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
76	ETHERIDGE, Robert (curator and editor).	Scientific Results of the Trawling Expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the Coast of New South Wales in February and March 1898.		1899- 1914	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 1,397.00
77	SHAW, George Bernard & FARLEIGH, John.	The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God.	London	1932	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 254.00
78		An outstanding lot of books on the history of New Zealand, including some scarce and desirable titles. All but two of the titles in this lot are hardcover octavo books, bound in the original cloth. Most have their dust-jackets, and the condition is overal	London	1887	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 698.50
79	KOVESI, Catherine.	Pitch Your Tents on Distant Shores: A History of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Tahiti.	Caringbah, NSW	2006	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
80		An excellent selection of books on Maori arts and culture.			AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 2,032.00
81	MARETT R.R. and T.K. PENNIMAN, T.K. (editors).	Spencer's Scientific Correspondence with Sir J.G. Frazer and Others.	Oxford University Press	1932	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
82	NICHOLSON, Peter.	The Student's Instructor in Drawing and Working the Five Orders of Architecture. Fully Explaining the Best Methods for Striking Regular and Quirked Mouldings; for Diminishing and Gluing of Columns and Capitals...	London	1815	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 241.30
83	MacPherson of Dalchully.	Two books on the history and genealogy of Scotland, both in most attractive leather bindings: CHEYNE-MacPHERSON, W. The Chiefs of Clan MacPherson	Edinburgh	1947	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 317.50
84	MARSHALL, Arthur C.	The Council of the Municipality of Mosman... Report for period 1922-23. Prefaced with a short historical sketch compiled by the Town Clerk (Arthur C. Marshall).	Mosman	1924	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
85	BARTLETT, W.H. [William Henry]	Walks about the City and Environs of Jerusalem.		no date but circa 1845	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
86		Mrs. Beeton's Christmas Annual, Fourteenth Season.	London	1860	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
87	MONTGOMERIE, H.S.	The Morrison Myth. A pendant to William Bligh and the Bounty in Fact and Fable.	London	1938	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
88	BYRD, Richard Evelyn.	Little America. Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic. The Flight to the South Pole	New York	1930	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 698.50
89	[PARKES, Sir Henry, and others].	Official Record of the Proceedings and Debates of the National Australasian Convention. Held in Parliament House, Sydney, New South Wales, in the Months of March and April, 1891.	Sydney	1891	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
90	READ, Charles Rudston.	What I Heard, Saw, and Did at the Australian Gold Fields.	London	1853	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
91	[KAREN BLIXEN]. DINESEN, Isak.	Seven Gothic Tales. With an introduction by Dorothy Canfield.	New York	1934	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
92	BOUGAINVILLE, Louis Antoine de.	A Voyage Round the World. Performed by John Reinhold Forster, F.A.S. by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, In the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769.	London	1772	AUD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 1,778.00
93		Presentation folder from the Committee of Management of the Bendigo Benevolent Asylum to Henry Birch, in appreciation for his services.	Dated May	1901	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
94		Presentation folder from Cecil Wedgwood, Mayor of Stoke-on-Kent, to the Australian Prime Minister Andrew Fisher, upon his visit during June 1911.		1911	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
95		Illuminated award to A.J.C. Chamen from the doctors and staff at Cootamundra District Hospital,		1925	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 412.75
96	edited by Diane Barwick and Robert Reece.	Aboriginal History, a journal		1977-1982	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
97	LAWSON, Henry.	The Romance of the Swag.		1939	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 349.25
98	HAWKESWORTH, John.	Captain James Cook, and others. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken	London	1773	AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	AUD 3,175.00
99	KING, Phillip Parker.	Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia. Performed between the Years 1818 and 1822. With an Appendix, Containing Various Subjects Relating to Hydrography and Natural History.	London	1827	AUD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 2,032.00
100	Karl Baedeker.	Paris and its Environs with Routes from London to Paris - Handbook for Travellers - With 14 maps and 42 plans - Eighteenth Revised Edition	Leipzig	1913	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	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.