Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Books, bookplates, postcards: First editions, Military, History …, 71325, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 13, 2025 - July 13, 2025

Page Size: 351 items in 15 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Archibald Geikie.	Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison Based on His Journals and Letters edited	London	1875	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
2		A lovely collection of ten separately issued offprints from the journal of the Royal Society of New South Wales.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
3		Large chromolithographic map of the NSW groundwater reservoirs titled "Map Shewing Geological Survey of Artesian Intake Beds N.S.W. Survey made under the direction of E.F. Pittman Esq., Government Geologist, 1905-1910.	Sydney	1910	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
4	Archibald Geikie.	Class Book of Geology	London,	1903	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
5		A collection of 7 stereographs from multiple different manufacturers and publishers,		pre-1920s	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
6	designed by Vane Lindesay.	2 duplicate copies of a black ink Ex Libris bookplate for Peter Gram,			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
7	Keystone View Company:	A set of 7 stereographs, created by Keystone View Company:			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
8	Beatrix Potter.	The Tale Of Squirrel Nutkin	London	1903	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	AUD 508.00
9	Harry Bolus, F.L.S.	The orchids of the Cape Peninsula	Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope,	1888	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
10	Budiger Joppien and Benard Smith.	The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages		1985-1987	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 349.25
11		A set of 8, unmarked, hand-coloured stereographs, presumably from between 1850 and 1890. All stereographs are still well intact, however, due to age, there is foxing and discolouration to them.		1850-1890.	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
12		A screenprint poster of Ronald Reagan. Poster is Christmas themed with the large caption at the top, "Peace on where?".		Date unknown.	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
13		Municipal Council of Sydney 'Vade Mecum' 1926 Twentieth Seventh Year of Issue. Full red leather 11 x 14 cm very good copy with lots of photographic illustrations of Sydney. Scarce			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
14	Antoine-Marin Le Mierre.	1769 Le Mierre Poems and Letter from Author 1) Book: La Peinture, Poeme en trois chants	Paris	1769	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
15		Keith Wingrove Ex Libris Being a consideration of a life devoted to the acquisition of art, books and bookplates in Australia,	Melbourne Australia	1996	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
16		Pierce Egan's Account of the Trial of John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt (for the Murder of William Weare).	in London,	1824	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
17		An Act for regulating the sale of Waste Land belonging to the crown in the Australian Colonies. CAP XXXVI, 22nd June.			AUD 700.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
18		Illustrated handbook of Victoria : together with the official catalogue of exhibits in the Victorian Court.	Melbourne	1889	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
19		Two beautiful plates of butterflies from Cramer & Stoll's magnificent 'Papillons exotiques'		1775	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
20		A collection of reports on the Prison System in 1843 Prisons in NSW and Tasmania.		1843	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
21		Handwritten minutes of meeting about the improvements of the River Nene from Peterborough to Outfall. One sheet folded. 4pp. Marquis of Tavistock in the Chair.			AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
22		The reception of the Rev. J. Williams at Tanna in the South Seas, the day before he was massacred by George Baxter.	London	1841	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
23	John Sands	Fifteen plates from John Sands "Landscape Scenery, Illustrating Sydney, Paramatta, Richmond, Newcastle, Windsor and Port Jackson, New South Wales"		1862	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
24	Nicholas [de Tudeschis] Panormitanus.	Five leaves (comprising two bifolium leaves and a single sheet) from the incunable Lectura super quinque libros Decretalium cum Repertorio Alphonsi de Montalbo	Basel	1487-1488	AUD 450.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
25		Two plates of classical vases from an unidentified catalogue, circa 1800.		circa1800	AUD 450.00 - 600.00	Not Sold

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Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

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Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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