Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Folio Society, Idriess, Military, Antiquities, History, Maps etc, 50524, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 05, 2024 - May 05, 2024

Page Size: 192 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
151	John Alexander Ferguson.	FERGUSON BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AUSTRALIA	Canberra	1975	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
152		AUSTRALIANA			AUD 160.00 - 220.00	AUD 101.60
153		LINDSAY BIBLIOGRAPHY X2			AUD 80.00 - 100.00	AUD 101.60
154	John Cobley.	CONVICTS 1788-1792 COBLEY		1965	AUD 50.00 - 70.00	AUD 101.60
155	Maureen Walsh	MAY GIBBS		1985	AUD 60.00 - 80.00	AUD 63.50
156		AUSTRALIAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY			AUD 100.00 - 120.00	AUD 63.50
157	W. H Nicholls	ORCHIDS NICHOLLS AND RENTOUL		1969	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	AUD 101.60
158	Lieutenant Colonel Neil Smith .	AUSTRALIAN MILITARY HISTORY	Melb	1999	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
159		BRITISH BOY'S NEWSPAPER ANNUALS			AUD 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
160	Allan Gamble.	SYDNEY HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE		1979	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	AUD 88.90
161		LOCAL HISTORY			AUD 100.00 - 120.00	AUD 215.90
162		AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE - DUPAIN, GREENWAY ETC			AUD 100.00 - 120.00	AUD 101.60
163	Eric Blom.	GROVE'S DICTIONARY OF MUSIC		1975	AUD 50.00 - 80.00	AUD 38.10
164	Akita Hiroki, Hatanaka Akiyoshi, and Fujimori Takeshi.	SHIGARAKI JAPANESE CERAMICS		1999	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
165	Tim Heald.	FOLIO SOCIETY CRIME	London	2002	AUD 80.00 - 100.00	AUD 50.80
166	Kenneth Clark, Howard Hibbard	FOLIO SOCIETY MICHELANGELO. DA VINCI			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 114.30
167	Orlando Figes,	FOLIO SOCIETY RUSSIAN REVOLUTION		2013	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	AUD 139.70
168		ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOLIO			AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 317.50
169	Benito Mussolini.	WAR ABYSSINIA MUSSILINI	London	1937	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 101.60
170	Jacques Gernet.	CHINESE CIVILIZATION FOLIO SOCIETY		2002	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
171	Mrs. J F Bishop (Isabella L Bird).	FOLIO SOCIETY YANGTZE VALLEY	London	2018	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
172	J D Fage with Tordoff, William	AFRICA FOLIO SOCIETY	London	2008	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 127.00
173	John Gribbin	HISTORY SCIENCE FOLIO		2006	AUD 60.00 - 80.00	AUD 88.90
174	LEWIS CARROLL	ALICE LEWIS CARROLL FOLIO	London	1961 and 1962	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	AUD 88.90
175		THOMAS MANN			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90

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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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

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