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Dunbar Sloane: John Anscombe Library (Part 1)

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Auction Name	John Anscombe Library (Part 1)	Total Sales (AUD)	39,638.90
Auction Date	December 10, 2024 - December 10, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	37,830.00
Sale Number	#1838	High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	67,175.00
Total Lots	300
Sold Lots	289	Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	39,040.00
% of Lots Sold	96.33%	High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	69,415.00
Unsold Lots	11	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	57.10%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
259	Hawkesworth John	An Account Of The Voyages (3 Volumes). Undertaken By The Order Of His Present Majesty For Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, ...	1773	AUD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	AUD 7,140.00
260		Cook Captain James (1828-1779) A Voyage Towards The South Pole And Around The World (2 Volumes). P...	1779	AUD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	AUD 4,046.00
6	Earle Augustus	A Narrative of a Nine Months Residence in New Zealand in 1827. Together With A Journal Of A Residence in Tristan D'Acunha An Island Situated Between South America And The Cape Of Good Hope.	1832	AUD 600.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 1,428.00
173	Robley Major-General	Moko Or Maori Tattooing. With Illustrations From Drawings By The Author And From Photographs, first edition,	1896	AUD 200.00 - 350.00	AUD 714.00
68		(-) Papers Relative To Military Operations Against The Rebel Natives 1869. Presented By Both Houses Of The General Assembly, By Command Of His Excellency,	1869	AUD 400.00 - 800.00	AUD 654.50
70		(-) Report From The Select Committee on New Zealand. Together With The Minutes Of Evidence Taken Before Them and An Appendix And Index.	1840	AUD 60.00 - 120.00	AUD 523.60
11	Polack J S	Manners And Customs of the New Zealanders (2 Volumes). With Notes Corroborative Of Their Habits, Usages, Etc and Remarks To Intending Emigrants With Numerous Cuts Drawn On Wood.	first edition	AUD 600.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 499.80
38		New Zealand Centennial Exhibition 1939-40 Official Souvenir Catalogue.		AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 452.20
76	Carbery Lieut-Col A D	The New Zealand Medical Service in the Great War 1014-1918.	1924	AUD 160.00 - 300.00	AUD 428.40
262	Grey, George,	Journals of Two Expeditions Of Discovery of North-West And Western Australia (2 Vols). ...	1841	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 428.40
63	McKay R A	A History of Printing In New Zealand 1830-1940. Limited edition number 213/600,	1940	AUD 80.00 - 140.00	AUD 404.60
83	Cowan James	The New Zealand Wars (2 Volumes). A History Of The Maori Campaigns And The Pioneering Period. Vol I (1845-1864) With Illustrations And Plans. Vol II: The Hauhau Wars, 1864-1872.	1922 & 23	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 404.60
111	McKillop Lieut H F	Reminiscences of Twelve Months Service in New Zealand. As A Midshipman During The Late Disturbances In That Colony.	1849	AUD 300.00 - 500.00	AUD 380.80
67		(-) Fac-similes of the Declaration Of Independence and the Treaty Of Waitangi.	1892	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 333.20
180	Mundy D L	Rotomahana and The Boiling Springs of New Zealand. A Photographic Series Of Sixteen Views, With Descriptive Notes by Ferdinand Von Hochstetter.	1875	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 321.30
69		(-) Papers Relative To Military Operations Against The Rebel Natives. Presented By Both Houses Of The General Assembly. By Command Of His Excellency,	1870	AUD 400.00 - 800.00	AUD 309.40
142	Cowan James	Pictures of Old New Zealand The Partridge Collection of Maori Paintings. By Gottfried Lindauer.	1930	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 309.40
141	Taylor Rev Richard	Te Ika A Maui. or, New Zealand And Its Inhabitants, with numerous illustrations,	1870	AUD 200.00 - 350.00	AUD 285.60
48		9 Books On Prehistoric NZ Archaeology Etc.		AUD 80.00 - 160.00	AUD 261.80
97	Cunningham Treadwell & Hanna	The Wellington Regiment NZEF 1914-1919.	1928	AUD 350.00 - 600.00	AUD 261.80
9	Wakefield Edward Jerningham	Adventure In New Zealand From 1839 to 1844 (2 Volumes). With Some Account Of The Beginning Of The British Colonization Of The Islands.	1845	AUD 400.00 - 700.00	AUD 249.90
107	Gascoyne Major F J W	Soldiering In New Zealand. Being Reminiscences Of A Veteran By Major F. J. W. Gascoyne With An Appendix Entitled Pursuit Of Te Kooti Through The Urewera Country By Captain G. A. Preece.	1916	AUD 160.00 - 300.00	AUD 226.10
197		2 Maori Volumes by Elsdon Best. The Pa Maori, An Account Of The Fortified Villages Of The Maori In Pre-European And Modern Times ;	1975	AUD 70.00 - 140.00	AUD 226.10
119	Andersen C Johannes	Bird-Song and New Zealand Song Birds.	1926	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 214.20
171		2 Modern Volumes On The Maori Wars. Contested Ground, Te Whenua I Tohea, The Taranaki Wars 1860-1881,	2010	AUD 70.00 - 140.00	AUD 214.20

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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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”.

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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 .

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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
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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.
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The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

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Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

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Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD