Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Voyages, exploration, history + firsts edition fiction, signed books and bookplates, 62324, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 23, 2024 - June 23, 2024
Page Size: 546 items in 22 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 J. C. Beaglehole.

Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery, Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771 Edited

London 1968 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 127.00
27 William Shakespeare Editor Stanley Wells and Garry Taylor.

The Complete Plays 8 Volume Set in 2 Slipcases

1997 and 2004 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 114.30
28

The Journals of Captain James Cook.

1967 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 127.00
29 Ray Parkin,

HM Bark Endeavour

1997 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 76.20
30

Four Catalogues issued by Hordern House

2008-2011 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
31 Mary Mountier, Douglas M Barrie and Graeme Clark.

Notable Australian Thoroughbreds

Wairua Martinborough, New Zealand 1981 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
32 R L Stevenson 2004

1)Travels With a Donkey

AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
33

Eight Folio Society titles all in very good condition in slipcases.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 152.40
34 Captain David Porter

Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean by Captain David Porter, in the United States Frigate Essex, in the years 1812, 1813, and 1814

Philadelphia 1815 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 165.10
35

Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with Sixty-five Plates of Non Descript Animals.

London: 1790 AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
36

Barrington.

1790 and 1802 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 1,651.00
37

An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, from its First Settlement in January 1788, to August 1801: With remarks on the dispositions, customs, manners, &c.

1804 AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 AUD 1,524.00
38 M H Ellis.

Francis Greenway His Life and Times

Sydney: 1953 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
39

1) An Authentic & Interesting Narrative Of The Late Expedition To Botany Bay As Performed by Commodore Phillips & The Fleet Of The Seven Transport Ships Under His Command .

1978 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 101.60
40

Old Times Volume 1, Number 1, April 1903 to Volume 1 Number 4, July 1903.The four issues bound together all retaining the original wrappers.

Sydney: 1903 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 165.10
41 J Skinner Prout With Letterpress Description John Rae.

Sydney Illustrated, 1842 - 43.

Sydney 1948 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
42 edited Paul Brunton

1) Matthew Flinders

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 101.60
43 Marjorie Barnard with Decorations Frank Medworth.

1) Macquarie's World

1941 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 177.80
44 William Westall.

Drawings

1962 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 63.50
45 John Dunmore Lang.

Origin and migrations of the Polynesian Nation: Demonstrating Their Original Discovery and Progressive Settlement of the Continent of America.

Sydney 1877 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 76.20
46

Australia in Palestine Sydney Angus and Robertson 1919.

1919 AUD 180.00 - 250.00 AUD 127.00
47

Hyperborea: Two Fantastic Travel Essays.

1928 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
48

Program Dinner given to Elioth Gruner on the even of his departure for England by the Members of the Cavalier Club.

Sydney 1923 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
49

2 Volumes of Howgego's Encyclopedia of Exploration.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
50

Planisphere of the Southern Sky.

Melbourne 1882 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 349.25
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