Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Journey through time: Print and Bindings from the 15th to the 21st Century, 90725, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 07, 2025 - September 07, 2025
Page Size: 409 items in 17 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
354

Paris Enchanted Photographs By Izis Bidermanas with Autograph Texts by Contemporary French Writers.

1951 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
355

The Autobiography of a Book by Gilbert Fabes.

1926 1st Ed. AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
356

A Naturalis In Cannibal Land by A.S. Meek.

1913 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 101.60
357

A Voyage To New Guinea and The Moluccas 1774-1776 With An Introduction by D.K. Bassett.

1969 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
358 by A.H.S. Lucas.

1) The Animals of Australia. mammals, Reptiles and Amphibians

1909 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
359

Six Folio Society Books. 1) The Age of Scandal by T.H. White 1993 2) The Cream of Noel Coward 1996

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
360 by C.T. Courtney Lewis,.

1) The Story of Picture Printing in England during the Nineteenth Century or Forty Years of Wood and Stone

No date c1928. AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
361

Australian Colonial History A shelf of 20 very good books on Australian Colonial history. From Agriculture to Exploration and Settlement.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 215.90
362

Navigation and Exploration in the Pacific A shelf of 19 books. 1) The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner by Tim Flannery

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
363

Waterloo Creek. The Australia Day massacre of 1838, George Gipps and the British conquest of New South Wales by Roger Millis.

Melbourne 1992 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
364

Australian History published between 1897-1936 Ten cloth bindings in very good condition.

1897-1936 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
365 by Stephen Dando-Collins

Sir Henry Parkes : The Australian Colossus

2013 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
366

Three Australian Printing and Publishing 1) Engraving and Lithography in Melbourne to the time f the Gold Rush Darragh 2) Small Press Publishing in Australia the early 1970s by Michael Denholm.

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
367

A bundle of books on Paris. 1) Paris: City of Light 1919-1939 Cronin 2) Paris 1900-1914 The Miraculous Years ...

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
368

A collection of Natural History and Art books.

AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
369

A fabulous collection of Atlases, Globes and Maps reference and history books.

AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 152.40
370

A Collection of Art books mostly around the time of the Renaissance in Europe.

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
371

Women in Australia A little box set with 1) The Women of Meroogal Ramsay 2) Sarah Wentworth - Mistress of Vaucluse Liston ...

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 101.60
372

Audrey Hepburn Photographs 1953-1966 by Bob Willoughby.

2012 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 317.50
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
374

An excellent two selves of Australiana. Mostly Australian history.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
375

A facsimile of The Wallabadah Manuscript Recollections of the Early Days. The Early History of the Northern Districts of New South Wales by William Telfer.

Sydney 1980 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 152.40
376

Four books on Sydney. 1) Picture of Sydney Maclehose 2) The Sydney Traders : Simeon Lord and his Contemporaries Hainsworth ...

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
377

Australia in World War One Five hardcovers 1) The Australian People and the Great War by McKernan 2) Damn the Dardanelles : Story of Gallipoli Laffin

AUD 120.00 - 180.00 AUD 76.20
378

Two Biographies of Doctors 1) Jospeh Lister: Father of Modern Surgery by Rhonda Truax 2) Doctor Jenner Berkley by Dorothy Fisk

AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 101.60
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.