Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Churchill, Military, History and Fiction Books and Ephemera, 82425, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: August 24, 2025 - August 24, 2025

Page Size: 328 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	MILNE, A.A.	The House at Pooh Corner. With Decorations by E.H. Shepard.	London	1978	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 1,397.00
2	MILNE, A.A.	The Christopher Robin Story Book... Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.	London	1929	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
3	MILNE, A.A.	Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne with Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.	London	1927	AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
4	MILNE, A.A.	Now We Are Six. With Decorations by E.H. Shepard.	London	1977	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 1,206.50
5	MILNE, A.A.	Winnie-the-Pooh. With colour illustrations by E.H. Shepard.	London	1973	AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 2,540.00
6	MILNE, A.A.	When We Were Very Young. With Decorations by E.H. Shepard.	London	1974	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
7	Jane Austen	Five novels by Jane Austen, all are from the uniform edition	in London	1907-1909	AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
8		Official Souvenir of the First of Australia's 150th Anniversary Major Sporting Events. A Hughie Dwyer Presentation... between Dick Humphries (Champion) and Allan Westbury (Challenger).	Newcastle	1938	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
9	CHURCHILL, Winston S.	A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.	London	1956-1958	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
10		A complete set of the Second World War Speeches of Winston Churchill, and all are first editions.			AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 1,524.00
11		Scarce Churchill ephemera, being a pamphlet of eight pages printed on wartime paper stock.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 139.70
12		This document is titled "Despatch of Vice-Admiral de Robeck reporting the Landing of the Army on the Gallipoli Peninsula..."		1915	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
13		Self-published account of a Sydney yacht named "Rawhiti", on the high seas to New Zealand (a voyage of 1,200 miles in ten-and-a-half days).		1947	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
14	WOODS, Frederick.	A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill.	London	1979	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
15	SCOTT, Robert F.	Scott's Last Expedition. Vol. I Being the Journals of Captain Robert R.F. Scott, R.N. Vol. II being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the surviving members of the expedition arranged by Leonard Huxley.	London	1913	AUD 400.00 - 600.00	AUD 254.00
16	KRAUS, Rene.	Young Lady Randolph. The Life and Times of Jennie Jerome, American Mother of Winston Churchill.	New York	1943	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
17	CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer.	Great Contemporaries.	London	1937	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 349.25
18	URQUHART, Frederick (editor) and NICOLSON, Harold (foreword).	W.S.C. A Cartoon Biography.	London	1955	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
19	KNOX, Russell.	National Government. The Churchill Way.	Adelaide	circa1940	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
20	DANIELL, C.R.	Rebellion and Remedy in India. Part I. The Causes.	Dacca (Dhaka present-day Bangladesh]	circa1932	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 2,286.00
21	CHURCHILL, Winston S.	India. Speeches and an introduction by the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill P.C., C.H., M.P.	London	1931	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 952.50
22	CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer.	My African Journey.	London	1908	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 952.50
23	[CHURCHILL, Winston].	The Bravest Deed I Ever Saw. Stories of Personal Experience.	London	1905	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
24		Lithographic portrait of Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty,		not dated but circa 1914	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
25	BACON, Admiral Sir Reginald, MAURICE, General Sir Frederick.	The World Crisis by Winston Churchill. A Criticism by Colonel the Lord Sydenham of Combe...	London	no date but 1927	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold

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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
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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.