• <center><b>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>April 5<br>Printed Books, Maps, Atlases & Caricatures</b>
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Speed (John). <i>The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine...</i> bound with <i>The Prospect of the most Famous parts of the World,</i> Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, 1676. £20,000 to £30,000.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> China. De Jode (Cornelis), <i>China Regnum,</i> Antwerp [1593]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> World. Hondius (Henricus), <i>Nova totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.</i> Auct: Henr. Hondio. Amsterdam, circa 1630. £5,000 to £8,000.
    <center><b>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>April 5<br>Printed Books, Maps, Atlases & Caricatures</b>
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> World. Blaeu (Willem Janszoon), <i>Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula</i> auct: Guilelmo Blaeuw, Amsterdam [1635 - 58]. £5,000 to £8,000.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Acosta (Emanuel). <i>Rerum a Societate Iesu in Oriente gestarum ad annum usque à Deipara Virgine…,</i> 1st edition, Dillingen: Sebald Mayer, 1571. £3,000 to £5,000.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Ruggieri (Francesco). <i>Scelta di Architetture Antiche e Moderne della Citta di Firenze…,</i> 4 volumes bound in two, Florence, Appresso l'Editore, 1755. £3,000 to £4,000.
    <center><b>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>April 5<br>Printed Books, Maps, Atlases & Caricatures</b>
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Parry (William). <i>Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage,</i> 6 vols in 5, 1st editions, 1821-27. £2,000 to £3,000.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Hunter (John). <i>A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-Shot Wounds,</i> 1st edition, 1794. £1,000 to £1,500.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Furber (Robert). <i>The Flower-Garden Display'd, in above Four Hundred Curious Representations of the most Beautiful Flowers…,</i> 1st quarto edition, London, 1732. £1,000 to £1,500.
    <center><b>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>April 5<br>Printed Books, Maps, Atlases & Caricatures</b>
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Friedman (Milton). <i>A Theory of the Consumption Function,</i> 1st edition, 1957. £500 to £800.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Clarkson (Thomas). <i>The history of the ... abolition of the African slave-trade,</i> 2 vols., 1808. £800 to £1,200.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Civil War Pamphlets. A sammelband of 19 pamphlets relating to events of the English Civil War, 1640-1661. £2,000 to £3,000.
  • <b><center>Swann Auction Galleries<br>Printed & Manuscript African Americana:<br>March 30, 2023</b>
    <b>Swann March 30:</b> Victor H. Green, <i>The Negro Motorist Green Book,</i> New York, 1949. $10,000 to $15,000.
    <b>Swann March 30:</b> Papers of pianist-composer Lawrence Brown relating to Paul Robeson & more, various places, 1925-54. $5,000 to $7,500.
    <b>Swann March 30:</b> Freedom Summer archive of civil rights activist Karen Haberman Trusty, Atlanta & elsewhere, 1963-64. $5,000 to $7,500.
    <b>Swann March 30:</b> E. Simms Campbell, <i>A Night-Club Map of Harlem,</i> New York, 1933. $8,000 to $12,000.
    <b>Swann March 30:</b> Archive of letters from the sculptor Richmond Barthé to a close Jamaican friend, various places, 1966-85. $25,000 to $35,000.
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Australian Book Auctions: Australian Book Auction

Auction Reports

Auction Name Australian Book Auction Total Sales (AUD) 431,697.00
Auction Date 11/23/2022 - 11/23/2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 218,730.00
Sale Number #106 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 352,500.00
Total Lots 284
Sold Lots 248 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 280,550.00
% of Lots Sold 87.32% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 439,260.00
Unsold Lots 36 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 98.28%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
21 LYCETT, Joseph.

VIEWS IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW SOUTH WALES, & VAN DIEMEN’S LAND DELINEATED, IN FIFTY VIEWS,

1825 AUD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 AUD 61,000.00
38 WHITEHEAD, Isaac (attributed).

CROSSING THE BLUE MOUNTAINS

1860s-1870s] AUD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 AUD 51,240.00
97 LAWSON, Henry.

IN THE DAYS WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE AND OTHER VERSES.

1896 AUD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 AUD 39,040.00
73 [WARING, Charlotte, Mrs James Atkinson, later Mrs George Barton].

MOTHER’S OFFERING TO HER CHILDREN:

[1841]. AUD 15,000.00 - 30,000.00 AUD 31,720.00
48 GILL, Samuel Thomas.

PART 1, PRICE 10S. 6D. SKETCHES OF THE VICTORIA GOLD DIGGINGS AND DIGGERS AS THEY ARE. BY S.T.G.

1853 AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 12,200.00
93 LAWSON, Henry.

SHORT STORIES IN PROSE AND VERSE.

1894 AUD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 12,200.00
66 ROCHFORT, John.

THE ADVENTURES OF A SURVEYOR

1853 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 11,590.00
30 PHILLIP, Arthur.

EXTRACTS OF LETTERS FROM ARTHUR PHILLIP, ESQ.

1791 AUD 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 AUD 10,980.00
176 SMART. QUARTERMAINE, Peter.

JEFFREY SMART.

1983 AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 7,320.00
117 MAWSON, Douglas.

THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD: BEING THE STORY OF THE AUSTRALASIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1911 – 1914.

1915 AUD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 AUD 6,710.00
26 OXLEY, John.

JOURNALS OF TWO EXPEDITIONS INTO THE INTERIOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES,

1820 AUD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 AUD 6,100.00
64 NORMAN, Commander William Henry.

EXPLORATION EXPEDITION. LETTER FROM COMMANDER NORMAN,

1862 AUD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 6,100.00
27 PALMER, Thomas Fyshe.

A NARRATIVE OF THE SUFFERINGS OF T.F. PALMER, AND W. SKIRVING,

1797 AUD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 5,856.00
108 TURNER, Ethel.

THE FAMILY AT MISRULE.

1895 AUD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 5,124.00
47 GILES, Ernest.

AUSTRALIA TWICE TRAVERSED.

1889 AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 4,880.00
81 CLARKE, Marcus.

HIS NATURAL LIFE

1875 AUD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 4,880.00
153 LINDSAY, Norman.

PAINTINGS IN OIL:

[1945]. AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 4,880.00
214 MILNE, A.A.

WINNIE-THE-POOH

1926 and 1927. AUD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 4,880.00
17 HUNTER, John.

AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS AT PORT JACKSON AND NORFOLK ISLAND,

1793 AUD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 3,660.00
94 LAWSON, Henry.

SELECTED POEMS OF HENRY LAWSON.

1918 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 3,660.00
111 WENTWORTH, William Charles.

AUSTRALASIA. A POEM.

1823 AUD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 3,660.00
16 HUNTER, John.

AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS AT PORT JACKSON AND NORFOLK ISLAND,

1793 AUD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 3,416.00
37 WHITE, John.

JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE

1790 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 3,172.00
46 GILES, Ernest.

MR. E. GILES’S EXPLORATIONS, 1873-4

1874]. AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 3,172.00
1 BARRINGTON, George.

AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES

1803 - 1802. AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 2,928.00
  • <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> CASAS (BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS). <i>La Découverte des Indes occidentales par les Espagnols,</i> Paris, 1697. €1,500 to €2,000.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> GARCILASO DE LA VEGA. <i>Primera parte de los commentarios reales, que tratan del orígen de los Yncas…,</i> Lisbonne, 1609 [1608 au colophon]. €8,000 to €10,000.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> GARCILASO DE LA VEGA. <i>Histoire des Yncas rois du Pérou. On a joint à cette édition l'Histoire de la conquête de la Floride,</i> Amsterdam, 1737. €800 to €1,000.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> LAET (JOHANNES DE). <i>L'Histoire du nouveau monde, ou description des Indes occidentales,</i> Leyde, 1640. €8,000 to €10,000.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> LAFITAU (JOSEPH-FRANÇOIS). <i>Mœurs des sauvages amériquains, comparées aux mœurs des premiers temps,</i> Paris, 1724. €1,200 to €1,500.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> ORRIO (FRANCISCO XAVIER ALEXO DE). <i>Solución del gran problema acerca de la población de las Americas,</i> Mexico, 1763. €1,500 to €2,000.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> [ROCHEFORT (CHARLES DE)]. <i>Histoire naturelle et morale des Îles Antilles de l'Amérique,</i> Amsterdam, 1716. €800 to €1,000.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> TURGOT (ANNE-ROBERT-JACQUES). <i>Mémoire sur les colonies américaines, sur leurs relations politiques avec leurs métropoles…,</i> Paris, 1791. €1,000 to €1,200.
  • <center><b>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>30th March 2023</b>
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Roman binding.- Pindar. <i>Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia,</i> translated by Johannes Lonicer, contemporary Roman binding by Niccolo Franzese, Basel, 1535. £40,000 to £60,000.
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Raverat (Gwen). Comprehensive album of 530 wood engravings, circa 1909-1950. £40,000 to £60,000.
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Hemingway (Ernest). <i>Fiesta,</i> first English edition, first impression dust-jacket, 1927. £15,000 to £20,000.
    <center><b>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>30th March 2023</b>
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Fleming (Ian). <i>Casino Royale,</i> first edition, first impression, 1953. £12,000 to £18,000.
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Dickens (Charles). <i>Great Expectations,</i> 3 vol., first edition, first impression, Chapman and Hall, 1861. £10,000 to £15,000.
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Campbell (Colen) & others. <i>Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect...,</i> 5 vol., vol.1-3 later editions, vol.4 & 5 first editions, [?1731]-31-67-71. £10,000 to £15,000.
    <center><b>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>30th March 2023</b>
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Geography.- Mela (Pomponius). <i>Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis,</i> Venice, Franciscus Renner de Heilbronn, 1478. £8,000 to £12,000.
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> America.- [?Espinosa y Tello (José)]. <i>Relacion del Viage hecho por las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el Año de 1792,</i> 2 vol. including Atlas, first edition, Madrid, 1802. £8,000 to £12,000.
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Australasia.- Péron (Francois) and Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet. <i>Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes,</i> 5 vol. including Atlas, second edition, Paris, 1824. £8,000 to £12,000.
    <center><b>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>30th March 2023</b>
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Botany.- Curtis (William). <i>The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed,</i> 83 vol. in 62, 1794-1956. £8,000 to £12,000.
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Darwin (Charles).- Lecky (W.E.H.) <i>The Rise and Influence of Rationalism in Europe,</i> 2 vol., Darwin's copy with inscription "Charles Darwin 1865", pencil marginalia and pencil notes, 1865. £7,000 to £10,000.
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