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
276	WALTON, Izaak AND COTTON, Charles.	The Complete Angler... To which is added an appendix, including illustrative ballads, music, papers on American fishing, and the most complete catalogue of books on angling, etc, ever printed.	New York	1848	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
277	KELLOG, J.H.	Ladies Guide in Health and Disease. Girlhood, Maidenhood, Wifehood, Motherhood.	London	1895	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
278		Folio Society. Hardcovers in slipcases in very good condition. 1) If this is a man - Primo Levi 2) Kim - Rudyard Kipling 1995 3) Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1991 ...			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 101.60
279	J.R.R. Tolkien Edited by Christopher Tolkien	The Silmarillion	London	1977	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
280	J. K. Rowling. 1) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Bloomsbury 2007 2) Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Bloomsbury 2005...	Five Harry Potter Books			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
281	Ernest Bramah.	The Mirror of Kong Ho		1905	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
282	Frances Clare.	The Golden Plums and Other Stories		no date c1889	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
283	George Johnston.	Clean Straw For Nothing		1969	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 38.10
284	David Macrae.	The Americans At Home: Pen-An-Ink Sketches of American Men, Manners, and Institutions.		1879	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
285		Traduzione Delle Poesie Liriche Di Orazio 5 Volumes in one book. 1780.		1780	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
286	Cardinal Richelieu 1691.	L'Art de plaire dans la conversation. Revue & angmentee de divers entretiens. The art of pleasing in conversation. Review and annotati.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
287	J A H Murray	The Oxford English Dictionary: Second Edition, 20 Volumes Set Complete		1989	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 825.50
288	Captain Sir R.F. Burton.	Arabian Nights The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Translated from the Arabic	London	1897	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 1,270.00
289		A Fine complete 21 volume Set of the Oxford Library Works of Charles Dickens. .		1979	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 698.50
290	a Pioneer [John Phillip]	Reminiscences of Australian Early Life	London	1893	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 190.50
291	Captain Frank Hurley with 80 illustrations.	Pearls and Savages: Adventures in the Air on Land and Sea in New Guinea		1924	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 152.40
292		1) 14 Volumes of Thomas Carlyle's' work, includes books from the same set but most are lacking a few volumes to be complete.	London	1894	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 63.50
293		Three art books of the Boyd Family. 1) Guy Boyd			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
294	Isaac Robert Cruikshank	Lessons of Thrift,			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
295	Heimito Von Doderer	The Demons		1961	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
296		The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointe as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches.		1719	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 571.50
297	Augustus Mayhew.	Paved with Gold or The Romance and Reality of the London Streets	London	1858	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
298		Three books Published by Folio Society. 1) Glencoe & Culloden by John Prebble. 2) The Shooting Party by Anton Chekhov 2006 3) Short Stories by Anton Chekhov 2001			AUD 60.00 - 100.00	AUD 38.10
299		5 Folio Society books, all fine copies housed in their original slipcases. A mix on Art, Literature, Painting and Photography.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
300		8 Folio society books on history, all housed in original decorative slipcases.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 63.50

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.