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
226	EJ Rupert Atkinson.	By A Midnight Sea : Poems	1908	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
227		Eyeball issue 4 (c.1971) Sydney underground bootleg newsprint magazine / zine.	c.1971	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
228		The Joint Issue no.10 (c.1972) Sydney underground bootleg newsprint magazine / zine.	c.1972	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
229		The 'Voice' of Young Australia c.1970	c.1970	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
230		Tharunka UNSW student magazine Students Union (1953 - 1992)		AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 152.40
231		Sex UNSW July 1971 Magazine/ booklet produced by the UNSW Tharunka student magazine	1971	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 190.50
232	Rev James Anderson.	Memorable Women of Puritan times	1862	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
233		A little collection Freemasons / Masonic NSW .		AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
234	Richard G Nell.	Diaries and letters and documents of Richard G Nell.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
235	Sir Baldwin Spencer.	Spencer's Last Journey: Being a Journal of an Expedition to Tierra Del Fuego by the Late Sir Baldwin Spencer.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
236		Early South Australia. 1) South Australian Exploration to 1856 by Gwenneth Williams.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
237	Marjorie Tipping.	Ludwig Becker. Artist and Naturalist with the Burke and Wills Expedition.		AUD 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
238		The New Physics And Its Evolution by Lucien Poincare.		AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
239		An Essay In Aid of A Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman.		AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
240		The Mineral Province of Canada Being A Short History of Mining in the Province, a Synopsis of the Mining Laws in Force, Statistics of Mineral Production to Date and a Brief Summary of the Progress of Minging during 1926.	1927	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
241		A book bound with different religious.	17th Century.	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
242		The Lives of The Chief Justices of England. From the Norman Conquest Till the Death of Lord Mansfield by John Lord Campbell.	1849	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 114.30
243	Sir James Mackintosh. Edited His Son Robert James Mackintosh.	Memoirs of The Life of The Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh. Edited by His Son Robert James Mackintosh.	1835	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
244	R. Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. Dupuy.	The Encyclopedia of Military History from 3500 BC to the present	1977	AUD 60.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
245		Severn Aero Series.	1965-1968.	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 101.60
246	Wes Olson.	Battalion into Battle - The History of the 2/11th Australian Infantry Battalion 1939-1945	2011	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
247	John Oxley.	Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales. Maps and Views of the Newly Discovered Country. facsimile of the 1820 edition.	1964	AUD 280.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
248		At Home in Fiji by Gordon Cumming	1882	AUD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
249		Six books on erotic photography		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 215.90
250		Seven biography books		AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold

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.
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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