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
76	Charles Dickens,	The Works of Charles Dickens,		1966-1967.	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
77		Two newspapers from the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana, the Princess of Wales.		1981	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
78		The Harmsworth London Magazine, eighteen annual volumes from the year 1898 onwards.		1898 onwards.	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
79		Five Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogues, comprising three annual catalogues for the years 1950 (in two parts, European and British); and the year 1948.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
80		Twenty issues of 'Practical Mechanics' magazine, date range is 1938-1945.		1938-1945.	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
81	ELLIS, Vivienne Rae.	Louisa Anne Meredith. A Tigress in Exile.	Hobart	1979	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
82	GOLDSTON, William.	Exclusive Magical Secrets.	London	undated but circa 1910	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
83	McSPADDEN, J. Walker.	The Stories of Wagner's Operas.	London	1915	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
84	DICKENS, Charles.	The Personal History of David Copperfield. With illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne.	London	1970	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
85		A shelf of books by Charles Dickens, and other titles related to the great novelist, Includes several biographies; a cache of letters between a book collector and a descendent of Dickens; ...			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
86	[BETJEMAN, John].	The Selected Poems of John Masefield.	London	1978	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
87		Five books on sailing and maritime subjects, all are regular sized hardcover titles:			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
88	EVANS, David.	Down to Earth. The Autobiography of Air Marshal David Evans.	in Canberra	2011	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 152.40
89	Ellen Wood. Mrs. Henry Wood.	Four books by the bestselling English conservative Christian novelist by Ellen Wood, who wrote under the name of her husband, as Mrs. Henry Wood.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
90	WEBER, Carl.	Fore-edge Painting. A historical survey of a curious art in book decoration.	New York	1966	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 317.50
91		Two original cloth binder sleeves issued by the National Geographic Society, each containing ten to fifteen maps apiece.		1943	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
92	DURACK, Elizabeth.	Face Value. Women in Papua and New Guinea.	Sydney	1970	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
93	HILLARY, Sir Edmund.	View from the Summit.	Sydney	1999	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 139.70
94	John Keats	Odes by John Keats. Decorated by Vivien Gribble.	London	1923	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
95	MAWSON, Sir Douglas.	The Home of the Blizzard.			AUD 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
96	McCULLOUGH, Colleen.	The Thorn Birds.	New York	1977	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
97		Orchids of Australia. Drawn in natural colour by W.H. Nicholls with descriptive text.	Melbourne	1951	AUD 350.00 - 400.00	AUD 215.90
98		A lovely group of books on Australian orchids, mixture of hardcover and softcover books.			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
99		A lovely group of books on Australian orchids, and all but one are hardcover books.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 215.90
100		A lovely group of books on Australian orchids, this lot comprises a copy of Nicholls 'Orchids of Australia' and some other scarce material.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50

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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.
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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.