Auction Date December 14, 2019 - December 14, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 32,100.00
Sale Number #121419 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 45,250.00
Total Lots 189
Sold Lots 78 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 107,800.00
% of Lots Sold 41.27% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 148,300.00
Unsold Lots 111 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 26.71%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
135 Duntroon Sergeants Mess Guests Book (signed)

Duntroon Sergeants Mess Guests Book (signed)

1957 to 1979. AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 3,262.00
139 Forshaw & Cooper

Forshaw & Cooper: Kingfishers Volumes 5 & 6 (signed)

1994 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 3,029.00
101 Lev Tolstoy

Lev Tolstoy: Autograph note signed

AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,980.50
137 Forshaw & Cooper

Forshaw & Cooper: Kingfishers Volumes 3 & 4 (signed)

1987 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 1,980.50
138 Forshaw & Cooper

Forshaw & Cooper: Kingfishers Volumes 5 & 6 (signed)

1994 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 1,747.50
14 Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall: Autograph letter signed

1926 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 1,048.50
55 Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler: Signed valediction

AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 1,048.50
109 Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace: Autograph letter signed

1899 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 1,048.50
184 Boyle

Boyle: No Passing Glory (signed by 12 VC winners)

1955 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 932.00
120 Mackenzie

Mackenzie: 17th Battalion AIF (with many signatures)

1946 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 873.75
121 Gorman

Gorman: 22nd Battalion (signed by 45 men of the 2/22nd)

1919 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 873.75
11 Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni: Signed cabinet card photograph

1898 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 815.50
140 Forshaw & Cooper

Forshaw & Cooper: Parrots of the World (signed limited ed)

1990/1989, 1973. AUD 500.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 815.50
127 Breen

Breen: First to Fight (with over 110 signatures)

1988 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 699.00
158 Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday: Autograph sentiment signed

AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 699.00
173 Frank T. Morris

Frank T. Morris: Seven titles on birds, signed

1973 to 1979 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 699.00
174 Laurence Olivier & Vivien Leigh

Laurence Olivier & Vivien Leigh: Signed photographs

AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 699.00
178 Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Signed photograph

circa1940 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 640.75
15 Charles I

Charles I: Fragment of autograph juvenilia

AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 535.90
23 Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday: Autograph letter signed

AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 535.90
49 Li Peng

Li Peng: Signed speech + photographs

1988 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 535.90
168 Desmond Doss CMH

Booton: Unlikeliest Hero (signed by Desmond Doss CMH)

1967 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 512.60
68 D.J. Mulvaney

D.J. Mulvaney: Three signed books

1989 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 489.30
155 Colonel David Hackworth

Colonel David Hackworth: About Face (signed)

1990/ 1989 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 466.00
165 Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling: Typed letter signed

1918 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 466.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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