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
51		Sydney Harbour Trust, Port of Sydney, New South Wales 1913	New South Wales	1913	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 571.50
52	William Bemrose	Manual Of Wood Carving With Practical Instructions For Learners Of The Art	London	[c1890]	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
53	Jameson	Sacred and Legendary Art		1891	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
54	Daniel Heinsius, editor	Titi Livii historiarum libri	Lugduni Batavorum	1634	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
55		Extracts from the letters and journal of Daniel Wheeler, while engaged in a religious visit to the inhabitants of some of the islands of the Pacific ocean, Van Diemen's Land, New South Wales, and New Zealand, accompanied by his son, Charles Wheeler	Philadelphia	1840	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
56		The New Bath guide or, memoirs of the B-N-R-D family	London	1779	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
57		A New dictionary of Heraldry	London	1747	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
58		A Help to a National Reformation		1706	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 381.00
59		Maxims and Moral Reflections by The Duke De La Rochefoucault	London	1791	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
60		Life of Buonaparte, to which the atrocities of the first consul are faithfully recorded, and warning to Britons against threatened invasion	London	1803	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 349.25
61		Almanac of Paris 1764	Paris	1764	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
62	Joseph Addison	Remarks on Several Parts of Italy in the years 1701, 1702, 1703	London	1736	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
63	[A.-J. Dezallier d'Argenville]	Voyage Pittoresque de Paris, ou, Description de tout ce qu'il y a de plus beau dans cette Grande Ville, en Peinture, Sculpture & Architecture	Paris	1770	AUD 340.00 - 500.00	AUD 203.20
64		The Court Kalendar for the year 1744	London	1744	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 190.50
65	Mark Akinside	The Pleasures of imagination: A poem in three books	London	1744	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 254.00
66	[George Ellis], editor	Specimens of the Early English Poets		1790	AUD 300.00 - 500.00	AUD 190.50
67		Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming : in four books	London	1675	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
68		Delightful Stories for Good Children		1804	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 508.00
69		Quinti Horatii Flacci Poemata cum commentariis Johannis Min-Ellii	Rotterdam	1700	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
70	Stephani Guazzi	De Civili Conversatione Dissertationes Politicae by Stephani Guazzi	Lugduni Batavorum	1650	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
71		The Sydney Mail Wednesday October 21, 1936		Wednesday October 21, 1936	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
72		Essays on Physiognomy for the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind	London	1806	AUD 260.00 - 340.00	AUD 127.00
73		An Essay upon Prints: containing remarks upon the principles of Picturesque Beauty, the different kinds of prints, and the characters of the most noted masters	London	1768	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	AUD 254.00
74	Henry Wotton	Reliquiae Wottonianae: or, a collection of lives, letters, poems; with characters of sundry personages and other incomparable pieces of language and art by Henry Wotton	London	1654	AUD 280.00 - 360.00	AUD 177.80
75	Wellins Calcott	Thoughts moral and divine	Birmingham	1758	AUD 360.00 - 460.00	Not Sold

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.
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