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
478	Charles Dickens.	Ten titles by or about Charles Dickens.		AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
479	WOLF, Joseph.	The Life and Habits of Wild Animals.	1874	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
480		Geology of the Vegetable Creek Tin-Mining Field, New England District, New South Wales by TW Edgeworth David.	1887	AUD 200.00 - 400.00	AUD 152.40
481		1870 Victoria. Reports of the Mining Surveyors and Registrars Quarter Ending 31st March 1870.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
482		The Benevolent Society of New South Wales Sketches of the Poor by Edward Maxted Manager (An Appeal For Aid for the Widow and Orphan and The Aged and Decrepit Poor) Published by Authority of the Board of Directors.	1902	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
483		Stanley in Tropical Africa: His Travels, Heroism and Discoveries and Gallant Relief of Emin Pasha Including the Narrative of the Livingstone Search Expedition, of the Journey through Equatorial Africa, and That of the Founding of the Congo Free State by R		AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
484	Roald Dahl	Roald Dahl Complete Set Audio Books.		AUD 60.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
485		NSW Parliamentary Paper.		AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
486		Coloured Sketch Map of New South Wales Shewing Localities of the Principal Minerals. Revised To Date under the direction of E F Pittman.	No date but circa 1900	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
487		NSW Parliamentary Paper. Report of the Comptroller-General of Prisons, New South Wales for the Year 1910		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
488	Charles Dickens.	A Christmas Carol. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.		AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 508.00
489	John F Power	Blind Alley	1946	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 38.10
490	Annette Kellerman with illustrations Marcelle Wooster.	Fairy tales of the south seas : and other stories	circa 1926	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 190.50
491	Baron Cuvier.	The Animal Kingdom arranges and organization forming a natural history of animals and an introduction to comparative anatomy	1884	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 76.20
492	James George Beaney.	The Generative System and Its Functions in Health and Disease	1875	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
493	John Alexander Ferguson.	Bibliography of Australia 1784 to 1900. 8 Volumes.		AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
495		A collection of Victorian Government prize essays bound in one volume.		AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
496		Australia and its settlements.	circa 1853	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
497	William John Wills. Edited his Father, William Wills.	A Successful Exploration through the interior of Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria: From the Journals and Letters of William John Wills.	1863	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 381.00
498		Notable South Australians or colonists Past and Present by GE Loyau.		AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
499		The Life of Edward John Eyre, Late Governor of Jamaica by Hamilton Hume.	1867	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 127.00
500		Kelly's Map of Herts		AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
501	Duane Michals.	Take One and See Mt. Fujiyama and other stories	1976	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
502	John Jackson.	Ping pong to China	1971	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 38.10
503		Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Twenty-five thousand by Lewis Carroll.	1895	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	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.
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.