Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Books: Beautiful, Unusual and Inspiring, 82524, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
August 25, 2024 - August 25, 2024
Page Size: 496 items in 20 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26

Australian Almanack: For the Year of Our Lord 1828; Being Bissextile, or Leap Year; and the Ninth of the Reign of His Most Gracious Majesty King George The Fourth.

1828 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 762.00
27

Waugh's Australian almanac for the year 1862.

Sydney 1862 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
28

Australian almanac for the year 1866.

Sydney 1866 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
29 Walter Hutchinson,

25 Volumes of Hutchinson's Pictorial History of the War of varying years: A Complete and Authentic Record in Text and Pictures, edited

1939-1945 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 603.25
30

The six pack of the Guerrilla Series

1999 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 381.00
31 Ion L Idriess.

Cyaniding For Gold

Uralla: 2000 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
32 Ion Idriess.

Madman's Island

2002 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
33 Ion Idriess Compiled Jim Bradly.

Gouger of the Bulletin Paragraphs

2008 AUD 70.00 - 100.00 AUD 50.80
34 Phillip Pepper and Tess De Araugo.

The Kurnai of Gippsland: What did happen to the Aborigines of Victoria. Volume 1

Melbourne 1985 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
35 Marvin L Colker.

Trinity College Dublin: Descriptive Catalogue of the Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Manuscripts

1991 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
36 Catholick tradition.

The Council of Trent examin'd and disprov'd

in London 1688 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 381.00
37 William Tyndale.

Facsimile Texts. The First Printed English New Testament. Translated

1871 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 177.80
38

The Drawings of Ruby Lind (Mrs Will Dyson)

1920 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 1,270.00
39 edited by Buckner.

Rustic Decoy Duck. Comes with book: The great book if Wildfowl Decoys

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 215.90
40 Blake Twigden.

The Fifty Rarest Birds of the World

Auckland 1991 AUD 120.00 - 180.00 AUD 215.90
41 Agatha Christie.

Elephants Can Remember

London 1972 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
42 Agatha Christie.

Sleeping Murder: Miss Maple's Last Case

London 1976 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
43

9 Agatha Christie books

AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 127.00
44 Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe.

2 Books from the 1840s, both in their original binding1) Vie du reverend Legh Richmond

1839 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 215.90
45

1) The life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
46 A.A. Milne.

Now We Are Six

1977 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 635.00
47 A.A. Milne.

The House at Pooh Corner

1978 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
48 the United States of America W. C. Wentworth.

A Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land ...

London 1820 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 381.00
49 Engraved, selected, and arranged by Walter G. Mason.

The Australian Picture Pleasure Book, illustrating the scenery, architecture historical events, natural history, public characters, Etc., of Australia.

Sydney 1857 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 3,429.00
50 Edited by Richard Neville, Jim Anderson, Felix Dennis and Roger Hutchinson

OZ Magazine, A near complete set of 47 issues out of 48.

London AUD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 AUD 3,937.00
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