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Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Pre-Election Sale

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Auction Name Pre-Election Sale Total Sales (AUD) 109,381.25
Auction Date May 20, 2022 - May 20, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 104,320.00
Sale Number #52022 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 145,250.00
Total Lots 654
Sold Lots 570 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 123,780.00
% of Lots Sold 87.16% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 171,230.00
Unsold Lots 84 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 63.88%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
91

Three packages with original photographs and copies of photographs

AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 6,250.00
1 David Collins, Esquire

An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners &c. of the Native Inhabitants of that Country. To which are added, some particulars of New Zealand; compiled, by permission, from the Mss. of Lieutenant

 1798 AUD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 3,500.00
62 Bernhard Siegried Albinus.

Medical Book: Tabulae Ossium Humanorum

 1753 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 3,000.00
630 Nagakubo Sekisui.

Historical atlas of China throughout the successive dynasties. (To do rekidai shugun enkaku chizu) 1835

 1835 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 2,875.00
109 Idriess.

An archive measuring 12 cms high. A note in the hand of Ion Idriess says "Material if wanted for a 2nd Coral Sea Book ".

AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 2,500.00
322

Sydney International Exhibition 1879 Official Catalogue of The British Section.

 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 2,500.00
77 the Rev G Spencer Oakes, Vicar of Kelso

Round About Recollections of the Bush

 1896 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 2,375.00
87

Sydney Harbour Bridge Illustrated by photographs & line drawings.

1932 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 1,250.00
532 Eben Fardd.

Gwlad Yr Aur; Neu, Gydymaith Yr Y M Fudwr Cymreig i Australia by Gan D AP G AP Huw Hefyd Can Yr Ymfudwr

 1852 AUD 120.00 - 150.00 AUD 1,187.50
590

Royal Air Force Navigator's Air Bomber's And Air Gunner's Flying Log Book issued to LAC Ronald Leslie Williams (Air Gunner) on 26/5/43 Unit 2 B.A.G.S. Pt Pirie , Sth Aus.

 1944 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 1,125.00
400

A photographic record of a government inspection tour of new settler properties in south-east Queensland in May 1911.

 1911 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 1,000.00
247

A huge archive of four boxes of slides all of your favourite stars. Christopher Reeves, Elle McPherson, Liz Taylor and more. There's got be thousands....

 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 937.50
468

Sydney International Exhibition

 1879 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 875.00
2 Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged

 1957 AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 812.50
505

1948 Advertising Brochure. Holden General Motors New Australian Car.

 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 812.50
362

Vintage Wonder Map of Melbourne (1934)

 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 750.00
635

Le Corbusier et Pierre Jeanneret Oeuvre Complete in 8 volumes and in a slipcase

 1973 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00 AUD 750.00
289 the Rev John Brown

Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; …

 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 687.50
465

Sydney Harbour Trust, Port of Sydney, New South Wales

 1913 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 687.50
586 Dorothy Cottrell

The Singing Gold

 1929 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 687.50
589 B.C Peck.

Recollections of Sydney, The Capital of New South Wales

 1850 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 687.50
112 Idriess

About 30 original photographs and a similar number of negatives from the estate of Ion Idriess. Mostly Northern Territory and some Aboriginal

 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 625.00
221 Captain Thomas Brown.

THE BOOK OF BUTTERFLIES, SPHINXES, AND MOTHS; illustrated by 96 engravings, coloured after nature.

 1832 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 625.00
228

This lot is 5 volumes out of a 10 volume series

 1982-1996. AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 625.00
448 Richard Graves

Senilities or Solitary Amusements in Prose and Verse,

 1801 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 625.00
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • 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
  • 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.
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