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Auction Name: Incunabula to modern times: Science, History, Religion, Literature LIVE
Auction Date: 04/11/2025 - 04/11/2025
Sale Number: #144
Total Lots: 196
Sold Lots: 113
Lots Sold: 57.65%
Unsold Lots: 83

Total Sales (AUD): 60,039.20
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD): 66,290.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD): 88,805.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD): 183,810.00
High Estimate of All Lots (AUD): 244,365.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 24.57%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
36	DARWIN, Charles.	On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.	1860	AUD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	AUD 9,525.00
24	Milton, John	Art of Logic	1672	AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	AUD 5,080.00
44	TURNER, Ethel.	Seven Little Australians.	1894	AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	AUD 3,810.00
18	John Douglas,	Milton vindicated from the charge of plagiarism brought against him by Mr. Lauder, and Lauder himself convicted of several forgeries and gross impositions on the public.	1751	AUD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	AUD 3,429.00
139	SPENCER, Baldwin (editor-in-chief).	Report on the Work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia.	1896	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 2,921.00
114	Archeta Domestica [Miss L. M. Budgen]	Episodes of Insect Life	1849	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 2,540.00
169		Preliminary Chart of Japan. Nipon, Kiusiu and Sikok and Part of the Korea.	1863 and 1864	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 2,286.00
99	George Barrington	An Account of A Voyage To New South Wales by George Barrington.	1803	AUD 500.00 - 800.00	AUD 1,397.00
101		ATTESTED COPY SURRY HILLS LAND GRANT 1794	1794	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 1,397.00
98	George Barrington	The History of New South Wales including Botany Bay, Port Jackson, Parramatta, Sydney and all its	1802	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 1,079.50
21	Milton, John	The History of Britain, the part especially now call'd England	1670	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 1,016.00
45	[AESCHINES & DEMOSTHENES].	Due orationi, l'una di Eschine contra di Tesifonte, l'altra di Demosthene a sua difesa.	1554	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 1,016.00
27	Homer, Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq.	The Odyssey	1766	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 1,016.00
10	[HAL GYE]	Two original studies for The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke by C. J. Dennis.		AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 1,016.00
167	Commander WB Selby	India. West Coast. Bombay Harbour. Map by Commander WB Selby with additions by Lt R Cogan and Mr G Peters,	1825-1855	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 952.50
5		Six early colonial "Acts and Ordinances" printed by Robert Howe and Ralph Mansfield.	1830	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 889.00
100	Alex Blombery, Betty Maloney	Proteaceae of the Sydney Region by Blombery and Maloney.	1981	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 825.50
147	Louisa Lawson	The Lonely Crossing and Other Poems by Louisa Lawson.	no date but 1905	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 825.50
2	SPEED, John.	The Historie of Great Britaine under the conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans.	1632	AUD 700.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 762.00
6	Gaius Petronius; LINDSAY, Norman.	The Complete Works of Gaius Petronius done into English by Jack Lindsay with One Hundred illustrations by Norman Lindsay.	1927	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 603.25

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