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Auction Name: Journey through time: Print and Bindings from the 15th to the 21st Century
Auction Date: 09/07/2025 - 09/07/2025
Sale Number: #90725
Total Lots: 409
Sold Lots: 228
Lots Sold: 55.75%
Unsold Lots: 181

Total Sales (AUD): 67,589.40
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD): 74,260.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD): 101,310.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD): 192,950.00
High Estimate of All Lots (AUD): 261,170.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 25.88%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	HUME, Fergus W.	The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.	[not dated but mid-1888].	AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	AUD 5,207.00
10	MEREDITH, Louisa Anne.	My Home in Tasmania; or, Nine Years in Australia by Mrs. Charles Meredith.	1853	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 3,302.00
17	ATHANASIUS.	Athanasii Episcopi Alexandrini Opera, studiosus quam antea fuerint, a situ vindicata, quorum catalogus sequitur.	1522	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 3,175.00
161	Geoffrey Chaucer.	Facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones. Essay by William S. Peterson.	2002	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 2,921.00
220		The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated into English.	1649	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 1,397.00
12	[NO AUTHOR].	A Visit to Australia and It's Gold Regions.	1853	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 1,397.00
30	MacFARLANE, Charles.	Constantinople in 1828. A residence of sixteen months in the Turkish capital and provinces.	1829	AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	AUD 1,270.00
43	VALENTIA, Jacob Perez de.	Doctissimae et plane divinae explanationes in centum & quinquaginta Psalmos Davidicos...	1581	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 1,270.00
90	HAYTER, Henry Heylen.	Illustrated Handbook of Victoria, together with the Official Catalogue of Exhibits in the Victorian Court.	1889-90.	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 1,143.00
92	EYRIES, J.B.B.	Recherches sur l'epoque veritable de la decouverte de la terre de Van Diemen du nord; part J.B.B. Eyries.	1814	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 1,143.00
91	COLLINS, Lieutenant-Colonel David.	An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales	1804	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 1,016.00
214		Gesta Dei per Francos, sive Orientalium expeditionum, et regni Francorum Hierosolimitani historia [Bound with] Liber secretorum fidelium crucisTerran Sanctam auctor Marinus Sanuto.		AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 952.50
373		1) Medieval Calendars by Perez-Higuera 2) The Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages by Humphries and Jones.		AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 825.50
341	by Anders Sparman.	A Voyage Round the World with Captain James Cook in H.M.S Resolution	1944	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
37	PENNANT, Thomas.	The View of Hindoostan.	1798	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
18	BOSWELL, James.	An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli.	1768	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
98	Eight scarce books on Wesleyan missionary endeavours in Australasia, New Zealand, and the Pacific ocean.	Also includes a few London Missionary Society books.	1831	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00	AUD 635.00
4	STEARN, William (editor). By William T. Stearn, introduction by Wilfred Blunt.	The Australian Flower Paintings of Ferdinand Bauer.	1975	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
165		The Temple of Flora by Robert John Thornton With commentary by Stephen Harris.	2008	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
39	RITSON, Joseph.	Annals of the Caledonians, Picts, and Scots; and of Strathclyde, Cumberland, and Galloway, and Murray.	1828	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 603.25

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