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
26 EDGE-PARTINGTON, James.

Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands.

1996 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
27

NSU Wankel Spider convertible advertising publication from 1963.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
28

Bartholomew's New Reduced Survey Sheet 19 -- Isle of Skye.

circa 1920 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
29

Star Wars promotional brochure

1977 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
30

The Voyage of Governor Phillip Voyage to Botany Bay...

1950 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 177.80
31

Four Australian nineteenth century books related to the Methodist Church.

nineteenth century AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
32

Five books on the London Missionary Society and related evangelical missions in the South Pacific and Australia.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
33 Gustav Warneck. edited George Robson.

Outline of a History of Protestant Missions From the Reformation to the Present Time: With an Appendix Concerning Roman Catholic Missions

1906 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
34

Three antiquarian Christian spiritual books: Hymns for Infant Minds.

1818 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
35 TERRAS, James H.

The Mission of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales.

1928 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
36

A bound volume of ten pamphlets

1947-1968 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
37 PETTY, John.

The History of the Primitive Methodist Connexion. From its Origin to the Conference of 1860, the First Year of the Connexion.

1864 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
38

A complete run of the Melbourne Wesley College Chronicle, from May 1925 to August 1941.

1925-1941. AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
39

An archive relating to the missionary activities of Albert Grieg and his wife in China, active from 1896 to 1927.

1896-1927. AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 2,921.00
40

Six books on South Pacific history and anthropology: DOUGLAS, Bronwen. Across the Great Divide.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
41 Charles Sturt

Two Australian exploration books by Charles Sturt

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
42 IVENS, Walter.

The Island Builders of the Pacific. How and why the people of Mala construct their artificial islands, the antiquity and doubtful origin of the practice, with a description of the social organization, magic and religion of their inhabitants.

1930 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
43 HORNBEIN, Thomas and BROWER, David (editor).

Everest. The West Ridge.

1965 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
44 [FRANKLIN, Sir John, and others].

Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council of Van Diemen's Land, 1837-1839.

1840 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 317.50
45

Five books on Australian inland exploration.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
46 NEREVY, [J.F.]

The Torrent of the French Revolutions...

1873 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
47

From Ergot to 'Ernutin'. An Historical Sketch. Lecture Memoranda, Australian Medical Congress Melbourne 1908.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
48

An Authentic Journal of the Expedition under Commodore Phillips to Botany Bay... by an Officer.

1789; 1975 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 152.40
49

Private Journal of W.H. Tietkens on an Expedition to the Nullarbor Plain. February 1879 to January 1880.

1998 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 203.20
50 WARE, James.

Remarks on the Opthalmy, Psorophthalmy, and Purulent Eyes of New Born Children... London, printed for T.

1814 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
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