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

Auction Details

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
205 Sir Herbert Maxwell

Salmon And Sea Trout How To Propagate, Preserve, And Catch Them In British Waters

London and New York No date but 1905 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
206 B. N. Goswamy.

Indian Costumes in the Collection of the Calico Museum of Textiles: Vol. 5

2000 AUD 120.00 - 150.00 AUD 76.20
207

2 x Knockout Fun Books British Children's Annuals.

1948 and 1953. AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
208

2 Books on Australia's most modern judge, one being an inscribed autobiography 1) Through the World's Eye.

2000 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
209

Two diaries of Sir Robert L.M.Kirkwood (1904-1984) who was chairman of the Jamaica Sugar Manufacturers and Citrus Growers Association and a keen golfer.

1932. 1975 and 1976. AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
210

1927 Canberra Federal Capital.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
211 Christian Waller.

The Gates of Dawn: A Book Made for the Young

1977 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 127.00
212 Isaac Taylor

Scenes in England. For the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travellers

London 1823 AUD 150.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
213

10 pamphlets issued by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research ( The forerunner of the CSIRO)

1930s and 1940s. AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
214

1) The Count Strzelecki by Rawson 2) Whirlwinds in The Plain Ludwig Leichardt by Webster 3) An Explorer At Rest Leichhardt edited by Webster 4) Thomas Mitchell Surveyor General and Explorer by Cumpston .

AUD 120.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
215

Seven beautiful nineteenth century photographs taken at a slate mine or quarry in North Wales (UK) late nineteenth century.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 412.75
216

A small box of books about ships.

AUD 120.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
217

On A Form Of Flying Machine by L Hargrave A Paper Read Before the Royal Society of New South Wales 2nd December 1885.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
218

Notes on Some Australasian and Other Stone Implements by A Liversidge.

AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 127.00
219

On The Occurrence of a Submerged Forest with Remains of the dugong , at Shea's Creek, near Sydney by R Etheridge, Junr., Professor T W Edgeworth David and J W Grimshaw.

Sydney AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 101.60
220

Census Of The Genera Of Plants Hitherto Known As Indigenous To Australia by Ferdinand Von Mueller Paper read before the MSW Royal Society 1881.

AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
221 T W Edgeworth David.

1) Geology of the Commonwealth

1914 AUD 120.00 - 150.00 AUD 114.30
222

1) Sir Joseph Banks by Lyte 2) The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks The Australian Journal Edited by Paul Brunton 3) Sir Joseph Banks A Global perspective 4) Sir Joseph Banks by H C Cameron.

AUD 120.00 - 150.00 AUD 285.75
223

Notes on the Limestones and General Geology of the Fifi Islands, with Special Reference to the Lau Group, Based Upon Surveys Made for Alexande Agassiz.

1900 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 139.70
224 S Warren Carey.

1) Sir Edgeworth David Memorial Oration

1990 AUD 120.00 - 150.00 AUD 139.70
225 A.J. Gover Pty Ltd.

A box of 8 Table Mats by A.J. Gover Pty Ltd.

AUD 50.00 - 80.00 AUD 38.10
226 Beatrix Potter.

A small lot of 8 books by Beatrix Potter.

No date. AUD 80.00 - 150.00 AUD 50.80
227 Lincoln Hall.

1) Douglas Mawson - The Life of an Explorer

2000 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
228

A small lot of about 60 Woven Badges.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
229

A small lot of colour prints.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
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