Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science and the Arts, 92825, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 28, 2025 - September 28, 2025

Page Size: 309 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	T E Lawrence	Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph	London	1937	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 381.00
2	Karl Baedeker.	Norwegen, Danemark, Island, Spitzbergen: Handbuch fur Reisende	Leipzig	1931	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
3	Karl Baedeker.	Eastern Alps including the Bavarian Highlands, Tyrol, Salzburg, Upper and Lower Austria, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola.		1907	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
4	Karl Baedeker.	Northern Germany As Far As The Bavarian And Austrian Frontiers Handbook For Travellers	Leipzig	1904	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
5	Karl Baedeker.	Italy From The Alps To Naples Handbook For Travellers.	Leipzig	1909	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
6	Karl Baedeker.	Norway, Sweden, and Denmark Handbook for Travellers	Leipsic	1903	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 38.10
7	Karl Baedeker.	Belgium and Holland, including the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg: Handbook for Travellers		1910	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
8	LINDSAY, Norman (introduction).	Twenty-Four reproductions in colour from original oil paintings.	Sydney	1939	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 215.90
9	YEATS, William Butler.	Autobiographies. Reveries over Childhood and Youth and the Trembling of the Veil.	London	1926	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
10	Jane Austen	Five novels	London	1907 to 1909	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 825.50
11	IREDALE, Tom. Lilian Medland.	Birds of New Guinea.	Melbourne	1956	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 317.50
12		New South Wales Railway and Tramway Budget.	Sydney		AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
13		An album of 117 hand-drawn illustrations crafted during the early decades of the nineteenth century, derived from an architectural treatise titled Les Antiquites d'Athenes.		1762	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 444.50
14		La Mode Illustree, Journal de la Famille.	Paris	1874	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
15	Rex Backhaus-Smith	Two prints from artworks , titled "Old Sofala Prospector" and "Back Street Sofala" respectively.	dated	1977	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
16	LANE, Terence & SERLE, Jessie.	Australians at Home. A Documentary History of Australian Domestic Interiors from 1788 to 1914.	Melbourne	1990	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 349.25
17	[BALLARAT PROGRESS ASSOCIATION]. COULTHARD, W. (secretary).	Guide to Ballarat.	Ballarat	no date but circa 1910	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 444.50
18		Railways Queensland Tours in the Mackay District.	Brisbane	1920	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 152.40
19	MURRAY, Hugh	Ewing's New General Atlas; containing distinct maps of all the principal states and kingdoms throughout the world. A new edition...	Edinburgh	1848	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
20	Tchaikovsky	Australian sheet music for the Nutcracker Suite	Melbourne	1941	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
21	Suzanne and Georges Ramie.	Ceramiques de Picasso.	Geneva	1948	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 476.25
22	TAKASHIMA, S.	Illustrations of Japanese Life. Described	Tokyo,	1918	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
23	[KLIPPEL, Robert] GLEESON, James.	Robert Klippel.	Sydney	1983	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
24	POPE, John Alexander, GETTENS, Rutherford John, and others.	The Freer Chinese Bronzes.	Washington, D.C.,	1967-1969	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
25	Kevin Fahy:	Nineteenth Century Australian Furniture.	Sydney:	1985	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 285.75

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.