Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Journey through time: Print and Bindings from the 15th to the 21st Century, 90725, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 07, 2025 - September 07, 2025

Page Size: 409 items in 17 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		A handmade fancy wooden box containing 'The Great Sailing Ship Engravings'.			AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
2	MICHELL, Keith.	Shakespeare's Sonnets. Foreword by Sir Robert Helpmann.	Melbourne	1979	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
3		Forty Drawings of Fishes made by the Artists who accompanied Captain James Cook on his Three Voyages to the Three Voyages to the Pacific 1768-71; 1772-75 ; 1776 -80.			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 317.50
4	STEARN, William (editor). By William T. Stearn, introduction by Wilfred Blunt.	The Australian Flower Paintings of Ferdinand Bauer.	London	1975	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
5		Rare and special. A wonderfully bound collection of the annual reports of the English Jane Austen Society.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
6	DARRAGH, Thomas A.	The Establishment and Development of Engraving and Lithography in Melbourne to the time of the Gold Rush.	N.S.W.	1990	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 349.25
7	CLARKE, Samuel.	Homeri Odyssea. Graece et Latinae. Editit, annotationesque, ex notis nonnullis manuscriptis a Samuel Clarke	London	1815	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
8	ST. JULIAN, Charles & SILVESTER, Edward K.	The Productions, Industry, and Resources of New South Wales.	Sydney	1853	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 444.50
9		Valerii Maximi Vita Incerto Auctore. Alternate title: Valerii Maximi Dictorum Factorumque Memorabilium Libri IX.	Amsterdam	1690	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
10	MEREDITH, Louisa Anne.	My Home in Tasmania; or, Nine Years in Australia by Mrs. Charles Meredith.	New York	1853	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 3,302.00
11	BURDER, George.	Village Sermons; or, Short and Plain Discourses for the use of Families, Schools, and Religious Societies.	London	1824-1826.	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 177.80
12	[NO AUTHOR].	A Visit to Australia and It's Gold Regions.	London	1853	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 1,397.00
13	MURRAY, H. (editor).	Adventures of British Seamen in the Southern Ocean	London	1826	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
14	KENRICK, William.	Free Thoughts on Seduction, Adultery and Divorce By a civilian.	London	1771	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
15	LOFTUS, William Kennett.	Travels and Researches in Chaldaea and Susiana; With an account of excavations at Warka, the "Erech of Nimrod, and Shush, "Shushan the Palace" of Esther, in 1849-1852.	New York	1857	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 508.00
16	ARBUTHNOT, John.	An Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies in which the Different Effects, Advantages, and Disadvantages, of Animal and Vegetable Diet are Explained.	London	1756	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
17	ATHANASIUS.	Athanasii Episcopi Alexandrini Opera, studiosus quam antea fuerint, a situ vindicata, quorum catalogus sequitur.	Strasbourg	1522	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 3,175.00
18	BOSWELL, James.	An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli.	London	1768	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
19	BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.	Signed cheque from the Citizens National Bank of Los Angeles, dated February 1946.		1946	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
20		Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century : with over 200 illustrations by George Paston With Over 200 Illustrations	London	1905	AUD 250.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
21	CANTER, William.	Aeschyli Tragoediae VII.	Antwerp	1580	AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
22	Muhammad Ali.	The Greatest.	London	1976	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
23		Scotch College Athletic Sports. Melbourne Cricket Ground Admit two to the ladies' reserve.		1891	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
24	GIOVIO, Paolo & DOMENICHI, Ludovico..	La Vita di Consalvo Ferrando di Cordova detto il Gran Capitano. Scritta per Mons. Paolo Giovio Vescovo di Nocera, & tradotta per M. Lodovico Domenichi.	Florence	1552	AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
25	[POPE GREGORY I]	In commincia il prologo del vulgarizatore dyalogo de miser sancto Gregorio papa.	Venice	1475	AUD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	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.
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