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
78	Shakespeare	The Norton Facsimile: The First Folio of Shakespeare. Based on Folios in the Folger Shakespeare Library Collection Prepared by Charlton Hinman.	New York and London	1996	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 349.25
79		A History of Australia Complete in Six Volumes. Very good set in dustwrappers			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 317.50
80	Norman Lindsay.	Micomicana		1979	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
81		Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone First Edition First Impression	London:	1997	AUD 7,500.00 - 10,000.00	AUD 15,240.00
82		A Fine complete 21 volume Set of the Oxford Library Works of Charles Dickens. . Rich full red leather in 21 volumes. All edges gilt and silk endpapers .		1979 and various dates	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
83	The Right Honourable Earl of Rochester	The Farce of Sodom	Melbourne	1980	AUD 1,400.00 - 1,600.00	AUD 889.00
84	the Rev Samuel Border.	Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women of The British Empire A New Edition Embellished With Eighteen Portraits Corrected and Enlarged	London	1815	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
85	John Dunmore Lang	An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales, from the Founding of the Colony in 1788 to the present day (in Two Volumes)		1875	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 190.50
86		Two Fine Prize Bindings awarded to Charles E Cornell as the Prize in the Second Algebra Class Christmas 1880.			AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
87	Lady Wentworth	The Authentic Arabian Horse and his descendants. Three Voices Concerning the Horses of Arabia, Tradition (Jejd, Inner East) - Romantic Fable (Islam) - The Outside World of the West	London	1945	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 203.20
88	Lady Wentworth	Thoroughbred Racing Stock and Its Ancestors.; The Authentic Origin of Pure Blood	London	1938	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 203.20
89	John Nicol	Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. Compiled from their own Records and other Authentic Sources of Information.	London	M.DCCC.LXVI. 1866	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 412.75
90		The Acts and Ordinances of The Governor and Council of New South Wales Vols 1 and 2.			AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
91	edited by Clive Probyn & Bruce Steele	Henry Handel Richardson - The Letters (in 3 volumes). Volume 1 1874-1915; Volume 2: 1917-1933; Volume 3: 1934-1946		2000	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
92	James Watt.	The 61st Battalion 1938-1945. The Queensland Cameron Highlanders' War. The 61st Australian Infantry Battalion (AIF). Milne Bay - Madang - Bougainville.	Sydney	2001	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 127.00
93	W/Cdr John Watson and Louis Jones .	3 Squadron at War	Sydney	1959	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
94	Wing Commander H. N. Wrigley	The Battle Below. Being the History of No. 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps		1985	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 50.80
95	Ray Parkin,	HM Bark Endeavour		1997	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 127.00
96	Henry Ennis	Remarks on board His Majesty's Ship Tamar; in a voyage from England to Port Praia, Cape of Good Hope- New South Wales, and from thence, along the coast of Australia, to Port Essington in the Cobourg Penninsula, and thence to Bathurst and Melville Islands,	Melbourne	1983	AUD 80.00 - 100.00	AUD 241.30
97		Mapplethorpe Prepared in Collaboration with Arthur C. Danto	New York	1992	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
98	T.C. Boyle	T.C. Boyle Stories II: The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II	New York	2013	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
99	Robert Rosenblum.	Beautifully illustrated books showing the collections of Paris Museums. Including: 1) La Peinture au Musee d'Orsay		1989	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
100		Paris Moulin Rogue A wonderful collection of books on Paris, Moulin Rogue, and the cabaret dancers.			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
102		Complete run of Australian Racing Magazine Turf Monthly.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
103	Compiled by Stan and Les Brigg.	The 36th Australian Infantry Battalion 1938-1945. The Story of An Australian Infantry Battalion and its Part in the War Against Japan	Sydney:	1967	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

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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.

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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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