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
180

15 books of Australian Architecture.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
181

20 books of Early Australian History, including numerous titles on convicts and squatters.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 88.90
182 Charles Dickens.

7 small early 19th century books. 1) The Personal History of David Copperfield

AUD 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
183 E.M. Webster.

11 books, mostly hardbacks in dust wrappers. 1) The Moon Man. Biography of Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
184

2 photographic albums of views around the world c1890s. Includes numerous scenes of Australia such as Katoomba Falls, Hawkesbury River and Sydney Harbour.

London 1895 AUD 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
185 Edited by Peter Bellew.

Art in Australia: A Quarterly devoted to the Arts.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
186

A Victorian scrap book album. Green cloth binding with decorative illustrations in gold, silver and red.

London AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 165.10
187 J.C. Maggs.

Famous Old Coaching Inns of England.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
188 Hon Andrew Garran

Picturesque Atlas of Australasia edited

Sydney 1886 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
189

The Phil May Folio of Caricature Drawings and Sketches in Line Block, Half-Tone and Photogravure

London 1903 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
190 Edited by J.L. Treloar,

Australian Chivalry: reproductions in colour and duo-tone of official war paintings.

1933 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 88.90
191 Edited by R. W. Chapman. Oxford University Press, 1964.

3 biographic books of literary luminaries. 1) Jane Austen's Letters.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
192 Joan Hughes.

5 books on Australian linguistics and slang. 1) Australian Words and Their Origins.

1989 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
193 Joseph Connolly.

2 hardbacks with dust wrappers. In very good condition. 1) Modern First Editions.

London 1984 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
194 Sharland.

4 hardback books in wrappers. 1) Stone of a Century.

Hobart 1952 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
195 E. Graeme Robertson

2 hardback books by E. Graeme Robertson on Australian architecture and cast iron.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
196

5 books of mostly Australian Art History, one stray copy of Michealangelo.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
197 By J. L. with an introduction by Viscount Ranelagh

On cases of death by starvation, and Extreme distress among the humbler classes, considered as one of the main symptoms of the present disorganization of society; ...

London 1844 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 762.00
198 Archibald Campbell

A voyage round the world from 1806 to 1812; In which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands were visited....

Amsterdam and New York 1970 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
199 Mountford 1962

1) Rock Engravings at Koonawara Western NSW

AUD 120.00 - 150.00 AUD 114.30
200 H S Whitelaw

1898 Victoria Department of Mines Special Reports ... Report on the At Arnaud Gold-Field

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 254.00
201 surveys made order of The Hon. East India Comy., The Board of Admiralty, and c.

Blueback map, Chart of the Bay of Bengal including Plans of the Principal Harbours, drawn

1853 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
202 the Order of the British Government.

Blueback map, The Coast of the Cape Colony, Compiled Chiefly from the Surveys made

London 1879 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
203

Blueback map, Cuba with Plans of Harbours.

London 1875 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
204 R. Blachford,

Blueback map, Blatchford's New General Chart of the West Indies

1838 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 2,159.00
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