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
51	BRETON de la MARTINIERE (Jean Baptiste Joseph).	China: its Costume, Arts, Manufacturers, &c. edited principally from the originals in the Cabinet of the late M. Bertin: with Observations Explanatory, Historical, and Literary, by M. Breton.	London	1813	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
52	PACCARD, Andre.	Traditional Islamic Craft in Moroccan Architecture. Translated from the French by Mary Guggenheim.	Saint-Jorioz	1980	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
53	Charles Dickens.	Master Humphrey's Clock by Charles Dickens. With illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne.	in London	1840-41.	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
54		The Sydney Herald for Monday, June 17, 1833 .		1833	AUD 750.00 - 800.00	Unknown
55		The Sydney Herald dated Monday February 10, 1834.		1834	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
56		1820 Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. Volume The Eighteenth Saturday October 21, 1820.		1820	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
57		1) The Sydney Herald Thursday April 17 1834 2) The Sydney Herald Monday June 11. 1838 3) The Sydney Herald Monday July 6. 1840...			AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Unknown
58	HUME, David.	The History of England, From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to The Revolution in 1688.	Dublin	1775	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
59	DUNCAN, James.	Four books on Entomology, from the Naturalist's Library edited by William Jardine.	Edinburgh	1852	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Unknown
60		BREE, Charles R. A History of the Birds of Europe, not Observed in the British Isles.			AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
61	Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte.	The Works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte.	London	1893	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
62	HOCKING, Jenny.	Gough Whitlam. Two volume set comprising 'His Time' and 'A Moment in History'.	Melbourne	2014	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
63	HARDENBURG, W.E.	The Putumayo. The Devil's Paradise. Travels in the Peruvian Amazon region and an account of the atrocities committed upon the Indians therein.	London	1912	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
64		Manuscript Quran, comprising several hundred leaves on tan coloured wove paper.		Not dated but probably mid-twentieth century;	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
65		A shelf of cricket books, including James Lillywhites Annuals for 1900 and 1897; ...			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
66		Four miniature books including Tolstoy's Ivan Ilych (2003); Aboriginal words of Australia (1966); Maori-English Dictionary (1960); and Blinky bill (1992).			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
67		The Quest and Occupation of Tahiti by Emissaries of Spain during the Years 1772-1776.	London	1918	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
68		Photograph Album created by the London Missionary Society of Tonga, Samoa and surrounds. Entitled: Nieue Centennial 1846-1946 Barotonga. Samoa. Landscape album.			AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
69		The Voyage of Captain Don Felipe Gonzalez in the Ship of the Line San Lorenzo, With the Frigate Santa Rosalia in Company Easter Island in 1770-1		1908	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
70		The Journal of William Lockerby, Sandalwood Trader in the Fijian Islands During the Years 1808 - 1809:		1925	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
71		Spanish Navigation x3			AUD 120.00 - 180.00	Unknown
72	Ma Huan.	Ying-yai sheng-lan: The overall survey of the ocean's shores [1433]		1970	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
73	Jack F Williams.	China in Maps 1890 - 1960: A selected and annotated Cartobibliography		1974	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
74	Thomas Suarez	Early Mapping by Thomas Suarez South East Asia and the Pacific.			AUD 120.00 - 180.00	Unknown
75	Mary Sponberg Pedley.	Bel et Utile. The Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers		1992	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	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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