Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Australian, Asia-Pacific, Science & 1st Editions & Signed Book, A162, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 14, 2025 - September 14, 2025

Page Size: 345 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
273		Four boxes of publications about Europe and the British Isles.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 63.50
274		Opera, Ballet, Theatre.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 38.10
275		A small collection of books on Decorative Arts, Antiques and Porcelain.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 63.50
276		A small bundle of mostly science related books(8). All in good condition. Includes:			AUD 150.00 - 180.00	AUD 38.10
277		A shelf of about 30 books on Collecting			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
278		Album International des Villes d'Eaux			AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 241.30
279		Two art books. Both quarto hardcovers in dustwrappers.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
280	Mrs R Lee.	The Australian Wanderers or the Adventures of Captain Spencer, his horse and dog	Philadelphia	1854	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 88.90
281		A little bundle of books. Australian Literature and Criticism. Includes:			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
282		Two NSW Histories.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
283		A collection of Ancient Greece and Rome and the Classics.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
284	WJ O'Neill.	Budgeree Bill: An Australian Story For Little Australians	in Sydney	1926	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 38.10
285		A little collection of May Gibbs books featuring:			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
286		A nice bundle of poetry		1880-1940.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
287		A little collection of Travel guides Europe and surrounds			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
288	Captain H Cayley-Webster.	Through New Guinea and the Cannibal Countries		1898	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
289		Jottings During the Cruise of HMS Curacoa Among the South Sea Islands in 1865 with Numerous Illustrations and Natural History Notices by Julius Brenchley.		1873	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 203.20
290	George Brown, D.D.	Pioneer-Missionary and Explorer - An Autobiography. A Narrative of Forty-Eight Years' Residence and Travel in Samoa, New Britian, New Ireland, New Guinea, and The Solomon Islands. With one Hundred and Eleven Illustrations and Map (fold-out colour map).	published by Hodder and Stoughton	1908	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 101.60
291	Captain AD Ellis.	The Story Of The Fifth Australian Division: Being an Authoritative Account of the Division's Doings in Egypt, France and Belgium	in London	no date circa 1920	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 127.00
292		Five Australian Cookery Books.			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 152.40
293		Plunkett's Australian Magistrate: Containing the course of practice in all preliminary investigations by Justices of The Peace, together with all the various forms appertaining Thereto by JH Plunkett. Sydney: J Moore 1859. Original brown cloth in very goo			AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 571.50
294	E H Ruddock.	Vitalogy An Encyclopedia of Health and Home Adapted For the Home, The Layman, the Family			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 381.00
295	Edited Frank C Johnson, Jack Lindsay & Kenneth Slessor.	Vision A Literary Quarterly. Nos 1-4. May 1923, August 1923, November 1923 and February 1924.		1923 and1924	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 412.75
296		History of Manon Lescaut and of the Chevalier Des Grieux by Abbe Prevost.	in London	1886	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 254.00
297	Charles Kingsford-Smith & Charles Ulm.	Story of "Southern Cross" Trans Pacific Flight 1928	in Sydney	1928	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50

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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.
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.