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
161		Magic Lantern Slides Box entitled: Laterna Magica with colour Lithography label and marbled boards.		1860-1890.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 215.90
162	Adrian Feint	Australian Novels in Dustwrappers 1 Illustrated by Adrian Feint			AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 50.80
163		1) Thomas Keneally The Playmaker Hodder 1987. 2) Literary Links: Celebrating the Literary Relationship between Australia and Britain. 3)Pioneer Women and Pioneer Land: Yessterday's Tall Poppies			AUD 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
164	Edited-by Roland M Berndt. Perth: Uni of Western Australia, 1970.	Australian Aboriginal History books. Including: 1) Australian Aboriginal Anthropology : Modern Studies in the Social Anthropology of the Australian Aborigines			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
165	HA Smuth.	The Official Year Book of New south Wales 1921			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
166		A little bundle of book on Captain Bligh and colonial Australia.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
167	Nicholas Pople	Four Architecture books. Includes: 1) Small Houses		2003	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
168	Gunther Deix	James Kemsley etched bookplate			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
169	Laura Lippman.	Lady in the Lake		2019	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
170	Roxana Robinson.	Leaving: A Novel		2024	AUD 120.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
171	Neil Gaiman.	Signed Neil Gaiman Two books both Signed		2008	AUD 120.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
172	Edited-by Harold Holzer and Joshua Wolf Shenk.	A little bundle of American history and historical fiction books. 1) In Lincoln's Hand: His Original Manuscripts		2009	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
173	Brad Meltzer with Keith Ferrell.	Two beautifully produced and interactive history books. 1) History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time		2013	AUD 120.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
174		About 30 Parliamentary papers from NSW, Victoria and the Commonwealth, Proposals for various railway lines throughout Australia. Great resource for the history of Railways in Australia			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
175	Kate Gahan and Ken Orchard.	Photographs are Never Still. The J.W. Lindt Collection.		2017	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 476.25
176		The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Nine of the Twelve volume set.		1911-1915	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 127.00
177	John Winton and W. Millar.	Two books on Steam and Engineering. 1) Modern Steam Practice and Engineering: A guide to Approved Methods of Construction and The Principles Relating thereto	Glasgow, Edinburgh	1886	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
178	Hector Dinning.	Nile to Aleppo		1920	AUD 120.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
179		Two boxes of useful books on collecting on Collecting Pottery, Silver, Art, Antiques.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
180		Commonwealth of Australia Historical Records of Australia 33 Volume set		1916	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
181	Edited-by Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert.	The Art of Elioth Gruner		no date circa 1924	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 228.60
182	Peter Fuhring.	Design into Art: Drawings for Architecture and Ornament : The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection		1989	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
183		1) Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood 2) The Adversary by Emmanuel 2000 3) The Dying Animal by Philip Roth 2001 4) The Moor's Last Sigh 1995.			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
184		A very good collection of Antique Reference books. Clocks, Pottery Marks and more.			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
185		A half shelf of Australian Art. Includes Pro Hart and Norman Lindsay. Also a copy of Early Australia Furniture.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	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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