Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science, antiquarian, design and architecture & modern first editions , A138, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 02, 2025 - February 02, 2025
Page Size: 445 items in 18 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 MAITLAND, A, Gibb.

Geological Survey.

London 1908 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
2

1874 TO 1939 JOURNALS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NSW.

1874 to 1939 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
3

Three rare catalogues of meteorites, from North America, Britain and Australia...

1904 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
4 Archibald Geikie.

Text Book of Geology.

1882 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
5

1859 MAP OF DANDENONG GOLD FIELD IN VICTORIA.

1859 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 444.50
6

Report of the Royal Commission, appointed to enquire into the best method of removing the sludge from the Gold Fields...

1859 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
7

Report Together with Minutes of Evidence, Relating to the Proposed Harbour Improvements, Nambucca River.

27 September, 1904 AUD 120.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
8

Report Together with Minutes of Evidence, Relating to the Proposed Tramway from Wallsend to West Wallsend.

27 September, 1904 AUD 120.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
9

Five issues of the Melbourne Argus from September 1858.

1858 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 203.20
10 Idriess, Ion L. Hoodoo.

Med en modern forsknings- och guldgravarexpedition till inre Centralaustralien.

Lund 1934 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
11

A lovely collection of ten separately issued offprints from the journal of the Royal Society of New South Wales...

1877 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
12 John Tebbutt.

Two early Australian astronomy publications, both are octavo pamphlets and offprints from journal of the Royal Society of New South Wales...

1886 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
13 P. S. Hossfeld.

Three scarce publications arising from the Aerial, Geological and Geophysical Survey of Northern Australia during the thirties...

1937 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
14

Three superb maps of the Broken Hill silver mining region.

1894 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
15

Antiquarian books and maps on the geology and mining prospects of Canada...

1877 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
16

Large chromolithographic map of the NSW groundwater reservoirs titled "Map Shewing Geological Survey of Artesian Intake Beds N.S.W. Survey made under the direction of E.F. Pittman Esq., Government Geologist, 1905-1910.

Sydney 1910 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
17

Memoir of Leonard Horner: Consisting of Letters to his Family and from Some of his Friends edited by his daughter Katharine M Lyell.

London 1890 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 203.20
18

A lovely collection of the Presidential addresses delivered to the Royal Society of NSW.

1897 to 1950 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
19

Fifteen volumes of Philadelphia Franklin Institute Scientific Addresses, all from 1924, and separately issued in the original printed wrappers.

1924 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
20 DARWIN, Charles.

Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle'.

London 1876 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 698.50
21

Three Annual Reports from the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, for the years 1911, 1913 and 1932.

1911, 1913 and 1932 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
22

Six books on microscopy, especially geological microscopy...

1904 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
23 CARNE, J.E.

The Copper-Mining Industry and the Distribution of Copper Ores in New South Wales.

Sydney 1899 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 285.75
24 LY-TIO-FANE, Madeleine.

Pierre Sonnerat 1748-1814. An account of his life and work.

Mauritius 1976 AUD 75.00 - 100.00 AUD 412.75
25

1871 ANTIQUARIAN SCIENCE BOOKS INCLUDING HERSCHEL'S ASTRONOMY...

1871 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Johnson (C.). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, 1724. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: North America. Merian (Matthaus), Virginia..., 1627 or later. £1,500-2,500
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: World. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Nova Totius Orbis, Vienne: 1541. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Erasmus (Desiderius). The ... paraphrase of Erasmus... 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1549. £3,000-5,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Bible [English]. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament, 1562]. £3,000-5,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Smith (Lucy). Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, 1st edition, 1853. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Derain (Andre). Pantagruel, signed limited edition, Albert Skira, 1943. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Large Paper edition, 1894. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ellison (Ralph). Invisible Man, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1952. £200-300
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Taschen Collector's Edition. Annie Leibovitz, limited edition, 2014. £1,000-1,500
  • Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Sotheby's
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    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Bonhams, Apr. 8: First report outside of the colonies of the American Revolution, from American accounts. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, May 30, 1775. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce, James. The earliest typescript pages from Finnegans Wake ever to appear at auction, annotated by Joyce, 1923. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce's Ulysses, 1923, one of only seven copies known, printed to replace copies destroyed in customs. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY, INSCRIBED. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 1667. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi, 1713. "... first significant book on probability theory." $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Aristotle's Politica. Oeconomica. 1469. The first printed work on political economy. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: John Graunt's Natural and political observations...., 1662. The first printed work of epidemiology and demographics. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: William Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786. The first work to pictorially represent information in graphics. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Anson's A Voyage Round the World, 1748. THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY, BOUND BY JOHN BRINDLEY. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: La Perouse's Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde..., 1797. LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Untrimmed publisher's proof sheets. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Charles Schulz original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, 1992, pen and ink over pencil, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy as a psychiatrist. $20,000 - $30,000
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