Auction Reports
Davidson Auctions
Auction Info
- Auction Name
- Arts, War & Social History X (final in series, unreserved)
- Auction Date
- 07/28/2026 - 07/28/2026
- Sale Number
- #IT210
- Total Lots
- 266
- Sold Lots
- 249.0
- Lots Sold
- 93.61%
- Unsold Lots
- 17
- Total Sales (AUD)
- 24,955.10
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
- 27,010.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
- 46,860.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
- 27,970.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
- 48,520.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 51.43%
Top twenty five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | Dickens Charles | The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club |
1839 | AUD 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 | AUD 976.00 |
| 193 | Fairland S.H. | Sydney Cricket Ground Correspondence and Ephemera |
1890s-1914 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 793.00 |
| 12 | Meeks P.H. | 5 Books, including: Parramatta District Soldiers in the Great War |
1917; 1918; 1920 | AUD 80.00 - 150.00 | AUD 793.00 |
| 276 | Evans Allen | Archive of Professional Negatives |
1930-1946 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 610.00 |
| 34 | Fairleigh Augustus Gibson | Volunteer Defence Force 'D' Group Archive |
1942-1946 | AUD 350.00 - 500.00 | AUD 579.50 |
| 92 | Australian Sheet Music |
1895;1900 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 518.50 | |
| 162 | Loudon J.C. | Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum |
1836 | AUD 800.00 - 1,500.00 | AUD 457.50 |
| 15 | WWI AIF Letters from Alfred Townsend |
N/A | AUD 150.00 - 300.00 | AUD 427.00 | |
| 191 | King Hulton Smyth; Boyce Thomas; Milne James; Lane N.O.; Nagle James; Conroy J.M.; Ramsey Edward P.; Stephen Alfred; Williamson J.C. | The Sydneian; Notes of a Lecture on Nineveh; The Times - A Satire; Notes on Brick-Making in and Around Sydney; False and Other Tales; Proceedings of the Linnean Society of NSW; It's Here |
1875; 1878; 1859; 1873; 1848; 1884; 1894; 1872; 1875; 1864; 1895; circa 1860 | AUD 50.00 - 100.00 | AUD 396.50 |
| 246 | Watson Fredk; White H.L. | 9 Books, including: A Brief History of Canberra the Capital City of Australia |
1895; 1927; 1954; 1940; c. 1960; 1957; 1960; 1968; c. 1970; 1970 | AUD 80.00 - 150.00 | AUD 335.50 |
| 117 | Mawson Douglas | 1914 Australian Antarctic Expedition Scientific Reports |
1911-1914; 1889 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 335.50 |
| 45 | Morton Frank; Fotheringhame Josephine; Quinn Roderic; Brennan Chris; Strong Archibald; Searle Percival; Kendall Henry | N Books, including: Strange Battalion |
1919; 1905; 1899; 1938; 1932; 1925; 1862 | AUD 150.00 - 300.00 | AUD 335.50 |
| 13 | Coleman J | WWI ANZAC Ephemera |
1905 | AUD 80.00 - 150.00 | AUD 305.00 |
| 56 | Bonwick James | Last of the Tasmanians; Rides Out and About; An Octogenarian's Reminiscences |
1870; 1862; 1902 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 305.00 |
| 18 | Reeves L.C. | WWI Australians in Action - German New Guinea |
1915 | AUD 60.00 - 150.00 | AUD 305.00 |
| 48 | Christesen Clem | Meanjin Papers |
1940-1943 | AUD 150.00 - 300.00 | AUD 305.00 |
| 11 | Paterson A.T. | History of the Thirty Ninth Batt. A.I.F. |
1934 | AUD 180.00 - 300.00 | AUD 274.50 |
| 9 | Mackenzie K.W. | The Seventeenth Battalion AIF in the Great War 1914-18 |
1946 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 274.50 |
| 20 | War Workers Gazette |
1918 | AUD 60.00 - 100.00 | AUD 274.50 | |
| 163 | Transactions 1873 |
1873 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | AUD 274.50 |
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Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000. -
