Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Good books are good companions- Pixie O’Harris, children’s books, comics, Olympics, fine bindings and more., 72724, Ultimo

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Auction Report
Auction Date
July 27, 2024 - July 27, 2024
Page Size: 529 items in 22 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
230 John Milton with a PrefacePeter Ackroyd.

Paradis Lost - A Poem in Twelve books

2003 AUD 180.00 - 200.00 AUD 114.30
231

Brady: McCabe, Dunne, Bryan Crawford, Murphy, Bird McKenney, Goodwin, Pawley Bryant, Cody, Hodgetts Gregory, Tilley, Ryan Williams and Their Associates.

1979 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 127.00
232

Old and New London.

No date c1880. AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
233

Two books on World Exploration and Natural History.

AUD 60.00 - 80.00 AUD 38.10
234 C. L. F. Panckoucke.

La Germanie: Traduite de Tacite

1824 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
235

1772 Geography book.

Goettingae 1772 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 50.80
236

A collection on military ephemera.

AUD 220.00 - 280.00 AUD 152.40
237

Souvenir of Egypt for the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces

1916 AUD 120.00 - 180.00 AUD 203.20
238

De l'Etude de la geographie en general et de la geographie historique en particulier, discours prononce a l'ouverture du cours de geographie dans la Faculte des lettres de Paris, le 30 decembre 1835 by JD Guigniaut.

Paris 1836 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
239

Der Friede zu Pressburg in feinen Folgen fur Oestreich, Baiern, Wurtemberg, Baden, das teutsche Reich, Frankreich, Italien und ganz Europa: geographisch, statistisch, und staatsrechtlich mit historischen Einleitungen erlautert.

1806 AUD 120.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
240

A discourse before the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others in North-America delivered November 5th, 1807 by Eliphalet Porter.

Boston 1808 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
241

Rapport lu par M. le vicomte de Santarem a la Societe de geographie sur un Memoire de M. da Silveira,

AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
242 Albert Saint-Paul,

Scenes de Bal

A Bruxelles 1889 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
243 Constant Lepouze.

Poesies Diverses

Nouvelle-Orleans 1838 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
244 Everard Home.

Some Observations on the Mode of Generation of the Kanguroo, with a Particular Description of the Organs Themselves

MDCCCXCV. AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 139.70
245

Dernieere notice sur la Girafe: contenant la relation de son voyage aa Saint-Cloud.

Paris 1827 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
246

Illustrated cotton handkerchief(59x58cm) with the words: Fiji before Civilization / Dawn of Civilization / Advance of Civilization / Glorious Result of Civilization.

circa 1879 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
247

Road Map of the South-West Division of Western Australia

1926 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
248

Order of ceremonial for the consecration of the Rev Arthur Thomas Lloyd, D.D as Bishop Suffragan of Thetford and of the Rev Charles Owen Leaver Riley, M.A. Bishop of Perth.

1894 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
249

A little bundle of books on Communism and related.

Berlin 1933 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
250

2 ocean hydrography books.

Paris. 1965 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
251

3 books with Gretchen Borsdoff bookplates signed by Adrian Feint in pencil.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
252 Darryl Lindsay.

Backstage with the Covent Garden Russian Ballet

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
253

5 books on and about ballet with Adrian Feint bookplates.

AUD 120.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
254

5 books with Adria Faint bookplates, all in good condition, most with rubbing to hard covers but good interiors.

AUD 120.00 - 200.00 AUD 50.80
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