Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Fine Bindings, 1st Editions, Science, Philosophy, Art, Photography, Fishing, 165A, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 26, 2025 - October 26, 2025

Page Size: 400 items in 16 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	[GUSTAVE DORE]. OLLIER, Edmund	Cassell's Dore Gallery: Containing two hundred and fifty engravings	London	1890	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 412.75
2		Five bound volumes of the New South Wales Government Gazette	Sydney	1833-1853	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
3	Neale Bougher and Katrina Syme	Fungi of Southern Australia	Nedlands	1998	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 228.60
4	edited by JJ Veevers	Billion-Year Earth History of Australia and Neighbours in Gondwanaland	Sydney	2000	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
5	by Ray Bradbury	The Golden Apples of The Sun	London	1953	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
6	Geoffrey Household	Against the Wind	London	1958	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
7	H Herman	Brown Coals Of Victoria by H Herman with Plans and Sketches 1922 Department of Mines			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
8	Ronald M. Berndt & Catherine Helen Berndt with John E Stanton	Aboriginal Australian Art		1982	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
9	Marc Chagall	Marc Chagall: Monotypes	Cramer	1976	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
10	Lionel Lindsay	Etchings of old Sydney	Sydney	1920	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 215.90
11	Caroline Hancock, Didier Ottinger, and Tomas Llorens	Hopper	Madrid/Paris	2012	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
12	Pierre Schneider, Michael Taylor	Matisse		1984	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 114.30
13	Sasha Grishin	Australian Art: A History	Melbourne, Australia	2013	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
14	Dulcie Deamer	As It Was In The Beginning		1929	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 317.50
15	Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen	Farthest North. Fridtjof Nansen's "Farthest North", Being the Record of a Voyage of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey	London	1897	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
16		Letters From Victorian Pioneers: A Series of Papers on the Early Occupation of the Colony, the Aborigines, etc.	Melbourne	1898	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 139.70
17	John Masefield	The Taking of Helen	London	1923	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 254.00
18	James Demarr	Adventures in Australia Fifty Years Ago: Being a Record of an Emigrant's Wanderings Through the Colonies of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland During the Years 1839-1844	London	1893	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
19		Seven Lindt Albumen Prints			AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
20		Two large images of steam boats on the Murray Darling River at Yanga Station			AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
21		Collection of approximately 110 surveyor's notebooks from the fifties and the sixties, from the firm Bennett and O'Donnell based in Chatswood			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 2,413.00
22		A carton of Australian art catalogues, mostly from the past two decades			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
23		Australian Modernist Art Catalogues: approximately 80 to 100 in this lot. A mixture of traditional, modernist, and contemporary exhibition catalogues			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 381.00
24		A quality lot of Pacific voyage books and academic accounts of early exploration of the region. Seven books in total, all are hardcover and many have dust-jackets	(Oxford)	-1952	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
25	James Mann	Australian Timbers. Their strength, durability and identification		1921	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50

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.
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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