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
288		George Eliot Works 26 volumes		circa 1880-1900	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 190.50
289		Charles Dickens works 20 volumes		1920-1930	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 101.60
290	Terry Eagleton.	Five books by Terry Eagleton			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
291		Thomas Bernhard (1931- 1989) Austrian writer. 1) Extinction.		1995	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
292	Edward W Said.	Edward W Said 8 hardcovers in dustwrappers in good condition. 1) Orientalism		1978	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 381.00
293		A little bundle of book on reading. 1) On Reading by Hungarian photographer Andre Kertesz.	New York	1971	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
294		Italo Calvino 1) Why Read the Classics?	New York	1999	AUD 60.00 - 80.00	AUD 76.20
295		Two books from Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell trilogy. 1) Wolf Hall Henry Holt, 2009 reprint 2) The Mirror & the Light 4th 2020 reprint			AUD 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
296	Aby Moritz Warburg	Three books by or on Aby Warburg		2024	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
297	Vladimir Nabokov	Five books on or by Vladimir Nabokov 1) Lectures on Russian Literature. 2) Style is Matters: Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov			AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 76.20
298	Elias Canetti	Five hardcovers 1) The Human Province Deutsch 1985 2) The Conscious Words Seabury 1979 3) The Play of the Eyes Farrar 1986 4) The Tongue Set Free Deutsch 1979 5) Essays in Honour of Elias Canetti. FSG 1987.			AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 50.80
299	Jose Saramago.	Six books by Jose Saramago. 1) The History of the Siege of Lisbon: A Novel.		1997	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
300	George Steiner.	A collection of books by George Steiner. 1) Tolstoy or Dostoevsky 1959. 2) Language and Silence 1967 3) Extraterritorial 1971 ...			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
301		A shelf and a half of Non Fiction books.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
302		A shelf and a half of good children's books. Anh Doh, Dog Man; David Williams, Hunger Games and more.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 25.40
303		Two shelf of Fiction. Classics and modern.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
304		Three boxes of the Cricketer Magazine from the 1970s - 1990s.		1970s -1990s	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
305		24 volumes of Chums and one Boys Annual		1897-1940	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
306	James King and Charles Ryskamp.	The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper. Complete in five volumes.		1979	AUD 350.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
307	Marjorie Tipping.	Convicts Unbound The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and the settlement in Australia		1988	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 50.80
308		A collection of the Blue Magazine a bi-monthly. 64 issues including Numbers 1,4,6-66.			AUD 350.00 - 450.00	AUD 215.90
309		2 biographies signed Australian Prime Ministers. 1) John Howard: Lazarus Rising: A Personal and Political Autobiography.		2010	AUD 160.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
310	Karen Miller.	Clone Wars: Wild Space		2008	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
311	Edmund White.	Edmund White. Four books by American gay writer, Edmund White. 1) City Boy: My Life in New York during the 1960s and '70s.		2009	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 88.90
312	Umberto Eco.	Five title by Umberto Eco.		2011	AUD 300.00 - 350.00	AUD 190.50

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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