Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Geology and Natural History, Mining, First editions, Art, History, 102624, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 26, 2024 - October 26, 2024

Page Size: 508 items in 21 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
429		Mermaid Play Series.		1893	AUD 70.00 - 140.00	Not Sold
430		Three books about Beatrix Potter. 1) A life in Nature by Linda Lear 2) The Journal of Beatrix . 3) Letters to Children.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
431		Two books on Rowing in Australia. 1) Port Jackson Pullers: Champion Oarsmen of Early Australia by Stephen Gard. 2) Michael Rush: Champion Australian Sculler. A Tyrone on the Clarence by Stephen Gard.			AUD 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
432		A bundle of 13 Norman Lindsay books. 1) Ship Models 2) artful Cats 3) Bears 4) Watercolours 5) rose Lindsay and more.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 285.75
433	Blaise Cendrars and Illustrated John Dos Passos.	Panama: or the Adventures of My Seven Uncles	in New York	1931	AUD 350.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
434		Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia, Melbourne 1866-67. Official Record, containing: introduction, catalogues, reports and awards of the jurors and essays and statistics on the social and economic resources of the Australasian Colonies.	Melbourne:	1867	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
435	Jack Cato.	The Story of the Camera in Australia,	Melbourne	1955	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
436		A Memorial Volume to Howard Hinton, Patron of Art.		1951	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
437	Rex Battarbee	Modern Australian Aboriginal Art		1951	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
438		Five Charles Dicken's Christmas Stories. All	in London.		AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
439	Charles Dickens. Illustrated Hugh Thomson.	The Chimes		no date circa 1913-1920	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
440		Ralph Rashleigh or The Life of an Exile. Now First			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
441		Five books on Parramatta and surrounds. 10 Medical Practice in Old Parramatta by Brown 2) Parramatta the early years by Kelson 3) The Cradle City of Australia: A History of Parramatta 1788-1961 4) Fairfield: A Pictorial History 5) 150th Anniversary 1938			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
442	Ernest Hill and more.	A shelf Australian fiction with lovely dustwrapper art. Includes Signed Frank Clune, The Territory			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
443		A bundle of books on Australian Opera, Theatre and Movies. Includes Melba, Moncrieff and Bill Collins at the Movies.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
444		A bundle of about ten books on Collecting in Australia. Includes: Lamps, Postcards, Edward Snell, Old Books, Bookman.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
445		A shelf of Australian Natural History. Mostly Hardcovers in good condition.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
446		Souvenir of Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee Procession June 22nd 1897 with compliments of HD and HO Wills			AUD 180.00 - 220.00	AUD 114.30
447		A collection of books on the Royal Tour in Australia and the Royal family.			AUD 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
448		Three books on gold and gold mining in Australia.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 88.90
449	Daisy Bates .	The Passing Of The Aborigines A Lifetime spent among the Natives of Australia	London	1938 second printing	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 381.00
450	Fred Turner.	Australian Grasses and Pasture Plants: With Notes on Native Fodder Shrubs and Trees	Melbourne	1921	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 63.50
451	A E Martin.	Place Names in Victoria and Tasmania. The Romance of nomenclature			AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 165.10
452	Charles E. Pearce	The Amazing Duchess: The Romantic History of Elizabeth Chudleigh		1920s	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
453	James Caulfield.	Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters, of Remarkable Persons, from the Revolution in 1688 to the End of the Reign of George II; Collected from the Most Authentic Accounts Extant	London	1819	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

Sotheby’s: William Golding.
Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

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

Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

Sotheby’s: John Milton.
Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD