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
154 Arnold Hague.

Atlas to Accompany Monograph XXXII on the Geology Yellowstone National Park.

Washington 1904 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
155 Marian Kaluski.

3 books on Paul Strzelecki, 'The Man Who Climbed and named Mt. Kosciusko'. 1) Sir Paul E. Strzelecki.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
156 Hugh Cairns and called for Bill Yidumduma Harney.

1) Dark Sparklers. Yidumduma's Aboriginal Astronomy, Northern Australia 2003.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
157 Jennifer Horsfield. Rosenberg Publishing, NSW 2012.

2 books on the Australian Antarctic explorer. 1) The Edgeworth David Women.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
158 S.E. Close.

The Great Gold Renaissance.

Melbourne 2002 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
159 D. Mawson.

Wilke's Antarctic Landfalls.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
160 William Cobbett.

A History of The Protestant 'Reformation', in England and Ireland.

London 1824 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
161 Ethel Turner.

The Secret Of The Sea

Undated but 1913 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
162 Andrew Lang. edited

2 copies of The Animal Story Book,

Green and Co in 1896 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
163 A. Kippis

A Narrative of The Voyages Round The World Performed by Captain James Cook with An Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods.

AUD 100.00 - 120.00 AUD 114.30
164 Aristophanes with foreword Jack Lindsay. Illustrated Norman Lindsay.

1) Lysistrata: Translated from the Greek of Aristophanes

New York circa 1930 AUD 80.00 - 100.00 AUD 88.90
165

37 books of Australian fiction. Featuring authors such as Peter Carey, David Malouf, Elizabeth Jolley, Patrick White, Keneally, Jennifer Rowe and Kate Grenville.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
166 F.J Thwaites and E.V Timms.

15 books by Australian novelists F.J Thwaites and E.V Timms.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
167

Australian Railway Enthusiast Journals from 1976-77, 1978-79 and 1981-83.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
168 Garnier and Allport from Autocar.

5 publications on Rolls-Royce and Bentley.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
170

The Port of Sydney NSW Official Handbook.

1913 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 177.80
171 Alexander Pulling, Sergeant-At-Law.

The Order Of The Coif

1884 AUD 300.00 - 350.00 AUD 190.50
172 the author.

7 books of Australian Law. All hardbacks in very good condition. Includes 1) Restitution A New Perspective. Joachim Dietrich.

Leichardt 1998 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
173

Over 100 books of Australian Local Histories, and some additional maps and plates. Fills over 2 shelves.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
174 Bill Arthur and France Morphy.

6 books, all softcovers but one. All in very good condition. 1) Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia.

2005 AUD 100.00 - 120.00 AUD 63.50
175

A shelf of about 35 books on Australian politics, with numerous titles on immigration, refugees, unions, labour and working rights.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
176 A.B. Patterson.

Three Elephant Power and other stories.

Sydney 1917 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
177

Mr. Punch's Motor Book. Second edition

London 1931 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
178

2 shelves of about 65 books of Australian History, with numerous titles on Sydney and the 1950s.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
179

A shelf of about 38 books on Australian Transport.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
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