Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Books, bookplates, postcards: First editions, Military, History …, 71325, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 13, 2025 - July 13, 2025

Page Size: 351 items in 15 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
230	Authors include Linda Fairstein, Lawrence Block, and John Connolly.	A box of crime fiction novels, all in mint condition.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
231		5 posters, each on various human body systems; A Peter Bachin Chart,		1947	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
232		Roughly 60 photographs from the 1920's - 1950's period. Subjects relate to warships, early technology, alp photographs, and wartime photographs.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
233	Mary Card	Mary Card's crochet book : no. 2 : new designs and arrangements for fancy-workers.	Melbourne	No date	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
234		Rose of Valencia ; or The Corsican , A Romance,	London .	1852	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
235	A. B. Paterson,	The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses		1896	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 762.00
236		2 books on steel handling and the like from the 1940's or thereabout. 1) Shapes and Sections B.H.P. And Allied Industries,		1937	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
237	Padre A. Bottrell	A collection of 3 books on Australian commandos, Books are: 1) Cameos of Commandos		1971	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
238	Ronald J. Austin	2 books on the Australian battalions during WW2. 1) Let Enemies Beware, 'Caveant Hostes', The History of the 2/15th Battalion, 1940-1945.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
239	Arthur Rackham.	The Land of Enchantment	London	1907	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
240	J. F. C. Fuller.	3 book series, Decisive Battles of the Western World			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 114.30
241		1) Molesworth's Pocket Book of Engineering Formulae. 27th Edition.	London	1914	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
242	George Perrottet.	Coloured woodcut bookplate monogrammed			AUD 80.00 - 160.00	AUD 50.80
243		A vibrant bookplate for Shoji Kozuka, coloured lithograph. Depicts a coiled red dragon against a backdrop of a rising sun and stylised clouds.			AUD 120.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
244	George David Perrottet	Colour woodcut bookplate designed by George David Perrottet for S. V. Hagley.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
245	Adrian Feint,	Black and white woodcut bookplate			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
246	Andrew Guy Peake	A heraldic bookplate			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
247	George Perrottet	A heraldic bookplate for Fay Angas designed			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
248	George Perrottet	Coloured bookplate designed for Geoffrey A. Johnson.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
249		A collection of 7 books on Australian aviation, including time during World War 2.			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 285.75
250	George Perrottet	Black and white woodcut bookplate by George Perrottet for D. J. Brownhill.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
251	Adrian Feint	Adrian Feint bookplate in very good condition.			AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 203.20
252	George Perrottet	Bookplate by George Perrottet			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
253	Vane Lindesay.	Bookplate by prominent Australian Cartoonist, bookplate artist and historian, Vane Lindesay.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
254	Sydney Long	Sydney Long Original bookplate. Finely detailed etching depicting a figure playing a lyre amidst stylised trees,			AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 571.50

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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