Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Icons: Opera House, Idriess Manuscripts, Art and History, 40624, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 06, 2024 - April 06, 2024

Page Size: 338 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
76	R Etheridge	Queensland Department of Mines Geological Survey Bulletin No. 13 Additional Notes on the Palaeontology of Queensland (Part 2)	Brisbane	1901	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
77	Stephen Roberts.	Northern Territory Colonization Schemes	Adelaide	1926	AUD 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
78	F M Cutlack	War Letters of General Monash	Sydney	1934	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 50.80
79	Edgar Rice Burroughs.	Ten Tarzan titles		late 1920s	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 889.00
80		Seven Folio Society Books			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
81	George Orwell.	Animal Farm and 1984	Franklin Center PA USA	1978	AUD 130.00 - 150.00	AUD 254.00
82	George Orwell.	Another copy identical. Animal Farm and 1984	Franklin Center PA USA	1978	AUD 130.00 - 150.00	AUD 152.40
83	Thomas Smollett	The Works of Thomas Smollett in six fine cloth bound volumes: Peregrine Pickle, Humphry Clinker, Roderick Random, Sir Launcelot Greaves. Adventures of an Atom. Ferdinand Count Fathom			AUD 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
84		Five Billy in dustwrapper. Four first editions Plus 3 without dustwrappers. 1) Billy Bunter's Christmas Party 1949 2) Billy Bunter's Postal Order 1951 ...			AUD 450.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
85		1) The Solid Mandala 1966, 2) The Burnt Ones 1964 3) The Eye of The Storm 1973 4) The Living And The Dead 1962 (Reprint) 5) The Hanging Garden 2012			AUD 120.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
86		Pepys Diary 3 Volumes 1660 - 1669.		1996	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 127.00
87		1905 NSW Parliamentary Paper Statistical Information To The State of New South Wales, and Notes on its Iron Ore, Coal, And Limestone Deposits.		1905	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
88		Statistics of the Colony of Queensland 1869 Compiled From Official Records In The Registrar-General's Office .	Brisbane	1870	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
89	Roy Bridges	Three crime fiction titles	London	1928	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
90	John Wallace	2 titles: 1) The Sedan Murder Mystery	Melbourne	1938	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	AUD 139.70
91	June Wright	Four crime fiction titles: all set in Melbourne and first editions 1) So Bad A Death 1949.			AUD 80.00 - 100.00	AUD 63.50
92		Charlotte Jay. 1) A Hank of Hair London Heinemann 1964 1st Edition 2) Same title New York Harper 1964 1st US Edit 3) The Voice of the Crab New York Harper			AUD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
93		A bound volume of Books and Bookmen January 1970 to December 190.	London.		AUD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
94		My World on Wheels - The Posthumous Autobiography of Russell Mockridge Russell Mockridge	London	1960	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 203.20
95	Homer.	The Iliad and The Odyssey		2009	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 317.50
96	John Olsen, Mary Durack, Geoffrey Dutton, Vincent Serventy and Alex Bortignon,	The Land Beyond Time: A Modern Exploration of Australia's North West frontiers		1984	AUD 80.00 - 100.00	AUD 127.00
97	Max Angus,	A Salute To Watercolour	Hobart.	1996	AUD 80.00 - 100.00	AUD 63.50
98	George French Angas	The Wreck of the 'Admella' and other Poems	London	1874	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	AUD 114.30
99	J W Mills	Lays of Lake Wendouree 'Mind Your Locomotive' And Other Poems	Ballarat	1892	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 139.70
100		The Young Lady's Friend A Manual Of Practical Advice And Instruction To Young Females On Their Entering Upon The Duties of Life After Quitting School, by A Lady	London	1838	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold

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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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