Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Australian, Asia-Pacific, Science & 1st Editions & Signed Book, A162, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 14, 2025 - September 14, 2025

Page Size: 345 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
273		Four boxes of publications about Europe and the British Isles.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 63.50
274		Opera, Ballet, Theatre.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 38.10
275		A small collection of books on Decorative Arts, Antiques and Porcelain.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 63.50
276		A small bundle of mostly science related books(8). All in good condition. Includes:			AUD 150.00 - 180.00	AUD 38.10
277		A shelf of about 30 books on Collecting			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
278		Album International des Villes d'Eaux			AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 241.30
279		Two art books. Both quarto hardcovers in dustwrappers.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
280	Mrs R Lee.	The Australian Wanderers or the Adventures of Captain Spencer, his horse and dog	Philadelphia	1854	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 88.90
281		A little bundle of books. Australian Literature and Criticism. Includes:			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
282		Two NSW Histories.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
283		A collection of Ancient Greece and Rome and the Classics.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
284	WJ O'Neill.	Budgeree Bill: An Australian Story For Little Australians	in Sydney	1926	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 38.10
285		A little collection of May Gibbs books featuring:			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
286		A nice bundle of poetry		1880-1940.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
287		A little collection of Travel guides Europe and surrounds			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
288	Captain H Cayley-Webster.	Through New Guinea and the Cannibal Countries		1898	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
289		Jottings During the Cruise of HMS Curacoa Among the South Sea Islands in 1865 with Numerous Illustrations and Natural History Notices by Julius Brenchley.		1873	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 203.20
290	George Brown, D.D.	Pioneer-Missionary and Explorer - An Autobiography. A Narrative of Forty-Eight Years' Residence and Travel in Samoa, New Britian, New Ireland, New Guinea, and The Solomon Islands. With one Hundred and Eleven Illustrations and Map (fold-out colour map).	published by Hodder and Stoughton	1908	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 101.60
291	Captain AD Ellis.	The Story Of The Fifth Australian Division: Being an Authoritative Account of the Division's Doings in Egypt, France and Belgium	in London	no date circa 1920	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 127.00
292		Five Australian Cookery Books.			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 152.40
293		Plunkett's Australian Magistrate: Containing the course of practice in all preliminary investigations by Justices of The Peace, together with all the various forms appertaining Thereto by JH Plunkett. Sydney: J Moore 1859. Original brown cloth in very goo			AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 571.50
294	E H Ruddock.	Vitalogy An Encyclopedia of Health and Home Adapted For the Home, The Layman, the Family			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 381.00
295	Edited Frank C Johnson, Jack Lindsay & Kenneth Slessor.	Vision A Literary Quarterly. Nos 1-4. May 1923, August 1923, November 1923 and February 1924.		1923 and1924	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 412.75
296		History of Manon Lescaut and of the Chevalier Des Grieux by Abbe Prevost.	in London	1886	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 254.00
297	Charles Kingsford-Smith & Charles Ulm.	Story of "Southern Cross" Trans Pacific Flight 1928	in Sydney	1928	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50

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.