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
26	HUME, Fergus W.	The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.	London	[not dated but mid-1888].	AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	AUD 5,207.00
27	IDRIESS, Ion L.	Manuscript fragment by Idriess, written when wounded aboard a transport in the Dardanelles during the First World War.		1915	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
28	IDRIESS, Ion L.	Manuscript of Forty Fathoms Deep.		1937	AUD 7,500.00 - 10,000.00	Not Sold
29	Bookplate measuring 176 x 114 cm, fine and uncirculated, 1930.	Amy Johnson was a pioneer English aviator, revered as the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia in the year 1930.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
30	MacFARLANE, Charles.	Constantinople in 1828. A residence of sixteen months in the Turkish capital and provinces.	London	1829	AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	AUD 1,270.00
31	MANILIUS.	Astronomicon ex Recensione Richardi Bentleii	Strasbourg	1767	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
32		Sermones ingeniosissimi ac sctissimi [sanctissimi] patris Ephris Edissene ecclesie dyaconi per Fr. Ambrosium Camaldulensem de greco in latinum conversi.	Paris	1505	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
33	MILLISS, Roger.	Waterloo Creek. The Australia Day massacre of 1838, George Gipps and the British conquest of New South Wales.	Melbourne	1992	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
34	MILNE, A.A.	Toad of Toad Hall. A play from Kenneth Grahame's book 'The Wind in the Willows'.	London	1929	AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
35	[UNKNOWN COMPILER].	Armorials of Somerset.	Undated	circa 1800	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
36	[PARIS OLYMPICS].	LANE, Frederick Claude Vivian. Collection of Bookplates. Seven bookplates, various sizes		1929 and 1910-1940.	AUD 1,500.00 - 1,750.00	Not Sold
37	PENNANT, Thomas.	The View of Hindoostan.	London	1798	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
38	PUZOS, Nicolas.	Traite des Accouchemens contenant des observations importantes sur la pratique de cet Art; deux petits traites; l'un, sur quelques maladies de la Matrice; & l'autre sur les maladies des Enfans du premier age	Paris	1759	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
39	RITSON, Joseph.	Annals of the Caledonians, Picts, and Scots; and of Strathclyde, Cumberland, and Galloway, and Murray.	Edinburgh	1828	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 603.25
40	ROBERTS, Peter.	The Cambrian Popular Antiquities; or, an Account of the Traditions, Customs, and Superstitions, of Wales.	London	1815	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
41	STREHLOW, T.G.H.	Songs of Central Australia.	Sydney	1971	AUD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
42	WILLAN, Robert.	On Vaccine Inoculation.	London	1806	AUD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
43	VALENTIA, Jacob Perez de.	Doctissimae et plane divinae explanationes in centum & quinquaginta Psalmos Davidicos...	Venice	1581	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 1,270.00
44	WHEATLEY, Dennis.	Murder off Miami [and] Who Killed Robert Prentice?	New York	1979	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
45	Annie E Proulx:	Accordion Crimes.	New York	1996	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
46	WOLF, Joseph.	The Life and Habits of Wild Animals. Engraved by J.W. and Edward Whymper, with descriptive letterpress by Daniel Giraud Elliot.	London	1874	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
47		A bundle of very old English newspapers,		1674	AUD 350.00 - 400.00	AUD 349.25
48		This lot comprises a collection of 35 volumes (houses within in 28 protective slipcases), being high-quality facsimile editions of famous juvenile literature, drawn from the breathtaking Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books at the Toronto Public L	London Tokyo	1981	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
49	PRATT, George (illustrator).	Enemy Ace. War Idyll 1914 1918		1991	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
50		Parameters for the River. A prospectus for rehabilitation of Parramatta River,	Sydney	1976	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 177.80

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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.