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
298	The Rev. FO Morris.	A History of British Birds			AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
299	Edward Hutton.	Theocritos The Complete Poems Translated by Jack Lindsay with Wood Cuts by Lionel Ellis and an Introduction	in London	No date but 1929	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 539.75
300		The Complete Etchings of Norman Lindsay. By Lin Bloomfield.	North Sydney:	1998	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
301		Norman Lindsay Bookplate for his grand daughter Helen.			AUD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
302	James Edge-Partington.	Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands	Bangkok	1996	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
303	Rudiger Joppien and Bernard Smith.	The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages.		1985-1987	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 381.00
304	Thor Heyerdahl.	The Art of Easter Island	London:	1976	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
305	A L Crawford	Aida Life and Ceremony of the Gogodala		1981	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
306	Adrienne Kaeppler, Christine Kaufmann and Douglas Newton.	Oceanic Art.	New York	1997	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 152.40
307	Gunnar Landtman.	The Kiwai Papuans of British New Guinea - A Nature-Born Instance of Rousseau's Ideal Community		1927	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 349.25
308		L'Art Oceanien: Sa Presence - Collection "Le Musee vivant," No.38	Paris	1951	AUD 220.00 - 280.00	Not Sold
309	Photographs George MacDonald. Text Charles Hunt.	Shark Tooth Stone Blade: Pacific Island art from the University of Aberdeen .			AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
310		Spatules a chaux Massim Lime Spatulas.	Paris	2000	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
311	Chris Boylan.	New Guinea Shields. Animated by Spirits	New York	2012	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
312	Wardwell, Scheinberg, Zarember.	Woman Eternal: The Female Image in African Art	New York	1991	AUD 120.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
313	edited Harry Beran and Barry Craig.	Shields of Melanesia		2005	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
314	Captain Frank Hurley	Pearls and Savages: Adventures in the Air on Land and Sea in New Guinea	Putnams	1924	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 127.00
315	Adrienne Kaeppler.	Polynesia: The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art	Honolulu	2010	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 101.60
316		Oceanic Art by Anthony Meyer. Text in English, German and French.		2000	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
317		The Austral Islands: History, Art And Art History by Rhys Richards.			AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 127.00
318		Arts of the South Seas: Island Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia. From the Collections of the Musee Barbier-Mueller. Edited by Douglas Newton.			AUD 180.00 - 220.00	AUD 215.90
319		Arts primitifs dans les ateliers d'artistes.			AUD 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
320		Art. Art Objects, and Ritual in the Mimika Culture by Simon Kooijman.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
321		DAALDER, Truus. "Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment. Australia, Oceania, Asia, Africa". Public by Ethnic Art Publications in association with Macmillan in 2009.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
322		Three books on Jewellery.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90

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.