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
209

Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea

1996 AUD 350.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
210 Francis W. Galpin

1) Old English Instruments of Music, Their History and Character

London 1932 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
211

Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
212

The Poems of Master Francois Villon of Paris Now First Done Into English Verse, in the Original Forms, With a Biographical and Critical Introduction

London 1892 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 152.40
213

The Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729

1973 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
214 Ian Hamilton

1. The Man With The Brown Paper Face

London 1967 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 412.75
215 Rev E.R. Gribble

Forty Years With The Aborigines

1930 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
216

The History of All Saints' College, Bathurst 1873-1934

Sydney 1936 AUD 50.00 - 80.00 AUD 25.40
217 Sandra McGrath and John Olsen

The Artist and the Rover

Sydney 1982 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 285.75
218 George Deas Brown

Haughton Forrest 1826-1925

Melbourne 1982 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 412.75
219 Anthony Bradley

The Art of Justin O'Brien

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 476.25
220

Two bound volumes of Life Magazine

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
221

1864 Illustrated News of the World

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
222 John Milton

Paradise lost

circa 1880-1890 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 412.75
223

A little bundle of Australia Art

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
224 edited by Lou Klepac

Signals from the Perimeter: James Gleeson Drawings and Texts

Roseville 1993 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
225 Charmian Clift and George Johnson

The Sponge Divers

c1956 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 254.00
226

A little archive on Chairman Clift

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 215.90
227 Neville W Cayley

Our Birds

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 114.30
228

Communism in Australia A collection of booklets all published in Australia...

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 63.50
229

A little collection of pamphlets on the Jewish people in World War Two...

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 76.20
230 Daisy Bates

Passing of the Aborigines

London 1944 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
231

A bundle of books on Aboriginal people of Australia...

AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 228.60
232

A Collection of member cards and old tickets of English Jazz Clubs...

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
233

Four shelves of Fine Binding books

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 476.25
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