Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Books, Maps, Stamps and Ephemera: History, Art, Culture, Science, Military, 50425, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 04, 2025 - May 04, 2025

Page Size: 498 items in 20 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26		Facsimile print of Pierre Vander's famous double hemisphere map of the world,			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
27	Emmanuel Bowen.	A New and Accurate Map of France and its Acquisitions...		circa1740	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
28		Large map of the globe from the southern hemisphere projection, titled "Die Untere oder Sudliche Halbkugel der Erde..."		1800	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 508.00
29	James Wyld,	Map of the Gold Regions of Australia	London	circa1855	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
30		Two maps of the "East India Islands" encompassing present day Indonesia, Indochina and Malaysia. One map is		1852	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
31	Willem Blaeu.	India quae Orientalis dicitur et Insulae Adiacentes, 1635. The third state of the first			AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 1,016.00
32		Five views from Matthew Flinders 1814 "Voyage to Terra Australis" (London,		1814	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
33		Three early maps of the world. First is 'Typus Orbis Theatrum', double hemisphere world map measuring 210 x 175 (plate size)		1598, circa1650	AUD 300.00 - 500.00	AUD 952.50
34		A single plate of the Orange-Rump Flycatcher, from the posthumously	London edition of the "Birds of New Holland with their Natural History"	1838	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 317.50
35	Robert Morden	Eight maps of English counties, all from 1695.		1695	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
36		A mixed lots of Australian maps. Comprising three colonial maps of Australia from Adam and Charles Black General Atlas	Edinburgh	1851	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
37		Two lithographic views of Sydney Harbour, being the illustrated covers of Sydney sheet music		1850's	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
38		Two hand coloured aquatint views of Ephesus, the classical city in present day Turkiye.		1810	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
39		Typus Orbis Terrarum, ad Imitationem Universalis Gerhardi Mercator.		1596	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 1,270.00
40		Unusual heart shaped map of the world, otherwise known as a 'cordiform' map. Titled 'Universalis Cosmographia Tiguri'		1546	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 1,206.50
41		Four views of English country manors.		1826	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
42	Swebach, engraved by Bovinet.	Three views of Napoleonic scenes		circa1820.	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
43		Two beautiful plates of butterflies from Cramer & Stoll's magnificent 'Papillons exotiques'		1775 onwards	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
44	British ornithologist George Edwards (1694-1773)	Four plates by British ornithologist George Edwards (1694-1773)			AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
45		Fifteen plates from John Sands "Landscape Scenery, Illustrating Sydney, Paramatta, Richmond, Newcastle, Windsor and Port Jackson, New South Wales"		1862	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
46	Wallis, Captain James and Walter Preston.	A framed print titled 'A View of the Cove and part of Sydney, New South Wales.' From the 1821 book of view	London		AUD 400.00 - 600.00	AUD 1,079.50
47	Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hamilton-Smith.	Five views of Australia			AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 444.50
48		A mixed lot of antiquarian maps and prints, including two maps of the Louisiade Archipelago off New Guinea, from the Bougainville voyage atlas of 1771.			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
49		A mixed lot of antiquarian natural history prints.			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
50	Enid Blyton.	Nineteen volumes of the Famous Five		late sixties and early seventies	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 412.75

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Sotheby's
Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 June

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Bissière, Roger. Cantique à notre frère soleil de saint François. 1954. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. La vie & l’œuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis. 1924. Rare édition originale, avec envoi. Joint : La Quinine en thérapeutique, 1925. 4,000 - 6,000 EUR

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Mort à crédit. 1936. Édition originale. Bel exemplaire sur Hollande. 2,500 - 3,500 EUR

Sotheby's
Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 June

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Chillida, Eduardo ─ Emil Cioran. Face aux instants. 1985. Un des 100 exemplaires sur Arches. Eau-forte signée. 600 - 800 EUR

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. Ler dla canpane. L’Art Brut, 1948. Édition originale. 3,000 - 5,000 EUR

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. L'Herne Jean Dubuffet. 1973. Un des 100 exemplaires du tirage de luxe avec une sérigraphie originale en couleurs. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR