Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Fine Bindings, 1st Editions, Science, Philosophy, Art, Photography, Fishing, 165A, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 26, 2025 - October 26, 2025

Page Size: 400 items in 16 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101		A collection of books on Printing and Book collecting including a couple of Australian related books			AUD 125.00 - 250.00	AUD 50.80
102		A good lot of modern Australiana			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
103		About 23 Australian Art Catalogues			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 444.50
104	Robert Hall	Australian Bird Maps	Hobart	1922	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 762.00
105		Poison Plants of New South Wales		1942	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
106		The Channel Country of South-West Queensland With Special Reference to Cooper's Creek			AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 539.75
107		Flies: Their Origin, Natural History, Tying, Hooks, Patterns and Selections of Dry and Wet Flies, Nymphs, Streamers...			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
108	Len Deighton ( Compiler )	Len Deighton's London Dossier	London	1967	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
109		The Victorian Contractors' and Builders' Price-Book, Containing A Universal and permanent Price-List For Labor Only		1859	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 539.75
110	J E Bromby	Sermons on the earlier chapters of Genesis Preached in St. Paul's Church Melbourne	Melbourne	1880	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
111	Charles Rowcroft	An Emigrant In Search Of A Colony	London	1851	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
112	Charles M. Wetzel	Trout Flies: Naturals and Imitations	Harrisburg, Pa	1955	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
113		Trout Fishing. A Season On Monaro	Sydney, Australia	1968	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
114	Claude Leplastrier	Willoughby's Fifty Years. A Retrospect of the Jubilee Period of the Council of the Municipality of Willoughby for the Years 1865 to 1915		1916	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
115		The Darling Downs Naturalist Journal Of The Toowoomba Field Naturalist Club		1957 and 1961	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
116		Six incomplete Volumes of Australia Illustrated Sold as is with some plates missing			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
117		About 30 books mostly early twentieth century with a few nineteenth		early twentieth century	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
118	Albert Einstein	The Meaning of Relativity Four Lectures Delivered At Princeton University, May, 1922			AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 1,651.00
119	Hulbert Footner	The Substitute Millionaire	New York	1919	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
120	Edith Wharton	The Buccaneers	New York	1938	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
121	edited by Raymond E. Brown, S.S., Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J. & Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm	The Jerome Biblical Commentary	London	1986	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 63.50
122	A.S. Meek	A Naturalist In Cannibal Land	London, United Kingdom	1913	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
123	Rebecca A. T. Stevens	The Kimono Inspiration: Art and Art-To-Wear in America		1996	AUD 60.00 - 100.00	AUD 38.10
124		1. Woman Prayer Woman Song 1987			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 38.10
125		1. Images From The Floating World The Japanese Print			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 63.50

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.
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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