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
51	WITHERBY, H.F., JOURDAIN, F.C.R., and others.	The Handbook of British Birds.	London	1949	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
52	WILLIAMS, Thomas Walter.	Original Precedents in Conveyancing...	Dublin	1790	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 825.50
53	WILSON, Hardy.	Instinct. Wandin, Victoria,		1945	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 539.75
54	BUCKLAND, Francis T.	Curiosities of Natural History.	London	1903	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
55	DEIGHTON, Len.	Horse Under Water.	London	1963	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
56		Two Arthur Upfield first editions, both	London.	1963	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
57	VASON, George.	Life of the late George Vason of Nottingham. One of the troop of Missionaries first sent to the South Seas by the London Missionary Society in the ship Duff, Captain Wilson, 1796.	London	1840	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 508.00
58		FINDLAY, G. G and W. W. HOLDSWORTH. The History of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society.	London	1921-1924	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 317.50
59		OUIDA, pseudonym of aria Louise Rame. Eleven novels, from the Australian edition "	Melbourne,	1873	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 317.50
60		A bound volume of ten pamphlets	printed in Auckland	1947- 1968	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
61		Both	Published by Angus & Robertson		AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
62		A shelf lot of books on Melanesian social anthropology, specifically Papua New Guinea and the Highlands.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
63		Four bound volumes of the New South Wales Government Gazette		1843-1851	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 317.50
64		Six books on Christian Missions in the South Pacific and Melanesia: KING, Joseph. W.G. Lawes of Savage Island and New Guinea.	London	1909	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 317.50
65	HALCOMBE, J. J. (editor).	The Emigrant and the Heathen; or sketches of Missionary life.	London	[1874].	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 762.00
66	COOPER, H.M.	The Unknown Coast. Being the explorations of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. along the shores of South Australia 1802	Adelaide	1953	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 203.20
67	SMITH, James Edward.	Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir James Edward Smith, M.D. President of the Linnaean Society. Edited by Lady Smith.	London	1832	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 444.50
68	[MORE Hannah].	Coelebs in Search of a Wife. Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals.	London	1826	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
69	BLACKWOOD, Robert Leslie.	The Quest of the Trout.	Melbourne	1926	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 203.20
70	COATES, D., and the Reverends John BEECHAM and William ELLIS. C	hristianity the Means of Civilization: Shown in the Evidence Given Before a Committee of the House of Commons, on Aborigines.	London	1837	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 444.50
71	ELLERY, Robert L. J.	Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Melbourne Observatory, in the Years 1881 -- 1884.	Melbourne	1888	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
72	[FRANKLIN, Sir John, and others].	Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council of Van Diemen's Land, 1837-1839.	Hobart	1840	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
73	LUFFMAN, John.	Elements of History and Chronology shewing the Origin of States and the Revolutions of Empires, from the Creation of the World to the Close of the Year 1804.	London	no date but 1805	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
74		Five books on Australian colonial history: GRIFFITHS, Nesta. Some Houses and People of New South Wales.	Sydney	1949	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
75	WAGNER, Richard.	Tannhauser. A dramatic poem		1911	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.