Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Books and Maps: an Eclectic Mix, A132, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 10, 2024 - November 10, 2024

Page Size: 508 items in 21 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
51		Dumb-Bells, Clubs, and Bar-Bells For Schools and Gymnasiums Or Individuals by A.G. Lammas (Army Gymnastic Staff)		No date c1905.	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
52		International demonstrator : musical exercises, living pictures, action songs and services, and games, with nearly two hundred illustrations issued by International Headquarters.		1911	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
53		Legend in Japanese Art - A Description of Historical Episodes Legendary Characters, Folk-Lore Myths, Religious Symbolism.		1968	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 101.60
54		Decorum: A Practical Treatise On Etiquette And Dress Of The Best American Society . Revised by S. L. Louis.		1881	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 101.60
55	Edited R. Chambers.	The Book of Days - A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities In Connection with The Calendar Including Anecdote, Biography, & History Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character.		1878	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
57	Frieda Lawrence.	Not I, But the Wind...	New Mexico	1934	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
58	D.H. Lawrence	Mornings in Mexico	London	1927	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 3,429.00
59	Compiled Hebert J Rumsey, FJ Lond. With Decorations James Emery.	The Pioneers of Sydney Cove		1937	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
60	P Neville Barnett	Japanese Colour-Prints	Sydney	1936	AUD 1,200.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 1,778.00
61	John White Esq. Surgeon General to the Settlement.	Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with Sixty-five Plates of Non Descript Animals. Birds, Lizards, Serpents, Curious Cones of Trees and other Natural Productions	London	1790	AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
62	The Hon. Mrs Ward.	Microscope Teachings: Descriptions of Various Objects of Especial Interest and Beauty Adapted For Microscopic Observation.		1864	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
63	George Orwell.	Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)		1949	AUD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
64	Norbert Guterman.	Prehistoric Cave Paintings by Max Raphael and translated		1945	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
65	Francis Chichester	Gipsy Moth: Circles the World		1967	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
66		Vincent Van Gogh	Vienna	1936	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 114.30
67	Frederick D McCarthy.	Australia's Aborigines; Their Life and Culture	Melbourne	1957	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 165.10
69	Patrick McCaughey.	Fred Williams	Sydney.	1980	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 76.20
70	Le Corbusier {pseudonym of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris]	Une petite maison 1923	Zurich	1954	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 539.75
71	Henri Breuil.	Rock Paintings of South Africa			AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
72	Donald Friend.	Birds From the Magic Mountain	Sanur	1977	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 285.75
73	George Alexander Cooke.	Modern and Authentic System of Universal Geography, Containing an Accurate and Entertaining Description of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America:	London	no date circa 1800	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
74	George Bennett.	Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia being Observations Principally on the Animal and Vegetable Productions of New South Wales, New Zealand and some of the Austral Islands		1860,	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
75	J Misnhull.	God's Glorious Creation or, The Mighty Marvels of Earth, Sea, and Sky" The Earth's Place in the Universal Plan. Wonders of the Water. Wonders of the Land. Wonders of the Atmosphere	London and New York,	circa1880s.	AUD 60.00 - 100.00	AUD 50.80
76		1811 South Africa A beautifully produced book on South Africa	Prague	1811	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
77	A.S.W. Rosenbach.	Books and Bidders: The Adventures of a Bibliophile	London	1928	AUD 200.00 - 400.00	AUD 127.00

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

Sotheby’s: William Golding.
Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
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Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

Sotheby’s: John Milton.
Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD