Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Finely bound books, Maps, Posters, and Ephemera, 61426, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 14, 2026 - June 14, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 178 | Cuffley Peter; Lockwood Stephen | Buggies & Horse-Drawn Vehicles in Australia; Trackless to Trolleybus : Trolleybuses in Britain |
1990; 2011 | AUD 100.00 - 130.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 179 | Lindsay Lionel; Martens Conrad | Conrad Martens. The Man and His Art |
Sydney | 1920 | AUD 100.00 - 130.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 180 | Turnbull Clive; Hoorn Jeanette | 2 Books, including: The Art of Rupert Bunny |
Sydney; Canberra | 1950; 1990 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 181 | Peterson Roger Tory; Peterson Virginia Marie | Audubon's Birds of America |
1981 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 182 | Rogers Hunter; Vaile P A; Sutton Martin A F; Darwin Bernard | 4 Books, including: Woodlands Golf Club: Formation & Early Years 1913-1938 |
London | 1913; 1912; 1950; 1932 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 183 | Keesing Nancy; Cope A. S.; Flett James; Corfield Justin; Wickham Dorothy; Gervasoni Clare | 4 Books, including: Gold Fever: The Australian Goldfields 1851 to the 1890s |
1967; 1884; 1975; 2004 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 177.80 | |
| 184 | McNab Robert; Maning Frederick Edward | 2 Books, including: From Tasman to Marsden |
New Zealand | 1914; 1863 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
| 185 | Corbett Julian Stafford | Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 |
1994 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 186 | Kerslake Frank; Kerslake William; Kipling Rudyard; Browning; Jerrold Walter; Leonard R.M. | 4 Books, including: Fairy Tales Legends and Romances |
1875; 1909; 1950; 1913 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 187 | Whittier John Greenleaf; Thomson Hugh; Dobson Austin; Allen James Lane | 3 Books, including: The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier |
1894; 1901 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 188 | The London Aphrodite |
1929 | AUD 80.00 - 150.00 | AUD 88.90 | ||
| 189 | Saintsbury George; Hammond Chris | Letters From Sir Charles Grandison |
1895 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 190 | Lacroix Paul | 18th century institutions, customs and costumes France 1700 - 1789 |
Paris | 1875 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 114.30 |
| 191 | Reid Mayne; Harvey William | Quadrupeds - A Book of Zoology for Boys |
1867 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 192 | Foxe John; Bramley-Moore William; Thomas G.H.; Gilbert John; Du Maurier G.; Thomas W.L. | The book of Martyrs |
1870 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 139.70 | |
| 193 | Prevost Abbe; Moyland D.C.; Alastair; Symons Arthur | Manon Lescaut |
1928 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 194 | McDermott Edward; Nash Joseph; Thomas George; Foster Birket; Corbould Edward | The Merrie Days of England |
1859 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 195 | Kingston W.H. G. | The Wanderers; Or, Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Up the Orinoco |
1889 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 196 | Heber Bishop | Palestine, and Other Poems |
1843 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 197 | Pepper John Henry; Hine H. G.; Dulcken H.W. | 2 Books, including: The boy's playbook of science |
c1870s; c1890s | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 198 | Lever Charles | Our Mess |
1844 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 199 | Bates H.E.; Minton John | The Country Heart |
1949 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 200 | The Illustrated London Almanack |
1862-1867 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 254.00 | ||
| 201 | Cook Eliza; Lover Samual; Thomson James | Poems; Metrical Tales and Other Poems; The Poetical Works of James Thomson |
1861; 1860; 1869 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 254.00 | |
| 202 | Coleman W S; Laing Alexander; D'Epagny M; Verney Lady; Carlyle Thomas; Sullivan Edmund J; Willis N Parker; Pfeiffer Ida | 8 Books, including: Our Woodlands, Heaths, And Hedges |
London; Edinburgh; New York | 1859; 1878; 1848; 1877; 1858; 1898; 1853; 1854 | AUD 800.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold |
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