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

Auction Details

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
51		FIVE BOOKPLATES. 1. Photographic bookplate for Lewis & Patricia Morley...			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
52		The First Fifty Years Of Responsible Government In Victoria The Roll Of Parliament and Some Statistics of Progress For 1856 to 1906	Melbourne	1906	AUD 180.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
53		ALDOUS HUXLEY. 1. The Cicadas And Other Poems...	London	1931	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
54	Winifred Ponder	Clara Butt: Her Life Story	London	1928	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 38.10
55	Ralph M Wiltgen	OCEANIC CHRISTIAN HISTORY. 1. The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Oceania 1825 to 1850	Canberra	1981	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
56		AUSTRALIANA. 1. What Bird Is That? Neville Cayley...	Sydney	1984	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
57		Report From The Royal Commission on Old Age Pensions Together With Proceedings, Minutes of Evidence. Appendices, and A Synopsis Of The Evidence		1906	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
58		RICHMOND TWEED CLARENCE RIVERS MAP			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
59	JB Jaquet	The Iron Ore Deposits of New South Wales With Maps, Plates and Sections	Sydney	1901	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
60	MARTINEAU, John	Letters from Australia	London	1869	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
61	Richard Whately	Thoughts on Secondary Punishments in a Letter to Earl Grey	London	1832	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
62	John Armstrong	Facts And Observations Relative To the Fever Commonly Called Puerperal	London	1819	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
63	George H B Macleod	1858 SURGERY CRIMEAN WAR	London	1858	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 381.00
64		The Hand Its Mechanism and Its Vital Endowments	London	1837	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
65		The Anatomist's Vade-Mecum Containing the Anatomy, Physiology, Morbid Appearances, etc of the Human Body	London	1804	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 285.75
66	Lionel Beale	The Microscope, and Its Application to Clinical Medicine	London	1854	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
67	SIR WALTER SCOTT	A fine cloth binding. 23 cloth bound volumes of The Works of Sir Walter Scott	Sydney	1887	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
68		The Angler's Note-Book and Naturalist's Record: A Repertory of Fact, Inquiry and Discussion on Field-sports and Subjects of Natural History		1880	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
69	Edited by H. H. Paynting	The James Flood Book of Early Motoring	Melbourne	1968	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 508.00
70	Jim Bolus	Royal Blood: Fifty Years of Classic Thoroughbreds		1994	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
71	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Edinburgh	1811	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
72		Circumnavigation Of The Globe and Progress of Maritime Discovery From The Earliest Period To The Present Time	London	1859	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
73		The Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science, Agriculture, Statistics, etc.		1842 to 1849	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 1,270.00
74	Robert William Dale	Impressions of Australia	London	1889	AUD 160.00 - 200.00	AUD 215.90
75		LONDON ARCHITECTURE. One Thousand Buildings of London	New York	2006	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60

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.