Sydney Rare Book Auctions: History, Art, Photography, Music and More, 80825, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: August 08, 2025 - August 08, 2025

Page Size: 325 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
76	MILLS, Carol M.	A Bibliography of the Northern Territory.	Canberra,	1977-1983	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
77	AUDEN, W.H.	The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays.	New York,	1962	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
78		Bookplate of Janet Lindsay by Norman, circa 1930.		circa1930	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
79		Amy Johnson Bookplate measuring 176 x 114 cm, fine and uncirculated, 1930.		1930	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
80	WHITE, Patrick.	Happy Valley. A Novel.	London,	1939	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
81	edited by Del Hoyo, Elliott, Sargatal, Christie.	Handbook of the Birds of the World	Barcelona	1992	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
82		An entire carton of ephemera, nineteenth and twentieth century material. A few hundred items.			AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 114.30
83	By Sacheverell Sitwell, Handasyde Buchanan, and James Fisher.	Fine Bird Books 1700-1900.	London, and New York	1953	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 285.75
84	WILSON, H.W.	With the Flag to Pretoria. A History of the Boer War of 1899-1900.	London	1900	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
85	GOULD, John.	Birds of Great Britain. Volume one: Birds of Prey.	Melbourne	1990	AUD 400.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
86		Eight books including Debrett's and Who's Who. Titles include Debrett's Peerage for 1973 (lacks spine panel, otherwise complete); ...			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
87		An album of 117 plates traced from the architectural treatise titled Les Antiquites d'Athenes. Originally published as 'The Antiquities of Athens'		1762 onwards. (1808)	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
88	WOLF, Joseph.	The Birds of Daniel Giraud Elliot. A Selection of Pheasants and Peacocks painted by Joseph Wolf and taken from the original monograph published in New York, 1872.			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 114.30
89		Four signed pochoir prints by the celebrated Franco-Russian designer Romain de Tirtoff, who used the pseudonym Erte.		1916-1921.	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 1,397.00
90	Hall Thorpe	Two signed colour prints by Australian artist Hall Thorpe (1874-1947), being two different states of the sae study of flowers in a vase.	London. Copyright U.S.A.	1922	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 349.25
91	Rex Backhaus-Smith	Two prints from artworks by Rex Backhaus-Smith, titled "Old Sofala Prospector" and "Back Street Sofala" respectively. Nostalgic views of this goldfields town		1977	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
92	ROLLAND, Leon.	Atlas des Champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique.	Paris	1910	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
93		La Mode Illustree, Journal de la Famille.	Paris	1874	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
94		Antique Anatolian Quran.		1257 (A.D.1736).	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 317.50
95	Johnstone	Johnstone's Australian Pictures. Comprising reproductions of fifteen of the famous Australian paintings by this eminent artist.	Adelaide,	1906	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 508.00
96	Ando Hiroshige.	The Fifty-Three Stages of Tokaido by Ando Hiroshige. A miniature edition with wood block prints by Takamizawa Ukiyoe Company of Tokyo,		1960	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 228.60
97		Three reports on Sydney storm water and sewerage infrastructure, respectively commissioned for the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works.	in Sydney	1892,	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
98	s Nakamura Baisen, Yokoyama Kei and Inoue Seiji	Japanese Manga Travel Maps. 12 panels, missing map No.2 to make it complete. Created by renowned manga artists Nakamura Baisen, Yokoyama Kei and Inoue Seiji as early as around 1925, the individual map sheets have been published as supplements to a kids ma			AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
99	George Harrison with illustrations by Keith West.	Songs by George Harrison with illustrations by Keith West.	Guildford:	1987	AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 1,905.00
100	H.G. Wells	The Time Machine. The Wonderful Visit and Other Stories by H.G. Wells		1924	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 952.50

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Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000
Koller, Sep. 17: NEWTON, ISAAC. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London, Joseph Streater, "Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas", 1687. CHF 250,000 to 300,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Theatrum orbis terrarum. 3 parts in 1 volume. Antwerpen, Plantin, 1612. CHF 120,000 to 160,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: BECKMANN, MAX. Apokalypse. Frankfurt a. M., Privatdruck der Bauerschen Giesserei, 1943. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: BOISSERÉE, SULPIZ. Ansichten, Risse und einzelne Theile des Doms von Köln. AND: Ders. Geschichte und Beschreibung des Doms zu Köln… CHF 30,000 to 50,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten. Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 23. Dez. 1493. CHF 25,000 to 40,000.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
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.

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

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.