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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Working Model of the New Daimler Engine. |
Coventry, | 1904 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 190.50 | |
| 27 | Eduard Trier, Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach, and Francois Arp. | Jean Arp Sculpture 1957-1966. With text and a descriptive catalogue |
London | 1968 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 28 | Ion Idriess. | Handwritten Manuscript of Our Living Stone Age 1963 21 Manuscript chapters of the book - |
AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 29 | HEDIN, Sven. | Central Asia and Tibet. Towards the Holy City of Lassa. |
London and Melbourne | 1903 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 254.00 |
| 30 | MILES, Henry Downes. | Pugilistica: Being One Hundred and Forty Years of the History of British Boxing... |
London | 1880 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 31 | DOUGLAS, Norman. | Summer Islands. |
New York | 1931 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 32 | HOLLINRAKE, Rosalind. | Clarice Beckett. The Artist and Her Circle. |
Melbourne | 1979 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 114.30 |
| 33 | SPAIN, Edward. Richard Stafford. | The Journal of Edward Spain. Merchant Seaman and sometimes Warrant Officer in The Royal Navy describing the conditions of life at sea during the American Revolution and the wars with France, with an engraving |
Sydney | 1989 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 34 | O'BRIAN, Patrick. | H.M.S. Surprise. |
London | 1973 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 349.25 |
| 35 | Evelyn Waugh. | Two first editions The Loved One (1948), and Love Among the Ruins (1953). |
1948 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 36 | Charles Stuart Pratt. Water colours | PRATT, Charles Stuart. Baby's Lullaby Book. Mother Songs |
Boston | 1888 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 37 | The Escutcheon Press, Brandywine, the Pump Press, and a few others. Approximately 100 Australian private press publications in this lot. Many of the publications in this lot have been inscribed | A cache of Australian private press materials from the collection of the printer and bibliographer Geoffrey Farmer. Includes pamphlets printed |
AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 317.50 | ||
| 38 | THOMAS, Dylan. | Under Milk Wood. A Play for Voices. Preface and musical settings by Daniel Jones. |
London | 1954 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 39 | LEWIS, Cecil Day. | The Otterbury Incident. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. |
London | 1948 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 40 | Catherine Mansfield. | Poems |
London | 1923 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 41 | LANDESMAN, Fran. | More Truth than Poetry. Designed and illustrated by Avril Broadley. |
1984 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 42 | [GEORGE CRUIKSHANK]. | The Cruikshankian Momus. Pictorial broadsides and humorous song-headings. Fifty-two comic designs to popular ballads |
London | 1892 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 43 | BRADY, E.J. | Picturesque Port Phillip. |
Melbourne | circa 1925 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 44 | DAVIS, Robert H. | Breathing in Irrespirable Atmospheres, and, in some cases, also Under Water. |
London | no date but circa 1935 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 45 | HULTEN, Pontus. | Marcel Duchamp. Edited with an introduction by Pontus Hulten, text |
London | 1993 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 46 | "AUSTRAL". Lawn Tennis in Australasia. With 62 action photos taken in great matches in Australasia of the four greatest players in the world. (N.E. Brookes, A.F. Wilding, M.E. McLoughlin and W.A. Larned). |
Sydney | 1912 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 47 | ROSS, Malcolm. | A Climber in New Zealand. |
London | 1914 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 698.50 |
| 48 | GIBSON, G. | Herbert. Ironbark Chips and Stockwhip Cracks. By Percy F. S. Spence and Alf Vincent. |
Melbourne | 1893 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 49 | GHOSE, Sudhin. | Folk Tales and Fairy Stories from India. With illustrations by Shrimati E. Carlile. |
London | 1961 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 50 | Three voyage accounts |
in the late sixties and early seventies | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
![<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.")
