Sydney Rare Book Auctions: End of Year Sale: Books, Ephemera, Maps, A169, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 28, 2025 - December 28, 2025
Page Size: 440 items in 18 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 WARE, James.

Remarks on the Opthalmy, Psorophthalmy, and Purulent Eyes of New Born Children...

London, 1814 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
27

Five books on Australian inland exploration. Most are high-quality facsimile editions

seventies and eighties AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 101.60
28

A bound volume of ten pamphlets

Auckland 1947 and 1968 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
29 PETTY, John.

The History of the Primitive Methodist Connexion. From its Origin to the Conference of 1860, the First Year of the Connexion.

London, 1864 AUD 120.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
30 Paul Zweig, Berta Molke.

Images & Footsteps: A Poem with five etchings

1971 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
31 Henry Heylyn Hayter,

Notes on the Colony of Victoria: Historical, Geographical, Meteorological, and Statistical

Melbourne 1875 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
32 Paul Cupid, illustrated by Ben Jordan.

The Rival Physicians

Sydney 1910 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
33 John Armstrong

Facts And Observatios Relative To te Fever Commonly Called Puerperal

London 1819 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
34

BROMBY, J.E. Sermons on the Earlier Chapters of Genesis. Melbourne, Samuel Mullen, 1880. DYSON, Martin. Australian Methodist Ministerial General Index. Victoria and Tasmania Conference 1889.

Melbourne, 1889 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
35 H C Russell

Climate of New South Wales: Descriptive, Historical, and Tabular.

Sydney 1877 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
36

Tabular List of all the Australian Birds at Present Known to the Author, showing the Distribution of the Species over the Continent of Australia and Adjacent Islands.

1888 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
37 Louis Pasteur,Translated into English Frank Faulkner and D. Constable Robb

Studies on Fermentation: The Diseases of Beer, Their Causes and the Means of Preventing Them

London 1879 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
38 the Rec W. B. Clarke1878. Fourth Impression

Remarks on the Sedimentary Formations of New South Wales Illustrated by References to Other Provinces of Australasia

Sydney AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
39 Hobson, Miles & Matheson.

1952 Western Australia Geological Survey Bulletin 103 Supplementary Atlas No 1. Geological Maps of Portion of the Mt. Margaret Goldfield.

1952 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
40

Western Australia Geological Survey. Bulletin No. 10 Maps, Plans, and Sections to accompany report on The Mining Groups of the Yilgarn Goldfield North of the Great Eastern Railway. Plates 1 to 36. Large folding colour Plates. Original printed boards.

Perth 1950 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
41

Mineral Products of New South Wales by Harrie Wood.

Sydney 1882 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
42 L F Harper.

Department of Mines . Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New Soutjh Wales. Geology Number 7' Geology and Mineral Resources of the Southern Coal-Field with Maps and Sections. Part 1, the South Coastal Portion

Sydney 1915 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
43

The Memoirs of Harold Macmillan in six volumes.

London 1966, 1973 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
44

A bundle of fine bindings. Mostly half leather with gilt details on spine. One Sangoorski and Sutcliffe. In good to excellent condition.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 317.50
45

Two rare early colonial publications relating to the administration of Sydney College, the precursor of Sydney Grammar School. Details as follows: Eighth Annual Report of the Sydney College, in New South Wales, with a short statement of the proceedings

Sydney, 1838 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
46 Peter Lombard

49 leaves printed both sides (so 98 pages) written

Basel 1487 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 1,905.00
47 LANE, Frederick Claude Vivian.

[PARIS OLYMPICS]. Collection of Bookplates. Seven bookplates, various sizes,

1929 and 1910-1940 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
48 Mike Parr (Pensees a la Carte)

Lafart, Light in a Load of Shit

1975 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 177.80
49 Mr Michael Sawtell (Chairman of the Committee for Aboriginal Citizenship)...

Two ephemeral pieces 1. A flyer 14 x 21 from Workers' Educational Association Announcing: Series of Threee Popular Lectures on The Australian Aborigine to be given

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
50

A set of six Agatha Christie books. Bound in full leather and with all edges gilt.. A special limited edition set Number 22 of 350 copies with The Mysterious Affair at Styles (The Author's first book) bearing the number and the signature of Rosalind Hicks

London 1990 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 635.00
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