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Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Journey through time: Print and Bindings from the 15th to the 21st Century

Auction Reports


Auction Name	Journey through time: Print and Bindings from the 15th to the 21st Century	Total Sales (AUD)	67,589.40
Auction Date	September 07, 2025 - September 07, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	74,260.00
Sale Number	#90725	High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	101,310.00
Total Lots	409
Sold Lots	228	Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	192,950.00
% of Lots Sold	55.75%	High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	261,170.00
Unsold Lots	181	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	25.88%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	HUME, Fergus W.	The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.	[not dated but mid-1888].	AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	AUD 5,207.00
10	MEREDITH, Louisa Anne.	My Home in Tasmania; or, Nine Years in Australia by Mrs. Charles Meredith.	1853	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 3,302.00
17	ATHANASIUS.	Athanasii Episcopi Alexandrini Opera, studiosus quam antea fuerint, a situ vindicata, quorum catalogus sequitur.	1522	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 3,175.00
161	Geoffrey Chaucer.	Facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones. Essay by William S. Peterson.	2002	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 2,921.00
12	[NO AUTHOR].	A Visit to Australia and It's Gold Regions.	1853	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 1,397.00
220		The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated into English.	1649	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 1,397.00
30	MacFARLANE, Charles.	Constantinople in 1828. A residence of sixteen months in the Turkish capital and provinces.	1829	AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	AUD 1,270.00
43	VALENTIA, Jacob Perez de.	Doctissimae et plane divinae explanationes in centum & quinquaginta Psalmos Davidicos...	1581	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 1,270.00
90	HAYTER, Henry Heylen.	Illustrated Handbook of Victoria, together with the Official Catalogue of Exhibits in the Victorian Court.	1889-90.	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 1,143.00
92	EYRIES, J.B.B.	Recherches sur l'epoque veritable de la decouverte de la terre de Van Diemen du nord; part J.B.B. Eyries.	1814	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 1,143.00
91	COLLINS, Lieutenant-Colonel David.	An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales	1804	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 1,016.00
214		Gesta Dei per Francos, sive Orientalium expeditionum, et regni Francorum Hierosolimitani historia [Bound with] Liber secretorum fidelium crucisTerran Sanctam auctor Marinus Sanuto.		AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 952.50
373		1) Medieval Calendars by Perez-Higuera 2) The Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages by Humphries and Jones.		AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 825.50
4	STEARN, William (editor). By William T. Stearn, introduction by Wilfred Blunt.	The Australian Flower Paintings of Ferdinand Bauer.	1975	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
18	BOSWELL, James.	An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli.	1768	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
37	PENNANT, Thomas.	The View of Hindoostan.	1798	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
98	Eight scarce books on Wesleyan missionary endeavours in Australasia, New Zealand, and the Pacific ocean.	Also includes a few London Missionary Society books.	1831	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00	AUD 635.00
165		The Temple of Flora by Robert John Thornton With commentary by Stephen Harris.	2008	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
341	by Anders Sparman.	A Voyage Round the World with Captain James Cook in H.M.S Resolution	1944	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
39	RITSON, Joseph.	Annals of the Caledonians, Picts, and Scots; and of Strathclyde, Cumberland, and Galloway, and Murray.	1828	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 603.25
144		Biographies and studies of several influential Federation figures:		AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 603.25
166		The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle During the Years.	1980	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 539.75
15	LOFTUS, William Kennett.	Travels and Researches in Chaldaea and Susiana; With an account of excavations at Warka, the "Erech of Nimrod, and Shush, "Shushan the Palace" of Esther, in 1849-1852.	1857	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 508.00
179		Nine titles Includes: Faust by Goethe On the Origin of the Species by Darwin Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald ...		AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 508.00
101	JONES, Davis (illustrator).	The Book of Jonah. Taken from the authorised version of King James I with engravings on wood by David Jones.	1979	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 476.25

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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.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.