Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Books: Historical and Literary Treasures, 120824, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 08, 2024 - December 08, 2024
Page Size: 518 items in 21 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
126 BOADEN, James.

An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints... Offered to the public as Portraits of Shakespeare: ....

London 1824 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 127.00
127

A Victorian era Scrapbook of materials assembled by a girl

around 1880 AUD 100.00 - 120.00 AUD 114.30
128 SCOTT, Robert F.

Scott's Last Expedition.

London 1913 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00 Not Sold
129 JENNER, Thomas.

The Nanking Monument of the Beatitudes.

London 1911 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 317.50
130 SULIVAN, Captain G.L.

Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters and on the Eastern Coast of Africa.

London 1873 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 889.00
131 LINDSAY, Norman.

Women in Parliament by Aristophanes done into English by Jack Lindsay with illustrations by Norman Lindsay and a foreword by Edgell Rickword.

London 1929 AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 508.00
132 LINDSAY, Norman and STEPHENSEN, P.R.

The Antichrist of Nietzsche.

London 1928 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
133 STURT, Charles.

Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia, performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, during the years 1844, 5, and 6.

London 1849 AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
134 JOHN BASKERVILLE SALLUST

C. Crispus Sallustius; et L. Annaeus Florus.

Birmingham 1773 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 381.00
135 SHARP, Martin.

CARTOONS

North Sydney 1966 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 762.00
136

Scarce pamphlet with cover title reading "Bush Studies Australia".

Circa 1900 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 412.75
137

Australian Songs for Australian Children.

Sydney 1902 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 165.10
138 Norman Lindsay.

Eighteen important watercolour paintings reproduced in their original colours, with notes on the artist's life by Godfrey Blunden.

Sydney 1939 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
139

[SHERRIFF'S ALMANAC] The Australian Almanac for the Year 1867.

1867 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 101.60
140 DALRYMPLE, James.

Collections Concerning the Scottish History, preceding the death of King David the First, in the Year 1153.

Edinburgh 1705 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
141 RIVETI, Andreas.

Disputationes Tredicum.

Leiden 1681 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
142

Dawn In The Valley.

Sydney 1972 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 190.50
143 [RACKHAM, Arthur], SHAKESPEARE, William.

A Midsummer Night's Dream.

London 1908 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 603.25
144 [RACKHAM, Arthur] WAGNER, Richard.

The Ring of the Niblung.

London 1911 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 381.00
145

What Can I Do? Waltz Ballard.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
146 C.C. F.M. Le Roux.

De Bergpapoea's Van Nieuw-Guinea En Hun Woongebied - The Mountain Papuas of New Guinea and their homeland

Leiden 1950 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
147 B.S. Johnson.

The Unfortunates

1969 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
148

3 embroidered silk Stevengraphs from World War I.

1916 AUD 100.00 - 120.00 AUD 63.50
149 Uta Bath, Jonathan Crary, Russell Ferguson, Holly Myers

The Long Now. Photographs by Uta Bath

New York 2010 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
150

2 volumes of Blast Magazine.

Santa Barbara 1980s AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
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