On Sunday the 15th of November we have two auctions in one day.

At 10AM we have the Gary Gorton Crime Fiction – The Dustwrappers Collection
At 12 NOON we have All and Sundry- books, manuscripts, documents, artworks

Gary Gorton Crime Fiction Collection – The Dustwrappers A209

12 Noon, Sunday 15th 2026

Amongst Gary’s collection of first edition crime fiction books we found a stash of dustwrappers. They are all beautiful. A portion look like they could be publisher file copies, though we can’t be sure. The condition is very good but please see images for further details.

Gary Gorton lived most of his adult life in Asia. For fun he collected any book listed in Hubin’s Crime Fiction: A Comprehensive Bibliography. The books he collected had to be first editions in dustwrapper and in very good condition.

Catalogue https://connect.invaluable.com/sydneybook/

All and Sundry- books, manuscripts, documents, artworks A210

12 Noon, Sunday 15th 2026

This auction is a miscellaneous jumble of treasures.

Handwritten manuscripts, colonial documents, original drawings, sketches, and paintings, posters, maps and prints, books for science fiction and crime lovers and international and local books on fine arts, decorative arts, architecture and design. 

Highlights:

• 1855 Van Dieman’s Land Hobart Town signed by Governor HRF Young. The last Governor before the colony transitioned into self-governance and was officially renamed Tasmania.(Lot 34)
• The original handwritten manuscript for The Great Boomerang (Lot 11)
• 1886 John Sand’s New Atlas of Australia (Lot 298)
• Moscow Olympic Posters designed and printed by Andre Jatlick pseudonym of graphic artists Andrzej Marek Dziatlik. (Lot 5)
• Print after Robert Gallon From the Temple to Waterloo (Lot 10)
• An ink drawing attributed to Remigio Cantagallina (Lot 6) Above
• Norman Lindsay, Blamire Young, Angry Penguins..
• Fra Angelico, Titian, Perugino..
• Agatha Christie, Joseph Heller, Hemmingway (all firsts)

Catalogue https://connect.invaluable.com/sydneybook/

10AM – GG Dustwrappers
12NOON – All and Sundry

Sunday 15th November
Both timed auction and online only

Viewing is encouraged & Questions welcomed
Before 3pm Sydney Time Friday 13th  November

Where: Dalgety Square,C11/372-428 Wattle Street, Ultimo.
(Corner of MacArthur with the entrance on Wattle Street.)
We are opened between 10am and 4pm week days.

Reflecting on a day of cataloguing, I felt like I had gone backwards through time and been around the world. There are items in this week’s auction which mark both moments of evolution and revolution.

Let’s start in c8th Egypt with Coptic Manuscript Fragment with Archangel Epiphany (Lot 39). Next Europe, where we see a greater dissemination of knowledge through illuminated manuscripts.

This small leaf (Lot 37) with almost miniature text comes from a c1250 illuminated pocket Bible – small enough to travel the world. This c1470 Flemish leaf from a Book of Hours  (Lot 38) shows the use of illustration to communicate.  

Goldsmith Nuremberg saw moveable type and the printing press as a logical next step in producing books. Here is an example of 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle Incunable leaf (Lot 36). With the printed book comes a more educated population.

With economic hardship, political repression and the overall perception of injustice comes Revolution. This rare American Revolutionary‑era commemorative oration in response to the Boston Massacre (Lot 40) In 1768, the British government sent troops to Boston to enforce unpopular imperial tax. This moment one the catalysts for the American Revolution.  

With the rise of Greek Nationalism and the enlightenment Greek War of Independence end nearly 400 years of Ottoman rule. James Emerson Tennent (1804-1869) was a British philhellene (lover of Greece) who  volunteered in the Greek War of Independence. See his book and love of the Aegean ( Lot 20 – First US edition)

The French Revolution was a response to social inequality, famine and as France went into debt by funding the American Revolutionary. Lot 16 looks at both the Trial of Marie Antoinett in 1793 and causes of the French revolution.     

We have many other great items in this auction, which were novel in their time. Check out Outhwaite’s Enchanted First (Lot 1); or 1st ed Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay (Lot 286); Mount Everest signed by Edmund Hillary (Lot 340); The Chook Book by Wright and illustrated by Ludlow (Lot 8); or the First Edition Selfish Gene(Lot 12).

Catalogue https://connect.invaluable.com/sydneybook/

12 midday Sunday 8th November
Timed auction – Online only

Viewing is encouraged & Questions welcomed
Before 3pm Sydney Time Friday 6th  November

Where: Dalgety Square
C11/372-428 Wattle Street, Ultimo.
(Corner of MacArthur with the entrance on Wattle Street.)

We are opened between 10am and 4pm week days.