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
76		GILES, Ernest. Australia Twice Traversed: The Romance of Exploration being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and through Central South Australia and Western Australia from 1872 to 1876.	London	1889	AUD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
77	William Henry Wells.	A Geographical Dictionary; or Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies: Their Physical and Political Geography together with a brief notice of all the Capitals Principal Towns and Villages; Also of Rivers, Bays, Gulfs, Mountains, Population and General Statis		1848	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 254.00
78		The Hobart Town Gazette. Vol. XXVIII. Friday March 11, 1842. No. 1345. Page 225-240.		1842	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
79	Edgar Allan Poe	The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, with Original Memoir.		1886	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 444.50
80		Cyaniding for Gold: A Complete, Simple, and Detailed Account of the Process Written Especially For the Working Miner and the Small Syndicate.		1939	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 889.00
81	Thomas Keneally.	A shelf of 18 books			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
82		A shelf of 16 signed Thomas Keneally books.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
83	Thomas Keneally.	The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith	Sydney	1972	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
84	Thomas Keneally.	The Place At Whitton	London	1964	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
85	Thomas Keneally.	Schindler's Ark	London	1982	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 349.25
86	John Hawkesworth, LL.D.	An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and	in London	1773	AUD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00	AUD 6,350.00
87	John White Esqre.	Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with Sixty-five Plates of Non descript Animals Birds Lizards Serpents curious Cones of Trees and other Natural Productions	London	1790	AUD 5,500.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
88		Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services; 1914-1918. 3 Volumes.	Melbourne	1930	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 444.50
89	King Charles III and the late Princess Diana.	1981 Royal Wedding Letter of Gratitude. Inscribed and signed 'Yours most sincerely, Charles and Diana'		1981	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 889.00
90	Princess Diana and King Charles III.	1986 Royal Family Christmas Card signed		1986	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 1,016.00
91	A.A. Milne.	The House at Pooh Corner		1978	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 635.00
92	Stephen King.	Cycle of the Werewolf	Michigan	1983	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 825.50
93		Full set (22 Volumes) of Australia in the War of 1939-1945, all hard cover in dust jackets. Good condition, some dust wrappers have chipping but otherwise good.			AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 412.75
94		Official History of Australia in the War 1914-1918. Includes all 12 volumes in good condition. Most have some markings and fading to spine/ cover but are otherwise very good. Original red cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. All	Sydney	various years	AUD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
95		The 12 volume set of the National Edition - with a twist ...."This special quarter blue leather binding of the National Edition of my works is limited to twenty-five sets of which this is number 3. Signed Ion Idriess. " Octavo. Blue leather spine and blue		1939	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
96	Ron Vickress. Illustrated Ensi Payne.	Heads and Tails - A Little Chronicle of Australia Told in Fables.		1992	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
97		Animadversions written by the right reverend father in God John, Lord Bishop of Sarisbury, upon a treatise intituled Gods love to mankind.	Cambridge	1641	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
98	John Turnbull	A Voyage Round The World, in the Years 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804; in Which the Author Visited the Principal Islands of the Pacific Ocean, and the English Settlements of Port Jackson and Norfolk island	Philadelphia	1810	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
99	Edward Gibbon.	The History of The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire.		1813	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
100		Art in Australia. First Series no. 10, 1921 The Macquarie Book.	Sydney	1921	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 1,397.00

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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.

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The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

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A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

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Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

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The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

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Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD