Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Moments in History: Maps, Photographs, Art, Costumes and Books, A184, Ultimo

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Auction Report
Auction Date
May 24, 2026 - May 24, 2026
Page Size: 316 items in 13 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
54

Proceedings of the Third Pan-Pacific Science Congress

1926 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
55 Guy Francis Laking

Sevres Porcelain of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle

1907 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
56 G C Wittstein

The Organic Constituents of Plants and Vegetable Substances and Their Chemical Analysis

Melbourne 1878 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 177.80
57 Hermann Muller

The Fertilisation of Flowers

1883 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 139.70
58

Spectrum Analysis In Its Application To Terrestrial Substances, And The Physical Constitution Of The Heavenly Bodies. Familiarly Explained.

London 1872 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
59 George Brackenbury

The Campaign in The Crimea: An Historical Sketch

1855 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 698.50
60 C G Hippolyte de Chavannes de la Giraudiere; Cesarie Farrenc

Histoires instructives pour les enfants; Recits et anecdotes de chasse; Lazare ou le petit Matelot

Tours 1851;1852;1853 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
61

The Juvenile Scrap-Book

1838;1847;1850 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 203.20
62 Byron

The Illustrated Byron

c1860 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
63 F O Morris

The Ancestral Homes of Britain; Containing Examples of Its Noblest Castles, Halls, and mansions.

1868 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 285.75
64 J G Lockhart

Ancient Spanish Ballads; Historical and Romantic

1856 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
65 Andrew Wilson

The Royal Natural History. Being A Systematic Arrangement of Descriptive Zoology, From Man To The Lowest Forms.

c1890 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
76 Rietveld; Boom; Melville van Carnbee; F Junghuhn; J Richards

Chart of Java and Sumatra Strait of Sundra

1862 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
77 Freycinet

Plan du Port Jackson (Nouvelle-Galles du Sud d'apres le Capitaine John Hunter); Plan du Comte de Cumberland (Nouvelle-Galles du Sud)

c1811 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 571.50
78 Mathew Nolloth

Gulf of Bengal River Salween

1845 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
79 W Fell

Indian Ocean Tanasserim Coast Maulmain River

1849 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
80 Laws; Ross; EP Halsted

Gulf of Bengal Chittagong, Kyouk Phou, Ramee

1841 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
81 Brucks; Cogan

Persian Gulf Port of Bushire and the Island of Karak

1838 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
83 John Richards

China Sea. Gulf of Siam

1858 AUD 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 Not Sold
84

Late Medieval Manuscript Leaf

France about 1490 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 254.00
85

Late Medieval Manuscript Leaf

Europe mid-15th century AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 254.00
86

MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENTS 13TH - 15TH CENTURY.

Europe 13th to 15th century AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 254.00
87

MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENTS 13TH - 14TH CENTURY

Europe about 1250-1350 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 317.50
88 Byron; Wallis; Carteret

Carte Du Detroit de Magellan

Paris 1774 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 127.00
89 James Cook

Carte de la Nle Galles Meridle ou de la Cote Orientale de la Nle Hollande

Paris 1774 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 228.60
  • Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’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. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’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. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’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. $10,000/15,000
    Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000
    Freeman’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. $40,000/60,000
    Freeman’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. $60,000/80,000
    Freeman’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. $100,000/200,000
    Freeman’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 June
    Sotheby’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.