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

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 30, 2025 - November 30, 2025
Page Size: 513 items in 21 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
327 Charmian Clift

Walk to the Paradise Gardens

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 1,079.50
328 Alex Miller

Conditions of Faith

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
329 Jayne Anne Phillip

Shelter

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
330 Russell Braddon

The Year of the Angry Rabbit

1964 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 254.00
331 Galfrid C.K. Dunsterville

Two books on Venezuela both 1) Arboles en Flor de Venezuela 2) Orquideas De Venezuela

1951 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
332 William Barclay and Adam Smith.

The Schools and Schoolmasters of Banffshire

1925 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
333 Jeffrey Archer

To Cut a Long Story Short

2000 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
334 Claire David

Winter Range

2000 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
335 J.D.G Medley

Stolne and Surreptitious Verses

1952 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
336 Alison Lurie

1) Foreign Affairs

1984 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
337

An appreciation by W. H. Langham.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 412.75
338

Uncorrected Proof Signed by Author,

2002 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
339

Ladeled Gawsworth Old Rectory 1963, An Old Cheshire Village 1962 and The hanging Gate 1966

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
340

Framed print entitled 'Village Cricket -- Nine Gentlemen in Waiting', depicting a group of cricketers.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
341 John Morison

A complete report of the trial of Miss Madeline Smith: for the alleged poisoning of Pierre Emile L'Angelier / Revised and corrected, with an introductory chapter

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
342 Eric Partridge

Robert Eyres Landor, Selections from his Poetry and Prose, with an Introduction, Biographical & Critical

1927 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
343 J.W. Mackail.

William Morris An Address Delivered the XITH November MDCCCC at the Kelmscott House Hammersmith Before the Hammersmith Socialist Society

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
344

A Catalogue of Horace Walpole's Library.

1969 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
345 Milne, A. A. Illustrations Ernest H. Shepard

Now We are Six

1927 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
346

The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages

1982-1983 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 139.70
347 Charles McCubbin

Australian Butterflies

1971 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
348 Alois Senefelder

The Invention Of Lithography

1911 AUD 100.00 - 300.00 AUD 254.00
349 Stanley Morison and Kenneth Day,

Four books on Typography and Printing 1) The Typographic Book, 1450-1935.

1963 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
350

A box of Australian book collector magazines

2000s AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
351 WM Fleming

Bunyip Says So, A Tale of the Australian Bush

1922 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 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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