***LIVE AUCTION*** Friday 1^st of May at 12 noon

This auction has something for everyone from science to art and first editions.
The auction will be a LIVE AUCTION in the room and broadcast online starting at 12 NOON on Friday 1st of May and we have goodies for everyone.

• Lot 1 - Winnie the Pooh First Editon

• Lot 2 - 1789 Francis Grose Land Grant

Lot 3 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Illustrated by Edmund Dulac 1909

Account of Pelew Islands Lot 12

• Lot 19 First Hemmingway

Pompei by Gusman 1899 illus. Rudnicki - Art Nouveau Style

Lot 163 - 1799 Insects Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm

182 Western Australia Survey Maps and Sections 1916 - Ore & Gold

 

Highlights included
• Lot 2 – 1789 Francis Grose Land Grant
• Lot 104 – Kingfishers and other related birds
• Lot 103 – Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds Full Set
• Lot 1 – Winnie the Pooh First Editon
• Lot 182 – Western Australia Survey Maps and Sections 1916 – Ore & Gold

Science books
1) Mining books from geological surveys to chemical analysis. Gold, Coal, Ore, Diamonds, Potash, Copper, Opals Lot 178 Mining of Gold, Silver, Opals & Diamonds NSW 1901
2) Expeditions and Surveys – Hakluyt society, Ludwig Leichhardt 1789
Account of Pelew Islands Lot 12
3) Natural history from microorganism and insects to birds.
4) Lot 146 Eucalypts

Other items of note
• Lot 19 First Hemmingway
• Lot 163 Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm
• Lot 24 – Fairies and gnomes Peg Maltby

Renaissance, Baroque, Special private collections and Catalogue Raisonne including: Lot 72 – 1984 Guido Reni Catalogue Raisonné

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

Friday 1st May

LIVE auction 12 midday

In person, phone binding, online bidding on Invaluable or our website, and Absentee bids

This auction we have a wonderful collection of illustrated books, gift books and fine publisher bindings. Many books are from an exciting period of printing innovation from 1850s until 1920s.  

This ability to produce fine prints from woodcuts, engravings and chromolithography saw the ability to profusely and more cheaply illustrate books.  This auction has many magical, whimsical and romantic books illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Edward Julius Detmold and Kay Nielson, George Cruikshank, The Brother Dalziel and many other talented artists and engravers. This boom in book illustration and printing is often referred to as the Golden Age of illustration.  

The publisher would bind these books beautifully with elaborately embellishments making them suitable as gift books. Some of these bindings show the markers marks, sometimes hidden in the decorative motifs, stamped in gold along the dentelles or even with little book binder labels. Designers included: Marcus Ward, John Leighton, Hugh Thomson, Bertha Stuart, Margaret Armstrong, Hayday, Hetzel and more.  

Signed Cressida Campbell, an original drawing by Donald Friend as well as a good and interesting collection of Indian history and other Australiana.

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

Sunday 19th April
Timed auction 12 midday
Online bidding on Invaluable or our website.

Viewing is encouraged & Questions welcomed
Before 3pm Sydney Time Friday 17th April

Where: Dalgety Square
C11/372-428 Wattle Street, Ultimo.
(Corner of MacArthur with the entrance on Wattle Street.)
We are opened between 10am and 5pm week days.