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

Auction Details

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
236		Two Herman Hesse books 1) The Glass Bead Game.		1970	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
237	Herman Melville.	Moby Dick		1977	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
238	Pat Barker	Pat Barker Three books			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
239		Cormac McCarthy 1) The Passenger & Stella Maris.		2022	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
240	Haruki Murakami translated by Alfred Birnbaum.	Murakami and Ishiguro Two great Japanese authors - three books. All hardcovers in dustwrappers in very good condition.. 1) A Wild Sheep: A Novel		1990	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 127.00
241	Truman Capote.	In Cold Blood	London:	1966	AUD 120.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
242	Lewis Carroll.	Alice's Adventures In Wonderland	London, New York	1898	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 190.50
243	Ernesto Sabato	Ernesto Sabato 1) On Heroes and Tombs. 2) The Angel of Darkness.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
244	Richard Gray.	Two books on writing. 1) Ghostwriting: WG Sebald's Poetics of History		2017	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
245	Santayana.	Tokimasa Bookplate Tipped into the front endpaper of - The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel		1936	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
246	C. H. Hannaford	9 very rare volumes of Australian Monthly Magazine The Lone Hand + an index volume for Volumes 1-13	Sydney		AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
247	Dame Nellie Melba.	2 books n Music and Erotic Photography, both in good condition. 1) Melba Method	London	1926	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
248		Manual of Air Navigation, Volume 2 by Command of the Air Council.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
249		27 books on History, Poetry, Art and more.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
250		5 paper back books on Socialism and Philosophy.			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
251		5 books on Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
252		7 books on reading, all in good condition.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
253		13 books on Politics, all in good condition.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
254		4 books on French Essayist, Philosopher and 12 time Nobel Prize Nominee, Paul Valery.		1970	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
255		Over 60 classic titles with a mix of hard cover and paper back books.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
256		23 books on Philosophy. Mainly English Philosophy, however some French and German Philosophy included.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
257		7 books on the atrocities and events that took place during the Holocaust.			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
258		10 books on Women and Feminism, mostly good condition.			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
259		15 books on Aesthetics and Art, all in good condition.			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
260		13 Australian Fiction Books, all in very good condition.			AUD 180.00 - 220.00	Not Sold

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

Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

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

Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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