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
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 151 | Christopher Isherwood x3 1st UK ed. |
1964 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | ||
| 152 | Jack Kerouac | The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac |
London | 1960 | AUD 120.00 - 180.00 | AUD 165.10 |
| 153 | Philip Hennessey | I Have Sinned by Philip Hennessey |
Sydney | 1935 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 154 | Malcolm Bradbury x2 - 1st & Proof |
1976 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 155 | John Irving | Trying to Save Piggy Sneed |
New York | 1996 | AUD 120.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
| 156 | JB Castieau | The Reminiscences of Detective-Inspector Christie |
c.1915 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 157 | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine April- September 1819 |
Edinburgh | 1819 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 158 | The Melbourne Review Vol V January to October, 1880 |
Melbourne | 1880 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 159 | Report of the Forestry Branch 1909 |
1909 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 160 | Journal of Landsborough's Expedition From Carpentaria, In Search Of Burke and Wills |
Melbourne | 1862 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 203.20 | |
| 161 | M Fennell and A Grey | Nucoorilma Aboriginal people of Tingha NSW |
1974 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 162 | Kenneth Binns, editor | Handbook For Canberra Prepared for Members of ANZAAS on the Occasion of the Meeting held in Canberra January 1939 |
1939-01-01 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 215.90 | |
| 163 | The Channel islands Painted |
1904 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 164 | Martin Hewitt Investigator |
London | 1895 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 165 | Burton J Hendrick | The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page |
1923 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 166 | Foster Damon | A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake |
Providence, Rhode Island | 1965 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 167 | On the Other Side of the World: Extracts from the letters of Winthrop Sargent Gilman Noyes 1926-1927 |
Octavo | 1930 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 168 | SL Ollard | The Six Students of St Edmund Hall expelled from the University of Oxford in 1768 |
1911 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 169 | Frederic Wood-Jones | The Principles of Anatomy as Seen in the Hand by Frederic Wood-Jones |
London | 1920 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 170 | Here is Faery |
Melbourne | 1915 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 171 | Commander Crawford Pasco | A Roving Commission. Naval Reminiscences |
London | 1897 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 172 | Rambles and Observations in New South Wales |
London | 1849 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 349.25 | |
| 173 | Henry Hussey | More than Half a Century of Colonial Life and Christian Experience |
Adelaide | 1897 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
| 174 | Martin Dyson | Australasian Methodist Ministerial General Index |
Melbourne | 1896 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 175 | Australia; Its Scenery, Natural History, and Resources: With a Glance at its Gold Fields [bound with] Australia and its Settlements |
London | n.d. [1854] | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 |
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Jeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 159
Saturday April 25Jeschke 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 centuryJeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 159
Saturday April 25Jeschke 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 25Jeschke 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 25Jeschke 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, 2026Swann, 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, 2026Swann, 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, 2026Swann, 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, 2026Swann, 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 AprilApr. 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 - $7,000Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 55. Illuminated lunar globe produced in East Germany (1977) Est. $750 - $900Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 594. Rare and decorative De Jode map of Africa (1593) Est. $7,500 - $9,000Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 127. The first printed map to focus on New England and New France (1565) Est. $4,500 - $5,500Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 298. Rare Texas oilfield map (1920) Est. $3,000 - $3,750Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 656. Bible leaf with hand-colored image of Adoration of the Magi (1450) Est. $1,800 - $2,100Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 9. Blaeu's magnificent carte-a-figures world map (1641) Est. $12,000 - $15,000Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 214. Rare edition of view of the world from Silicon Valley (1984) Est. $600 - $750Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 34. Fascinating Japanese satirical map published just prior to WWII (1938) Est. $1,400 - $1,700Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 181. German edition of Catesby's scarce and important map of the Southeastern US (1755) Est. $3,750 - $4,500Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 625. Complete set of Covarrubias's "Pageant of the Pacific" (1940-39) Est. $1,200 - $1,500