Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Australian, Asia-Pacific, Science & 1st Editions & Signed Book, A162, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 14, 2025 - September 14, 2025

Page Size: 345 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	THYER, Brigadier J. H. (introduction).	The Grim Glory of the 2/19 Battalion A.I.F. by various members of the Unit Association.	Sydney	1975	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
27	CALDECOTT, R.	Randolph Caldecott's Last Graphic Pictures. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1888.			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
28	NETTO, Curt.	Papier-Schmetterlinge aus Japan von C. Netto. Nach skizzen des verfassers illustrirt von Paul Bender.	Leipzig:	1888	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
29	NELSON, Harold (illustrator).	The Noble Birth and Gallant Atchievements of that Remarkable Outlaw Robin Hood Together with a True Account of the Many Merry & Extravagant Exploits He Play'd.	Edinburgh	1906	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
30	edited and produced S. Louis Giraud.	Two volumes of the Bookano Stories series,	London	circa1935	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
31	Mary Grant Bruce	'The Cousin from Town' and 'Rossiter's Farm'.	Melbourne	circa1920	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
32	JOHNS, Captain W.E.	Gimlet King of the Commandos.	London	1950	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
33	SHAKESPEARE, William.	The Tragedie of Macbeth. With illustrations and notes by J. Moyr Smith.	London	1889	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
34	BLACKMAN, Charles and AMADIO, Nadine (text).	Paris Dreaming. A Celebration of a City of the Imagination. The Paris Drawings of Charles Blackman Written and Compiled by Nadine Amadio.	Sydney	1982	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
35	ELUARD, Paul and Marc CHAGALL.	Le Dur Desir de Durer. Illustrated by Marc Chagall,	Surrey	1950	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
36	edited Sydney Ure Smith and Bertram Stevens.	The Pen Drawings of Norman Lindsay. Special Number of "Art in Australia",	Sydney	1918	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
37	OAKLEY, E. D.	Jimmy of Murrumbar. A Story of the Amazing Ability and Fidelity of an Australian Black Tracker.	Melbourne:	undated but 1938	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
38	[CURMER, Henri Leon].	IV Livres de L'imitation De Jesus-Christ Qu'aucuns Attribuent a Iessen a'autres a Gerson, & d'autres a Thomas, a Kempis, fidelement traduits.	Paris:	1856	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
39	BERNDT, Ronald M.	Kunapipi. A Study of an Australian Aboriginal Religious Cult.	Melbourne	1951	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
40		An endearing cache of The Dome: a Quarterly containing Examples of all the Arts.	London	various dates,	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
41	IDRIESS, Ion L.	Must Australia Fight? First edition of 1939.	Sydney	1939	AUD 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
42	FAULKNER, Henry.	Elephant Haunts: Being a Sportsman's Narrative of the Search for Doctor Livingstone, with Scenes of Elephant, Buffalo, and Hippopotamus Hunting.	London	1868	AUD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
43	WHYMPER, Edward.	The Ascent of the Matterhorn.	London	1880	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
44	d'ORLEANS, Prince Henri.	From Tonkin to India by the Sources of the Irawadi January '95 -- January '96. Translated by Hamley Bent, illustrated by G. Vuillier.	London	1898	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
45	BOSWELL, James.	The Life of Samuel Johnson. A new edition elucidated by copious notes.	London	undated but 1851	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
46	MELVILLE, Henry.	Observations respecting the Islands of the Mauritius, written during a Short Sojourn there in 1828.	Adelaide	2004	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
47		Atlas-Geography of Siam -- 28 Lessons and Readings. Atlas-Geographie du Siam -- 28 lecons et lectures.	Orne	1925	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
48	McGRATH, Sandra.	Brett Whiteley.	Sydney	1979	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
49	Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc.	Der Blaue Reiter.	Munich	1979	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
50	Bill Henson.	Mnemosyne	in Zurich and in Sydney	2005	AUD 300.00 - 350.00	Unknown

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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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