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

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
  • 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.