Source : Australian Book Auctions

Source Title Australian Book Auctions
Description

Australian Book Auctions was founded in 1999 as Australia's first and only specialist auction house for books and related material. A decade later, it held the record for the top prices paid at auction for printed Australiana, as well as selling the most important Australian collection in private hands, the Davidson collection, which took in over A$13 million. Among the subjects of the books, manuscripts and related material the firm sells are travel, voyage art, modern first editions, children's books, art and illustrated books, private press, literary and historical manuscripts, historical and topographical art, militaria, Australiana, and sport. Their location is in Armdale, Victoria.
Scope of Text
Total Records in AED 30241
  • 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.