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
26	THYER, Brigadier J. H. (introduction).	The Grim Glory of the 2/19 Battalion A.I.F. by various members of the Unit Association.	Sydney	1975	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 476.25
27	CALDECOTT, R.	Randolph Caldecott's Last Graphic Pictures. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1888.			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
28	NETTO, Curt.	Papier-Schmetterlinge aus Japan von C. Netto. Nach skizzen des verfassers illustrirt von Paul Bender.	Leipzig:	1888	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 412.75
29	NELSON, Harold (illustrator).	The Noble Birth and Gallant Atchievements of that Remarkable Outlaw Robin Hood Together with a True Account of the Many Merry & Extravagant Exploits He Play'd.	Edinburgh	1906	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
30	edited and produced S. Louis Giraud.	Two volumes of the Bookano Stories series,	London	circa1935	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
31	Mary Grant Bruce	'The Cousin from Town' and 'Rossiter's Farm'.	Melbourne	circa1920	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 114.30
32	JOHNS, Captain W.E.	Gimlet King of the Commandos.	London	1950	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
33	SHAKESPEARE, William.	The Tragedie of Macbeth. With illustrations and notes by J. Moyr Smith.	London	1889	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 317.50
34	BLACKMAN, Charles and AMADIO, Nadine (text).	Paris Dreaming. A Celebration of a City of the Imagination. The Paris Drawings of Charles Blackman Written and Compiled by Nadine Amadio.	Sydney	1982	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 317.50
35	ELUARD, Paul and Marc CHAGALL.	Le Dur Desir de Durer. Illustrated by Marc Chagall,	Surrey	1950	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 349.25
36	edited Sydney Ure Smith and Bertram Stevens.	The Pen Drawings of Norman Lindsay. Special Number of "Art in Australia",	Sydney	1918	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 190.50
37	OAKLEY, E. D.	Jimmy of Murrumbar. A Story of the Amazing Ability and Fidelity of an Australian Black Tracker.	Melbourne:	undated but 1938	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
38	[CURMER, Henri Leon].	IV Livres de L'imitation De Jesus-Christ Qu'aucuns Attribuent a Iessen a'autres a Gerson, & d'autres a Thomas, a Kempis, fidelement traduits.	Paris:	1856	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
39	BERNDT, Ronald M.	Kunapipi. A Study of an Australian Aboriginal Religious Cult.	Melbourne	1951	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 285.75
40		An endearing cache of The Dome: a Quarterly containing Examples of all the Arts.	London	various dates,	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
41	IDRIESS, Ion L.	Must Australia Fight? First edition of 1939.	Sydney	1939	AUD 200.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
42	FAULKNER, Henry.	Elephant Haunts: Being a Sportsman's Narrative of the Search for Doctor Livingstone, with Scenes of Elephant, Buffalo, and Hippopotamus Hunting.	London	1868	AUD 400.00 - 600.00	AUD 2,032.00
43	WHYMPER, Edward.	The Ascent of the Matterhorn.	London	1880	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 349.25
44	d'ORLEANS, Prince Henri.	From Tonkin to India by the Sources of the Irawadi January '95 -- January '96. Translated by Hamley Bent, illustrated by G. Vuillier.	London	1898	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 317.50
45	BOSWELL, James.	The Life of Samuel Johnson. A new edition elucidated by copious notes.	London	undated but 1851	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
46	MELVILLE, Henry.	Observations respecting the Islands of the Mauritius, written during a Short Sojourn there in 1828.	Adelaide	2004	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 241.30
47		Atlas-Geography of Siam -- 28 Lessons and Readings. Atlas-Geographie du Siam -- 28 lecons et lectures.	Orne	1925	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 127.00
48	McGRATH, Sandra.	Brett Whiteley.	Sydney	1979	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 1,270.00
49	Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc.	Der Blaue Reiter.	Munich	1979	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 190.50
50	Bill Henson.	Mnemosyne	in Zurich and in Sydney	2005	AUD 300.00 - 350.00	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.