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
384 Dr. E.A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition

Scott's Last Expedition - Two Volumes

London 1913 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
385 Dickson Gregory

Australian Steamships Past and Present

1928 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
386

Twelve books on Victorian Angling Fishing

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
387 Dick Wolf

Eleven books on Fishing tackle and Rigging

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
388

Twelve Angling Catalogues, old books on fish and fishing

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 38.10
389 Richard Owen

Memoirs on the extinct wingless birds of New Zealand : with an appendix on those of England, Australia, Newfoundland, Mauritius, and Rodriguez

London 1879 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 AUD 3,302.00
390 Edited by G. J. Symons

The Eruption of Krakatoa, and Subsequent Phenomena

London 1888 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 1,905.00
391

Report of the Interstate Conference on Artesian Water, Perth 1924

Sydney 1925 AUD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
392

The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand Together with Supplement

Wellington 1928 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 412.75
393

Harry Seidler Four Decades of Architecture

1992 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 228.60
394

1) Norman Lindsay Pen Drawings...

1974 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
395 Palani Mohan

Hunting with Eagles: In the Realm of the Mongolian Kazakhs

2015 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 50.80
396

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

London c.1920s AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 381.00
397 Lord Armstrong C.B., F.RS.

Electric Movement in Air and Water with Theoretical Inferences

1897 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
398 F. Manson Bailey

Comprehensive catalogue of Queensland plants

Brisbane 1909 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
399 George Robert Waterhouse

Two Volumes of A Natural History of the Mammalia

London between 1846 and 1848 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 476.25
400

Facsimile of the three volume Bigge Reports in very good condition...

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
401

Les Darcy with letter from the author...

Sydney [1937] AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
402

A Pioneering Parson in the Riverina

Sydney 1933 AUD 120.00 - 180.00 AUD 76.20
403 William Stones

What road, Australia?

Sydney circa 1949 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
404 Ion L. Idriess

Fortunes in Minerals: Simple Tests and How to Make Them

1941 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
405 Ion Idriess

The Scout The Australian Guerrilla Book VI

Sydney 1943 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 381.00
406

A Complete System of Geography Being A Desription of All the Countries, Islands, Cities, Chief Tows, Harbours, Lakes, and Rivers, Mountais, Mines, &c. Of The Known World

London 1747 AUD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
407

NSW Cyclists Touring Union Guide to the Roads of NSW Founded in 1896: Showing intermediate and total mileages between each important town

Sydney AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
408

Royal Easter Show Sydney 8th to 19th April 1960

AUD 120.00 - 180.00 AUD 152.40
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