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
144	Gabriel Garcia Marquez.	One Hundred Years of Solitude	London	1970	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
145		Herpetological Papers 1889-1940.			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 1,905.00
146		Central Asiatic Expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History under the leadership pf Roy Chapman Andrews. Preliminary Contributions in Geology Palaeontology, Archaeology and Zoology.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 1,778.00
147		Natural History of Central Asia			AUD 800.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 4,445.00
148		Four Colour Maps by John Sands.		No date c1886.	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
149		A very good lot of mixed history books. Includes: Ancient Greek Life Myth and Art ; Scottish History - Highland Clans 1475-1625; Irish History -The Great Shame ...			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 38.10
150	Will Goldston	Will Goldston's Exclusive Magical Secrets Series.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
151	Agatha Christie	Agatha Christie Crime Collection. 27 Volumes.		1991	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 215.90
152	Graham Greene.	6 Volumes Set by Graham Greene.		1997	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 349.25
153	Charles Dickens.	Twelve Volumes Works of Charles Dickens.		1994-1995.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
154	IDRIESS, Ion L.	The Great Trek First edition of 1940.	Sydney	1940	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
155	Edited Joan Kerr.	The Dictionary of Australian Artists - Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870.		1992	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
156		The Pele Albums - Selections From Public and Private Collections Celebrating The Soccer Career of Pele. 2 Volumes.		1990	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
157	Christopher Hibbert	Italian Cities. 3 Volumes Set		2000	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
158	henry Martin.	Les joyaux de l'enluminure a la Bibliotheque Nationale. The Jewels of Illumination at the National Library		1928	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 190.50
159		The Complete Atlas, One Hundred and Twenty Maps of Modern Historical , Classical, and Physical Geography; with Descriptive Letterpress of Modern and Physical Geography by James Bryce LLD; Historical Geography by William F. Collar and Classical Geography b		No date c1878.	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
160		Magnum Magnum by Brigitte Lardinois with 413 photographs in color and duotone.		2008	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 127.00
161	Peter C. Sutton.	The Age of Rubens		1993	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 285.75
162	edited Andreas Fingernagel & Christian Gastgeber.	1) In The Beginning was the Word - The Power and Glory of illuminated Bibles		2003	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 698.50
163	Hugh Tait.	1) 5000 Years of Glass edited		2012	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
164		Five books about Astronomy.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
165		Three book about Shipping.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
166		Five books about Atlas of World History.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
167	Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski.	Maps by Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski. Special edition.		2012	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
168		Five books about World Exploration and Mapping. All hardback and in very good condition.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

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.