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Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair
17 and 18 Oct

Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair
17 and 18 Oct

Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair
17 and 18 Oct
Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000
Dominic Winter Auctioneers
2 October
Beatrix Potter:
The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster

Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st privately printed edition, 1901. £40,000-£60,000.

Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix Helen, 1866-1943). Squintina Tabby, Licensed dealer in Tea. £7,000-£10,000.

Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix Helen, 1866-1943). A pair of original illustrations from The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. £8,000-£12,000.

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
2 October
Beatrix Potter:
The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster

Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix, illustrator). A Happy Pair, 1st [and only] edition, 1890. £5,000-£8,000.

Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Autograph Illustrated Letter, c. 1920. £3,000-£5,000.

Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Fairy Caravan, 1st (autographed limited) edition, 1929. £2,000-£3,000.

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
2 October
Beatrix Potter:
The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster

Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st edition, 1903, inscribed by Beatrix Potter. £1,500-£2,000.

Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, 1st deluxe edition, inscribed by Beatrix Potter. £3,000-£5,000.

Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st deluxe edition, 1903, rare trial binding. £2,000-£3,000.

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
2 October
Beatrix Potter:
The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster

Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st privately printed edition, December 1902. £2,000-£3,000.

Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Autograph Illustrated Letter Signed, 26 October 1936. £2,000-£3,000.

Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Signed and Inscribed ICAA Christmas Card, 1938. £1,500-£2,000.
Gonnelli:
Auction 63
Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
October 7th-9th 2025

Gonnelli: The Arabian Nights - Alf Laylah wa-Laylah. 1862. Starting price € 25.000

Gonnelli: Depero futurista. 1927. Starting price € 9.000

Gonnelli: Dalì, Alchimia dei Filosofi. 1976. Starting price € 3.800

Gonnelli:
Auction 63
Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
October 7th-9th 2025

Gonnelli: Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes. 1480. Starting price € 4.800

Gonnelli: Cassini, De cometa. 1653. Starting price € 10.000

Gonnelli: Cataldi, Trattato della quadratura del cerchio etc. 1612. Starting price € 8.000

Gonnelli:
Auction 63
Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
October 7th-9th 2025

Gonnelli: Cavalieri, Geometria indivisibilibus. 1635. Starting price € 15.000

Gonnelli: Diophantus, Arithmeticorum libri sex. 1670. Starting price € 15.000

Gonnelli: Fontana, Novae coelestium observationes. 1646. Starting price € 10.000

Gonnelli:
Auction 63
Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
October 7th-9th 2025

Gonnelli: Galileo, Sidereus nuncius. 1610. Starting price € 100.000

Gonnelli: Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones nonagentae. 1532. Starting price € 7.000

Gonnelli: Jansson's Waterworld. 1657. Starting price € 20.000

Auction Reports

Sydney Rare Book Auctions

Auction Info

Auction Name: Journey through time: Print and Bindings from the 15th to the 21st Century
Auction Date: 09/07/2025 - 09/07/2025
Sale Number: #90725
Total Lots: 409
Sold Lots: 228
Lots Sold: 55.75%
Unsold Lots: 181

Total Sales (AUD): 67,589.40
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD): 74,260.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD): 101,310.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD): 192,950.00
High Estimate of All Lots (AUD): 261,170.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 25.88%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	HUME, Fergus W.	The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.	[not dated but mid-1888].	AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	AUD 5,207.00
10	MEREDITH, Louisa Anne.	My Home in Tasmania; or, Nine Years in Australia by Mrs. Charles Meredith.	1853	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 3,302.00
17	ATHANASIUS.	Athanasii Episcopi Alexandrini Opera, studiosus quam antea fuerint, a situ vindicata, quorum catalogus sequitur.	1522	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 3,175.00
161	Geoffrey Chaucer.	Facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones. Essay by William S. Peterson.	2002	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 2,921.00
220		The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated into English.	1649	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 1,397.00
12	[NO AUTHOR].	A Visit to Australia and It's Gold Regions.	1853	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 1,397.00
30	MacFARLANE, Charles.	Constantinople in 1828. A residence of sixteen months in the Turkish capital and provinces.	1829	AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	AUD 1,270.00
43	VALENTIA, Jacob Perez de.	Doctissimae et plane divinae explanationes in centum & quinquaginta Psalmos Davidicos...	1581	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 1,270.00
90	HAYTER, Henry Heylen.	Illustrated Handbook of Victoria, together with the Official Catalogue of Exhibits in the Victorian Court.	1889-90.	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 1,143.00
92	EYRIES, J.B.B.	Recherches sur l'epoque veritable de la decouverte de la terre de Van Diemen du nord; part J.B.B. Eyries.	1814	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 1,143.00
91	COLLINS, Lieutenant-Colonel David.	An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales	1804	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 1,016.00
214		Gesta Dei per Francos, sive Orientalium expeditionum, et regni Francorum Hierosolimitani historia [Bound with] Liber secretorum fidelium crucisTerran Sanctam auctor Marinus Sanuto.		AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 952.50
373		1) Medieval Calendars by Perez-Higuera 2) The Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages by Humphries and Jones.		AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 825.50
341	by Anders Sparman.	A Voyage Round the World with Captain James Cook in H.M.S Resolution	1944	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
37	PENNANT, Thomas.	The View of Hindoostan.	1798	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
18	BOSWELL, James.	An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli.	1768	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
98	Eight scarce books on Wesleyan missionary endeavours in Australasia, New Zealand, and the Pacific ocean.	Also includes a few London Missionary Society books.	1831	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00	AUD 635.00
4	STEARN, William (editor). By William T. Stearn, introduction by Wilfred Blunt.	The Australian Flower Paintings of Ferdinand Bauer.	1975	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
165		The Temple of Flora by Robert John Thornton With commentary by Stephen Harris.	2008	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
39	RITSON, Joseph.	Annals of the Caledonians, Picts, and Scots; and of Strathclyde, Cumberland, and Galloway, and Murray.	1828	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 603.25

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$<b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2:</b> Newton (Sir Isaac). <i>Opticks : or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light.</i> €3,000 to €4,000.$

Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: The Corner-stone Document of Irish Freedom: 1916 PROCLAMATION OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC. €100,000 to €150,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Important 18th Century Gaelic Scribal Manuscript. Ceating (Dochtuir) [Keating, Dr. Geoffrey]. Forus Feasa ar Éirinn. €15,000 to €20,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Rare Irish Provincial Printed 18th Century Herbal. K'eogh (John). Botanalogia Universalis Hibernica, or, A General Irish Herbal, Calculated for this Kingdom… €1,500 to €2,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Somerville (E.OE.) The Discontented Little Elephant. Inscribed presentation copy. €700 to €1,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Broadside: “Great News from Dublin, Giving a True Account of the Seizing of a Ship coming from Ireland, with Fifty Commissions from the late King James…” €800 to €1,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Welch (Rbt.) Photographer: Six photographic prints of the Titanic. €800 to €1,200.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Rare Modern Irish Masterpiece. O’Brien (Flann). At Swim-Two-Birds. €3,000 to €4,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Newton (Sir Isaac). Opticks : or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. €3,000 to €4,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: [Natural History] Donovan (Edward). The Natural History of British Birds; or a Selection of the Most Rare, Beautiful and Interesting Birds which Inhabit this Country. €3,000 to €4,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: The Authors First Publication. Heaney (Seamus). Eleven Poems. €1,000 to €1,500.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Heaney (Seamus). Remembering Malibu. €3,500 to €5,000.
Sotheby’s
By a Lady
1-15 October 2025

Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. A long and intimate autograph letter signed ("JA"), to Cassandra Austen. $300,000 to $400,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. “Lines on Maria Beckford,” autograph manuscript signed ("Jane Austen"). $100,000 to $150,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: [Austen, Jane]. Emma, the extraordinary Edgeworth-Butler copy. $250,000 to $350,000.