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Michael Treloar: Photography from the Collection of Joyce Evans OAM

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Auction Name Photography from the Collection of Joyce Evans OAM Total Sales (AUD) 58,562.50
Auction Date December 12, 2025 - December 12, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 39,300.00
Sale Number #121225 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 65,150.00
Total Lots 101
Sold Lots 41.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 87,700.00
% of Lots Sold 40.59% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 140,500.00
Unsold Lots 60 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 41.68%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
11

Camera Work. Numbers 1 and 2. Signed by Alfred Stieglitz

AUD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 AUD 20,000.00
42 Andre Kertesz

Andre Kertesz: Melancholic Tulip, 1939 (signed)

1939 AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 8,125.00
39 Andre Kertesz

Andre Kertesz: January 1, 1972, Martinique (signed)

1972 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 2,500.00
93 Minor White

Minor White: Birdlime and Surf, 1951, Point Lobos, California (signed)

1951 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,750.00
36 Andre Kertesz

Andre Kertesz: Broken plate, 1929, Paris (signed)

1929 AUD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,500.00
37 Andre Kertesz

Andre Kertesz: Elizabeth, 1931, Paris (signed)

1931 AUD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,500.00
38 Andre Kertesz

Andre Kertesz: Homing ship, October 13, 1944 (signed)

1944 AUD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,500.00
44 Andre Kertesz

Andre Kertesz: Swimming, September 14, 1919, Duna Haraszti (signed)

1919 AUD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,500.00
88 Roman Vishniac

Roman Vishniac: Jewish Peasant, Carpatho-Ukraine, 1937 (signed)

1937 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,500.00
91 Roman Vishniac

Roman Vishniac: Synagogue Court, Vilna, 1938 (signed)

1938 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,500.00
98 Minor White

Minor White: Two Barns, 1955, Dansville, New York (signed)

1955 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,500.00
94 Minor White

Minor White: Ivy, 1964, Portland, Oregon (signed)

1964 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,375.00
2

Australian Federation Celebrations, Melbourne, 1901. Suite of 47 photographs

AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,250.00
17 Augusta Crofton Dillon

Augusta Crofton Dillon: Album with over 225 photographs (1880-1898)

1880-1898 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 1,000.00
48 D. McDonald

D. McDonald: 67 photographs of Melbourne (circa 1870s)

circa 1870s AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 1,000.00
72 Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz: In the New York Central Yards (photogravure, 1911)

1911 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,000.00
96 Minor White

Minor White: Ritual Stones, 1963, Notom, Utah (signed)

1963 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,000.00
19 Gael Newton

Gael Newton: Max Dupain (1980, signed)

1980 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 875.00
87

Travel album with 73 photographs of Scotland, Switzerland (mountaineering) etc., (circa 1870s)

circa 1870s AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 625.00
60

New South Wales: Presentation album with 86 photographs (1888) for J.H. Watkin, Mayor of Ashfield

1888 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 525.00
68 George H. Seeley

George H. Seeley: Four photogravures from Camera Work (1907)

1907 AUD 500.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 525.00
20

Victorian-era album of 244 portraits of British luminaries

AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 500.00
75 Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz: The Pool, Deal (photogravure, 1911)

1911 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 500.00
76 Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz: The Swimming Lesson (photogravure, 1911)

1911 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 500.00
78

Tasmania: Album with 14 large-format photographs (Anson Bros, 1880s)

1880s AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 425.00
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000