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
234

Rose of Valencia ; or The Corsican , A Romance

London 1852 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
235

1. Robert Klee Ireland A History

1981 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
236 Ivor Noel-Hume

If These Pots Could Talk: Collecting 2,000 Years of British Household Pottery

2000 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
237 Arthur Hayden

Spode and His Successors A History of the Pottery Stoke-On-Trent 1765-1865

London 1925 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
238 Frank Hansford-Miller

A History of Medicine in Western Australia

1992 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 349.25
239 David C Newman

Two books on Aviation and Jets

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
240

Three Mountaineering books

1981 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
241 edited by JG Lockhart

Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott

London 1900 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
242 Strahan

Australian Mamals, Kigfishers & other Birds

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
243 Vickers-Rich, Monaghan, Baird, & Rich

Vertebrate palaeontology of Australasia

Lilydale 1991 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 228.60
244 Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover

Georgius Agricola De Re Metallica

New York 1950 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 76.20
245 Will Dyson

Kultur Cartoons

1915 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 203.20
246

A collection of 13 Chess Books...

AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 152.40
247 JK Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

1997 AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 2,540.00
248 Harry Houdini

Houdini on Magic

New York 1953 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
249 Fane

The Imperial House of Japan by Richard Ponson

Kyoto, Japan 1959 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
250 Paul Bailey

At The Jerusalem

London 1967 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
251 Cecil Roth

Iscariot

London 1929 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
252 Angus Wilson

The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot

London 1958 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
253 Graham Greene

Two books...

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 317.50
254 Wyndham Lewis

The Demon of Progress in the Arts

1954 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 152.40
255 Edgar Mittelholzer

Uncle Paul

London 1963 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
256 C Day Lewis

Two books

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
257 Charles Darwin

The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species

London 1880 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 762.00
258 Evelyn Waugh

Five books written

AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
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