Sydney Rare Book Auctions: March Musings: Books and Maps, 32124, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 21, 2024 - March 21, 2024

Page Size: 234 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
153	Baptista Boazio	A reproduction of one of the most important early map of Ireland	Antwerp	1599	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
154		An Exact Trigonometrical Survey of the British Channel from the North Foreland to Scilly Islands ...	London	no date Circa 1770	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
155		A selection of 5 maps all reproductions of maps and posters. London, Nairobi, Annalemma...		20th C	AUD 50.00 - 80.00	AUD 12.70
156		A graphically beautiful visualisation comparing mountains from all around the world		circa1833	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
157		Eastern half of a large coloured lithograph world map		around1900	AUD 80.00 - 150.00	AUD 38.10
158	Ronald Verve Tooley, editor	The Map Collector 1981-1994		1981-1994	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 101.60
159		Mercator's World: The Magazine of Maps, Atlases, Globes and Charts. 57 Magazines		1996-2003	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 101.60
160		Rocque's map of Surrey. Originally published in 1762		1931copy	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 19.05
161		A selection of facsimile maps mostly England from the 19th Century		19th Century	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 38.10
162		Four views of Germany and Austria from the 19th century		19th century	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
163		The Southern Cross Catalogue 1935		1935	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 127.00
164		All-India Railway Time-Table in Force From 1st April, 1955..		1955	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	AUD 38.10
165	Map of China	Coloured Map of the People's Republic of China	Beijing	1985	AUD 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
166	Emanuel Swedenborg	The Motion & Position of The Earth & Planets ....	London	1915	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 152.40
167	Walter Macfarlane	Laboratory Notes on Iron and Steel Analyses		1909	AUD 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
168		WW2 Navy incl. 1) Midway The Battle That Doomed Japan (5)			AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 38.10
169	Jean Adhemar and Francoise Cachin	Degas: The Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes.	London	1986	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 165.10
170		10 Folio Society book in slipcase in good condition. Includes: 1) Nostromo by Conrad			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
171	Winston Churchill	The Great War			AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 88.90
172	Muriel Spark	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie		1961	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 165.10
173		Thomas Hardy Box Set.		1992	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
174	AJP Taylor.	A Century of Conflict 1848-1948		1998	AUD 120.00 - 220.00	AUD 139.70
175	RP Hymers and Leonard Sharpe.	The Technique and Practice of Advertising Art		1939	AUD 50.00 - 80.00	AUD 50.80
176		Four Australian Art books, incl. 1) Leslie Wilkinson 2) Lloyd Rees: An Artist Remembers			AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 114.30
177	Elwyn Lynn	Judy Cassab: Places, Faces and Fantasies			AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 114.30

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Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD

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Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Closing Time, Advance Readers Copy of Uncorrected Proof with a letter from Heller on his personal stationary

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Gates, Bill, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, N Y: Knopf, 2021; first edition, with a handwritten note from Bill Gates

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Catch-22, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961, first edition, first printing, first issue dust jacket, inscribed on the front end paper by Heller

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Something Happened, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974, first edition, inscribed on the front end paper by Heller

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Austen, Jane, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, London: John Murray, 1818, in four volumes
Manuscript Masterpieces from the Schøyen Collection
London auction, 11 June
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Christie’s, Explore now: The Holkham Hebrew Bible. In Hebrew, decorated manuscript on vellum [Toledo, 2nd quarter 13th century]. £1,500,000–3,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The Crosby-Schøyen Codex. In Coptic, manuscript on papyrus [Upper Egypt, middle 3rd century / 4th century]. £2,000,000–3,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The Geraardsbergen Bible. In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Southern Netherlands, late 12th century]. £700,000–1,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now : Jean de Courcy (fl. 1420). The Chronique de la Bouquechardiere. In French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1480]. £200,000–300,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The ‘Catherine de Medici’ Hours. In Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1485]. £120,000–180,000
Freeman’s | Hindman, June 6: MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN THE BAL FIRST BINDING. $12,000 - $18,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 6: PUZO, Mario (1920-1999). The Godfather. FIRST EDITION, PROOF COPY in wrappers. SIGNED BY PUZO. $3,000 - $5,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 7: HUGHES, Langston. Scottsboro Limited. 1932. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. INSCRIBED BY HUGHES TO NOEL SULLIVAN. $6,000 - $8,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 7: HOMANN, Johann Baptist, HOMANN HEIRS, and Georg Matthäus SEUTTER. [Composite Atlas]. [maps dated between 1728-1765]. $30,000 - $40,000.

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