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
101	JONES, Davis (illustrator).	The Book of Jonah. Taken from the authorised version of King James I with engravings on wood by David Jones.	London	1979	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 476.25
102	SAFFORD, William Edwin.	The Chamorro Language of Guam. A grammar of the idiom spoken by the inhabitants of the Marianne, or Ladrones Islands.	Washington D.C.	1909	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
103		The Jurassic system in Great Britain by WJ Arkell.		1933	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
104		A lovely collection of the Presidential addresses delivered to the Royal Society of NSW.		1897-1950.	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
105		Fifteen volumes of Philadelphia Franklin Institute Scientific Addresses, all from 1924, and separately issued in the original printed wrappers.		1924	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
106		Eleven books on Australian exploration and history.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
107		Class Book of Geology by Archibald Geikie.	London	1903	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
108		Large chromolithographic map of the NSW groundwater reservoirs titled "Map Shewing Geological Survey of Artesian Intake Beds N.S.W. Survey made under the direction of E.F. Pittman Esq., Government Geologist, 1905-1910.	Sydney	1910	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
109		Six books on microscopy, especially geological microscopy.		1904	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
110	BASSLER, Ray S.	Bibliographic Index of American Ordovician and Silurian Fossils.. Volumes One and Two.	Washington	1915	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
111		Three Annual Reports from the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, for the years 1911, 1913 and 1932.		1911	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
112		This lot comprises: Ice or water: another appeal to induction from the scholastic methods of modern geology by Henry H Howorth.	London ; New York	1905	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
113	Edited by A. Liversidge	Journal an Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Volume XV for the year 1881.		1881	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 114.30
114	JACK, Robert Logan and ETHERIDGE, Robert.	Geology and Palaeontology of Queensland and New Guinea.	Brisbane; London.	189	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
115		Three scarce publications arising from the Aerial, Geological and Geophysical Survey of Northern Australia during the thirties.		1937	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
116	Arthur Smith Woodward	Two rare monographs on Australian palaeontology by Arthur Smith Woodward, keeper of the department of geology at the British Museum.		1895	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
117		Contributions to the Tertiary Flora of Australia. By Dr. Constantin , Baron von Ettingshausen.	Sydney	1888	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
118		Seven books on the Australian army and related military subjects.			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
119		Three old technical books on Australian fossils: RAMSAY, E.P. Catalogue of a Collection of Fossils in the Australian Museum.	Sydney	1883	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
120		An interesting cache of five books on the geology of New Zealand. THOMSON, J. Allan. Brachiopod Morphology and Genera.	Wellington	1927	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
121		Minerals of Western Australia by Edward S Simpson.		1948-1952.	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
122	BOOKER, F.W.	The Sedimentation of the Greta and Tomago Coal Measures of the Singleton-Muswellbrook Coalfield.		1953	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
123		Three volumes from the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum of Practical Geology in London.	London	1848-1899	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
124		Antiquarian books and maps on the geology and mining prospects of Canada.		1877	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
125		A mixed lot of 11 geology, mining, and mineralogy pamphlets.		1896	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50

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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.