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
176		Pierre Bernard Milius: Last commander of the Baudin expedition: The journal 1800-1804 2 Volumes Bernard Milius; Kate Pratt, translator	2013	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
177	Strother MacMinn and Syd Mead.	Steel Couture - Syd Mead - Futurist	1978	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
178		The History of the Crusades 3 volumes Kenneth M. Setton.		AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
179	M. Rollin	The Ancient History of The Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians 8 Volumes	1823	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
180		Four volumes of T.S. Eliot Critical Assessments	1990	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
181		A History of Chinese Art Vol. 1 and 2	2016	AUD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
182		Fourteen Art books		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
183		Fourteen books on Art Mostly on Renaissance & Baroque,		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
184		Five books by Folio Society 1) Peter Pan and Wendy 2) The Gentlemen's Daughter by Amanda Vickery 3) Tristam Shandy by Laurence Sterne ...		AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
185		Nine books on Ancient history and Art		AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
186		Two boxes of books on Asian History		AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
187		Ephemera - mostly Australian maps		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 254.00
188	Edited Richard J Magruder and Edward C Smith.	Disques		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
189		Cricket Scrap book 1930s filled with articles and images of the Australian cricket team.	1930s	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
190		In Quest of the Ashes 1934. The Don Bradman Souvenir Booklet and Scoring Records.	1934	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
191		The Barracker at Bay : an outspoken reply to Bodyliners by a barracker (R.T. Corrie).		AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 127.00
192		A collection of India books with a sample of it's History, Art, Religion, Travel Writing and Natural History.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
193		Anti body-line by Alan Kippax, in collaboration with Eric P Barbour.	1933	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 152.40
194		A collection of Japanese Art books.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
195		A collection of good European History books.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
196		Solzhenitsyn A collection of books by Solzhenitsyn and about the Soviet Union and Russia.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
197		A bundle of books on Cambodia and Thailand.		AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
198		A lovely collection of Art Nouveau, Art Deco and La Belle Epoque books.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
199		Two and a half shelves of best seller paperback fiction in very good condition.		AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 152.40
200	Frederick McCoy	Natural History of Victoria. Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria; or Figures and Descriptions of the Living Species of all Classes of the Victorian Indigenous Animals.	1885-1890. 1890	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	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.