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
151		Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide and General Handbook, Illustrated with Local and Other Maps, Special Edition.	2012	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
152	Frank Cash.	Parables of the Sydney Harbour Bridge: - Setting forth the preparation for, and progressive growth of, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, to April 1930.	1930	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 349.25
153		Film and photography. Four books from the Collins Photography Workshop by Michael Freeman		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
154		Two shelves with over 50 hardcover in dust wrappers in excellent condition.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
155	Baldacci, Gillette , Tremayne, Follett, Ludlum, and more.	Two shelves with over 65 paperback fiction.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
156		Charming hand-painted postcard of Sydney Harbour with Yacht.		AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 114.30
157		A Pocket Guide to Abergavenny: containing a map of the district, 17 illustrations and descriptive letterpress.	1906	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
158		A collection of books on Asia including A guide to rugs and carpets, histories and art,		AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
159		A collection of Music books. A couple of histories but mostly paperback pocket music script books.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
160		A collection of non-fiction books, a mix of science, natural history and history books.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
161	Giovanni Boccaccio.	Decameron of Boccaccio [unexpurgated].	1960	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 88.90
162		A shelf of dictionaries, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Fables and a Thesaurus for good measure.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
163		Sydney Views 1920s-1930s 1) The Most Up-To-Date Sydney Panoramic Views.	circa 1920-1930s.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
164		A collection of Australian postcards.	c.1900-1920s	AUD 300.00 - 500.00	AUD 539.75
165		Georg Jensen Jewelry by David A. Taylor.	2005	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 190.50
166		Sailing-Ship Models A Selection from European and American Collections with Introductory Text by R. Morton Nance.	1924	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
167		Charles Dickens 25 volume set.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
168		Poetry Collection -, including. Poems by Robert Browning, Tennyson, John Milton, J.G Whittier, John Keats, Byron.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
169		25 volumes of The Worlds Great Classics by Grolier, including The Works of Shakespeare, The Divine Comedy, The Odyssey, Plutarch, Huckleberry Finn, Vanity Fair, Ivanhoe & many more.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
170	Mary & Elizabeth Durack	The Way of The Whirlwind	1944	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 203.20
171		Keylock's Dams of Winners of all Flat Races in Great Britain and Ireland		AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
172		7 Volumes in 8 Parts of Historical records of New South Wales and Facsimiles of Charts 1762 to 1780 to accompany Volume 1, Part 1.		AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
173		16 Thomas Hardy pocket books c.1910s-1950s	c.1910s-1950s	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
174		8 Volumes of Pictures from Punch Magazine.		AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
175		Three Volumes of The Modern Bricklayer; A Practical Work on Bricklaying In All Its Branches, by William Frost.	c.1920s	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	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.