Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science, Botany, Philosophy, Anthropology, Art, Literature, First editions, & Associated copies, 61525, Ultimo

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Auction Report
Auction Date
June 15, 2025 - June 15, 2025
Page Size: 453 items in 19 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Roderick Flanagan.

The History of New South Wales with an account of Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania], New Zealand, Port Phillip [Victoria], Moreton Bay, and other Australian settlements.

1862 AUD 700.00 - 800.00 AUD 635.00
2

Proeschel Atlas Australasia 1863 Atlas containing map of Australasia:

London 1863 AUD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
3 Bernard C. Middleton.

A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique

New York 1978 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 254.00
4 Gregory Blaxland

A Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, in the Year 1813.

London 1863 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 50.80
5 Henry Lawson. Adelaide :

The Auld Shop and the New.

1923 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 2,667.00
6 Percy Neville Barnett.

Colour Prints of Hiroshige

Sydney, N.S.W Australia 1937 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
7 J Lort Stokes.

1) Discoveries in Australia

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
8 J.H. Maiden assisted by W.S. Campbell

The Flowering Plants and Ferns of New South Wales, with special reference to their economic value Parts 1-7

in Sydney 1895 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
9 A. B. Paterson

The Man From Snowy River And Other Verses

in Sydney AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
10 C. S. Forester.

The Man in the Yellow Raft

1969 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
11 Paul Gallico

Three Stories by Paul Gallico (The Snow Goose, The Small Miracle & Ludmila)

London 1964 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
12

La Journee Des Dupes: Piece Tragi-Politi-Comique: Representee Sur Le Theatre National Par Les Grands Comediens de La Patrie. 1790.

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
13

1789 European Magazine From January until June 1789.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
14 Frederic Masson.

Livre du Sacre de l'empereur Napoleon

Paris: 1908 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,400.00 AUD 889.00
15 Dr. E. A. Wilson and the surviving members of the expedition

Scott's Last Expedition. In two volumes, Vol. I being the Journals, Vol. II being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work undertaken

in London 1913 AUD 900.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 571.50
16 Robert C Littlewood.

Bookplates for Pat Corrigan & Family

in Melbourne 2014 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 381.00
17 [Maria Graham]

1826 Sandwich Islands Voyage of HMS Blonde: to the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824-1825. Captain the Right Hon. Lord Byron, Commander.

London: MDCCCXXVI. (1826). AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,905.00
18 George Mackaness.

Some Private Correspondence of Sir John and Lady Jane Franklin (Tasmania, 1837-1845). In 2 Parts. With Introduction, Notes & Commentary

Sydney, Australia AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
19 George Mackaness

1) Some Proposals For Establishing Colonies In The South Seas With Five Illustrations.

in Sydney AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
20 William Gates

Recollections of Life in Van Dieman's Land

in Sydney 1961 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
21 R S Anderson

Australian Gold Discovery Monographs No. 1 Australian Gold Fields Their Discovery, Progress and Prospects with Illustration,

1851 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
22 The Hon. Richard Keppel Craven

A Tour Through the Southern Provinces of the Kingdom of Naples , To which is subjoined A Sketch of the Immediate Circumstances Attending the Late Revolution

in London 1821 AUD 1,400.00 - 1,600.00 Not Sold
23 Edited-by Alexander Henderson

Henderson's Australian Families: A Genealogical and Biographical Record. Vol. I (complete and all published) Compiled and

AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 762.00
24 Arthur Upfield

Walkabout Magazine December 1st 1934. Contains an article

1934 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
25 Michael Terry

A copy of Walkabout Magazine August 1st 1936. A beautiful Australiana illustrated magazine with good photographs. Contains an article

1936 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
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