Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Art, Military, Geology, First editions, Fine bindings, A164, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 12, 2025 - October 12, 2025

Page Size: 491 items in 20 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
76	SPENCER, Baldwin and F.J. GILLEN	The Northern Tribes of Central Australia	London	1904	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 285.75
77	SPENCER, Baldwin and F.J. GILLEN	The Native Tribes of Central Australia	London	1899	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 698.50
78	SPENCER, Baldwin	Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia	London	1914	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 228.60
79		The Harmsworth London Magazine, eighteen annual volumes from the year 1898 onwards			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
80		The Works of Charles Dickens		1966-1967	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
81		An entire shelf of twenty one books on Sir Winston Churchill		fifties and sixties	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
82		A shelf of books by Charles Dickens, and other titles related to the great novelist, Includes several biographies			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
83		A good quality shelf lot of Australiana		forties and fifties	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
84		"The Annual Review of Queensland, for the year ending June 30th 1902"	Brisbane	December, 1902	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
85	Carlisle Leslie	Australian Historical Medals 1788 -- 1988	Sydney	2008	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
86	HEERES, J. E.	The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606 -- 1765	London	1899	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 444.50
87		The Hardwoods of Australia and their Economics		1919	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 317.50
88	BARTHOLOMEW, John	North-Eastern Australia	London	no date circa 1870	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 317.50
89	PERKINS, Horace	Melbourne Illustrated and Victoria Described	51 Bourke street	1880	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
90	BLACK, Lindsay	Cylcons. The mystery stones of the Darling River Valley		1942	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
91	ROTH, Walter E.	Ethnological Studies Among the North-West Central Queensland Aborigines	Brisbane	1897	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 412.75
92		Map of Queensland by Edward Stanford, address listed as 55 Charing Cross		1886	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 203.20
93		[BLACKBIRDING]. Queensland Imperial and Colonial Acts relating to the Recruiting, etc., of Pacific Island Labourers, and Regulations made thereunder	Brisbane	1892	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 177.80
94		A bound volume of early reports and papers of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, detailing a myriad of ecological catastrophes unfolding in real time	Melbourne	1861	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 476.25
95	THERRY, Sir Roger	Reminiscences of Thirty Years Residence in New South Wales and Victoria with a Supplementary Chapter on Transportation and the Ticket-of-Leave System	London	1863	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 762.00
96	WEST, John	The History of Tasmania	Launceston	1852	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 762.00
97		Great Cathedrals of The Middle Ages by Bernhard Schutz		2002	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 76.20
98	Romio Shrestha	Goddesses of the Celestial Gallery by Romio Shrestha		2006	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 38.10
99	SHOBERL, Frederic	The World in Miniature	London	[1824]	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 317.50
100		A collection of 6 magazines dating between 1938 - 1958			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 38.10

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.