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Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Christmas Catalogue

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Auction Name Christmas Catalogue Total Sales (AUD) 71,225.00
Auction Date December 02, 2022 - December 02, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 78,720.00
Sale Number #120222 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 108,190.00
Total Lots 695
Sold Lots 474 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 127,520.00
% of Lots Sold 68.20% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 172,320.00
Unsold Lots 221 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 41.33%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
10

The English and Australian Cookery Book: cookery for the many, as well as for the upper ten thousand by an Australian aristologist.

 1864 AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 AUD 6,250.00
70 Vivian Pynor.

The Scenic Railway and the mountain devil a descriptive story

 [1940?] AUD 120.00 - 160.00 AUD 3,250.00
9 AJ Wilkinson.

The Australian Cook: a complete manual of cookery suitable for the Australian colonies, with especial reference to the gas cooking stove

 1876 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 2,500.00
6 JLW Thudichum and August Dupre.

A Treatise on the Origin, Nature, and Varieties of Wine: being a complete manual of viticulture and oenology

 1872 AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 1,125.00
613 Jane Austen ; Hugh Thomson.

Pride and Prejudice

 1894 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 1,062.50
37 Matthew flinders.

Observations on the Marine Barometer made during the examination of the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales 1801, 1802, 1803

 1806 AUD 1,400.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 1,000.00
14 MLL Vallemont

La Physique occulte, ou Traite de la baguette divinatoire, Et de son utilite pour la decouverte des sources d'eau, des mini?res, des tresors cachez, des voleurs & des meurtriers fugitifs.

1696 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 937.50
36

The Naval Chronicle for 1814: Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 812.50
7 Henry Vizetelly.

The Wines of the World characterized & classed with some particulars respecting the beers of Europe

 1875 AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 750.00
310 edited by Richard Neville and Richard Walsh.

Oz

1964 AUD 300.00 - 350.00 AUD 687.50
39

The British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913. Exhibition of the photographic pictures of Mr. Herbert G. Ponting.

 1914 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 531.25
396 the Mackay Aerial Reconnaissance Survey Expedition 1935

Map Portions of South and West Australia Between Latitudes 25 & 31 South Longitudes 122 & 136 30' East

 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 531.25
45 Frank Hurley.

Argonauts of the South: Being a Narrative of Voyaging's and Polar Seas and Adventures in the Antarctic with Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton

 1925 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 500.00
209

The Novels of Henry Fielding. Includes: Tom Jones Volume 1 and 2; Amelia; Jonathan wild; Joseph Andrews.

 1898-1899 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 500.00
211

A Historical Collection of Voyages and Discoveries around the world. Facsimile editions

 1960-70s AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 500.00
314 Douglas Stewart

Shipwreck A Poetic Drama

 1948 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 500.00
523 William Wellington Cairns, the Governor of Queensland.

A document measuring 42 x 25 cm signed

 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 500.00
558 Albert Namatjira

Water Colours of Central Australia

 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 500.00
11

Christian Dior La Cuisine Cousu-Main.

1972 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 468.75
605

General Plan of the Brisbane Water Works 1866.

 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 468.75
316 John Davis, edited by William Westgarth.

Tracks of McKinlay and Party across Australia,

 1863 AUD 450.00 - 500.00 AUD 437.50
610 S H Marsh.

The Travellers Return Song. With an Accompaniment For The Harp or Piano-Forte, Composed on The Occasion of Dr. Leichhardt's Return To Sydney, and Dedicated to The Members of the Royal Geographical Society

 1847 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 437.50
156 Haig Beck and Jackie Cooper,

1) ?Glenn Murcutt: A Singular Architectural Practice?

 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 406.25
488

A shelf of 12 nice cloth bindings. Includes the first 3 volumes of Barth's Travels in Central Africa, Rabelasi, Victor Hugo's Notre Dame, Hogarth works.

 AUD 120.00 - 160.00 AUD 406.25
5 George Sitwell with Sir Osbert Sitwell

On the Making of Gardens

 1949 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 375.00
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
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    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
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    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
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