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
428		On The Hop! A Selection from the Australian Drawings of Livingston Hopkins ("Hop" of the Bulletin.)	1904	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
429		A large albumen photograph(38x30cm) of the Moroney's Railway Hotel on the corner of Elizabeth and Flinders Street in Melbourne.		AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
430	Tchaikovsky	Australian sheet music for the Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky, with a front cover illustration by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (initialled IRO).	1941	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
431	Gilbert Abbott a Beckett	The Comic Blackstone By Gilbert Abbott a Beckett Part I Of the Rights of the Persons.	1844	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 88.90
432		Milestones One Hundred Years: the History of the Firm of Tucker & Co by LA Saunders.	[1939].	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
433		Grif: The Story of an Australian Life by BL Farjeon.	1898	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
434		Transactions and Proceedings, and Report of the Royal Society of South edited by Robert T Litton.	[1891].	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
435	Herries Beattie	A collection of Otago History by Herries Beattie booklets		AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
436		Guide to Sydney & Pleasure Resorts of NS Wales.	1900s	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
437		Voyages 1) The China Clippers by Lubbock.	1914	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
438	JE Philp.	Three books on Whaling. 1) Whaling Ways of Hobart Town	1936	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
439		Polar Exploration 1) The Conquest of the North Pole. Recent Arctic Exploration Hayes.	1934	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
440	W. Balls-Headley.	The Evolution of The Diseases of Women	1894	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
441		The History of the Sydney Hospital from 1811 to 1911, by J.	1911	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
442	Herausgegeben im Auftrage der Geographischen Gesellschaft in Hamburg von Dr. G. Neumayer und Otto Leichhardt.	Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt s Briefe an seine Angehorigen.		AUD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
443		Parliamentary Paper Port Curtis Report on Present Condition of Settlement with 2 Maps.		AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
444		Natural History - mostly Australia 1) Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture or Naturalization, with Indications of Their Native Countries and Some of Their Uses by Ferdinand Von Mueller.	1885	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
445	JONES, D.L. and MUIR, T.B. (editors). W.H. Nicholls	Orchids of Australia. The complete edition drawn in natural colour by W.H. Nicholls with descriptive text.	1969	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
446		Zoological Atlas Anatomy of Invertebrates and Vertebrates (Including Comparative Anatomy) With Practical Directions and Explanatory Text for the Use of Students: Vertebrata by D M'Alpine.	1881	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
447	FHH Guillemard.	The Life of Ferdinand Magellan and the First Circumnavigation of the Globe. 1480-1521	1890	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
448	David Kennedy Jr.	Four books on Voyages of the Southern Seas. 1) Kennedy's Colonial Travel: A Narrative of a Four Years' Tour Through Australia, New Zealand, Canada	1876	AUD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
449	compiled John C. Symons and Joseph Dare.	The Storm and the Haven: a tribute to the memory of the Rev. D.J. Draper, late representative from the Australasian Conference to the British Conference	1866	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
450		Travels in the Crimea, and along the shores of the Black Sea, performed during the year 1803 by J Reilly.	1807	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
451		The Songs of Scotland: Ancient and Modern by All Cunningham.	1825	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 476.25
452		A little bundle of sweet small bindings to decorate your shelf. 1) Murrell's Poison's 2) French English Conversations 3) Geography of Australasia 4) Poetical works of Thomas Campbell Finely		AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 63.50

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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