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Auction Name: Books and Art
Auction Date: 02/21/2026 - 02/21/2026
Sale Number: #22126
Total Lots: 381
Sold Lots: 354.0
Lots Sold: 92.91%
Unsold Lots: 27

Total Sales (AUD): 109,214.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD): 39,120.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD): 65,180.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD): 43,330.00
High Estimate of All Lots (AUD): 71,970.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 151.75%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
49		[LITERATURE] L. Ron Hubbard: Final Blackout Signed First Edition	1948	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 5,612.00
57		[LITERATURE] Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men First Edition	1937	AUD 1,200.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 5,124.00
145		[AUSTRALIA] Hawkesworth: Cook's First Voyage 1773	1773	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 3,660.00
47		[LITERATURE] Isaac Asimov: Foundation First Edition B Variant	1951	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 2,928.00
50		[LITERATURE] The Hobbit First Edition, Fourth Impression	1946	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 2,684.00
22		Sir Redmond Barry's copy of The Works of Edmund Burke	1792 & 1802	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 2,440.00
131		[AUSTRALIA] The Disappointment: or the Girl Taken from the Blacks	1875	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 2,440.00
91		Sven Hedin: History of the Expedition in Asia		AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 2,196.00
151		[AUSTRALIA] Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay 1789 First Edition	1789	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 2,196.00
98		Wallace: Narrative of Travels on the Amazon 1853 First Edition	1853	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	AUD 1,952.00
141		[AUSTRALIA] Collins First Edition: An Account of the English Colony of New South Wales 1798-1802	1798-1802.	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 1,952.00
54		[LITERATURE] Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea First Edition	1952	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 1,586.00
212		An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress &c., of the Natives of the Pacific Islands	1898	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	AUD 1,586.00
104		Cook's Second Voyage, Dublin Edition 1776	1776	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 1,464.00
230		[AUSTRALIAN ART] Signed Albert Namatjira	1948	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 1,342.00
110A		Birds of Paradise Folio Society	2011	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 1,220.00
247		Patterson: The Man-Eaters of Tsavo	1907	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 1,159.00
136		[AUSTRALIA] Barrington: The History of New South Wales [WITH] An Account of a Voyage 1802-3	1802	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 1,098.00
63		[LITERATURE] The Little Prince First US Edition	1943	AUD 400.00 - 600.00	AUD 1,037.00
53		[LITERATURE] Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms First Edition	1929	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 1,037.00

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