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
203	Rumer Dodden	Folio Society x 4, incl. 1) The Greengage Summer			AUD 50.00 - 80.00	AUD 50.80
204	Leonie Young and others	A mixture of Hardbacks and Paperbacks for children, mainly related to Fairy Tales: Russian Fairy Tales			AUD 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
205	Zayde Antrim.	Mapping the Middle East		2018 First edition	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	AUD 63.50
206		A very good lot for Australiana. Including Australian History, Architecture and Art, Australian Outback, Poetry and Literature			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 203.20
207		The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) Volumes 1-10	Melbourne	1977	AUD 80.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
208	David Parryand others.	Five Cartography Reference books. 1) The Cartography of East Indian Islands. Insulae Indiae Orientalis.		2005	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 152.40
209	Jacques Nicolas Bellin	World map entitled: Essay d'une carte reduite, Contenant les parties connues du Globe Terrestre dedie a JM. le Comte de Maurepas		Likely 1770-1780	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 381.00
210	Tallis	Australia. Tallis.		1854	AUD 120.00 - 200.00	AUD 317.50
211	Benard Dir. Tooley	Carte de Ia Nle. Galles Meridle. ou de la Cote Orientale de la Nle. Hollande decouverte et visitee par le Lieutenant J. Cook		1774	AUD 300.00 - 450.00	AUD 228.60
212	Elizabeth Durack	West Winds			AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 50.80
213	John Cary, engraver	A new map of Asia, from the latest authorities		1806	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 177.80
214		Three modern reprints of Australian Maps. 1) Discoveries in Australia Arrowsmith		1834	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 76.20
215	Egon Klemp	Africa on Maps Dating from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century	Leipzig	1968	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 177.80
216	Mary Eagle annd others	A collection of books about Arthur Streeton. Incl.: 1) The Oil Paintings of Arthur Streeton in the National Gallery of Australia			AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 114.30
217		A collection of Playboy Magazines and one Penthouse (1980Feb) from 1968-1971		1968-1971	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 127.00
218	Marjorie Tipping.	Ludwig Becker. Artist and Naturalist with the Burke and Wills Expedition.		1979	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 139.70
219	Geroge Mackaness and others	Three books on William Bligh. 1) The Life of Vice-Admiral		1951 reprint	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 127.00
220	Alan Villiers	Five items relating to Captain James Cook. 1) Captain Cook		1967	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 50.80
221		Glossary of Gaelic and Norse Words in the Place -Names of Scotland	Edinburgh.	No date but Circa 1850	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
222		Port of Sydney with one map. Sydney Harbour Trust, Port of Sydney, New South Wales	Port of Sydney New South Wales	1913	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
223	Nicholas Culpeper, M.D	The Complete Herbal to Which is Now Added Upwards of One Hundred Additional Herbs ...		1850	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
224	Ethel Turner. Pictures by DH Souter	Gum Leaves: With Oddments by Others	Sydney	no date [1900]	AUD 350.00 - 400.00	AUD 508.00
225	Ida Rentoul Outhwaite and Greenbry Outhwaite	The Enchanted Forest	London	1921	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 2,667.00
226	Sylvia Plath	Winter Trees	London	1971	AUD 450.00 - 550.00	Not Sold
227	Joseph Sabin.	Bibliotheca Americana: a dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time in 15 Volumes	Amsterdam	1961	AUD 350.00 - 500.00	AUD 381.00

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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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