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

Auction Details

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
478 Charles Dickens.

Ten titles by or about Charles Dickens.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
479 WOLF, Joseph.

The Life and Habits of Wild Animals.

1874 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
480

Geology of the Vegetable Creek Tin-Mining Field, New England District, New South Wales by TW Edgeworth David.

1887 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 152.40
481

1870 Victoria. Reports of the Mining Surveyors and Registrars Quarter Ending 31st March 1870.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
482

The Benevolent Society of New South Wales Sketches of the Poor by Edward Maxted Manager (An Appeal For Aid for the Widow and Orphan and The Aged and Decrepit Poor) Published by Authority of the Board of Directors.

1902 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
483

Stanley in Tropical Africa: His Travels, Heroism and Discoveries and Gallant Relief of Emin Pasha Including the Narrative of the Livingstone Search Expedition, of the Journey through Equatorial Africa, and That of the Founding of the Congo Free State by R

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
484 Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl Complete Set Audio Books.

AUD 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
485

NSW Parliamentary Paper.

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 317.50
486

Coloured Sketch Map of New South Wales Shewing Localities of the Principal Minerals. Revised To Date under the direction of E F Pittman.

No date but circa 1900 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
487

NSW Parliamentary Paper. Report of the Comptroller-General of Prisons, New South Wales for the Year 1910

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
488 Charles Dickens.

A Christmas Carol. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 508.00
489 John F Power

Blind Alley

1946 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 38.10
490 Annette Kellerman with illustrations Marcelle Wooster.

Fairy tales of the south seas : and other stories

circa 1926 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 190.50
491 Baron Cuvier.

The Animal Kingdom arranges and organization forming a natural history of animals and an introduction to comparative anatomy

1884 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 76.20
492 James George Beaney.

The Generative System and Its Functions in Health and Disease

1875 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
493 John Alexander Ferguson.

Bibliography of Australia 1784 to 1900. 8 Volumes.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
495

A collection of Victorian Government prize essays bound in one volume.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
496

Australia and its settlements.

circa 1853 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
497 William John Wills. Edited his Father, William Wills.

A Successful Exploration through the interior of Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria: From the Journals and Letters of William John Wills.

1863 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 381.00
498

Notable South Australians or colonists Past and Present by GE Loyau.

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
499

The Life of Edward John Eyre, Late Governor of Jamaica by Hamilton Hume.

1867 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 127.00
500

Kelly's Map of Herts

AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
501 Duane Michals.

Take One and See Mt. Fujiyama and other stories

1976 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
502 John Jackson.

Ping pong to China

1971 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 38.10
503

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Twenty-five thousand by Lewis Carroll.

1895 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
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