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
151	Lladro.	Two Porcelain Lovebirds Handmade in Spain			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
152		Two big boxes of fishing books. Mostly Trout Fishing with some books on making flies. Hard covers in very good condition.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
153		A big pile of 29 Sydney History books. Includes Sydney Sandstone, North Sydney Suburbs. Authors Max Kelly, Isidor Brodsky and Nesta Griffiths. Mostly Hardcovers in dust wrapper in very good condition.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 190.50
154		Folio Society - History of England. Four Volumes. Octavo hardcovers in slipcase. Some makes to slipcase else very good copies.	Melbourne:	1904-1911.	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 190.50
155	C French.	Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 139.70
156		Fourteen books on Crime. Hours of fascinating reading. 1) The Murders of the Black Museum			AUD 140.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
157	John Brock.	A little bundle of good books on Australian Flora. 1) Top End Native Plants		1988	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
158		A little bundle of Bird Books. 1) Pheasant in North America			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
159	Roy Strong	A little collection of Ceramic and Porcelain books. 1) Meissen Portrait Figurines 2) 2 volumes of German Porcelain of the 18th Century 3) World of Antiques with intro			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
160		Five books on Architecture mostly modern. All in good condition. 1) Frank Lloyd wright Paperback 2) Architectural Design for Today. 3) Architecture in Perspective 16 4) Architecture in Perspective 12 5) Architecture in Perspective. 1992. Water stain			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
161		A collection of wine books. 1) Wine Hunter			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 177.80
162	C French.	Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
163		A shelf of 10 books on Psychology. Nearly all cloth bound hardcovers. 1) A general Introduction to Psychology			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 317.50
164	Norman Lindsay.	Creative effort : an essay on affirmation	London	1924	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
165	N. M. Penzer.	The Ocean of Story being C. H. Tawney's Translation of Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sagara (or Ocean of Streams of Story) edited		1924-1928	AUD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
166		Oscar Hammerstein II -Plays one signed. 1) Lyrics -	New York	1949	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 165.10
167	JT Lang.	I Remember			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
168	Lord Dunsany. Illustrated by Sidney H. Sime.	The Chronicles of Rodriguez		1922	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
169	Professor Arnold Ehret.	Rational Fasting for Physical, Mental & Spiritual Rejuvenation	California	1926	AUD 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
170	Arthur Griffith.	1) Australians in Action : The Story of Gallipoli	Sydney	1918	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
171	DH Lawrence.	Two books by DH Lawrence. 1) Fantasia of the Unconscious.		1922	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 190.50
172	JA Steers.	The Queensland coast and the Great Barrier reefs b: A paper partly read at the Evening Meeting of the Society on 4 February			AUD 120.00 - 160.00	AUD 114.30
173		A Collection of Natural History from S Copland Library.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
174	Sigmund Freud	Selected Papers on Hysteria	New York	1920	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
175	OBAMA, Barak.	A Promised Land.	New York	2020	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00

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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.
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.