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
151	Lladro.	Two Porcelain Lovebirds Handmade in Spain			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
152		Two big boxes of fishing books. Mostly Trout Fishing with some books on making flies. Hard covers in very good condition.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
153		A big pile of 29 Sydney History books. Includes Sydney Sandstone, North Sydney Suburbs. Authors Max Kelly, Isidor Brodsky and Nesta Griffiths. Mostly Hardcovers in dust wrapper in very good condition.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 190.50
154		Folio Society - History of England. Four Volumes. Octavo hardcovers in slipcase. Some makes to slipcase else very good copies.	Melbourne:	1904-1911.	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 190.50
155	C French.	Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 139.70
156		Fourteen books on Crime. Hours of fascinating reading. 1) The Murders of the Black Museum			AUD 140.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
157	John Brock.	A little bundle of good books on Australian Flora. 1) Top End Native Plants		1988	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
158		A little bundle of Bird Books. 1) Pheasant in North America			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
159	Roy Strong	A little collection of Ceramic and Porcelain books. 1) Meissen Portrait Figurines 2) 2 volumes of German Porcelain of the 18th Century 3) World of Antiques with intro			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
160		Five books on Architecture mostly modern. All in good condition. 1) Frank Lloyd wright Paperback 2) Architectural Design for Today. 3) Architecture in Perspective 16 4) Architecture in Perspective 12 5) Architecture in Perspective. 1992. Water stain			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
161		A collection of wine books. 1) Wine Hunter			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 177.80
162	C French.	Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
163		A shelf of 10 books on Psychology. Nearly all cloth bound hardcovers. 1) A general Introduction to Psychology			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 317.50
164	Norman Lindsay.	Creative effort : an essay on affirmation	London	1924	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
165	N. M. Penzer.	The Ocean of Story being C. H. Tawney's Translation of Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sagara (or Ocean of Streams of Story) edited		1924-1928	AUD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
166		Oscar Hammerstein II -Plays one signed. 1) Lyrics -	New York	1949	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 165.10
167	JT Lang.	I Remember			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
168	Lord Dunsany. Illustrated by Sidney H. Sime.	The Chronicles of Rodriguez		1922	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
169	Professor Arnold Ehret.	Rational Fasting for Physical, Mental & Spiritual Rejuvenation	California	1926	AUD 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
170	Arthur Griffith.	1) Australians in Action : The Story of Gallipoli	Sydney	1918	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
171	DH Lawrence.	Two books by DH Lawrence. 1) Fantasia of the Unconscious.		1922	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 190.50
172	JA Steers.	The Queensland coast and the Great Barrier reefs b: A paper partly read at the Evening Meeting of the Society on 4 February			AUD 120.00 - 160.00	AUD 114.30
173		A Collection of Natural History from S Copland Library.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
174	Sigmund Freud	Selected Papers on Hysteria	New York	1920	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
175	OBAMA, Barak.	A Promised Land.	New York	2020	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00

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.