Sydney Rare Book Auctions: History, Science, Mining, Exploration, Zines, Beer and Wine, Photographs and more, A167, Ultimo

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 30, 2025 - November 30, 2025
Page Size: 513 items in 21 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Lou Klepac , James Gleeson.

Beyond the screen of sight

2004 AUD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
2

An Eye For Photography: The Camera In Australia by Alan Davies

2004 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
3

Landscape Scenery Illustrating Sydney, Paramatta, Richmond, Maitland, Windsor, and Port Jackson,

1855 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
4

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell with Samuel Johnson's poetical pieces relative to the tour.

1785 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 381.00
5 Mrs Daly.

Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia

1887 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 381.00
6 LINDSAY, Norman.

Micomicana.

1979 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 381.00
7 [UNKNOWN COMPILER].

Armorials of Somerset.

1800 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 635.00
8 Department of Mines .

Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. Geology Number 7' Geology and Mineral Resources of the Southern Coal-Field with Maps and Sections. Part 1, the South Coastal Portion by L F Harper.

1915 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
9

Western Australia Geological Survey. Bulletin No. 10 Maps, Plans, and Sections to accompany report on The Mining Groups of the Yilgarn Goldfield North of the Great Eastern Railway.

1950 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
10 Hobson, Miles & Matheson.

1952 Western Australia Geological Survey Bulletin 103 Supplementary Atlas No 1. Geological Maps of Portion of the Mt. Margaret Goldfield.

1952 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
11

Bulletin De La Societe Geologique De France !833 to 1854. 22 volumes.

!833 to 1854 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 952.50
12 the Rec W. B. Clarke

Remarks on the Sedimentary Formations of New South Wales Illustrated by References to Other Provinces of Australasia

1878 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
13 compiled Robert Logan Jack

Eight Parliamentary Papers compiled by Robert Logan Jack

1870s and 1880s. AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 8,890.00
14 Harrie Wood.

Mineral Products of New South Wales. Notes on the Geology of New South Wales by C S Wilkinson and Description Of The Minerals of New South Wales by Archibald Liversidge.

1882 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
15 John Evans

The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain

1872 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
16 Alfred J. Ewart

Flora of Victoria

1930 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
17 Louis Pasteur

Studies on Fermentation: The Diseases of Beer, Their Causes and the Means of Preventing Them, Translated into English by Frank Faulkner and D. Constable Robb

1879 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
18

The Minerals of New South Wales, Etc by A Liversidge. With Map.

1888 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 381.00
19 H C Russell

Climate of New South Wales: Descriptive, Historical, and Tabular.

1877 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
20

Tabular List of all the Australian Birds at Present Known to the Author, showing the Distribution of the Species over the Continent of Australia and Adjacent Islands.

1888 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
21 POPE, John Alexander, GETTENS, Rutherford John, and others.

The Freer Chinese Bronzes.

1967-1969. AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
22

Three voyage accounts published by Nico Israel in the late sixties and early seventies, being high quality facsimile editions with maps and charts.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
23 MAGRIEL, Paul.

Bibliography of Boxing. A Chronological Check List of Books in English Printed Before 1900.

Before 1900 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
24

Eighteen issues of the War Pictorial and related publications, from 1917 and 1918.

1917-1918 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
25 ROUSSELOT, Jean-Loup, ABEL, Bernard, and others.

Masques Eskimo d'Alaska.

1991 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
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