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
108

More Adventures of Ginger Meggs Series 20 , 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25 Sunbeams Book

Sydney no date.. 1940s AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
109 Harry C Perry

Memoirs of The Hon Sir Robert Philp K.C.M.G. 1851 -1922

Brisbane 1923 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 152.40
110 Robert Von Lendenfeld

The Australian Museum; Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum Sydney

1888 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
111

A bound collection of academic scientific papers

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 1,143.00
112

Department of Mines Geological Survey Mineral Resources No. 38

Sydney 1940 AUD 399.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
113 Edited by Robert K. Douglas

Transactions of the Second Session of the International Congress of Orientalists : Held in London in September 1874

London 1876 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
114 V. S. Naipaul

The Mimic Men

New York 1967 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
152

Japanese Hand-coloured Albumen Album

Circa mid 1891-1910 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
167

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

London 1877 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 381.00
168

The Origin Of The Species

London 1878 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 381.00
169 Charles Robert Darwin

The Various Contrivances By Which Orchids are Fertilised By Insects

London 1882 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 381.00
170 Charles Darwin

The Power of Movement in Plants

London 1882 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 762.00
171 Charles Darwin

Insectivorous Plants

London 1875 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
172 Charles Darwin

The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom

London 1876 AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 AUD 1,270.00
173 Edited by Hermomich Shugio

Japanese Art Folio

Tokyo c1898 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
174 LENYGON, Francis

The Decoration and Furniture of English Mansions during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

London 1909 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 127.00
175 Martin Anderson

The Humours of Cynicus

London 1891 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
176

Cover title reads: Queensland Illustrated 72 Views

Brisbane AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
177 William Drummond

The Genealogy of the Most Noble and ancient House of Drummond 1831

Edinburgh 1831 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
178 William Saunders

Through the Light Continent; or, The United States in 1877-8

London 1879 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
179

Two handsome full leather finely bound books

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
180 Etienne Marchand

A Voyage Round the World, Performed During the Years 1790, 1791, and 1792

1969 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
181 Dorothy Wall

Blinky Bill: quaint Little Australian story and Illustrations

Sydney 1941 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
182 J Grant Pattison

Battler of : Tales of Early Rockhampton

Melbourne 1939 AUD 120.00 - 180.00 AUD 177.80
183 Edited by James Cowell

A Century in the Pacific Five Parts in one volume: Scientific, Sociological, Historical

Sydney 1914 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
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