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Auction Name
Travels, Australiana, Literature & Art
Auction Date
12/08/2025 - 12/08/2025
Sale Number
#116
Total Lots
63
Sold Lots
54.0
Lots Sold
85.71%
Unsold Lots
9
Total Sales (AUD)
74,841.10
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
32,980.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
53,580.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
46,220.00
High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
75,020.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
99.76%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
34 DARONDEAU, Benoit

VAILLANT. A SUITE OF EIGHT ORIGINAL PEN AND SEPIA WASH DRAWINGS from Vaillant's 1836-7 circumnavigation in the Corvette La Bonite

 1836-7 AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 22,860.00
7 COLLINS, David

AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY IN NEW SOUTH WALES

 1798-1802 AUD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 5,080.00
26 PHILLIP, Captain Arthur, Governor

THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO BOTANY BAY

 1789 AUD 2,000.00 - 2,800.00 AUD 3,810.00
20 MACQUARIE

GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND, Parliament. REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

 10 July 1812 AUD 1,200.00 - 2,200.00 AUD 3,556.00
21 MACQUARIE, Major-General Lachlan, Governor

PAPERS RELATING TO HIS MAJESTY'S SETTLEMENTS AT NEW SOUTH WALES

 11 June 1816 AUD 800.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 2,794.00
19 MACQUARIE, Major-General Lachlan, Governor

ORIGINAL LAND GRANT to Thomas Allan Lascelles, of 800 acres in the District of Sussex, bounded to the north by the Iron Creek Stream

 8 October, 1816 AUD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 2,794.00
50 LINDSAY, Norman

PAINTINGS IN OIL: with essays by Douglas Stewart and Norman Lindsay

 [1945] AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 2,413.00
14 HUNTER, Captain John, Governor

AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS AT PORT JACKSON AND NORFOLK ISLAND

 1793 AUD 1,800.00 - 2,600.00 AUD 2,286.00
35 WINNECKE, Charles

JOURNAL, ETC., OF THE HORN SCIENTIFIC EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA

 1896 AUD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,905.00
23 BIGGE, John Thomas

MACQUARIE. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INQUIRY INTO THE STATE OF THE COLONY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 19 June 1822 AUD 500.00 - 800.00 AUD 1,778.00
9 DUTTON, Henry Hampden

ACROSS AUSTRALIA BY MOTOR

 [1909] AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 1,651.00
47 FRIEND, Donald

BUMBOOZIANA. Sundry notes and papers: being the recently discovered notes and documents of the Natural & Instinctive Bestiality Research Expedition

 1979 AUD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,651.00
37 WHYTE, Duncan

SKETCH OF EXPLORATIONS by the late John M'Kinlay in the Interior of Australia, 1861-2

 1881 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 AUD 1,524.00
22 MACQUARIE

GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND, Parliament. REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE STATE OF GAOLS, &C.

 12 July, 1819 AUD 600.00 - 900.00 AUD 1,270.00
24 BIGGE, John Thomas

MACQUARIE. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INQUIRY INTO THE STATE OF AGRICULTURE AND TRADE [and] REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INQUIRY into the Judicial Establishments of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land

 21 February 1823 and 13 March 1823 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 1,270.00
38 PHILIPP, Franz

BOYD, Arthur. ARTHUR BOYD

 1967 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 1,016.00
1 ARTHUR, Colonel George, Lieutenant-Governor, and MURRAY, Robert Lathrop

ORIGINAL LAND GRANT TO ROBERT LATHROP MURRAY

 29 August, 1836 AUD 500.00 - 700.00 AUD 952.50
3 BANKS, Sir Joseph

JOURNAL OF THE RIGHT HON. SIR JOSEPH BANKS...

 1896 AUD 500.00 - 800.00 AUD 889.00
55 LINDSAY, Norman

BLOOMFIELD, Lin. NORMAN LINDSAY WATERCOLOURS 1897-1969

 2003 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 825.50
8 CURREY, JOHN

DAVID COLLINS. GENERAL ORDERS

 October 16 1803 - January 27 1804 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 AUD 762.00
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