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
359

4x Sydney Mail with Military Covers 1917-1934

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
360

A mixed lot of Australian Horse Racing Programs 1970s-2010s

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
361 Garry Howe

The Best on Turf on Earth: 75 Years of Racing in Gippsland

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
362 Sean Dawes

John Gould and the Fauna of Southern Australia

2004 AUD 120.00 - 160.00 AUD 127.00
363

Two books on Australian Birds...

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
364

Australian Bird Guide Books...

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
365 William T Cooper and Joseph M Foreshaw

Cooper Bower Birds. The Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds

Sydney 1977 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 215.90
366 Lance Wedlick

22 books on finishing

c.1960s AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 63.50
367 lance Wedlick

11 books on fishing

c.1980s AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
368

13 books on Fishing

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
369 A.G. K Watkins

10 books on fishing, including Big Game Fishing

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
370

Three books on Hawaii...

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
371 Desmond Muirhead

Surfing in Hawaii: A Personal Memoir

1962 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 165.10
372 Sarah Maria Smythe

Ten Months in The Fiji Islands

1864 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
373

1) Fijian Society; or, the Sociology and Psychology of the Fijians by by Wallace Deane

1921 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
374

Two books on The Pacific Ocean...

AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
375 George Henry Jones

Account of the Murder of the Late Mr. William Weare of Lyon's Inn, London

London 25 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 381.00
376 Frederick W. Robinson

Canberra's First One Hundred Years and After

1927 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 139.70
377 Vivian Brahms

The Spirit of the Forty-Second, 42nd Battalion AIF (1st Edition)

1938 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 285.75
378 Mellaart James, Hirsch Udo, Balpinar Belkis

The Goddess from Anatolia Four Volume set

West Germany 1989 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
379 Basil Lubbock

The Last of the Windjammers - Two Volumes With Illustrations and Plans

1927, 1929 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 114.30
380

Two books...

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
381 Joseph Jacobs

English Fairy Tales

London 1890 AUD 700.00 - 900.00 AUD 476.25
382 Captain James Cook R.N., F.R.S.

"The Circumnavigator" by Arthur Kitson

1907 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
383 Geoff Fethers

An Elephant in my Garden

Melbourne 1980 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 165.10
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