Australian Book Auctions: Travels, Australiana, Literature & Art, 116, Armadale,

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Auction Date
December 08, 2025 - December 08, 2025
Page Size: 63 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 PHILLIP, Captain Arthur, Governor

THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO BOTANY BAY

London 1789 AUD 2,000.00 - 2,800.00 AUD 3,810.00
27 MOORE, J.J.

MOORE'S AUSTRALIAN ALMANAC 1931, 1934, 1936, and 1938

Sydney 1931-38 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
28 NIXON, Bishop Francis Russell

THE CRUISE OF THE BEACON: A Narrative of a Visit to the Islands in Bass's Straits

London 1857 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 203.20
29 SCOTT, Robert Falcon

SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION In Two Volumes

London 1913 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 406.40
30 SPENCER, Walter Baldwin and Francis James GILLEN

THE ARUNTA: A Study of Stone Age People

London 1927 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 558.80
31 STIRLING, Sir James

JOURNALS OF SEVERAL EXPEDITIONS MADE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA

1829, 1830, 1831, and 1832 AUD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
32 SHAW, George

ZOOLOGY OF NEW HOLLAND

Adelaide 1998 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 203.20
33 SMITH, James Edward and SOWERBY, James

A SPECIMEN OF THE BOTANY OF NEW HOLLAND

Melbourne 2005 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
34 DARONDEAU, Benoit

VAILLANT. A SUITE OF EIGHT ORIGINAL PEN AND SEPIA WASH DRAWINGS from Vaillant's 1836-7 circumnavigation in the Corvette La Bonite

1836-7 AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 22,860.00
35 WINNECKE, Charles

JOURNAL, ETC., OF THE HORN SCIENTIFIC EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA

Adelaide 1896 AUD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,905.00
36 WHITE, Samuel Albert

INTO THE DEAD HEART. An Ornithological Trip Through Central Australia

Adelaide 1914 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
37 WHYTE, Duncan

SKETCH OF EXPLORATIONS by the late John M'Kinlay in the Interior of Australia, 1861-2

Glasgow 1881 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 AUD 1,524.00
38 PHILIPP, Franz

BOYD, Arthur. ARTHUR BOYD

London 1967 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 1,016.00
39 FLEMING, Ian

GOLDFINGER. Octavo

London 1959 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 AUD 762.00
40 FLEMING, Ian

DR NO. Octavo

London 1958 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 635.00
41 FLEMING, Ian

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond

London 1960 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 AUD 762.00
42 FLEMING, Ian

THUNDERBALL

London 1961 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 AUD 609.60
43 FLEMING, Ian

ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE

London 1963 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 482.60
44 FLEMING, Ian

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE

London 1964 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 482.60
45 AMIS, Kingsley

FLEMING. THE JAMES BOND DOSSIER

London 1965 AUD 120.00 - 240.00 AUD 127.00
46 GARDNER, John

LICENCE RENEWED Octavo, original boards with price-clipped dustwrapper

London 1981 AUD 140.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
47 FRIEND, Donald

BUMBOOZIANA. Sundry notes and papers: being the recently discovered notes and documents of the Natural & Instinctive Bestiality Research Expedition

Melbourne 1979 AUD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,651.00
48 HITTI, Deanna

TOWLA = BAK GHAMUN

(Melbourne) 2017 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
49 LINDSAY, Norman

MICOMICANA

1979 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 254.00
50 LINDSAY, Norman

PAINTINGS IN OIL: with essays by Douglas Stewart and Norman Lindsay

Sydney [1945] AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 2,413.00
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