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
101		The Charlie Chaplin Book.	New York	1916	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 50.80
102		1) Paperback copy of : The Man With The Golden Typewriter 2) Thrilling Cities 3) From Russia With Love Penguin 2008 4) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Vol 3. 1965. All reprints Good copies			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 203.20
103	Charlton Hinman.	The Norton Facsimile The First Folio of Shakespeare. Prepared		1968	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 88.90
104		Seven First Edition Biggles Books Biggles: 1. Works It Out 1951 2.Buries A Hatchet 1958 3.Chinese Puzzle 1955 4. Of The Interpol 1957 5. And The Black Raider 1953 6. Another Job For 1951 7. Foreign Legionnaire 1954 All in dustwrappers with lit			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 317.50
105		Spot Map Showing The Gold-Copper Ratios of the Copper Ores from The Copper Mines and Localities of the Cloncurry Gold and Mineral Field . This map measures 105 x 77 cm and was printed in December 1940			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
106		1) The Life of Mozart			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 114.30
107	Christopher De Hamel.	1) A History of Illuminated Manuscripts		1994	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 76.20
108	Simon Winchester	1) The Map That Changed The World. The Tale of William Smith and The Birth Of A Science	London	2001	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 50.80
109	Elizabeth Magee 2004 2) The Greek Myths 1996 3) Gothic Art and Architecture	1) Legends Of The Ring Selected and Edited			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 165.10
110	Betty Radice. .Edwin Gibbon Edited and With An Introduction	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	London	1983	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
111	Her Sister Mrs. John Addington Symonds. In Two Volumes	Recollections Of A Happy Life Being The Autobiography Of Marianne North Edited	London	1892	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 381.00
112		1890s Manuscript material from the estate of Ion Idriess concerning Jandamarra (or Pigeon as he was known to the white settlers of the Kimberley's).		1890s	AUD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00	AUD 26,670.00
113	Idriess one page Mostly Nature, Early Mounted Police, and Northern Territory Notes. Generally from about or just before 1930, onward.	Handwritten			AUD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	AUD 9,525.00
114	John Armour	The Spell Of The Inland A Romance of Central Australia	Sydney	1927	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
115		A box of music books includes Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 63.50
116		A broadsheet circa 1932: Monday, May 16 FITZROY STADIUM BRUNSWICK STREET WRESTLING SIX 8 MINUTE ROUNDS OF HEAVYWEIGHT WRESTLING ALEC. DONNETT (RICHMOND) V BOB. PHILLIPS NORTH MELBOURNE Both are ex Australian Amateur Champions Boxing - 6 Rounds		circa 1932	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
117		The State Hermitage. Masterpieces from the Museum's Collections. 2 volume set is a slipcase and dustwrappers.	London	1994	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 285.75
118	D H Lawrence and M. L. Skinner.	The Boy In The Bush	New York	1924	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
119	Frederick McCarthy.	Australia's Aborigines. Their Life and Culture.	Melbourne	1957	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
120		1) Lewis and Short: A Latin Dictionary. This is a twenty first century reprint of the 1879 edition		1879	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 285.75
121		1914 Commonwealth of Australia Port Augusta -Oodnadatta Railway. 6 page Parliamentary Paper with a large foldout map with some colour. Map of Port Augusta measures 49 x 43 cm		1914	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 63.50
122		1902 NSW Government Report on the Proposed Tramway From Oxford Street to Bellevue Hill. Foolscap size 102 pages. Large folding map measures 90 x 60 cm		1902	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 63.50
123		A poster printed in red and black on white lnen STOP SENSELESS SLAUGHTER CONSERVE WILDLIFE	Sydney		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
124	Peter Lombard	49 leaves printed both sides (so 98 pages) written by Peter Lombard and printed in Basel in 1487.		1487	AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
125		Charlotte, Emily & Anne Bronte The Complete Novels. Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, The Professor, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Gray	London	1991	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00

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.