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
176	NIXON, Richard.	Real Peace. A Strategy for the West.	New York	1983	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
177	MORRISON, James.	The Journal of James Morrison, Boatswain's mate of The Bounty. Describing the Mutiny & subsequent Misfortunes of the Mutineers together with an account of the Island of Tahiti.	London	1935	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 508.00
178	BLIGH, William.	The Bligh Notebook. 'Rough account - Lieutenant Wm. Bligh's voyage in the Bounty's Launch from the ship to Tofua & from thence to Timor' 28 April to 14 June 1789.		1986	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
179	BLIGH, William.	The Voyage of the Bounty's Launch as related in William Bligh's Despatch to the Admiralty and the Journal of John Fryer.	London	1934	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 635.00
180	BLIGH, William.	Bligh's Voyage in the Resource, from Coupang to Batavia, together with the log of his subsequent passage to England in the Dutch packet "Vlydt" and his remarks on Morrison's Journal.	London	1937	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 698.50
181	BLIGH, William.	The Log of the Bounty. Being Lieutenant William Bligh's Log of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Armed Vessel Bounty in a Voyage to the South Seas, to take the Breadfruit from the Society Islands to the West Indies.	London	1937	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
182	FRYER, Mary Ann.	John Fryer of the Bounty. With an introduction and commentary by Owen Rutter, and Wood-Engravings by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve.	London	1939	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 285.75
183	SHACKLETON, E. H.	Aurora Australis.	Auckland	1988	AUD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 1,524.00
184	BLACKMAN, Charles and AMADIO, Nadine (text).	Paris Dreaming. A Celebration of a City of the Imagination. The Paris Drawings of Charles Blackman Written and Compiled by Nadine Amadio.	Sydney	1982	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
185	[SMITH, Captain John]. ARBER, Edward (editor).	Capt. John Smith, of Willoughby by Alford, Lincolnshire; President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England. Works 1608-1631.		1884	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
186		A bound volume comprising the first eight parts of the "English Scholar's Library". The editor of this series, Edward Arber, was a fellow of Kings College and embarked on publishing the "English Scholar's Library", with the noble intention of making impos		1558, 1878 and 1879	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
187	GIBBON, Edward.	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Complete and unabridged in three volumes.	New York	no date but circa 1940	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
188	MAETERLINCK, Maurice.	The Life of the Bee. Translated by Alfred Sutro. Illustrated by Edward J Detmold.	London	1911	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
189		Vita del Padre Emmanuele Padial, della Compagnia di Gesu...	Parma	1728	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 127.00
190	SIMON, Andre.	History of the Champagne Trade in England.	London	1905	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
191	FORESTER, C.S.	Flying Colours including A Ship of the Line.	London	1938	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 381.00
192	Ken McGregor.	Fifty Years of Perceval Drawings	Sydney	1989	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
193		A shelf lot of historical novels, mostly contemporary, and typically on themes of the Middle Ages.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
194	Jane Austen.	A small lot of books by and about Jane Austen.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
195		Five books on Medieval history.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 38.10
196	WELCH, Charles.	London at the Opening of the Twentieth Century. Contemporary Biographies, edited by W. T. Pike (Pike's New Century Series, No. 15).		1905	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
197	KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von.	Voyage Round the World, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva.	London	1813	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 412.75
198	BATCHELDER, Alf.	Playing The Greater Game: The Melbourne Cricket Club and its Ground in World War I.	Brighton, Victoria	1998	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
199	HAY, Agnes Grant, nee Gosse.	Footprints. A Memoir of the Late Alexander Hay, one of the fathers and early colonists of South Australia.	London	1899	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 203.20
200	edited by Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter.	Arts of Asia Magazine,		1989-1993	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	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.