Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Books, Photographs, Maps and More, 52525, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 25, 2025 - May 25, 2025
Page Size: 469 items in 19 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76 Edgar Wallace.

The Flying Squad

New York, 1929 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 285.75
77

A mixed cache of high-quality art monographs, photography, design, textiles books.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
78 LIGHTHALL, W. D.

The Master of Life: A Romance of the Five Nations and of Prehistoric Montreal.

Toronto 1908 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
79

Box of approx. 100 souvenir teaspoons with enamel designs for locations across Australia, from Alice Springs to Mount Gambier.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
80

Approximately 30 catalogues from Australian Book Auctions in Melbourne, 2005 to recent times.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 101.60
81

Five high cuisine titles, all hardcover books:

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
82 Tony Harris.

The Superyacht Book

2016 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
83 mostly by Paul Chack

Seven volumes of French language maritime stories, , undated but all circa 1920-1930.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 101.60
84

Thirteen books on book arts, printing, bibliography and publishing -- being a diverse mix of fine titles.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
85

Two shelves of decorative book-bindings, mostly from the period 1900 to 1920,

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
86 Keith Wingrove. Harry Julius, impressions by Claude McKay.

This lot compriss two books: The Comic Art of Norman Lindsay. And Theatrical Caricatures

Sydney 1987 AUD 120.00 - 150.00 AUD 88.90
87 D.E. Brayshay and D. Berriman.

The Law of No Liability Mining Companies in Victoria

Melbourne, 1899 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
88 SCOTT, Kenneth.

Without Prejudice. Being Some Parodies of the Moderns.

Adelaide, 1931 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
89 KRAUSMAN, Rudi.

The Water Lily and Other Poems.

Brisbane, 1977 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
90

Collection of 13 Australian land title documents and indentures, mostly late nineteenth century and written on vellum as per the conventions of the time.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 203.20
91

Four official programmes from the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games.

1956 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
92 Edited by Bernard A.B.L. Brown.

Renaissance Venice and the North. Crosscurrents in the time of Durer, Bellini and Titian.

London 1999 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
93 CLARK, Kenneth.

The Drawings by Sandro Botticelli for Dante's Divine Comedy after the Originals in the Berlin Museums and the Vatican.

London 1976 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
94 SCHRECKENBERG, Heinz.

The Jews in Christian Art. An Illustrated History.

London 1996 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
95 Bob Kaufman.

Second April

San Francisco. 1959 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
96 edited by LeRoi Jones and Hettie Cohen.

Two issues of Yugen Magazine Number 3 and 4 from the series, and respectively dated 1958 and 1959.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 285.75
97 PERON, M.F.

A Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere, Performed by Order of the Emperor Napoleon, during the years 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804.

1975 edition of 1809 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
98 MARTEAU, Robert.

The Stained-Glass Windows of Chagall 1957-1970.

New York, 1973 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
99 BOXER, C.R.

South China in the Sixteenth Century. Being the narratives of Galeote Pereira, Fr. Gaspar da Cruz, Fr. Martin de Rada, (1550-1575).

London 1953 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
100

Seven bibliographies, all quality hardcover books.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
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