Author: admin

Friday 27th March

James Bond & Ian Fleming

The first auction is a collection of books which were made into movies including many RARE James Bond by Ian Fleming. The auction will be a LIVE AUCTION in the room and broadcast online starting at 10AM on Friday 27th.

The second auction contains movie posters, lobby cards and film stills. Including James Bond and Elvis Presley. It will be a TIMED AUCTION staring from 12PM midday.

LIVE AUCTION

This auction is a mix of hardboiled crime, psychological thrillers, horror and fantasy with many first editions in dustwrappers. Some are signed not only by the authors but also the directors, actresses and actors from the films. The private collector had special clamshell book boxes made for his favorites.

Amongst them were lots of James Bond & Ian Fleming including The Man with the Golden Gun with the RARE embossed golden gun blocked on the front cover. And Goldfinger SIGNED by the cast including Sean Connery. Signed by artists to James Bond Richard Chopping and Bill Botten.

Other books include: There is also Gresham’s Nightmare Alley; Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury Signed; Laura by Vera Caspary and My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier.

TIMED AUCTION

There are a good number of 007 James Bond posters and lobby cards mostly starring Roger Moore and a few with Sean Connery. There are lots of films starring Elvis Presley, but there are also  films starring Kirk Douglas, Clark Gable, Samantha Eggar, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Gene Wilder and more.

There are a number of movies that are based on books including: Agatha Christie’s Death of the Nile; Jules Verne’s Light at the Edge of the World; Doctor Dolittle; Ulysses;  Bill Naughton’s Alfie and more

The most striking are the matt colour daybills many printed in Sydney. Including: Robert Burton Pty Ltd, WE Smith Pty Ltd and Mailing and Print Services (MAPS Litho).

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

Friday 27th March

Book – Live auction 10am
Phone, absentee and online bidding

Poster Sale – Timed auction 12 midday
Online bidding on Invaluable or our website.

Viewing is encouraged & Questions welcomed
Before 3pm Sydney Time Thursday 26th March

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.

Art and book lovers will find irresistible items in this auction BUT there is something there for everyone from scientist to historians.  

Lot 4 James Cook Voyages

Lot 19 William Beach Scully Champion 1884

Lot 24 Signed Max Dupain

Lot 80 Kipling Nicholson Signed

Lot 231 George Braque

Lot 261 Gabriel Metsu Catalogue Raisonne

Lot 284 Jacopo Bellini Catalogue Raisonne

366

View of Australia Numerous lots in the catalogue

 

In the Art realm, we have monographs signed Max Dupain and Frank Hinder and other desirables like Georges Braque. There are numerous catalogue Raisonne – mostly of Renaissance artists with Jacopo Bellini and Gabriel Metsu.

We have a grandiose copy of James Cook’s three voyages illustrated with large plates and charts as well as other scientific publications on ornithology and botany.  

Additionally, we have classic books illustrated by artists like Arthur Rackham as well as, Rudyard Kipling’s Almanac of Twelve sports illustrated by William Nicolson – signed by Nicholson.

Furthermore, we have fabulous etchings including the 1851 Crystal Palace in London by Baxter, a portrait of Young Queen Victoria by Wagstaff. We also have a lovely interior of the Garden Palace interior and 1879 Sydney Exhibition award for Needlework! 

My favourite, by far, is an attractive colour image of the 1884 World Sculling Champion William Beach who beat the Canadian by a few strokes.

Paintings of note include “Patrick G” the 1908 Champion Horse and there is also a sweet portrait of Mother and Son from White Family who were involved in the Meadowbank Manufacturing Company.

If you like local history we have numerous views of Ballarat, to Blue Mountains – some I have never seen before.

It should be an enjoyable browse!

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

12noon Sunday 15th March
Timed Auction (online only)
Online bidding on Invaluable or our website.

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

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.