Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Moments in History: Maps, Photographs, Art, Costumes and Books, A184, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 24, 2026 - May 24, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 327 | Edmund Kennedy | Expedition of Mr. Assistant - Surveyor Edmund Kennedy to ascertain the course of the River Victoria |
1949 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 328 | E.M. Suzyumov | A Life Given to the Antarctic - Douglas Mawson - Antarctic Explorer |
South Australia | 1968 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 1,016.00 |
| 329 | C. Dickson Gregory | The Romance of the "Edina" - The World's Oldest Screw-Steamship |
1935 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 330 | Sydney Hart; Infans; Edmond Marin La Meslee; W.D. Borrie; Charles A. Price; J. M. D. Hardwick | 6 Books, including: Pommie Migrant - The Adventures of a British Emigrant "Down-Under" |
1957; 1976; 1973; 1974; 1954 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 331 | Gunter Schilder; Dorothy Shineberg; The Missions to Seamen | 4 Books, including: Voyage to the Great South Land |
1976; 1967; 1827; 1892; 1900 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 332 | Dora Heard; Jerzy Zubrzycki; Peter G. Spillett; L. L. Robson; David Mackay; W. H.G. Kingston | 7 Books, including: The Journal of Charles O'Hara Booth - Commandant of The Port Arthur Penal Settlement |
1981; 1964; 1965; 1985 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 333 | James Mudie; George Mackaness; Ivan Southall; A.E. Clark-Kennedy; Lord Cosey; Alfred Searcy; Gerald O' Collins; Brian H. Fletcher | 10 Books, including: The Felonry of New South Wales |
1935-1945 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 334 | John Dunmore Lang | How To Defend The Colony; Three Lectures, On The Impolicy and injustice of Religious Establishments |
1859; 1856 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 139.70 | |
| 335 | Sir Henry Parkes | Fragmentary Thoughts |
1889 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 139.70 | |
| 336 | Henry Y.L. Brown | A record of The Mines of South Australia |
1890 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 508.00 | |
| 344 | 4 Playing Card Sets, including: Cook Strait Rail Ferries |
N/A | AUD 50.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 345 | 2 Victorian Portraits |
N/A | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 404 | 9 Banknotes, including: 50-sen note |
1938; 1942; 1943; 1944; c1946 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 405 | 10 Banknotes, including: 500 Pesos |
1942; 1943; 1944 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 406 | 14 Banknotes, including: 100 Dinar |
1922; 1938; 1943; 1966; 1967; 1976; 1978; 1982; 1992 | AUD 160.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 407 | 23 Banknotes, including: 1 Sheqel |
1930s; 1939; 1940; 1941; c1940s; 1969; 1971; 1974; 1978; 1979 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
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Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000 -
Sotheby’s
Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
Live Sale 24 JuneSotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.