Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Moments in History: Maps, Photographs, Art, Costumes and Books, A184, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 24, 2026 - May 24, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bathurst (N.S.W.) To Melbourne (Vic.) 493 1/4 Miles; The Pioneer Motor Car Trip of Australia |
Melbourne | 1900 | AUD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 2 | Hector MacQuarrie | Round the World in a Baby Austin |
London | 1936 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 254.00 |
| 3 | James Bruce | Travels Of James Bruce Through Part Of Africa, Syria, Egypt, And Arabia Into Abyssinia To Discover The Source Of The Nile |
London | N/A | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 203.20 |
| 4 | DARWIN Charles | The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life |
London | 1875 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 8 | Richard Bonynge | Joan Sutherland: Designs for a Prima Donna |
New South Wales | 1985 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 203.20 |
| 9 | Margot Fonteyn | Letter to Father Hutch; Photograph of Margot Fonteyn |
N/A | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 10 | Photograph of Joan Sutherland |
N/A | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 11 | Frederick McCoy | Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria; or Figures and Descriptions of the Living Species of all Classes of the Victorian Indigenous Animals |
Melbourne | 1885-1890 | AUD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | AUD 1,905.00 |
| 12 | A Liversidge | The Minerals of New South Wales, Etc |
London | 1888 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 13 | Report of The Executive Commissioner For New South Wales To The World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 |
1894 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 317.50 | ||
| 14 | Frederick Ross | The Ruined Abbeys of Britain |
1882 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 412.75 | |
| 15 | The Order of the Administration of the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion |
c1865 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 203.20 | ||
| 16 | J. O Westwood | Illuminated illustrations of the Bible |
1846 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 539.75 | |
| 17 | Birket Foster; Henry Mayhew | The Rhine and Its Picturesque Scenery |
1856 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 285.75 | |
| 18 | James E. Doyle | A Chronicle of England B.C. 55 - A.D. 1485 |
1864 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 381.00 | |
| 19 | Fauna Hawaiiensis |
1893-1913 | AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 20 | 13 Books, including: Socialism New and Old |
London | 1875-1894 | AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 21 | Joseph Fowles | The Sydney Drawing Book; The Elementary Free-Hand Drawing Book |
Sydney | 1855 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 228.60 |
| 22 | Swain Edward Harold Fulcher | An Australian Study of American Forestry |
Brisbane | 1918 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 23 | Huxley Thomas H. | American Addresses with a Lecture on the Study of Biology |
London | 1877 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 24 | Noad Henry | A Manual of Electricity: including Galvanism, Magnetism, Diamagnetism, Electro-Dynamics, Magneto-Electricity and the Electric Telegraph |
London | 1859 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 177.80 |
| 25 | Bhulabhai Desai; General Mohan Singh; Asoka Mehta; K.J. Save | 12 Books, including: I.N.A. Defence |
Delhi; Bombay | 1945; 1946; 1940; 1943; 1934; 1922; 1921 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 254.00 |
| 26 | Firdaus Rizvi; G.M.D. Sufi; Mahmud Ahmad; Syed Abdul Latif; Syed Mahmud; Bakar Ali Mirza | 6 Books, including: Pakistan Defined |
circa 1945; 1946; 1930; 1939; 1949; 1944 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 | |
| 27 | Report on the Leather Industries of the Bombay Presidency |
circa 1910 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 28 | H.l. Adam | Police Reports of the Bombay Presidency for 1912; The Indian Criminal |
London | 1912; 1909 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
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Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000 -
Sotheby’s
Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
Live Sale 24 JuneSotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.