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Auction Name Australian Book Auction Total Sales (AUD) 431,697.00
Auction Date November 23, 2022 - November 23, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 218,730.00
Sale Number #106 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 352,500.00
Total Lots 284
Sold Lots 248 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 280,550.00
% of Lots Sold 87.32% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 439,260.00
Unsold Lots 36 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 98.28%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
21 LYCETT, Joseph.

VIEWS IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW SOUTH WALES, & VAN DIEMEN’S LAND DELINEATED, IN FIFTY VIEWS,

1825 AUD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 AUD 61,000.00
38 WHITEHEAD, Isaac (attributed).

CROSSING THE BLUE MOUNTAINS

1860s-1870s] AUD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 AUD 51,240.00
97 LAWSON, Henry.

IN THE DAYS WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE AND OTHER VERSES.

1896 AUD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 AUD 39,040.00
73 [WARING, Charlotte, Mrs James Atkinson, later Mrs George Barton].

MOTHER’S OFFERING TO HER CHILDREN:

[1841]. AUD 15,000.00 - 30,000.00 AUD 31,720.00
48 GILL, Samuel Thomas.

PART 1, PRICE 10S. 6D. SKETCHES OF THE VICTORIA GOLD DIGGINGS AND DIGGERS AS THEY ARE. BY S.T.G.

1853 AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 12,200.00
93 LAWSON, Henry.

SHORT STORIES IN PROSE AND VERSE.

1894 AUD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 12,200.00
66 ROCHFORT, John.

THE ADVENTURES OF A SURVEYOR

1853 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 11,590.00
30 PHILLIP, Arthur.

EXTRACTS OF LETTERS FROM ARTHUR PHILLIP, ESQ.

1791 AUD 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 AUD 10,980.00
176 SMART. QUARTERMAINE, Peter.

JEFFREY SMART.

1983 AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 7,320.00
117 MAWSON, Douglas.

THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD: BEING THE STORY OF THE AUSTRALASIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1911 – 1914.

1915 AUD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 AUD 6,710.00
26 OXLEY, John.

JOURNALS OF TWO EXPEDITIONS INTO THE INTERIOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES,

1820 AUD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 AUD 6,100.00
64 NORMAN, Commander William Henry.

EXPLORATION EXPEDITION. LETTER FROM COMMANDER NORMAN,

1862 AUD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 6,100.00
27 PALMER, Thomas Fyshe.

A NARRATIVE OF THE SUFFERINGS OF T.F. PALMER, AND W. SKIRVING,

1797 AUD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 5,856.00
108 TURNER, Ethel.

THE FAMILY AT MISRULE.

1895 AUD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 5,124.00
47 GILES, Ernest.

AUSTRALIA TWICE TRAVERSED.

1889 AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 4,880.00
81 CLARKE, Marcus.

HIS NATURAL LIFE

1875 AUD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 4,880.00
153 LINDSAY, Norman.

PAINTINGS IN OIL:

[1945]. AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 4,880.00
214 MILNE, A.A.

WINNIE-THE-POOH

1926 and 1927. AUD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 4,880.00
17 HUNTER, John.

AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS AT PORT JACKSON AND NORFOLK ISLAND,

1793 AUD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 3,660.00
94 LAWSON, Henry.

SELECTED POEMS OF HENRY LAWSON.

1918 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 3,660.00
111 WENTWORTH, William Charles.

AUSTRALASIA. A POEM.

1823 AUD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 3,660.00
16 HUNTER, John.

AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS AT PORT JACKSON AND NORFOLK ISLAND,

1793 AUD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 3,416.00
37 WHITE, John.

JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE

1790 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 3,172.00
46 GILES, Ernest.

MR. E. GILES’S EXPLORATIONS, 1873-4

1874]. AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 3,172.00
1 BARRINGTON, George.

AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES

1803 - 1802. AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 2,928.00
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
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