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
51	BRETON de la MARTINIERE (Jean Baptiste Joseph).	China: its Costume, Arts, Manufacturers, &c. edited principally from the originals in the Cabinet of the late M. Bertin: with Observations Explanatory, Historical, and Literary, by M. Breton.	London	1813	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 1,270.00
52	PACCARD, Andre.	Traditional Islamic Craft in Moroccan Architecture. Translated from the French by Mary Guggenheim.	Saint-Jorioz	1980	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
53	Charles Dickens.	Master Humphrey's Clock by Charles Dickens. With illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne.	in London	1840-41.	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
54		The Sydney Herald for Monday, June 17, 1833 .		1833	AUD 750.00 - 800.00	AUD 476.25
55		The Sydney Herald dated Monday February 10, 1834.		1834	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
56		1820 Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. Volume The Eighteenth Saturday October 21, 1820.		1820	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 889.00
57		1) The Sydney Herald Thursday April 17 1834 2) The Sydney Herald Monday June 11. 1838 3) The Sydney Herald Monday July 6. 1840...			AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
58	HUME, David.	The History of England, From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to The Revolution in 1688.	Dublin	1775	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 285.75
59	DUNCAN, James.	Four books on Entomology, from the Naturalist's Library edited by William Jardine.	Edinburgh	1852	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 762.00
60		BREE, Charles R. A History of the Birds of Europe, not Observed in the British Isles.			AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 1,143.00
61	Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte.	The Works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte.	London	1893	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 603.25
62	HOCKING, Jenny.	Gough Whitlam. Two volume set comprising 'His Time' and 'A Moment in History'.	Melbourne	2014	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
63	HARDENBURG, W.E.	The Putumayo. The Devil's Paradise. Travels in the Peruvian Amazon region and an account of the atrocities committed upon the Indians therein.	London	1912	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 412.75
64		Manuscript Quran, comprising several hundred leaves on tan coloured wove paper.		Not dated but probably mid-twentieth century;	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
65		A shelf of cricket books, including James Lillywhites Annuals for 1900 and 1897; ...			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 476.25
66		Four miniature books including Tolstoy's Ivan Ilych (2003); Aboriginal words of Australia (1966); Maori-English Dictionary (1960); and Blinky bill (1992).			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
67		The Quest and Occupation of Tahiti by Emissaries of Spain during the Years 1772-1776.	London	1918	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
68		Photograph Album created by the London Missionary Society of Tonga, Samoa and surrounds. Entitled: Nieue Centennial 1846-1946 Barotonga. Samoa. Landscape album.			AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 952.50
69		The Voyage of Captain Don Felipe Gonzalez in the Ship of the Line San Lorenzo, With the Frigate Santa Rosalia in Company Easter Island in 1770-1		1908	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 203.20
70		The Journal of William Lockerby, Sandalwood Trader in the Fijian Islands During the Years 1808 - 1809:		1925	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
71		Spanish Navigation x3			AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 203.20
72	Ma Huan.	Ying-yai sheng-lan: The overall survey of the ocean's shores [1433]		1970	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 177.80
73	Jack F Williams.	China in Maps 1890 - 1960: A selected and annotated Cartobibliography		1974	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
74	Thomas Suarez	Early Mapping by Thomas Suarez South East Asia and the Pacific.			AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 88.90
75	Mary Sponberg Pedley.	Bel et Utile. The Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers		1992	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00

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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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.