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Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Icons: Opera House, Idriess Manuscripts, Art and History

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Auction Name	Icons: Opera House, Idriess Manuscripts, Art and History	Total Sales (AUD)	54,089.30
Auction Date	April 06, 2024 - April 06, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	37,770.00
Sale Number	#40624	High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	52,550.00
Total Lots	338
Sold Lots	201	Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	56,860.00
% of Lots Sold	59.47%	High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	80,030.00
Unsold Lots	137	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	67.59%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
6		David Bailey's Box of Pin-Ups. 37 Published photographs		AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 8,255.00
5		Sydney National Opera House (the Red Book)	1958	AUD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00	AUD 5,715.00
48	A B Paterson; Rolf Boldrewood	The Man From Snowy River And Other Verses	1895	AUD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	AUD 5,334.00
27		Fauna Hawaiiensis Being The Land-Fauna of the Hawaiian Islands. Volumes 1 , 2 and 3 of		AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 2,921.00
49	A B Paterson; Rolf Boldrewood	The Man From Snowy River And Other Verses	1895	AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	AUD 2,032.00
39	Capt. Charles Sturt.	Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, during the Years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831: with Observations on the Soil, Climate, and General Resources of the Colony of New South Wales	1833	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 1,206.50
207	Christopher Allen.	Jeffrey Smart: Unpublished Paintings 1940-2007	2008	AUD 50.00 - 80.00	AUD 952.50
79	Edgar Rice Burroughs.	Ten Tarzan titles	late 1920s	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 889.00
54	Ian Fleming.	The Spy Who Loved Me	1962	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 825.50
60	Daniel Henry Deniehy.	The Attorney-General of New Barataria	1932	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	AUD 698.50
71	Frank DalDavison and Brooke Nicholls,	Blue Coast Caravan	1935	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	AUD 698.50
128	S. Bannister	Humane policy ; or, Justice to the aborigines of new settlements essential to a due expenditure of British money, and to the best interests of the settlers.	1830	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 603.25
36	Godfrey Charles Mundy.	Our Antipodes: or, Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies with a Glimpse of the Gold Fields	1852	AUD 500.00 - 800.00	AUD 508.00
53	Ian Fleming.	For Your Eyes Only	1960	AUD 300.00 - 500.00	AUD 476.25
3	Ion Idriess	In Prehistoric Australia",	circa1935	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 444.50
122		Three complete issues of the Melbourne "Argus" Newspaper dated September 3, 4 and 6, 1858.	1858	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 444.50
4	Ion Idriess	This manuscript is titled "Down in the Depths" and is the story of a Japanese pearl diver lost in an undersea forest. Typed manuscript of 6 pages.	1938	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 412.75
12		A Directory for the Vavigation of the North Pacific Ocean	1870	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 412.75
28	Virginia Woolf	The Years	1937	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 412.75
29	IDRIESS, Ion L.	"Cyaniding for Gold".	1939	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 412.75
279	Frank Herbert.	Chapter House Dune	1985	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 412.75
18	Idriess	Early Ion Idriess Manuscript from 1922 "The Fight for Mehunyah" Original typed manuscript of 32 pages. An early story	1922	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 381.00
177	Hilla Rebay.	Four books about Wassily Kandinsky. 1) In Memory of Wassily Kandinsky. Wassily Kandinsky Memorial	1945	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 381.00
2	Ion Idriess	Ion Idriess Manuscript Rat Plague circa 1938	circa1938.	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 349.25
41	William Henry Wells.	A Geographical Dictionary or Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies: their Physical and Political Geography, together with a brief notice of all the Capitals, Principal Towns and Villages; also of rivers, bays, gulfs, mountains, population and general stati	1848	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 317.50

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Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000

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Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000

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G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000

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