Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Art, Military, Geology, First editions, Fine bindings, A164, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 12, 2025 - October 12, 2025

Page Size: 491 items in 20 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	POPE, Alexander	The Iliad of Homer	London		AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 254.00
2	EVERETT, Marshall (editor)	Two books on the Titanic tragedy: Wreck and Sinking of the titanic	[New York]	1912	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 190.50
3	SHUTE, Nevil	A Town Like Alice	London	1950	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
4	CICERO, M.	Tulli Ciceronis Orationum	Lugduni (Lyon)	1555	AUD 350.00 - 500.00	AUD 381.00
5	DRYDEN, John	The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Esq.	Edinburg	1777	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 127.00
6		The Holy Bible	Glasgow	1896	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 444.50
7	SCOTT, Robert Falcon	The Voyage of the Discovery	London	1907	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 241.30
8	STEVENSON, Robert Louis and OSBOURNE, Lloyd	The Ebb-Tide	London	1894	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
9	Robert Louis Stevenson	Three books by Robert Louis Stevenson	Chicago edition	1894	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
10	A.A. Milne	Three books by A.A. Milne	London	1928	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
11		The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie	London	1961	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 1,651.00
12		ANZAC Memorial	London	Dated April 1916	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
13	[DAVIS, Arthur Hoey, pseudonym "Steele Rudd"]	The Poor Parson	Sydney	1907	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
14	C.J. Dennis	Five books by C.J. Dennis			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
15	SCOTT, Sir Walter	Rob Roy	Edinburgh	1818	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
16	ALI, Salim and RIPLEY, S. Dillon	Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan	London and Bombay	1968-1974	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
17	OAKLEY, E. D.	Jimmy of Murrumbar. A Story of the Amazing Ability and Fidelity of an Australian Black Tracker	Melbourne	undated but 1938	AUD 75.00 - 100.00	AUD 38.10
18	JOHNS, Captain W.E.	Gimlet King of the Commandos	London	1950	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
19	HOCKING, Jenny	Gough Whitlam	Melbourne	2014	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 88.90
20		An endearing cache of The Dome: a Quarterly containing Examples of all the Arts	London	various dates	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
21	CALDECOTT, R.	Randolph Caldecott's Last Graphic Pictures	London	1888	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
22	GOODRIDGE, Charles Medyett	Narrative of a Voyage to the South Seas, and the shipwreck of the Princess of Wales cutter, with an account of two years residence on an uninhabited island	Exeter	1838	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 285.75
23	McNAUGHT, J.U.	The Brisbane Directory for 1878-9	Queen street	1879	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 603.25
24	Thomas Welsby	Two books on Queensland angling and local history	Brisbane	1931	AUD 350.00 - 400.00	AUD 412.75
25	Barton, E.J.T. (editor)	Jubilee History of Queensland: A Record of Political, Industrial, and Social Development	Brisbane	1909	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 317.50

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.