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
33 Ion Idriess

Three Titles

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 241.30
34

1. The Great Trek...

1958 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
35 Ion Idriess

Five signed book by Ion Idriess

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
36

1. Our Stone Age Mystery...

1964 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
37 Idriess

Six books concerning Mining all by Idriess

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
38

Historical Sketches of Savage Life in Polynesia

Wellington 1880 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
39 George Bentham

Flora Hongkongensis: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Island of Hongkong

London 1861 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 1,016.00
40 R. Brough Smyth

The Gold Fields and Mineral Districts of Victoria with Notes on the Modes of Occurence of Gold and Other metals and Minerals

Melbourne 1980 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
41 Arthur P. Harper

Pioneer work in the Alps of New Zealand: a record of the first exploration of the chief glaciers and ranges of the Southern Alps

London 1896 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
42

Gillen's Diary: The Camp Jottings Of F.J. Gillen on the Spencer and Gillen Expedition across Australia 1901-1902

Adelaide 1968 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
43 John Humphreys

The Papers of Thomas Bowrey 1669 - 1713 discovered in 1913

London 1927 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
44

Victoria Legislative Council

Melbourne 1868 AUD 120.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
45

Report of the Intercolonial Conference held in Pitt Street Church

Sydney May 15th to 23rd, 1883 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
46

A bound volume of the Junior Argus

Melbourne 1935 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
47

Voyaging to Australia

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
48

Colonial Australia - Collins and Mills

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
49 Lewis Spence

Legends and Romances of Brittany

London 1917 AUD 280.00 - 360.00 Not Sold
50 Lady Hooker

Life and Letters and Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker: Based on Materials Collected and Arranged

London 1918 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
51 Ludwig Bruck

The Australasian Medical Directory and Hand-book

Sydney 1892 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
52 Ludwig Bruck

The Australasian Medical Directory and Hand-book

Sydney 1883 AUD 260.00 - 360.00 AUD 165.10
53

1. Pasture Improvement in Astralia

1926 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 177.80
54 TAKASHIMA, S.

Illustrations of Japanese Life

Tokyo 1918 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
55 LONGUS

Daphnis & Chloe

London 1925 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
56 LONGUS

Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe

Paris 1919 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 241.30
57 LONGUS

Daphnis et Chloe

Monte-Carlo 1946 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
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