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
151		In Memoriam Bruce Maurer Pty Ltd Funeral Directors 281 Pacific Highway Crows Nest Phone 92 6121.			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
152		1) Australian Aboriginal Art by Ronald M. Berndt	Sydney	1964	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
153	by Barry Hill	1) n Broken Song. T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession	Sydney	2002	AUD 250.00 - 0.00	AUD 381.00
154		Six good titles concerning Aboriginal Australians.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
155	Hudson Fysh	1) Qantas Rising 2) Qantas At War 3) Wings To The World.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
156		40 Australian Eucalypts in Colour by Stan Kelly.	Sydney	1949	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
157		Seven titles - see photograph- on European settlement of Australia.			AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 381.00
158		1) The Usurper: Jorgen Jorgenson and his turbulent life in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land, 1780-1841 by Dan Sprod	Hobart	2001	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
159		An excellent lot of books of Australian content.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
160		1) Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash 2) Voyage To Disaster by Henrietta Drake-Brockman 3) The Wreck Of The Batavia & Prosper.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
161	Geoffrey Chaucer.	Facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones. Essay by William S. Peterson.		2002	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 2,921.00
162		1) The Book: The Story of Printing and Bookmaking McMurrtie 2) Anatomy of Printing Lewis 3) Five Hundred Years of Printing 4) Print and Privilege at Oxford. ...			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 254.00
163		The Log Book of Kathleen Gillett written and illustrated by Jack Earl during his 1947-48 voyage around the world	Sydney	1991	AUD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00	Not Sold
164	MATHEWS, Gregory.	The Birds of Australia.		1910 and 1927	AUD 400.00 - 600.00	AUD 349.25
165		The Temple of Flora by Robert John Thornton With commentary by Stephen Harris.	London	2008	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
166		The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle During the Years.		1980	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 539.75
167		Hygiene In Simple Language Military and Civil by Major C N Atkins.	Melbourne		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
168	Charles Dickens.	Ten titles by or about Charles Dickens.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
169		Ten Folio Society books all in mint condition in slipcases.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
170		The Novels Tales & Sketches of J M Barrie in Ten Volumes.	New York	1898	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
171		National Geographic: Around the World in 125 Years		2013	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
172		About 20 books on art in New Guinea.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 190.50
173		The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor		1857	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 127.00
174		Five Mary Grant Bruce plus Little Mother Meg by Ethel Turner.		1930s	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
175		Savages in Serge by J. G. Hides, J. G.	Sydney	1938	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	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.
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.

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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.