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
101		Landing Ship Infantry - H.M.A.S. Westralia		1947	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
102		Asterperious: 319th Heavy Bombardment Squadron in The South - West Pacific Area		1944	AUD 350.00 - 450.00	AUD 228.60
103	Andrew J Beattie	The Evolutionary Ecology of Ant-Plant Mutualisms		1985	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
104		Two books from the Australian Natural History Science Library		1981	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
105	RJ Tillyard	A little bundle of Natural History books	Hobert	1930	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
106	Gerard Tuck ad Hermann Heinzel	Three books on Australian Birds		1981	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
107	AW Martin	A very good collection Australian Prime Ministers biographies		1993	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 228.60
108	Marcel Proust	Two books published by the Franklyn Library in 1980		1980	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
109	John Dunmore Lang	Historical Account of the Separation of Victoria from New South Wales by John Dunmore Lang		1870	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
110	Fergus Hume	The Blue Talisman: A Detective Story	New York	1925	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
111		Two Lake Goldsmith Steam pamphlets from 1975 rallies		1975	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
112	Percy Taylor	Two little booklets on Cricket in Victoria		1864-1964	AUD 180.00 - 220.00	Not Sold
113	Henry Rosales	Essay on the origin and distribution of Gold in Quartz Veins and its association with other minerals and on the most improved methods of extracting gold from its matrices		1861	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 412.75
114	J Bear	Impressions of A Victorian Abroad and Confessions of a Naughty Boy of the Fifties		circa 1906	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
115	Philip St J Wilson	Two pamphlets on the Pioneers of Port Phillips Melbourne		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
116		Two publications by the Richmond Furnishing Company		N/A	AUD 220.00 - 260.00	AUD 139.70
117		Football final and Closing Ceremony Saturday Dec 8, 1956		Saturday Dec 8, 1956	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
118		Two publications on the colony of Victoria	Melbourne	1875	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 177.80
119		Ballarat Views		circa 1940s	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
120		Glimpses pf Bendigo		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 762.00
121	George Mackaness	The Art of Book-Collecting in Australia	Sydney	1956	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 114.30
122		Correspondence re the North Australian Exploring Expedition	Victoria	N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 228.60
123		Two publications from the Victorian Exploration Committee re the Burke & Wills expedition / tragedy at Cooper Creek		N/A	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 152.40
124	CL Knight	Economic Geology of Australia & Papua New Guinea	Australasian	1975	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
125	Alphonse Berget	The Conquest of the Air Aeronautics Aviation by Alphonse Berget	London	1909	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 101.60

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