Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science and the Arts, 92825, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 28, 2025 - September 28, 2025

Page Size: 309 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
251	Mary Pope Osborne	48 Titles of Magic Tree House			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
252		1,000 different parts included for creating over thousands geometric patterns.			AUD 80.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
253		Total 20 Books 12 books on DC Comics & Marvel Superheroes 5 books on Tom Gates ...			AUD 60.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
254		1 pop-up soccer goal, dimension: 120x84x100cm, with 12 soft balls 8.6cm diameter for strengthening children motor control.			AUD 60.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
255		15 Books on Crime, Spy & History Event. All in very good condition, some very slightly foxed with previous owner's inscription.			AUD 60.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
256	Ernest Jones.	Sigmund Freud: Life and Work in 3 volumes	London	1953-1957.	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
257		A cache of photographs and documents relating to two separate marriages, in 1934 and 1961 respectively.		1934 and 1961	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 50.80
258	JK Rowling.	The Tales of Beedle the Bard		2008	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	AUD 444.50
259		Browns: Forty Years of Fashion. Photography by Paolo Roversi. Foreword by Ralph Lauren.. Introduction by Joan Burstein.		2010	AUD 180.00 - 250.00	AUD 50.80
260	Valerie D Mendes.	John French: Fashion Photographer edited		1985	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 50.80
261		20 books on Psychology, many titles from Sigmund Freud and other influential psychologists.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
262		1) Current: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand Art & Australia.		2008	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
263	H. K. Frenzel.	Ludwig Hohlwein compiled and edited	Phonix.	1926	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 349.25
264	C. F. Tunnicliffe.	Shorelands Summer Diary	London	1952	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
265		Twelve photography books. Many from the 1980s and some fashion photography.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 38.10
266		1) Paris will be Paris Once again Frame image of Paris. Likely from the front cover of a Albert Music circa 1940.			AUD 60.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
267	George Luttrell.	Framed New Orleans Mardi Gras Poster			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 38.10
268	a prominently displayed bottle of 1971 Hochheim Domdechaney Riesling Auslese,	A large framed vintage advertisement featuring a jovial 19th-century-style figure inspecting grapes, accompanied	Wurzburg.	Circa 1970s.	AUD 80.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
269		A little bundle of Red & Black: An Anarchist Journal.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 38.10
270		A collection of friendly titles from the pen of Captain W.E. Johns.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 317.50
271	BACON, James.	The Life and Times of Francis the First, King of France.	London	1829	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
272	CARROLL, Lewis.	The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony in Eight Fits.	London	1876	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
273	MILTON, John.	Pardaise Lost. A poem in twelve books... From the text of Thomas Newton D.D. Birmingham,	London	1758	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 508.00
274		Four antiquarian books, various subjects, all small octavos or duodecimo, in original bindings: Daily Exercise of the Devout Christian...	Dublin	1785	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 285.75
275	[SMOLLET, Tobias].	The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote . Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, to which is prefixed some account of the author's life	London	1793	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 476.25

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.