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
76		A Geographical Dictionary; or Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies: Their Physical and Political Geography, together with A Brief Notice of all the Capitals, Principal Towns and Villages; also of Rivers, Bays, Gulfs, Mountains, Population and General Stat	Sydney	1848	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
77		Notable South Australians or, Colonists - Past and Present by George E Loyau.	in Adelaide	1885	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
78		Official Record of the Proceedings and Debates of the Australasian Federation Conference, 1890, held in the Parliament House, Melbourne.	Melbourne	1890	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 317.50
79		History of the Founding of the Wool Industry of Australia.	Sydney	1913	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 101.60
80	Thomas Nicholas.	Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales		1875	AUD 400.00 - 600.00	AUD 254.00
81	1st Viscount of Strathallan, William Drummond.	The Genealogy of the Most Noble and ancient House of Drummond 1831	in Edinburgh	1831	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
82	JB Harley.	Christopher Greenwood: County Map Maker		1962	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
83	Glyn Carr [Pseudonym of Showell Styles].	Murder on the Matterhorn	London	1951	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 203.20
84		The Plague by Albert Camus. Translated by Stuart Gilbert.	in London	1957	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 285.75
85		2010 Odyssey Two by Arthur C Clarke.	London	1982	AUD 120.00 - 240.00	Not Sold
86		The Right to Answer by Anthony Burgess.	London	1960	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 50.80
87		The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson.		2009	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
88		The Funny Side of Golf with illustrations by Phil May and all the other regular Punch magazine illustrations .	England	1909	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
89		The Historical and topical review of Jamestown, Spalding and Caltowie and adjacent districts.			AUD 180.00 - 220.00	Not Sold
90		East Melbourne Cricket Club: Its History 1860-1910 Jubilee Year.			AUD 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
91		Three books on Western art and the Renaissance. 1) Rembrandt by Blankert, National Gallery of Victoria, 1998.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 114.30
92		Over 40 paperbacks. All crime fiction			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 38.10
93		A shelf of 25 modern crime fiction.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 139.70
94		The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicals edited by Sadie. In Twenty paperback volumes.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 114.30
95		The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.		1997	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 152.40
100		Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds: set of seven volumes in nine parts			AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 2,286.00
101		An album titled `Misaho' Kyoto, Yamada Naosaburo, Unsoda Meiji 41 (1908).			AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 381.00
102		An album titled `Tachibana' [citrus] Kyoto, for Akiba Gofukuten, Taisho period, c. 1918-20.		c.1918-20.	AUD 500.00 - 700.00	AUD 381.00
103		An album titled `Kangiku [Chinese Astor]	in Kyoto	1919	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 444.50
104	Rebecca A. T. Stevens.	The Kimono Inspiration: Art and Art-To-Wear in America		1996	AUD 60.00 - 100.00	AUD 63.50

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.