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
51	Edited C. Warren Bonython	I'm No Lady. Reminiscences of Constance Jean, Lady Bonython, O.B.E. 1891-1977.	1977-1981.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
52	Edited John Williamson, and others.	Venomous and Poisonous Marine Animals: A Medical and Biological Handbook.	1996	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
53		The Memoirs of Captain Liddell Hart.	1965	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
54	BRENNAN, Martin.	Reminiscences of the Gold Fields and Elsewhere in New South Wales, covering a period of forty-eight years as an Officer of Police.	1907	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
55		One of Australia's Daughters. An autobiography of Mrs. Harrison Lee.	1906	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
56	REID, Arthur.	Those Were the Days.	1933	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
57		Bohemia. The All-Australian Literary Magazine.		AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 254.00
58		Facsimile edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.		AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 317.50
59	J. W. Collinson	Five scarce books by J. W. Collinson on the early history of North Queensland.		AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 228.60
60	SPENCER, Baldwin and F.J. GILLEN.	The Northern Tribes of Central Australia.	1904	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 412.75
61		Victoria and Riverina.		AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
62		Carlisle Leslie. Australian Historical Medals 1788 -- 1988. Incorporating Australian Commemorative Medals and Medalets from 1788.	2008	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 381.00
63	RYMILL, John.	Southern Lights. The official account of the British Graham Land Expedition 1934-1937.	1938	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
64	MAWSON, Sir Douglas.	The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914...	1915	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
65	STURT, Charles.	Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, during the Years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831: with observations on the soil, climate, and general resources of the colony of New South Wales by Capt. Charles Sturt.	1833	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00	AUD 1,079.50
66	RIPLEY, Sidney Dillon.	A Synopsis of the Birds of India and Pakistan. Together with these of Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Ceylon.	1961	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
67	COOK, Captain James. BEAGLEHOLE, J.C. (editor).	The Journals of Captain James Cook. Comprising: I. The Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771. II. The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775. III. The voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780 (two volumes for the third voyage).		AUD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00	Not Sold
68	PERKINS, Horace.	Melbourne Illustrated and Victoria Described.	1880	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 285.75
69	BLACK, Lindsay.	Cyclones. The mystery stones of the Darling River Valley. Part II. Being a continuation of a series on the customs of the Aborigines of the Darling River Valley and of Central New South Wales, "Burial Trees" being Part I.	1942	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
70	SHOBERL, Frederic.	The World in Miniature. South Sea Islands...	[1824].	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 254.00
71		An Account of The Polynesian Race. Its Origin and Migration and the Ancient History of the Hawaiian People to the Times of Kamehameha I.		AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
72		Gold Dredging in New South Wales by D. S. L. Clift	1975	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
73	BRISSON, Mathurin-Jacques.	Ornithologie ou methode continent la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes et leurs varietes. A laquelle on a joint une description exacte de chaque espece...	1760	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
74	CHEESEMAN T. F. & HEMSLEY W. B. Edited T. F. Cheesman,	Illustrations of the New Zealand Flora.	1914	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 317.50
75	NANSEN, Fridtjof (series editor).	The Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893-1896. Scientific Results. Edited by Fridtjof Nansen.	1900	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold

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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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.