Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science and the Arts, 92825, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- September 28, 2025 - September 28, 2025
| 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 |
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> 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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> 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.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
