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

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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
51 Edited C. Warren Bonython

I'm No Lady. Reminiscences of Constance Jean, Lady Bonython, O.B.E. 1891-1977.

1977-1981. AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
52 Edited John Williamson, and others.

Venomous and Poisonous Marine Animals: A Medical and Biological Handbook.

1996 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
53

The Memoirs of Captain Liddell Hart.

1965 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
54 BRENNAN, Martin.

Reminiscences of the Gold Fields and Elsewhere in New South Wales, covering a period of forty-eight years as an Officer of Police.

1907 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
55

One of Australia's Daughters. An autobiography of Mrs. Harrison Lee.

1906 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
56 REID, Arthur.

Those Were the Days.

1933 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
57

Bohemia. The All-Australian Literary Magazine.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 254.00
58

Facsimile edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 317.50
59 J. W. Collinson

Five scarce books by J. W. Collinson on the early history of North Queensland.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 228.60
60 SPENCER, Baldwin and F.J. GILLEN.

The Northern Tribes of Central Australia.

1904 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 412.75
61

Victoria and Riverina.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
62

Carlisle Leslie. Australian Historical Medals 1788 -- 1988. Incorporating Australian Commemorative Medals and Medalets from 1788.

2008 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 381.00
63 RYMILL, John.

Southern Lights. The official account of the British Graham Land Expedition 1934-1937.

1938 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
64 MAWSON, Sir Douglas.

The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914...

1915 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
65 STURT, Charles.

Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, during the Years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831: with observations on the soil, climate, and general resources of the colony of New South Wales by Capt. Charles Sturt.

1833 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00 AUD 1,079.50
66 RIPLEY, Sidney Dillon.

A Synopsis of the Birds of India and Pakistan. Together with these of Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Ceylon.

1961 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
67 COOK, Captain James. BEAGLEHOLE, J.C. (editor).

The Journals of Captain James Cook. Comprising: I. The Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771. II. The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775. III. The voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780 (two volumes for the third voyage).

AUD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00 Not Sold
68 PERKINS, Horace.

Melbourne Illustrated and Victoria Described.

1880 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 285.75
69 BLACK, Lindsay.

Cyclones. The mystery stones of the Darling River Valley. Part II. Being a continuation of a series on the customs of the Aborigines of the Darling River Valley and of Central New South Wales, "Burial Trees" being Part I.

1942 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 165.10
70 SHOBERL, Frederic.

The World in Miniature. South Sea Islands...

[1824]. AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 254.00
71

An Account of The Polynesian Race. Its Origin and Migration and the Ancient History of the Hawaiian People to the Times of Kamehameha I.

AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 635.00
72

Gold Dredging in New South Wales by D. S. L. Clift

1975 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
73 BRISSON, Mathurin-Jacques.

Ornithologie ou methode continent la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes et leurs varietes. A laquelle on a joint une description exacte de chaque espece...

1760 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 381.00
74 CHEESEMAN T. F. & HEMSLEY W. B. Edited T. F. Cheesman,

Illustrations of the New Zealand Flora.

1914 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 317.50
75 NANSEN, Fridtjof (series editor).

The Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893-1896. Scientific Results. Edited by Fridtjof Nansen.

1900 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
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