Sydney Rare Book Auctions: History, Science, Mining, Exploration, Zines, Beer and Wine, Photographs and more, A167, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 30, 2025 - November 30, 2025

Page Size: 513 items in 21 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Lou Klepac , James Gleeson.	Beyond the screen of sight	2004	AUD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
2		An Eye For Photography: The Camera In Australia by Alan Davies	2004	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
3		Landscape Scenery Illustrating Sydney, Paramatta, Richmond, Maitland, Windsor, and Port Jackson,	1855	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
4		Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell with Samuel Johnson's poetical pieces relative to the tour.	1785	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 381.00
5	Mrs Daly.	Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia	1887	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 381.00
6	LINDSAY, Norman.	Micomicana.	1979	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
7	[UNKNOWN COMPILER].	Armorials of Somerset.	1800	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
8	Department of Mines .	Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. Geology Number 7' Geology and Mineral Resources of the Southern Coal-Field with Maps and Sections. Part 1, the South Coastal Portion by L F Harper.	1915	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
9		Western Australia Geological Survey. Bulletin No. 10 Maps, Plans, and Sections to accompany report on The Mining Groups of the Yilgarn Goldfield North of the Great Eastern Railway.	1950	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
10	Hobson, Miles & Matheson.	1952 Western Australia Geological Survey Bulletin 103 Supplementary Atlas No 1. Geological Maps of Portion of the Mt. Margaret Goldfield.	1952	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
11		Bulletin De La Societe Geologique De France !833 to 1854. 22 volumes.	!833 to 1854	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 952.50
12	the Rec W. B. Clarke	Remarks on the Sedimentary Formations of New South Wales Illustrated by References to Other Provinces of Australasia	1878	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
13	compiled Robert Logan Jack	Eight Parliamentary Papers compiled by Robert Logan Jack	1870s and 1880s.	AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	AUD 8,890.00
14	Harrie Wood.	Mineral Products of New South Wales. Notes on the Geology of New South Wales by C S Wilkinson and Description Of The Minerals of New South Wales by Archibald Liversidge.	1882	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
15	John Evans	The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain	1872	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
16	Alfred J. Ewart	Flora of Victoria	1930	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
17	Louis Pasteur	Studies on Fermentation: The Diseases of Beer, Their Causes and the Means of Preventing Them, Translated into English by Frank Faulkner and D. Constable Robb	1879	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
18		The Minerals of New South Wales, Etc by A Liversidge. With Map.	1888	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
19	H C Russell	Climate of New South Wales: Descriptive, Historical, and Tabular.	1877	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
20		Tabular List of all the Australian Birds at Present Known to the Author, showing the Distribution of the Species over the Continent of Australia and Adjacent Islands.	1888	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
21	POPE, John Alexander, GETTENS, Rutherford John, and others.	The Freer Chinese Bronzes.	1967-1969.	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
22		Three voyage accounts published by Nico Israel in the late sixties and early seventies, being high quality facsimile editions with maps and charts.		AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
23	MAGRIEL, Paul.	Bibliography of Boxing. A Chronological Check List of Books in English Printed Before 1900.	Before 1900	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
24		Eighteen issues of the War Pictorial and related publications, from 1917 and 1918.	1917-1918	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
25	ROUSSELOT, Jean-Loup, ABEL, Bernard, and others.	Masques Eskimo d'Alaska.	1991	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

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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