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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 141 | Ian Fleming | For Your Eyes Only |
London | 1960 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 412.75 |
| 142 | Ian Fleming | Casino Royale |
1957 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 2,286.00 | |
| 143 | J E Carne | The Tungsten-Mining Industry in New South Wales |
Sydney | 1912 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 144 | Chas G Gibson | Western Australia Geological Survey Bulletin No. 31: Part 1: Bonnievale and Kunanaling Districts; Part 11: The Black Range District, East Murchison Goldfield |
Perth | 1908 | AUD 750.00 - 1,250.00 | AUD 476.25 |
| 145 | Thomas Northcote | Anthropological Report on the Edo-Speaking Peoples of Nigeria |
London | 1910 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 146 | The Atoll of Funafuti: Borings Into a Coral Reef and the Results |
London | 1904 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 147 | H.M. Vernon; Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895); Henry Newell Martin | Variation in Animals and Plants; Practical Biology |
London | 1903; 1877 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 148 | H Y L Brown; Douglas Mawson; S Radcliff; E C Johnson; Lionel CE Gee | Uranium (Radio-Active) Ores and Other Rare Metals and Minerals in South Australia With Illustrations and Map |
Adelaide | 1914 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 149 | E C Andrews | The Molybdenum Industry in New South Wales |
1916 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 150 | Arthur H Hickmn; D B Dow; I Gemuts | Geology Of The Pilbara Block And Its Environs; Geology Of The Kimberley Region Western Australia: The East Kimberley |
Perth | 1983; 1969 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 151 | Emmanuel Bowen (1694 - 1767) | A Complete System of Geography |
London | 1747 | AUD 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 152 | Stereoscopic Co Ltd; George Washington Wilson (1823-1891) | Photograph Album of England and surrounds |
circa 1860s | AUD 700.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 153 | Maps And Sections To Accompany Report on The Geology And Ore Deposits of Meekatharra |
Perth | 1916 | AUD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 156 | Alain Stella; Eric Sander | Jacques Garcia: Twenty Years of Passion - Chateau du Champ de Bataille |
Paris, France | 2013 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 157 | Bruno Pons | French Period Rooms 1650-1800: Rebuilt in England, France, and the Americas |
1995 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 158 | Jannic Durand; Michele Bimbenet-Privat; Frederic Dassas | Decorative Furnishings and Objets d'Art in the Louvre from Louis XIV to Marie-Antoinette |
2014 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 | |
| 159 | Katie Scott | The Rococo Interior: Decoration and Social Spaces in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris |
1995 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 160 | Nicole Garnier; Sylvie Danaud; Gertrude Dordor | Singeries et exotisme chez Chistopher Huet; A la Cour des singes |
2010; 2009 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 164 | 5 Books, including: Parsons Collection of Rare Voyage Books 1 |
N/A | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 152.40 | ||
| 165 | CT Hudson | The Rotifera; or Wheel-Animalcules |
1886 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 166 | Thibaut Wolvesperges | Le Meuble Francais en Laque au XVIII Siecle |
Paris; Brussels | 2000 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 444.50 |
| 168 | Peter E. Raper; Maurice Boucher | Robert Jacob Gordon: Cape travels, 1777-1786 |
Houghton, South Africa | 1988 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 169 | Maurice Boucher | Livingstone Letters, 1843 to 1872 |
1985 | AUD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold | |
| 170 | Jane Carruthers | Thomas Baines - Eastern Cape Sketches, 1848 to 1852 |
Johannesburg | 1990 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 171 | Edward C Tabler | Baines on the Zambezi 1858 to 1859 |
Johannesburg | 1982 | 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.