Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Books: Beautiful, Unusual and Inspiring, 82524, Ultimo

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Auction Report
Auction Date
August 25, 2024 - August 25, 2024
Page Size: 496 items in 20 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
230 P. G. Wodehouse.

Big Money

London 1931 AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
231

The Sunbeams Book: Further Adventures of Ginger Meggs. Series 4.

Sydney 1927 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 25.40
232 Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Hard Choices

2014 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 114.30
233 Walter T. Upton

3 books about Australian Orchids. Including 1) Dendrobium Orchids of Australia

AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 317.50
234 Thomas Rowlandson from the English Dance of Death.

2 Colour plates by Thomas Rowlandson from the English Dance of Death.

c1814 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
235 John Gould.

Gould's Tropical Birds 18 Prints with original text

c1970s AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 88.90
236 Lizars.

6 colour prints. Mostly in 19th century. 5 of them are mounted on board.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
237 W. Patrick McCafferty

8 books about Aquatic Life. Condition various. Including 1) Aquatic Entomology - The Fishermen's and Ecologists' Illustrated Guide to Insects and Their Relatives

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
238

A shelf of about 28 books of Microscope.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
239

A shelf of about 17 Medical Books. Including Medicine, Surgery, Pathology, Anatomy etc

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
240

12 books about Crystallography and Mineralogy. A

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
241 Arthur Goldsmith.

1) The Camera and Its Images

AUD 60.00 - 80.00 AUD 38.10
242

9 Australiana books. Mostly art. Including Norman Lindsay, Douglas Dawson, Captain James Cook, William Dorbell etc.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
243 Joseph Wambaugh

8 Larry McMurtry books, all in good condition. including, Pretty Boy Floyd, Anything for Billy and Streets of Laredo.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
244 Michael Connelly; Patricia Cornwell.

15 Michael Connelly paperbacks. Plus Six books by Patricia Cornwell.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
245 Don Bradman

Don Bradman's: How to Play Cricket.

London 1935 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
246

Gentleman's Magazine for May, 1788. Reports progress of the First Fleet, ...

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
247

3 books documenting rare and valuable books throughout the early to mid 1900s and 1 book containing a Hordern House catalogue.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
248 Idriess, 160 Years of the Sydney Morning Herald and Land of Australia

Box of Australiana Books, 14 in total, all good copies. Some titles include Gold-dust and Ashes

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
249

A shelf of Mixed Books, all in good condition. Some titles include Winnie the Pooh, Harry Potter, From Russia With Love (1972 reprint) and Homecoming.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
250 Captain David Porter, in the United States Frigate Essex, in the years 1812, 1813, and 1814 Containing Descriptions of the Cape de Verd Islands, Coasts of Brazil, Patagonia, Chili, and Peru, and of the Galapagos Islands, the Manners, Customs, and Dress of

Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean

in Philadelphia 1815 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 215.90
251

3 Books on expeditions in different parts of the world. 1) Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita to Australia.

2014 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
252 Geoffrey C Ingleton.

Matthew Flinders Navigator and Chartmaker

1986 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
253 Truman Capote.

3 crime Fiction books, all in good condition. Hard covers with dust jackets. 1) in Cold Blood

NY 1965 AUD 60.00 - 100.00 AUD 50.80
254

Souvenirs d'un aveugle, voyage autour du monde par Jacques. Arago.

Paris AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
  • Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE
    Le Neptune Oriental
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    CASSAS
    Eaux fortes de la Sicile et quelques vues d’Espagne
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    CASSINI DE THURY
    Carte générale et particulière de la France.
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    JOUY; GARNERAY
    Vues des côtes de France dans l'Océan et dans la Méditerranée
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    LA PÉROUSE
    Voyage autour du monde
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    LE GENTIL DE LA GALAISIERE
    Voyage dans les Mers de l’Inde
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    LICENT
    Hoang Ho, Pai Ho, Loan Ho, Leao Ho. Itinéraires suivis dans le bassin du golfe du Pei Tcheuly
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    FRENCH SCHOOL FROM THE 19th CENTURY
    Panorama d’Athènes
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    PEETERS
    Description des principales villes, havres et isles du golfe de Venise
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    PÉRON; FREYCINET
    Voyage de découverte aux terres australes
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    STACKELBERG
    La Grèce : vues pittoresques et topographiques.
    Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
    VALENTINER
    Atlas des Sonnensystems.
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    The Detective Fiction Collection of John Cooper
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    Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). The Thirteen Problems, first edition, The Crime Club, 1932. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Dumb Witness, first edition, 1937. £3,000 to £4,000.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Cards on the Table, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Forum, Nov. 7: [Carr (John Dickson)], "Carter Dickson" and John Rhode. Drop to his Death, first edition, Heinemann, [1939]. £600 to £800.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Berkeley (Anthony). Jumping Jenny, first edition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. £800 to £1,200.
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    Forum, Nov. 7: Marsh (Ngaio). Overture to Death, first edition, The Crime Club, 1939. £600 to £800.
    Forum, Nov. 7: [Day-Lewis (Cecil)] "Nicholas Blake". The Beast Must Die, first edition, 1938. £750 to £1,000.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Brand (Christianna). Green for Danger, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1945. £600 to £800.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Murder is Easy, first edition, signed by the author, 1939. £3,000 to £4,000.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Sayers (Dorothy L.) Lord Peter Views the Body, first edition, Gollancz, 1928. £6,000 to £8,000.
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    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USD
    Sotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902. 7,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and Others, 1920-1941. 24,180 USD
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    Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana
    November 14
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: LEROUX, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera. FIRST AM. ED, FIRST ISSUE IN THE VERY RARE DUST JACKET. 1911. $6,000 – 8,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: GOULD, John. A Monograph of the Trochilidae...Humming-Birds. L., [1849-] 1861. $60,000 – 80,000.
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    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: GOULD. A Monograph of the Ramphastidae...Toucans. L., [1852-] 54. SECOND ED. $35,000 – 45,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: The Federalist. NY, 1788. FIRST EDITION, THICK PAPER COPY. $60,000 – 80,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: SELBY. Plates to Selby’s Illustrations of British Ornithology. Edin., [1833-] 34. $20,000 – 30,000.