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
151	HEWAT, Tim.	Golden Fleeces: The Falkiners of Boonoke.	Sydney	1980	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
152	[STRUTT] CURNOW, Heather.	The Life and Art of William Strutt.	New Zealand	1980	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
153	CRONIN, Leonard (editor).	Henry Lawson Complete Works.	Sydney	1984	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
154	TASMAN, Abel Janszoon.	Abel Janszoon Tasman's Journal of His Discovery of Van Diemens Land and New Zealand in 1642, ...	Los Angeles	1965 (reprinting the 1892 edition).	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
155	TIPPING, Marjorie.	Eugene Von Guerard's Australian Landscapes.	Melbourne	1975	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
156	BILLE, Steen.	Beretning om Corvettes Galathea's journey omkring Jorden 1845, 46 and 47.	Kjobenhavn	1849-51.	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
157		More Adventures of Ginger Meggs Series 20 , 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25 Sunbeams Book.	Published by Associated Newspapers Ltd.	no date..	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
158		The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon with variorum notes including those of Guizot, Wenck, Schreiter and Hugo.	Published in London by Bell and Daldy	1872	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
159		The Letters of William Henry Tahiti 1796-1856.		Not dated, 1960's.	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
160	ALEXANDER, Francesca. Edited by John Ruskin.	Christ's Folk in the Apennine. Reminiscences of her friends among the Tuscan peasantry.	Orpington, Kent	1887	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
161	by Edward Albee	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? : a Play		1964	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 127.00
162		1) His Illegal Self by Peter Carey Sydney Knopf 2008 2) Ransom by David Malouf Sydney Knopf 2009 3) Women In The Background by Barry Humphries Melbourne William Heinemann 1998 ...			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
163	by Thomas Arnold.	The History Of The Peloponnesian War By Thucydides with notes			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
164		Meanjin Papers 1943-1968			AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
165		A shelf of 30 books on Astronomy.			AUD 220.00 - 320.00	AUD 139.70
166		A shelf of about 20 books on Australian Geology.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
167		Australian & New Zealand Fauna Including: MARCHANT, S. AND HIGGINS, P.J. Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds.			AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 139.70
168		Four lovely hand-coloured illustrations of flora.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
169	after Troedel & Co.	A collection Australian Natural History Prints 14x Horn Expedition,			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
170		Kingfisher Plate 10 - Halcyon Bougainvillei Rotshsch.	London	1905	AUD 180.00 - 280.00	AUD 114.30
171		The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea'		1982	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
172		Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova Di Seingalt', 12 volumes (complete)		1922	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
173	John Howard :	Lazarus Rising A personal and Political Biography by John Howard.		2010	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
174	by Mark Ferguson and Oscar Shamamian.	New Traditional Architecture: Ferguson and Shamamian Architects, Houses and Interiors: City and Country Residences	New York	2011	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
175	Shakespeare	Complete set of 15 books of A Shakespeare Story Series,			AUD 120.00 - 150.00	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
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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.

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.