Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Christmas 2025! - Decorative Arts And Design, Books, Fine Bindings And Geology , A168, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 14, 2025 - December 14, 2025
Page Size: 410 items in 17 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
309

Ten books about Battleships...

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
310 ST Gill Lansdowne

The Australian Sketchbook

1974 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
311 Francis Darwin, editor

The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin

1888 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
312 Harry Hodge

Speedway Vendetta

No date. c1940s AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
313 Robert Louis Stevenson

Catriona - A Sequel To "Kidnapped" Being Memoirs of The Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad

1893 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 76.20
314 Lewis Graham

Victor Hugo's Les Miserables As Retold

1935 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
315

How to acquire and strengthen Will-Power Modern Psycho-Therapy

1903 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
316 P.G Wodehouse

1) The Girl in Blue...

1970 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
317 T. F. Cheeseman

Two Volumes Illustrations of the New Zealand Flora

AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 254.00
318 Robert Blakey

The History of Political Literature from the Earliest Times Two Volumes

c.1855 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
319

History of New South Wales

Sydney 1894 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 152.40
320 Iain Sinclair

White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings

Uppingham 1978 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
321

Ten x Reports of the Department of Public Works Queensland issued between 1901 and 112

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
322

1941 Aerial, Geological and Geophysical Survey of Northern Australia

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
323 Louis Frederic

The Temples and Sculpture of Southeast Asia

London 1965 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 63.50
324

Two shelves of about 50 Science Fiction books

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
325 Edited by H Hopfner & J.G. Douglas

The Otway Basin of Southeastern Australia: Special Bulletin, Geological Surveys of South Australia and Victoria

Victoria and South Australia 1971 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 139.70
326 CARROLL, Lewis & COLLINGWOOD, Stuart Dodgson (editor)

The Lewis Carroll Picture Book

London 1899 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 114.30
327 T Francis Edwards

Books , Maps and Pictures relating to Australia, New Zealand and The Pacific - A Catalogue of The Library of the late James Edge Partington

1934 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
328

Australian Agriculturist and Colonists' Guide

1890 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
329 W. Elliott

Cole's Australasian Gardening and Domestic Floriculture

1896 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 165.10
330

Two Arthur Upfield first editions

London AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
331 [MORE Hannah]

Coelebs in Search of a Wife

London 1826 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
332

Lectures on Diet and Regiment: Being A Systematic Inquiry Into The Most Rational Means of Preserving Health and Prolonging Life

1800 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
333 Edited by Fred. T. Whittington

Augustus Short: First Bishop of Adelaide: A Chapter of Colonial Church History

1887 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
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