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Australian Book Auctions: Books, Maps, Documents: Including an Important Collection of books by James Bonwick, Travel and Australiana, Australian Gold Rush, Ephemera, Cookery, Australian Rules Football, Maps, Literature, Private Press, Art &c. &c.

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Auction Name Books, Maps, Documents: Including an Important Collection of books by James Bonwick, Travel and Australiana, Australian Gold Rush, Ephemera, Cookery, Australian Rules Football, Maps, Literature, Private Press, Art &c. &c. Total Sales (AUD) 215,819.70
Auction Date September 08, 2021 - September 08, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 89,550.00
Sale Number #101 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 147,860.00
Total Lots 273
Sold Lots 247 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 117,680.00
% of Lots Sold 90.48% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 186,330.00
Unsold Lots 26 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 115.83%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
158 ABBOTT, Edward.

THE ENGLISH AND AUSTRALIAN COOKERY BOOK. Cooking for the many, as well as for the “Upper Ten Thousand” by An Australian Aristologist.

1864 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 16,772.00
2 ANDERSON, Ernest & SPRY, F. P.

VICTORIAN BUTTERFLIES, and how to collect them.

1893-1894. AUD 150.00 - 240.00 AUD 14,376.00
78 BONWICK, James.

NOTES OF A GOLD DIGGER AND GOLD DIGGERS’ GUIDE.

1852 AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 9,584.00
98 GILKS, Edward.

THE DIGGER’S ROAD GUIDE, to the Gold Mines of Victoria, and the Country Extending 210 Miles, round Melbourne. Carefully Compiled from Authentic Sources & Lithographed by Edwd. Gilks.

August 1853. AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 9,584.00
109 SLATER, George (published by).

THE NEWS LETTER OF AUSTRALASIA. Or, Narrative of Events: A Letter to Send to Friends. Number VIII - February 1857 [- No. 47 - July 1860].

1857-1860. AUD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 7,787.00
173 FRANKLIN, Miles.

MY BRILLIANT CAREER.

1901 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 7,188.00
242 ROCKET PRESS. CARROLL. TENNIEL, Sir John and de FREITAS, L.

SIR JOHN TENNIEL’S ILLUSTRATIONS TO LEWIS CARROLL’S ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND & Through the Looking-Glass. Ninety-one prints from the original wood blocks engraved by the Brothers Dalziel from drawings by Sir John Tenniel & one print from an electr

 1988 AUD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 7,188.00
149 GEELONG FOOTBALL CLUB.

SEASON 1882. Member’s Ticket.

1882 AUD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 5,990.00
53 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA. OUTLINE OF THE PLAN OF A PROPOSED COLONY to be founded on the South Coast of Australia; with an Account of the soil, climate, rivers, &c. With Maps.

1834 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 5,750.40
147 FOOTBALL.

VICTORIAN FOOTBALL FOLLOWER. Vol. XI. Nos. 1 -25 (1908).

1908 AUD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00 AUD 5,750.40
228 LYRE BIRD PRESS. BALDESSIN. ZIMMER, Jenny.

GEORGE BALDESSIN SIX ETCHINGS with text by Jenny Zimmer.

2000 AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 5,271.20
199 ASHENDENE PRESS. ECCLESIASTICUS.

THE WISDOM OF JESUS, the son of Sirach, commonly called Ecclesiasticus.

1932 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 3,594.00
224 KELMSCOTT PRESS. CAVENDISH, George.

THE LIFE OF THOMAS WOLSEY, Cardinal Archbishop of York.

1893 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 3,594.00
22 COOK, James and James King.

TROISIÈME VOYAGE DE COOK …

1785 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 3,114.80
176 GUNN, Mrs. Aeneas.

WE OF THE NEVER-NEVER. A Novel.

1908 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 2,875.20
190 PLINY.

THE HISTORIE OF THE WORLD: Commonly Called, the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus.

1634 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 2,396.00
202 ADAMS, Tate.

TROPICAL WOOD-ENGRAVINGS.

1997 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 2,396.00
45 PINKERTON, John.

A GENERAL COLLECTION of the best and most interesting Voyages and Travels in all Parts of the World; many of which are now first translated into English.

1808 – 1814. AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 2,156.40
92 BONWICK, James.

WESTERN VICTORIA; its Geography, Geology, and Social Condition. The Narrative of an Educational Tour in 1857.

n.d., circa 1858. AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 1,916.80
178 HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

IN OUR TIME, Stories by Ernest Hemingway.

1925 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 1,916.80
204 DOVES PRESS. MILTON, John.

PARADISE LOST. A poem in XII books by the author John Milton.

1902 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,916.80
208 GREGYNOG PRESS. Xenophon.

CYROPAEDIA, THE INSTITUTION AND LIFE OF CYRUS. the first of that name, King of Persians, Eight bookes treating of noble education, of princely exercises, military discipline, warlike stratagems, preparations & expeditions, written in Greke by the Sage Xen

 1936 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 1,916.80
33 GODWIN, Thomas.

GODWIN’S EMIGRANT’S GUIDE TO VAN DIEMEN’S LAND, more properly called Tasmania, containing a description of its climate, soil, and productions; a form of application for free grants of land... and other information useful to emigrants.

1823 AUD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,797.00
225 KELMSCOTT PRESS. MORRIS, William.

THE TALE OF THE EMPEROR COUSTANS and of over the sea.

1894 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 1,797.00
34 GORDON & GOTCH.

THE AUSTRALIAN HANDBOOK. (Incorporating New Zealand, Fiji and New Guinea). Shippers and Importers’ Directory & Business Guide.

1876 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 1,677.20
  • 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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