Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Philosophy, Religion, The Arts Modern Firsts, Entomology and more, A175, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 22, 2026 - February 22, 2026

Page Size: 401 items in 17 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
376		Two bound volumes from the Entomology Magazine Volume II 1835 and III 1836		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
377	Cleland	A volume from the Royal Society of NSW with articles including one on Eucalyptus by Maiden and another on Australian Fungi by Cleland 1917		1917	AUD 120.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
378	FGA Barnard, editor	Two volumes of the Victorian Naturalist edited by FGA Barnard	Melbourne	1905-7	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
379	LINDSAY, Norman	Micomicana		1979	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
380	Ian Fleming	You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming	London	1964	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 571.50
381		Parliamentary Paper 1899 Queensland : Geology of the West Moreton or Ipswich Coal Field Also Queensland Coal : Its Economic Value As A Steam Coal		1899	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
382		A bundle of 18th and 19th Century Enmology books		18th and 19th Century	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
383		Monographie des Buprestides	Bruxelles	1908-1909	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
384		Brunnichii Zoologiae fundamenta praelectionibus academicis accommodata	Hafniae et Lipsiae	1772	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
385	JO Westwood	Arcana Entomologica; or Illustrations of New, Rare, and Interesting Insects	London	1845	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
386	Lacordaire	Introduction a l'entomologie, comprenant les principes generaux de l'anatomie et de la physiologie des insectes, des details sur leurs murs et un resume des principaux systemes de classification proposes jusqu'a ce jour	Paris	1834	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
387	Charles De Geer and Johann August Ephraim Goeze	Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Insekter by Charles De Geer and Johann August Ephraim Goeze	Leipzig	1775	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
388		Entomologist's Annual 1850-70	London	N/A	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
389		Physikalisch-Oconomische Abhandlung von den Schadlichen Raupen der Obstbaume, und bewahrten Hulfmitteln, solche Raupen von den Obstbaumen abzuhalten und zu vertreiben	Leipzig	1780	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
390		The Bird World		1880	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
391		1899 Queensland Parliamentary Paper		N/A	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
392		Queensland Government Parliamentary Papers concerning Queensland gold fields		N/A	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 508.00
393	Joanne Goedartio [Johannes Goedaert]	Metamorphosis Et Historia Naturalis Insectorum by Joanne Goedartio [Johannes Goedaert]	Medioburgi [Middelburg]	1662	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
394		1. Margot Neville Murder Before Marriage Doubleday Crime club 1951		1951	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
395	Tibbetts	Erte		1995	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
396		4 volumes consisting of works of drama all performed in London and performed there in the early eighteenth century, all are published in 1806 and 1807		1806 and 1807	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
397		[CHURCH OF ENGLAND]. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church... together with the Psalter or Psalms of David	London	circa 1940	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
398	W[illiam] B[innington] Boyce	Six lectures on the higher criticism upon the Old Testament	Sydney	1878	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
399		Paper and Print The Quarterly Issues of The British & Colonial Printer Volume 4 No. 16 December 1931	London	1931-12-16	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
400	'Eugah'	A Student of Women And Other Stories	Melbourne	1899	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold

Heritage, May 13: Isaac Asimov. I, Robot. The dedication copy, inscribed to John W. Campbell, Jr.

Heritage, May 13: Aldous Huxley. Brave New World. A fine copy, in a brilliant dust jacket.

Heritage, May 13: Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author.

Heritage, May 13: Robert A. Heinlein. Stranger in a Strange Land. A fine copy, signed by the author.

Heritage, May 13: Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Exceedingly rare true first American edition, first issue.
Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 16. Blaeu's world map on a polar projection in contemporary color (1695) Est. $5,500 - $7,000

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 55. Illuminated lunar globe produced in East Germany (1977) Est. $750 - $900

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 594. Rare and decorative De Jode map of Africa (1593) Est. $7,500 - $9,000

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 127. The first printed map to focus on New England and New France (1565) Est. $4,500 - $5,500

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 298. Rare Texas oilfield map (1920) Est. $3,000 - $3,750

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 656. Bible leaf with hand-colored image of Adoration of the Magi (1450) Est. $1,800 - $2,100

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 9. Blaeu's magnificent carte-a-figures world map (1641) Est. $12,000 - $15,000

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 214. Rare edition of view of the world from Silicon Valley (1984) Est. $600 - $750

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 34. Fascinating Japanese satirical map published just prior to WWII (1938) Est. $1,400 - $1,700

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 181. German edition of Catesby's scarce and important map of the Southeastern US (1755) Est. $3,750 - $4,500

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 625. Complete set of Covarrubias's "Pageant of the Pacific" (1940-39) Est. $1,200 - $1,500
Jeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 159
Saturday April 25

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1153 Gerhard Mercator u. Jodocus Hondius. Atlas sive cosmographicae. Amsterdam, Hondius, 1606.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1378 Martin Höhlig, Collection of 100 photographs Berlin im Licht, 1928.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 192. Fragment of a late medieval liturgical music manuscript. 14th century

Jeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 159
Saturday April 25

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1394 Auguste Salzmann. Jérusalem. 40 salt paper prints. Paris, Baudry, 1856.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1143 Deluxe edition of Prince Waldemar of Prussia's travelogue about Sri Lanka, India and Nepal. Berlin, 1853.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1225. Koch-Gruenberg. Indianertypen (Indiantypesin the Amazon). Berlin 1906.

Jeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 159
Saturday April 25

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 862. Cornelis Ploos van Amstel. Viro Amplissimo Nobilissimo. Amsterdam 1765.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 549. Francisco de Goya. Los desastres de la guerra. 80 Etchings. Madrid, 1923.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1033. Rösel von Rosenhof. Natural History of Frogs. Nuremberg, 1815.

Jeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 159
Saturday April 25

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 13 Pomponius Mela. Cosmographi. Venice, Renner 1478.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 526 William Shakespeare. Hamlet. Cranach Press, 1928.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1022. Eugen Johann Christoph Esper. Butterflies Leipzig, 1829-1839.
Swann
Fine Books Featuring Focus on Women
April 23, 2026

Swann, Apr. 23: Thomas Heywood. An Apology for Actors. London: Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1612. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, Apr. 23: Illuminated Islamic Devotional Manuscript. 19th century. Approx. 90 leaves with gilt-decorated title and 2 full page miniatures of Mecca and Medina. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 23: Antiphonal in Latin. Manuscript on Parchment. Cologne, early 16th century. $7,000 to $9,000.

Swann
Fine Books Featuring Focus on Women
April 23, 2026

Swann, Apr. 23: Mohammed ibn Jafir Albategnius. De Scientia Stellarum Liber. Bologna: Victor Benati, 1645. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann, Apr. 23: Frank Herbert. Dune. Fine First Edition. Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1965. $5,000 to $7,000.

Swann, Apr. 23: William Shakespeare. Five Plays from the Second Folio. London: Thomas Cotes for Robert Allot, 1632. $6,000 to $8,000.

Swann
Fine Books Featuring Focus on Women
April 23, 2026

Swann, Apr. 23: John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici-Friede, 1937. First edition, first issue. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 23: Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities. With an A.L.S. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. First edition, first issue. $1,200 to $1,800.

Swann, Apr. 23: Ursula K. LeGuin. The Left Hand of Darkness. Inscribed First Edition. New York: Walker and Company, 1969. $800 to $1,200.

Swann
Fine Books Featuring Focus on Women
April 23, 2026

Swann, Apr. 23: L. Frank Baum & Ruth Plumly Thompson. Five First Canadian editions including Ozma of Oz; The Emerald City of Oz; Glinda of Oz; [and others]. $1,000 to $1,500.

Swann, Apr. 23: Corita Kent. Different Drummer. 1967. Color screenprint; signed "Corita" in pencil on the lower edge. $1,000 to $1,500.

Swann, Apr. 23: Bible in English. Tyndale-Taverner Translation. The Bugge Bible. The Holye Bible. London: Imprinted by John Daye and Willyam Seres, 1549. $1,500 to $2,000.
Sotheby’s
Précieuses reliures d’une bibliophile
Collection Georgette J. Salles
Open for bidding 8-29 April

Apr. 8-29: Delaunay, Sonia — Blaise Cendrars. La Prose du Transsibérien. 1913. €120,000 to €180,000.

Apr. 8-29: Picasso, Pablo — Georges Hugnet. La Chèvre-feuille. 1943. €80,000 to €120,000.

Apr. 8-29: Schmied, François-Louis ─ Joseph-Charles Mardrus. Cantique des cantiques. 1925. €30,000 to €50,000.

Apr. 8-29: Bonnard, Pierre — Paul Verlaine. Parallèlement. 1900. €30,000 to €50,000.

Apr. 8-29: Derain, André — Guillaume Apollinaire. L’Enchanteur pourrissant. 1909. €20,000 to €30,000.