• Doyle, Nov. 5: The Director's copy of the first edition of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, inscribed by Beckett. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: Don McLean's personal test pressing of American Pie before mass production, gifted in 1971. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The important and extensive archive of original fashion photographs of model Dorothy Rice, 1945-58. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: A Charles Adams theater advertisement. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: A Small Patinated Bronze Bust of Marlene Dietrich. $800 to $1,200.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: Marlene Dietrich Studio Photograph. $100 to $200.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The very large and uncommon British Quad for Hitchcock's The Birds. $500 to $800.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: An Original Crystal "Sputnik" from the 1966 Met Opera Chandelier. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The rare poster from the first American performances of Endgame, 1958. $1,000 to $1,500.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The original Coconut Grove Playhouse poster for Waiting for Godot, possibly unique. $3,000 to $5,000.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare. The Temple Shakespeare. Housed in Custom Bookcase. $6,365.
    Sotheby’s: Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. $14,000.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann, 1915. $2,900.
    Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. First Edition Set, Including This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and others. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1920 – 1941. $24,180.
    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.
  • Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, 1st edition, 1844. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Rashleigh (Philip). Specimens of British Minerals, 2 parts in 1, 1797 & 1802. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Murchison (Roderick Impey). The Silurian System, 1st edition, 1839. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, 1st edition, 1842. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). Geological Observations on South America, 1st edition, 1846. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Sowerby (James). The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain, 6 volumes, 1812-29. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Emerson (William). Cyclomathesis: or an Easy Introduction to ... Mathematics, 10 vols. in 9, 1770. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Robinson (Thomas). New observations on the Natural History of This World of Matter, 1696. £800 to £1,200.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Aquinas (Thomas). [Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte, Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.
    Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Parfit (Cliff). Tesuki Washi. Handmade Papers of Japan, 1981-1988. £400 to £600.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Herbert (Thomas). A Relation of some yeares Travaile... Into Afrique and the greater Asia, 1634. £800 to £1,200.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Lindbergh (Charles A.). The Spirit of St. Louis, 1955, signed. £200 to £300.
  • Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 93: Autograph album containing 29 autograph letters signed by each president from Washington to Coolidge, 1785-1945.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 166: Franz Schubert, Autograph Musical Manuscript, fragment from Die Taucher, 1813.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 111: Thomas Jefferson, holograph plat drawing: map of field near Monticello, 1790s.
    Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 208: George Sand, Autograph Manuscript Signed, draft of her one-act play, Francia, ca. 1872.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 218: Walt Whitman, Manuscript Signed, draft of three complete poems from Leaves of Grass, 1891.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 8: James Dean, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, still from Giant, 1955.
    Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 20: John Lennon, Typescript Signed, interview discussing Paul, Linda, and Yoko, 1971.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 215: Mark Twain, engraved portrait Signed, "Mark Twain / SL. Clemens," 1890s.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 81: Vaslav Nijinsky, reproduction of an artwork by Léon Bakst Inscribed and Signed, 1916.
    Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 73: Malcolm X, The Harvard Crimson Signed and Inscribed: his street address and phone number, 1961.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 11: Lou Gehrig, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, ca. 1939.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 153: George Gershwin, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, portrait by Renato Toppo.

Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science and the Arts, 92825, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 28, 2025 - September 28, 2025
Page Size: 309 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
151 Lladro.

Two Porcelain Lovebirds Handmade in Spain

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
152

Two big boxes of fishing books. Mostly Trout Fishing with some books on making flies. Hard covers in very good condition.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
153

A big pile of 29 Sydney History books. Includes Sydney Sandstone, North Sydney Suburbs. Authors Max Kelly, Isidor Brodsky and Nesta Griffiths. Mostly Hardcovers in dust wrapper in very good condition.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 190.50
154

Folio Society - History of England. Four Volumes. Octavo hardcovers in slipcase. Some makes to slipcase else very good copies.

Melbourne: 1904-1911. AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 190.50
155 C French.

Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 139.70
156

Fourteen books on Crime. Hours of fascinating reading. 1) The Murders of the Black Museum

AUD 140.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
157 John Brock.

A little bundle of good books on Australian Flora. 1) Top End Native Plants

1988 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
158

A little bundle of Bird Books. 1) Pheasant in North America

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
159 Roy Strong

A little collection of Ceramic and Porcelain books. 1) Meissen Portrait Figurines 2) 2 volumes of German Porcelain of the 18th Century 3) World of Antiques with intro

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
160

Five books on Architecture mostly modern. All in good condition. 1) Frank Lloyd wright Paperback 2) Architectural Design for Today. 3) Architecture in Perspective 16 4) Architecture in Perspective 12 5) Architecture in Perspective. 1992. Water stain

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
161

A collection of wine books. 1) Wine Hunter

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 177.80
162 C French.

Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 76.20
163

A shelf of 10 books on Psychology. Nearly all cloth bound hardcovers. 1) A general Introduction to Psychology

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 317.50
164 Norman Lindsay.

Creative effort : an essay on affirmation

London 1924 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
165 N. M. Penzer.

The Ocean of Story being C. H. Tawney's Translation of Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sagara (or Ocean of Streams of Story) edited

1924-1928 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
166

Oscar Hammerstein II -Plays one signed. 1) Lyrics -

New York 1949 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 165.10
167 JT Lang.

I Remember

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 76.20
168 Lord Dunsany. Illustrated by Sidney H. Sime.

The Chronicles of Rodriguez

1922 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
169 Professor Arnold Ehret.

Rational Fasting for Physical, Mental & Spiritual Rejuvenation

California 1926 AUD 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
170 Arthur Griffith.

1) Australians in Action : The Story of Gallipoli

Sydney 1918 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
171 DH Lawrence.

Two books by DH Lawrence. 1) Fantasia of the Unconscious.

1922 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 190.50
172 JA Steers.

The Queensland coast and the Great Barrier reefs b: A paper partly read at the Evening Meeting of the Society on 4 February

AUD 120.00 - 160.00 AUD 114.30
173

A Collection of Natural History from S Copland Library.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
174 Sigmund Freud

Selected Papers on Hysteria

New York 1920 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
175 OBAMA, Barak.

A Promised Land.

New York 2020 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 635.00
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    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Endymion in Original Boards. Keats, John. $8,000-
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Association Copy of the Privately Printed Edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter, Beatrix. $8,000-$12,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Christina Rossetti's Own Copy of Her First Book. Rossetti, Christina G. $8,000-$12,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Borden Copy of The Life of Merlin in an Elaborate Binding by Riviere. Heywood, Thomas, Translator. $6,000-$8,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Arion Press. Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass. $4,000-$6,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Call It Sleep in the First State Jacket. Roth, Henry. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Steinbeck's Best-Known Work. Steinbeck, John. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: A Fine Jewelled Binding Signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sangorski, Francis. $40,000-$60,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter: A Complete Set of First Editions. Potter, Beatrix. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Kelmscott Shelley. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works. $3,000-$5,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr. King, Martin Luther, Jr. $3,000-$5,000
  • Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 75. The Second Printed Map of the North American Continent - Full Contemporary Color (1593) Est. $35,000 - $40,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 37. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $16,000 - $18,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 104. Important Revolutionary War Plan of Battle of Quebec in Contemporary Color (1776) Est. $4,000 - $4,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 43. Mercator's Map of the North Pole - the First Printed Map Devoted to the Arctic (1606) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 237. Rare and Striking Bird's-Eye View of Lawrence, Kansas (1880) Est. $2,000 - $2,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 10. Rare Map from Atlas Maior with Representations of the Seasons in Contemporary Color (1662) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 374. Bunting's Map of Europe Depicted as the Queen of the World (1589) Est. $2,000 - $2,400
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 590. Willem Blaeu's Magnificent Carte-a-Figures Map of Asia (1634) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 647. The Earliest and Most Decorative Map of the East Coast of Africa (1596) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 710. Ruscelli's Complete, Third Edition Atlas with 65 Maps (1574) Est. $9,500 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 696. Superb Hand-Colored Image of the Adoration of the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950