Sydney Rare Book Auctions: History, Science, Mining, Exploration, Zines, Beer and Wine, Photographs and more, A167, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 30, 2025 - November 30, 2025

Page Size: 513 items in 21 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Lou Klepac , James Gleeson.	Beyond the screen of sight	2004	AUD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
2		An Eye For Photography: The Camera In Australia by Alan Davies	2004	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
3		Landscape Scenery Illustrating Sydney, Paramatta, Richmond, Maitland, Windsor, and Port Jackson,	1855	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
4		Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell with Samuel Johnson's poetical pieces relative to the tour.	1785	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 381.00
5	Mrs Daly.	Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia	1887	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 381.00
6	LINDSAY, Norman.	Micomicana.	1979	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
7	[UNKNOWN COMPILER].	Armorials of Somerset.	1800	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
8	Department of Mines .	Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. Geology Number 7' Geology and Mineral Resources of the Southern Coal-Field with Maps and Sections. Part 1, the South Coastal Portion by L F Harper.	1915	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
9		Western Australia Geological Survey. Bulletin No. 10 Maps, Plans, and Sections to accompany report on The Mining Groups of the Yilgarn Goldfield North of the Great Eastern Railway.	1950	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
10	Hobson, Miles & Matheson.	1952 Western Australia Geological Survey Bulletin 103 Supplementary Atlas No 1. Geological Maps of Portion of the Mt. Margaret Goldfield.	1952	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
11		Bulletin De La Societe Geologique De France !833 to 1854. 22 volumes.	!833 to 1854	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 952.50
12	the Rec W. B. Clarke	Remarks on the Sedimentary Formations of New South Wales Illustrated by References to Other Provinces of Australasia	1878	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
13	compiled Robert Logan Jack	Eight Parliamentary Papers compiled by Robert Logan Jack	1870s and 1880s.	AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	AUD 8,890.00
14	Harrie Wood.	Mineral Products of New South Wales. Notes on the Geology of New South Wales by C S Wilkinson and Description Of The Minerals of New South Wales by Archibald Liversidge.	1882	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
15	John Evans	The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain	1872	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
16	Alfred J. Ewart	Flora of Victoria	1930	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
17	Louis Pasteur	Studies on Fermentation: The Diseases of Beer, Their Causes and the Means of Preventing Them, Translated into English by Frank Faulkner and D. Constable Robb	1879	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
18		The Minerals of New South Wales, Etc by A Liversidge. With Map.	1888	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
19	H C Russell	Climate of New South Wales: Descriptive, Historical, and Tabular.	1877	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
20		Tabular List of all the Australian Birds at Present Known to the Author, showing the Distribution of the Species over the Continent of Australia and Adjacent Islands.	1888	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
21	POPE, John Alexander, GETTENS, Rutherford John, and others.	The Freer Chinese Bronzes.	1967-1969.	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
22		Three voyage accounts published by Nico Israel in the late sixties and early seventies, being high quality facsimile editions with maps and charts.		AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
23	MAGRIEL, Paul.	Bibliography of Boxing. A Chronological Check List of Books in English Printed Before 1900.	Before 1900	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
24		Eighteen issues of the War Pictorial and related publications, from 1917 and 1918.	1917-1918	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
25	ROUSSELOT, Jean-Loup, ABEL, Bernard, and others.	Masques Eskimo d'Alaska.	1991	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

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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.
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.