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
126		Graham Greene Folio Society Six Volumes in a slipcase	London	2004	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
127		The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World. Very good copy. Leather spine and in a slipcase. A very good looking copy. Measures 47 x 33 cm	London	1999	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
128		A 4 page letter, typed and signed and dated 1 October 1982, by the then Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser.		1982	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
129		1911 Government report on the feasibility of having a railway line run from Barellan towards Mirrool. This is in the Riverina District of New South Wales.		1911	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 63.50
130		1873 Report of the Inspector-General of Gardens, Parks, and Reserves.		1873	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
131		Tenth Report of The Board For The Protection of the Aborigines in The Colony of Victoria.		1874	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
132		Annual Report of the Territory of Papua. 1st July 1952 to 30th June 1953. Presented to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
133		Reports of the Queensland Main Roads Department for 1954; 1957 and 1960. Each report is about 100 pages of text. The 1954 report contains three large fold out maps and 15 pages of black and white photographs and the 1957 report has one large folding map a		1954; 1957 and 1960.	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
134		About 18 Catalogues of music records. Parlophone 1931 Columbia Records 1923, ...			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
135		11 books on predominantly Psychology with a few on Philosophy, all in good condition. Some titles include Studies in Hysteria by Freud (1950), Collected Papers			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 50.80
136		13 books, all in good condition. A mix on Art, Literature, Theatre and Novels. Mostly from the early-mid 1900s, with a few being more modern titles.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
137	Mark Pennings.	Origins of Australian football : Victoria's early history		2012, 2013-2016	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
138		A set of the complete novels and historical writings of Sir Walter Scott.		circa1862-63	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 476.25
139	Zunyi Yang, Cheng Yuqi and Wang Hongzhen. Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics No. 3	The Geology of China		1986	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
140	Richard Adams	Watership Down	the UK		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
141	Graeme Base,	The Discovery of Dragons	Melbourne	1996	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
142	Ronald Dahl. Illustrations Quentin Blake.	The Twits		1980	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
143	Peter Carey	The Tax Inspector	St. Lucia	1991	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
144	Tim Winton	Cloudstreet	Melbourne	1991	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 317.50
145	Mario Vargas Llosa and first UK editions	1) The War At The End Of The World 1984 2) The Storyteller1989 3) Death In The Andes 1993	London		AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
146	Milan Kundera	1) The Book of Laughter and Forgetting		1982	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
147	Arthur W Upfield	Winds Of Evil	Sydney	1937	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 2,032.00
148	Henry Lawson	While The Billy Boils With Eight Plates by Mahony.	Sydney	1896	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 2,159.00
149	H. Rider Haggard.	Treasure of the Lake	New York	1926	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 285.75
150		A handwritten letter from Roy Bridges to A C Rowlandson.. Roy Bridges was an Australian writer of crime and adventure novels. Many of his books were set in Tasmania where he was born and lived for many years. Rowlandson was the publisher for the NSW Books		circa 1910	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50

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.