Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Memorable moments in books, A198, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- August 30, 2026 - August 30, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 151 | Suttor Edwin; Nichols George Robert | Plunkett’s Australian Magistrate; The Administration of Justice Acts |
Sydney | 1847; 1851 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 101.60 |
| 152 | Electrical Handbook for No.-Electrical Men; The Broken Hill Mining Industry |
Port Pirie | 1940 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 153 | Purcell P G; Sale Colin J | Otway Basin of Southeastern Australia; The Canning Basin W.A.; The Island Continent and its Smaller Neighbours |
1965; 1971; 1984 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 154 | Statistics of the State of Queensland |
1929 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | ||
| 155 | Perry John; Goudie William J; Low F R; Macgibbon W C; Holmes George C V; Bourne John | 10 Books, including: Steam Power Plant |
1885; 1888; 1904; 1910; 1923; 1932; 1948; 1955; 1985 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 156 | Sexton; Goodman | Engineering and Mining Pocket Books |
1900; 1914; 1948 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 157 | Pilborough Leslie; Gregory C E; Burn Robert Scott; Wannan A C | 5 Books, including: Foundations of Engineering Science |
1858; 1907; 1943; 1958; 1966 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 285.75 | |
| 158 | Shields Carl D; Wrangham D A; Joel Rayner; Day Charles; Low David Allan; Noakes G R | 8 Books, including: SAA Boiler Code |
1898; 1946; 1947; 1951; 1952; 1961; 1963 | AUD 180.00 - 250.00 | AUD 165.10 | |
| 159 | Petroleum Panorama; History of Petroleum Engineering |
1959; 1961 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | ||
| 160 | Hatch F H; Caldwell Michael; Pettijohn F J; Stamp Josiah | 6 Books, including: The Petrology of The Igneous Rocks |
1931; 1937; 1952; 1957; 1987; 2008 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | AUD 76.20 | |
| 161 | Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy Proceedings |
1920; 1939; 1943; 1946 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 162 | Jack Robert L.; Etheridge R. | 13 Queensland Geological Survey |
1895; 1901; 1907; 1920; 1921-26 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 163 | Brown H. Y. L.; Drexel J. F. | Mining Review; Record of The Mines of South Australia; Mining In South Australia |
1908; 1951; 1952 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 164 | Bradford WM.; Whitelaw H.S.; Summons Walter; Baragwanath W.; Kitson A.E. | 7 Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria |
1903; 1904; 1906; 1914; 1920 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 203.20 | |
| 165 | Urquhart G.; Macleod W.N.; Gulline A.B.; Blissett A. H.; Leaman D.E.; Twelvetrees W.H.; Petterd W.F. | 8 Tasmania Geological Reports |
1910; 1917; 1961; 1962; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1976 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 166 | Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers and Proceedings |
1956; 1962; 1963; 1965; 1967; 1968; 1971; 1986 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | AUD 76.20 | ||
| 167 | Elsum William H. | The History of Williamstown From its First Settlement to A City 1834-1934 |
1934 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 168 | Vale John | A Record of the Jubilee Celebrations, 1911 |
1911 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 169 | Selleck R.J.W.; Sullivan Martin; Eunson Warwick; McMillan J.M. | 3 Books, including: Not So Eminent Victorians |
1978; 1984; 1994 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 170 | Evans Ian; Greener Leslie; Laird Norman | The Lithgow Pottery; Ross Bridge and the Sculpture of Daniel Herbert |
1971; 1980 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 171 | Short Anthony; Coffman Edward M.; Bykov Vasil; Crowl Philip A. | 4 Books, including: The Origins of The Vietnam War |
1968; 1981; 1989; 1993 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 172 | Smitherman P. H. | Uniforms of the Scottish Regiments |
1963 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 173 | Crow Carl | Japan's Dream of World Empire |
1943 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 174 | Cavalry Combat |
1937 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | ||
| 175 | Simpson Cameron | Thunder of the Hooves; Maygar's Boys |
1998; 2008 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | AUD 76.20 |
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Leland Little, September 11: Kenneth Claiborne Royall (1894-1971), Large Archive with Letters from Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower.Leland Little, September 11: Harry S. Truman, Scarce Autograph Letter Signed as 33rd U.S. President.Leland Little, September 11: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910), Autograph Quotation Signed.Leland Little, September 11: The History of North America, the Extremely Scarce Deluxe "Edition of the Presidents."Leland Little, September 11: Scarce First Edition of Krafft's The American Distiller.Leland Little, September 11: Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room.Leland Little, September 11: A Signed Limited Edition of Love in the Time of Cholera.Leland Little, September 11: The Extremely Scarce Limited and Extra-Illustrated Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens.Leland Little, September 11: A Beautifully Bound Limited Edition of Émile Zola's The Rougon-Macquart.Leland Little, September 11: The Elaborately Bound and Extremely Scarce The Shakespeare Gallery.Leland Little, September 11: Hunting, Hawking, Shooting, A Signed Limited Edition Four Volume Set.Leland Little, September 11: Signed Limited Edition of Salmon-Salmon with a Chapter on Iceland. -
Sotheby’s
Original Film Posters
10 September 2026Sotheby’s, Sep. 10: The Invisible Man (1933). Extremely Rare US Leader Press One Sheet. £20,000 to £26,000.Sotheby’s, Sep. 10: You Only Live Twice (1967). Italian Advance Quattro Fogli. £10,000 to £15,000.Sotheby’s, Sep. 10: A Dog's Life (1918). Extremely Rare US One Sheet. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, Sep. 10: La Belle et la Bête/Beauty and the Beast (1946). French Style A Grande. £12,000 to £18,000.Sotheby’s, Sep. 10: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). US Lenticular Prototype One Sheet. £10,000 to £15,000.Sotheby’s, Sep. 10: Théâtre d’Ombres (1897). Exceptionally Rare French Poster. £8,000 to £12,000.