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
26		Working Model of the New Daimler Engine.	Coventry,	1904	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 190.50
27	Eduard Trier, Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach, and Francois Arp.	Jean Arp Sculpture 1957-1966. With text and a descriptive catalogue	London	1968	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
28	Ion Idriess.	Handwritten Manuscript of Our Living Stone Age 1963 21 Manuscript chapters of the book -			AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
29	HEDIN, Sven.	Central Asia and Tibet. Towards the Holy City of Lassa.	London and Melbourne	1903	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
30	MILES, Henry Downes.	Pugilistica: Being One Hundred and Forty Years of the History of British Boxing...	London	1880	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
31	DOUGLAS, Norman.	Summer Islands.	New York	1931	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
32	HOLLINRAKE, Rosalind.	Clarice Beckett. The Artist and Her Circle.	Melbourne	1979	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 114.30
33	SPAIN, Edward. Richard Stafford.	The Journal of Edward Spain. Merchant Seaman and sometimes Warrant Officer in The Royal Navy describing the conditions of life at sea during the American Revolution and the wars with France, with an engraving	Sydney	1989	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
34	O'BRIAN, Patrick.	H.M.S. Surprise.	London	1973	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 349.25
35	Evelyn Waugh.	Two first editions The Loved One (1948), and Love Among the Ruins (1953).		1948	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
36	Charles Stuart Pratt. Water colours	PRATT, Charles Stuart. Baby's Lullaby Book. Mother Songs	Boston	1888	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
37	The Escutcheon Press, Brandywine, the Pump Press, and a few others. Approximately 100 Australian private press publications in this lot. Many of the publications in this lot have been inscribed	A cache of Australian private press materials from the collection of the printer and bibliographer Geoffrey Farmer. Includes pamphlets printed			AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
38	THOMAS, Dylan.	Under Milk Wood. A Play for Voices. Preface and musical settings by Daniel Jones.	London	1954	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
39	LEWIS, Cecil Day.	The Otterbury Incident. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.	London	1948	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
40	Catherine Mansfield.	Poems	London	1923	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
41	LANDESMAN, Fran.	More Truth than Poetry. Designed and illustrated by Avril Broadley.		1984	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
42	[GEORGE CRUIKSHANK].	The Cruikshankian Momus. Pictorial broadsides and humorous song-headings. Fifty-two comic designs to popular ballads	London	1892	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
43	BRADY, E.J.	Picturesque Port Phillip.	Melbourne	circa 1925	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
44	DAVIS, Robert H.	Breathing in Irrespirable Atmospheres, and, in some cases, also Under Water.	London	no date but circa 1935	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
45	HULTEN, Pontus.	Marcel Duchamp. Edited with an introduction by Pontus Hulten, text	London	1993	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
46		"AUSTRAL". Lawn Tennis in Australasia. With 62 action photos taken in great matches in Australasia of the four greatest players in the world. (N.E. Brookes, A.F. Wilding, M.E. McLoughlin and W.A. Larned).	Sydney	1912	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
47	ROSS, Malcolm.	A Climber in New Zealand.	London	1914	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 698.50
48	GIBSON, G.	Herbert. Ironbark Chips and Stockwhip Cracks. By Percy F. S. Spence and Alf Vincent.	Melbourne	1893	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
49	GHOSE, Sudhin.	Folk Tales and Fairy Stories from India. With illustrations by Shrimati E. Carlile.	London	1961	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
50		Three voyage accounts		in the late sixties and early seventies	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	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.