Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Maps, Mining, Art, firsts, signed and limited edition book, A166, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 16, 2025 - November 16, 2025
Page Size: 325 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
226 Douglas Pratt

Pixie O'Harris Original Illustration done on the front endpaper of: The Australian Artist

1985 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 190.50
227 Mareidi and Gert Stoll

IBEJI: Twin Figures of the Yoruba

Munich 1980 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
228

Aboriginal Australia 1) The Tasmania Aborigines...

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
229 edited by Anne Marie Brody

Aboriginal Art 1) Stories: Eleven Aboriginal Artists, Works from the Holmes a Court Collection...

1997 AUD 160.00 - 260.00 Not Sold
230

Aboriginal Art Dreaming 1) Dreamings : The Art of Aboriginal Australia edited Peter Sutton...

1989 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
231 TGH Strehlow

Rex Battarbee 1) Rex Battarbee: Artist and Founder of Aboriginal Art Movement in Central Australia with text...

1956 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
232

Aboriginal Art from Central Australia 1) The Face of the Centre: Papunya Tula Paintings 1971-1984...

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
233 ROVER THOMAS

Two Rover Thomas catalogues. 1) Roads Cross: The Paintings of Rover Thomas with Kim Akerman, Mary Macha, Will Christensen and Wally Caruana...

1994 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
234 Charles Mountford

Three books on Albert Namatjira. 1) The Art of Namatjira...

1944 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 88.90
235 edited by Everard Leske

HERMANNSBURG. 1) Hermannsburg: A Vision and a Mission...

Adelaide 1977 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
236

Art of Utopia. 1) The Art of Utopia...

1991 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
237 edited by Chris McGuigan

Karnta: Aboriginal Women's Art

Westgate, N.S.W. [1987] AUD 120.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
238 Margo Neale

Emily Kame Kngwarreye: Alhalkere: Paintings from Utopia

1998 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
239 Isaacs Jenny, Terry Smith, Judith Ryan, Donald Holt and Janet Holt

Emily Kame Kngwarreye Paintings with contributions

Sydney 1998 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 317.50
240 GERALD MURNANE

A bundle of books...

AUD 50.00 - 80.00 AUD 101.60
241

TOLKIEN. JRR Tolkien 1) The Two Towers...

1968 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
242

STALIN. Leo Trotski Stalin: An appraisal of the Man and his Influence

1947 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 76.20
243 edited by Sydney Ure Smith and Bertram Stevens with W. Hardy Wilson

Domestic Architecture in Australia: Special Number of Art in Australia

Sydney 1919 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
244 edited by Fred and Eleanor Jacka

ANTARCTICA. Antarctica x8 1) Mawson's Antarctic Diaries...

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
245 Roald Amundsen

The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912

St. Lucia 1976 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
246

EGYPT. Five publications on Egypt and surrounds...

1962 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 349.25
247 Clare Sheridan

Arab Interlude

1936 AUD 120.00 - 180.00 AUD 76.20
248 AC Inchbold

Syria and Armenia 1) Under the Syrian Sun in two volumes...

London 1906 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
249 Ella K Maillart

Forbidden Journey: From Peking to Kashmir

1937 AUD 120.00 - 180.00 AUD 76.20
250 Marshall Broomhall

The Chinese Empire: a general & missionary survey

C1907 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
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