Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Maps, Mining, Art, firsts, signed and limited edition book, A166, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 16, 2025 - November 16, 2025
Page Size: 325 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
276

Legends of King Arthur

2001 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
277

Darwin's Essential Works...

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 285.75
278 Rudyard Kipling

Three books...

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 38.10
279 A.A. Milne

Winnie The Pooh The Collector's Edition

1999 AUD 120.00 - 200.00 AUD 139.70
280 Colin Tudge

The Secret Life of Trees

2008 AUD 120.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
281 Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell To Arms, For Whom The Bell Tolls, To Have And Have Not, The Old Man And The Sea

2008 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 285.75
282 Thomas Carlyle

The French Revolution

2001 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
283 Alan Moorehead

The Desert War Trilogy

2010 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 50.80
284 Elizabeth David

Three Cooking Books...

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
285 Charlton Hinman

The Norton Facsimile The First Folio of Shakespeare

1996 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 76.20
286 Arthur Conan Doyle

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

1993 AUD 120.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
287

AUSTRALIAN ARMY IN VIETNAM. 2 books about Australian Army in Vietnam...

AUD 120.00 - 200.00 AUD 76.20
288

16 books about Australian Military History...

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 203.20
289

Six books about Australian Infantry Battalion...

AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 190.50
290

Six book about Australian Aviation History...

AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 165.10
291 Sir Walter Ralegh

Two books bound in on volume. 1) The Discoverie of Guiana...

1596 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 101.60
292 ALEXANDER, Francesca

Christ's Folk in the Apennine

1887 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 203.20
293 Geoffrey Serle

John Monash A Biography

2008 AUD 120.00 - 200.00 AUD 228.60
294 Col.. H Stewart

The New Zealand Division 1916 - 1919

1921 AUD 500.00 - 800.00 AUD 317.50
295

Holford Letter to Bexley

1829 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 228.60
296 J.J. Pascoe

History of Adelaide and Vicinity with A General Sketch of The Province of South Australia and biographies of Representative Men

1901 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
297

A printed and folded Christmas card from May and Eric Jolliffe to Ion Idriess...

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
298 Ion L Idriess

Our Stone Age Mystery...

AUD 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 Not Sold
299

Two Shelves of Paperback Fiction

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
300

BULL DOG BOOK END

AUD 60.00 - 80.00 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.