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Auction Name Sport Art Architecture Literature History Travel Ephemera Total Sales (AUD) 19,606.25
Auction Date June 02, 2022 - June 02, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 29,620.00
Sale Number #60222 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 45,930.00
Total Lots 367
Sold Lots 229 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 43,570.00
% of Lots Sold 62.40% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 69,270.00
Unsold Lots 138 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 28.30%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
304

FOLIO SOCIETY

AUD 600.00 - 750.00 AUD 750.00
6

CHARLES DICKENS

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 500.00
296

ARCHITECTS AND THEIR WORK

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 406.25
400

MOVIE POSTERS

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 312.50
9

FINE BINDING: PAINTERS, SCULPTORS & ARCHITECTS

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 281.25
152

LIMITED EDITION AUSTRALIAN WISDEN

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 250.00
236

3 X SHELVES OF CRICKET BOOKS

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 250.00
204

ART

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 225.00
397

AUSTRALIANA

AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 225.00
122

RUBY UNION PROGRAMMES AND MORE

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 212.50
302

ART

AUD 180.00 - 220.00 AUD 212.50
65

MILITARY

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 200.00
75

CRICKET FOR LAUGHS

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 200.00
155

AUSTRALIANA

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 200.00
182

AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE

AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 200.00
232

SYDNEY OLYMPICS PINS

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 200.00
262

HORDERN HOUSE PUBLICATIONS

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 200.00
309

FANTASY ILLUSTRATION

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 200.00
254

BEAN HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA IN THE WAR SET

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 187.50
301

MODERN ART

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 187.50
64

AUSTRALIAN FIRST-CLASS CRICKET VOL 1 & 2

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 175.00
186

SYDNEY AND SURROUNDS

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 175.00
261

BOOKS ON BOOKS

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 175.00
195

AVIATION

AUD 80.00 - 100.00 AUD 162.50
1

MODERN ART

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 150.00
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  • 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.
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    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.
  • 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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