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
402 Rev T R Malthus

An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an Inquiry into our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions.

1888 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 381.00
403 John Lindley

The Vegetable Kingdom; or, The Structure, Classification, and Uses of Plants : Illustrated Upon the Natural System.

1853 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
404

Parliamentary Standing Committee On Public Works Report Together With Minutes of Evidence And Plan Relating to the Propose System of Sewage For The Municipality of Wollongong.

1916 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
405

A Practical Treatise on Metallurgy Adapted from the Last German Edition of Prof. Kerl's Metallurgy.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
406 J C math; N M Gray and H J Ward

Western Australia Geological Survey Bulletin 107 Supplementary Atlas The Geology of The Country About Coolgardie, Coolgardie Goldfields, W.A.

AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
407

Seven Historical Romance novels by the Australian author E V Timms.

the early1950s. AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
408 Manning Clark

A History Of Australia in Six Volumes.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
409

1. John Knatchbull by Roderick Inscribed by Frank Clune 2. Australia Round-up Edited by and signed by Colin Roderick 3. The Lady and The Lawyer Inscribed by Roderick 4. Such Is Life By Tom Collins.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
410 JB Jaquet.

Geology of the Broken Hill Lode and Barrier Ranges Mineral Field, New South Wales with Maps, Plates and Sections

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 127.00
411 Frank Clune.

Scandals Of Sydney Town

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 698.50
413

The Frontier Edition of Ion L Idriess.

No date, 1951 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 1,905.00
414

1858 Fort Macquarie and Garden Island.

1858 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
415 John Kerouac

The Town and the City

1951 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
416 Dr Oscar Hertwig.

Text-Book of the Embryology of Man and Mammals

1892 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
417 Richard Whately.

Remarks on Transportation and on a recent Defence of the System in a Second Letter to Earl Grey

1834 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
418

Victorian stud book : containing pedigrees of race horses, etc. from the earliest accounts to the year compiled and edited by William Yuille.Volume III.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
419

The Paintings of Russell Drysdale.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
420 James Gleeson.

William Dobell with 32 tipped in Colour Plates and 118 illustrations in monochrome

1964 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
421

Young India 1919-1931. Thirteen volumes.

1981 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
422 STRUTT, William.

Victoria the Golden. Scenes, sketches and jottings from nature.

1980 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
423

Readings in Victorian Prehistory. Volume 2: The Victorian Aboriginals 1800 to 1860 by PHF Coutts.

1981 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
424 Henry Holman Drake.

Hasted's History of Kent : Corrected, Enlarged, and Continued to the Present Time, from the Manuscript Collection of the Late Rev. Thomas Streatfeild and the Late Rev. Lambert Blackwell Larking, the Public Records. Part I. the Hundred of Blackheath.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
425 Daniel Maclise.

The Story of the Norman Conquest

1866 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
426

Fifty Masterpieces of Photography": Containing some of the last and finest works of this internationally famous master by Dr Julian Smith.

1948 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
427

City Streets Progressive Adelaide 75 Years On by Lance Campbell and Mick Bradley.

2012 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
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